WELL 2023 - Program Details


SATURDAY MORNING - 7:30 to 8:00
Wake-up with gentle movement with Joanna Hosoya, in the lobby in front of the elevators.

SATURDAY MORNING - 9:15 to 10:15
Samia Haseeb Khan.  Lets Talk Beyond the Pink Ribbon 
サミアハシーブカーン   ピンクリボンを超えて話しましょう
Cancer affects people worldwide across all barriers of race, gender or social classes. In females, breast cancer is prevalent with high mortality. I would like to focus this discussion on the basics of breast cancer from diagnostics to cure in a nutshell. Secondly, I would like to focus on holistic and emotional support for both the patients and individuals around them i.e. their caregivers, friends & family.
​癌が人種、ジェンダー、社会階級などの区別をつけず、人類全体に影響を及ぼす。女性に関しては、乳癌の確率が高く、また死亡率も高い。今回の話の内容は乳癌の基礎知識としてその診断から治療までの話を簡潔にしたい。続いて、患者のみにとどまらず、その家族、友人や看護者なども含め、ホリスティック及び感情的な支えが必要であることも話ししたい。
Samia has lived in Kansai for over a decade. She has taught both university and school students. She currently works as an Assistant Professor in Maizuru. She has a dual Master ’s degree in biotechnology and bioinformatics. She enjoys Iaido, poetry, painting and is a fun loving free spirit.
日本関西に１０年以上在住しており、大学生・高校生も含め、たくさんの生徒さんに教えてきました。現在、舞鶴高等専門学校にて助教を務めています。バイオテクノロジー及バイオインフォマティクス、両方の分野で修士課程を修了しています。詩人・画家としても活躍し、居合道も楽しめるたくさんの趣味を持っています。​

SATURDAY MORNING - 10:30 to 11:30
Joanna Hosoya: Empowering Reflection: A workshop exploring the experiences of caring for ageing parents, including those who live in another country. 
Please join us in acknowledging and supporting one another as we share stories and gain insights about family, self, and others. Before attending, take a moment to reflect and write a paragraph thanking your mother, father, or other nurturer for their strengths and beautiful memories they have passed on to you. Bring this with you as we come together to create a safe space for exploration and growth.

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SATURDAY MORNING - 10:30 to 12:00

Marama (Maz) Carmichael Kishimoto is the winner of the All Japan Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest in 2022, the Table Topics (impromptu) Speech Champion in 2008 and the winner of the International Speech Contest in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Having overcome her own fear of public speaking, she is now passionate about helping others with their public speaking skills and has given workshops both online and in person on subjects such as Public speaking with confidence, Making humorous speeches, and Making impromptu speeches.

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON 14:00 to 15:30
​Dr. Jackie F. Steele 

​Representation, Co-Authority, Trust: From Democratic Equality to DEI
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What do we still fundamentally need to learn about the concepts of representation, power-sharing, and democratic equality to enrich our practices of DEI? Designing intentional practices of co-authority, self-leadership, and emotionally intelligent people systems is both an art and a (political) science. In this participatory presentation, Jackie will share her expertise as a feminist political scientist whose research has engaged in a cross-pollination of public policy expertise in intersectional diversity with critical feminist and civic republican philosophies of decolonizing oppression for historically marginalized groups in contemporary G7 democracies. She will share about how these approaches to anti-oppression and systems change informs her leadership choices as as a feminist CEO and founder of enjoi Japan KK, and how it changes the foundational logic of how enjoi Japan supports corporate, university and public policy leaders in designing and implementing organizational change in support of intersectional diversity as the key to unlock sustainable innovation, community equity, and workplace happiness. ​
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Dr. Jackie F. Steele is a trilingual political scientist, author, and international speaker who has taught at leading universities in Canada and Japan, including six years as associate professor at the University of Tokyo. She has published over thirty academic works, is a long-time collaborator of the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, and is an advisor to UN conferences focused on gender equality, diversity, and disaster/crisis risk governance. As founder and CEO of enjoi Japan K.K., Dr. Steele has guided corporate and university leaders on diversity and equity for innovation (DEI) as a holistic and evidence-based business strategy, and was recognized by APAC Entrepreneur as one of ten “Most Inspiring Japanese Entrepreneurs 2021”. Since April 2022, she is Senior DEI Business Partner for Amazon Japan. In her volunteer life, Jackie serves as President of FEW Japan supporting women’s empowerment, and is also a director of the Pride Business Alliance Japan. To support the next generation of intersectional diversity leaders, she is an angel investor with SheEO Canada, and is the Strategic Advisor of WomEnpowered International hosted at GRaSPP (UTokyo). 

About enjoi Japan K.K. 
We specialise in executive DEI education and change management. We partner with businesses to build ecosystems with empowering policies, practices, and corporate cultures. From mindset shift to ecosystem design, we guide senior leaders in building a diversity-positive community powered by creative individuality, inclusive innovation, and workplace wellbeing.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON - 15:45 to 17:00
Planning the future of WELL
At this first meeting in person in three years, we will use this time to get together to talk about what we can do at future WELL events. Bring your ideas, and tell us what skills you have to offer to help make your ideas a reality,

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SUNDAY MORNING - 10:00 to 11:30 
Karen Hill Anton - Crossing Cultures: A Personal Journey

Karen Hill Anton is a writer, columnist, consultant, and coach. 
  • For more than fifteen years, Karen Hill Anton wrote the popular column “Crossing Cultures” for the Japan Times and the column  “Another Look” for Chunichi Shimbun. From 1988 to 1996 she  wrote a bi-monthly opinion essay for “Shukan ST” a publication directed at Japanese studying English. 
  • Beginning in 2000, Karen consulted and managed employee development programs for global corporations in the finance, pharmaceutical, and software industries, including Citibank, Eli Lilly Japan, Pfizer, Shinsei Bank, JP Morgan, BNP Paribas, HSBC, among others. 
  • Coaching senior executives she has been especially successful in guiding Japanese women seeking to change careers, make significant lifestyle alterations, as well as re-enter the workforce after maternity leave. 
  • Karen was invited to serve on the Internationalization and Society Advisory Council of Prime Ministers Keizō Obuchi and Ryutaro Hashimoto. She is Emerita: Board of Governors, Temple University, Japan Campus, Shizuoka Human Rights Association, the Jun Ashida Educational Foundation Committee, and is an Allman Fellow and Freeman Foundation Fellow.
  • Regularly invited to speak to international, civic and educational organizations, she often speaks about her experience of raising four bilingual-bicultural children. Most recently she received a standing ovation as a Plenary Speaker at the JALT22 Conference in Fukuoka. 
  • She has presented workshops and seminars on the craft of memoir writing for the Japan Writers’ Conference, and the Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators.  
  • The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, her memoir, has been warmly received by a wide readership. It has been awarded the Grand Prize of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books, 2021 B.R.A.G Medallion, and the 2020 SPR Book Awards Gold Prize. Her novel, A Thousand Graces, is slated for publication in early 2023.  
  • Originally from New York City, Karen has made her home with her husband William Anton in rural Tenryu, Shizuoka prefecture, since 1975.

Crossing Cultures: A Personal Journey
  • Setting out as a teenager to uncover the world beyond my New York City neighborhood, my cross-cultural journey began more than a half century ago. In the decades since, my worldwide travels have been as much a journey of self-discovery as geographical and cultural exploration. The process of learning from and embracing other cultures has been for me a transformation, one in which I have gained a wider view of the world, and my place in it. I think of this as the reward for living and learning cross-culturally. In this talk I will speak about what I have learned, what I have found of value in transcending the limits, and limiting labels of identity and nationality. By chance and by choice, and a sincere desire to cultivate connection, my journey has culminated in Japan. I accept that with my urban sensibilities and cosmopolitan outlook, in my rural community (where I doubt anyone has ever heard the word diversity) I will always stand out. Still, having lived with my family continuously in the countryside of Shizuoka prefecture since 1975, I will share what I’ve learned about fitting in.

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