On-site & On-demand
In the general population of our modern societies, there is nowadays a huge demand for more well-being, especially since the Covid-19 crisis which highlighted and increased several emotional, psychological and physical issues (depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, disconnection with the others and with the environment, online fatigue, loss of social connection, loss of purpose and motivation, fear of the future, lack of physical exercice, lack of physical contact…), some of which were already latent.
Kyushu University staff and students, and the local community are not exempt from it. It impacts their global health, their everyday life balance but also their productivity and their creativity. We thus aim first at improving and promoting more well-being at a local level.
We will collaborate with the local community and the local sensei(s) practicing and teaching arts of balance / Ways. They will participate in on-site conferences and events aimed at the general public, with online and open-access. Videos will be available afterwards.
In collaboration with the Center for Health Sciences and Counseling at Kyushu University, there will be weekly (morning and evening) yoga and meditation lessons in Japanese, English and French. Kyushu University staff and students will have free access to the classes.
A symposium, seminars and a collaboration for an exhibition will be organised in 2024 with free access for the general public.
Local Demand & Collaborations
Interdisciplinary philosophy
Interdisciplinary Activities
1) Series of seminars focusing on WBA will be held regularly. Specialists from various fields will be invited to share their experience, knowledge and analysis, depending on their background: community people from Kyushu-Okinawa, and both local and global researchers.
A symposium is planned during the Q-AOS 2024 Asia Week at Kyushu University. The call for proposal will be focused on a sub-topic of our module in order to dive deeper in our research project goals. It will gather international and interdisciplinary researchers from the academia. The call for proposal will be open to any field of research linked to the topic of our module.
After selection by the peer-review comity, the papers of the symposium and of some of the seminars will be published in an interdisciplinary open-access scientific journal with its own peer-review. Thanks to the gathering of the on-site practices data, collective research from the members of the module will be published as articles in peer-review journals.
We will also participate in international and interdisciplinary symposium, congress, conference, both in Japan and ouside (Taiwan) in order to promote both the topic of the module and the project itself as a Kyushu University Institute for Asian & Oceanian Studies (Q-AOS) cluster module.
2) Yoga and meditation lessons will be given regularly in Japanese, English and French at Kyushu University and will be opened for free to the local community and to the Kyushu University staff and students in order to improve well-being locally.
3) There will be a collaboration for an art exhibition held at Kyushu University Fujii Gallery (Okinawan artists; Getty Exhibition co-curated by a module member) linked to the topic of the body-mind reconnection. There will also be talks and scholar conversations. An exhibition catalogue will be published.
Connect to the world
Sharing knowledge from the Asia-Pacific with the world
Well-Being with Arts project
Kyushu University, Ito Campus, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, 819-0395 Fukuoka, JAPAN
A Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies (Q-AOS) research module.
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