The Facilitators Association of Japan (FAJ) is a private organization dedicated to the dissemination of facilitation and has been certified as a Specified Non-profit Organization (NPO) by the Japanese cabinet office since January 2004.
Name: Specified Non-profit Organization (NPO), Facilitators Association of Japan
Number of members: individual members: 1800, corporate members 1 (as of May 2015)
Bases: Hokkaido, Tohoku, Akita, Niigata, Tokyo, Saitama, Toyama, Chubu, Kansai, Wakayama, Okayama, Shikoku, Chugoku, Kyushu, Okinawa
Our mission is to appreciate diversity, draw competence out of people, and create collaboration between organizations and society (community).
The Facilitators Association of Japan (FAJ) is a Specified Non-profit Organization (NPO) for the dissemination and development of facilitation. Our goals are as follows: through disseminating facilitation we increase productivity, motivation and leadership in the business sector and increase the quality of citizens' activities, community governance, and international exchange in the social sector, while developing human resources incorporating multifaceted points of view.
The Facilitator members of the FAJ cover a broad spectrum, from beginners to professionals with expertise in various sectors such as business, community building, NPO, education, environment, medical and welfare service. We are dedicated to developing, through facilitation, an autonomous decentralized society where diverse people collaborate with one another.
Research Study: To establish facilitation skills and develop new technologies.
Education Dissemination: To disseminate facilitation and develop excellent facilitators.
Support and Advisory: To support various facilitation activities as experts in facilitation.
Exchange and friendship: To provide a hub of connection for various facilitators through our international and national network.
Website of the Disaster Recovery Support Section (inside the website of the FAJ) http://www.faj.or.jp
The Disaster Recovery Section has been established to provide various types of support through facilitation for the rebuilding of local communities recovering from the compound catastrophe of earthquakes, tsunami and accidents in the nuclear power plants on March 11, 2011. These support activities include enhancing the network among municipalities, Social Welfare Councils, NPO's and NGO 's operating in the impacted Tohoku and greater Tokyo areas (including surrounding prefectures). The section continues their activity as of December 2015.
Members (including former members)
Taro Tokuda (General Manager), Chie Endo, Mariko Suzuki, Terumasa Kotou, Ikuo Sugimura, Atsushi Tagashira, Masaki Onoue, Jun Koushuu, Kazue Chiba, Kuniko Iijima, Eri Urayama, Yusuke Asaba, Kimiko Kato
Rebuilding the Local Community and Resident-Oriented Recovery Support
Enhancing the Network among Supporting Organizations
Supporting the facilitation of meetings:
If you want to
-raise the level of satisfaction with your meetings,
-concentrate on discussion in the meeting,
-have efficient and effective meetings,
We can support you from the preparatory phase to the facilitation in the meetings, providing operational support for the meeting or conference through graphic facilitation skills.
Supporting workshop facilitation:
If you want to
-have the voice of citizens included in the recovery plan for the community,
-support the communication of their experience and what they have to say as residents in the disaster-stricken areas,
-explore and deepen the connection between people,
We will support and advise to create the space in meetings where participants' voices are heard, and feelings are spoken, expressed and received, including designing programs to teach meeting facilitation.
Education and Dissemination: To disseminate facilitation and develop facilitators:
If you want to
-hold your own workshops,
-teach facilitation skills to have your meetings be productive and worthwhile,
We provide education on facilitation to fit your purpose and enhance the development of your supporters.
Supporting supporter organizations in the disaster-stricken areas:
If you want to
- share information with other supporting organizations,
- collaborate and corporate with other supporting organizations to proceed with support activities in the disaster-stricken area;
We will support the creation of an effective environment for your purpose, regardless whether it is interaction with other supporting organizations, team building or some other need.
These are the names of FAJ members who participated in the activity of the Disaster Recovery Support Section as facilitators and/or recorders.
Koji Aoki, Yuko Asai, Naota Asao, Satomi Asaba, Mariko Abe, Takatoshi Ikeda, Atsushi Ikeyama, Chiaki Ishii, Takayuki Ishimoto, Harumi Ito, Yumiko Ito, Arifumi Inoue, Natsu Iwaki, Miwa Ueda, Masami Otani, Yoko Onishi, Akiko Ogasawara, Takao Ogasawara, Junko Okada, Chihiro Ogawa, Yoshio Ogawa, Yuka Oguri, Makoto Osamitsu, Koji Ono, Seiko Oyamada, Eri Kashiwagi, Hirotoshi Kato, Yuichi Kabeya, Takayuki Karube, Atsuko Kikuchi, Chikako Kinoshita, Hisayoshi Kimura, Kazuo Kimura, Takashi Kubo, Yuji Kuroda, Shinji Kotani, Chikashi Kobayashi, Yutaka Kobayashi, Toyoharu Kobayashi, Akiko Saito, Ayumi Sasada, Shinya Sato, Naruomi Sato, Daichi Sato, Tadayuki Sato, Shinji Shiigi, Junyo Shiina, Mari Shiozuka, Yuji Shima, Masayo Shimizu, Tomoko Shimura, Kenji Shirosawa, Hiroyuki Sugita, Koji Sugihara, Keita Suzuki, Chikako Suzuki, Toru Seki, Shunji Sebe, Mayumi Soejima, Shizuko Takasugi, Masako Takeuchi, Kazuya Takeda, Tsubasa Tashiro, Kaoru Tateoka, Kaoru Tanaka, Hitomi Tanigawa, Miyuki Chuma, Yasushi Tsutsui, Takeshi Terada, Hidehito Toba, Yoshiro Naito, Motohiko Nagaoka, Kaoru Nakagawa, Miake Nakajima, Yuri Nakanishi, Isao Nakano, Naoki Nagano, Yoshitomo Nagahashi, Rie Nagahisa, Akiko Narui, Osamu Nishi, Toru Nishida, Yasue Nishino, Kumika Ninomiya, Saeko Noguchi, Masanori Nose, Hiroshi Hachiya, Kayoko Hayashi, Akemi Hyakuno, Daisuke Hirohara, Masato Fukushima, Sachio Fukuda, Kimitoshi Hori, Yasuo Horiguchi, Yoshinori Honma, Mitsue Masuda, Takayuki Masuhira, Haruko Matsuki, Naohiko Matsumura, Nozomi Matsumoto, Hiroyoshi Mizue, Mami Mitachi, Satoshi Mukaiyama, Shuji Murano, Takeo Yagi, Kaori Yano, Atsushi Yamauchi, Keiko Yamauchi, Chisa Yamaguchi, Mikio Yamaguchi, Hiromi Yamaguchi, Yusuke Yamaguchi, Hirokazu Yamane, Kazuko Yamamoto, Takako Yokota, Naoto Yoshida, Kohei Wada, Reiko Wada, Tatsumi Watanabe, Akio Watanabe
Although we cannot list all the names of many other members of the FAJ who supported us in the form of financial and material donations, we would like to mention this fact to acknowledge and thank them.