Becoming a Global Witness - Practice in Calai´s Jungle

Kazuma Matoba
Despite the eviction of the Calais’ ‘Jungle’ in October 2016, there are still around 1,500 refugees sleeping rough in the forests in northern France. They are not just statistic numbers, are human with faces and names. The goal of this seminar is to humanize faceless refugees by witnessing and helping them as volunteer in Calais. Before this excursion (July 3rd – 7th 2024) you will get the knowledge about the method of Global Social Witnessing to develop your bearing-witness-competence via digital tool.
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Kazuma Matoba
Apl.-Professor in der Fakultät für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in UWH Director of Institute for Global Integral Competence Kazuma Matoba is Apl.-Professor for Intercultural Education and Communication at Witten/Herdecke University, co-founder of Institute for Global Integral Competence e.V. He was born in Kobe/Japan where he has observed and learned for 30 years how to make a bridge between modern and tradition, western and eastern culture, body and mind, yin and yan, male and female, material and spirit, science and mystics, and science and art. For this learning journey Kazuma studied western and eastern philosophy, European and Japanese Linguistics, Johrei (Japanese medicine), Kado (traditional Japanese flower arrangement), Sado (traditional Japanese tee ceremony), Feldenkrais, Anthroposophy etc. After his PhD in Linguistics in Germany he was interested in dialogical philosophy by Martin Buber and David Bohm. Since that time he has facilitated many dialogue processes in Germany, Japan, China, Switzerland and USA. His research topics are cultural diversity, cosmopolitan communication, third-culture building, refugee crisis, and global social witnessing. The last topic is his life-long research theme because he has asked a question “how can human being feel more interconnected consciously” since more than 30 years.
E-Mail: kazuma.matoba@uni-wh.de
Wie werden wir lernen?

E-Learning, Exkursion and dialogue

Ziel der Veranstaltung

Soziale Achtsamkeit

Max. Teilnehmendenzahl

15