Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Cost: FEW Members ¥2,000 / Guests ¥5,000 (supper and drinks included)
No advance reservation required. Please note this is a women only event.

Venue: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ), Yurakucho Denki Building, 20th Floor (http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php)

Speaker: Cathy Bernatt, President of 'Creating.....' and International Program Coordinator, Outward Bound Japan

Topic: Making the Untouchables Touchable
Into the Groan/Grown Zone

Do you have "burning questions" you want to ask your "boss" or "leader" but are afraid. Maybe you think your boss or leader is "untouchable". Tonight you will have a chance to ask or say anything you want to "that boss or leader". Come prepared to release all your pent up frustrations, anger, curiosity and more.

This will not be a speech but rather a series of interactive mini-role play scenarios where Cathy will sometimes speak from her own personal experience as the leader of Creating... or may take the role of "your leader". And you will have a chance to interact with "your leader".
The temperature of this session is bound to be "hot". Dress appropriately!

Cathy has spent 25 years as an experiential educator and facilitator working in both the public and private sector. Before coming to Japan, she spent 10 years as a professional experiential educator working with young offenders in adventure-based community-wilderness programs in Canada. She has experience working as a teacher-therapist with emotionally troubled youth and as a mid-shipman and teacher aboard a tall-ship that sailed from Poland to Jamaica. Throughout her career, Cathy has observed the impact experiential and action-learning methods have on helping clients achieve extraordinary results.

In 1998, Cathy started her own company in Japan called Creating… whose mission is “Realizing unlimited potential in people and organizations”. Creating specializes in Leadership Training and Organizational Development.

Cathy has a Master’s Degree in Leadership Studies from Azusa Pacific University and is currently completing a second Masters Degree in Conflict Facilitation & Organizational Change at the Process Work Institute. Living in Japan for the last 15 years, Cathy has been nicknamed “The Blue-Eyed Japanese” by the people who know her best. Her passion outside of work is playing Japanese taiko.

For more information contact: few@gol.com.