Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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/~fccjyod2/aboutus/map)

Speaker: Ian de Stains OBE

All illegal war in Iraq. A conflict in the Middle East that’s really a proxy war. Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa. The environment in peril. Moral bankruptcy among world leaders. Religion a tinderbox. The world has reached a tipping point.

Ian de Stains believes that only a fundamental shift in the way we think about these issues will help us even begin to address them with any hope of resolution. The key is not what we think, but how we think.

We have been educated to think logically or to judge black or white. However, many issues around us, narrowly our daily routines or widely global issues listed above sometimes are difficult to resolve with only logic. These days, “Right brain thinking” has been thrust into the spotlight. “Right brain thinking” involves emotive side of thinking and it helps us to see things that we’ve been ignoring. Ian de Stains has started looking at this “Right brain thinking” and he will show us how we can think differently by using this “right brain” theory.

The presentation will give us examples of how new and different thinking can possibly make significant differences. Ian de Stains will address success stories of world leading companies and tell us why we need to make changes and how we can change the world. He will also focus on our career and life in Japan to show how possibly we can adopt a new thinking to our office environment and our everyday life.

Speaker's profile: Ian de Stains OBE DipArb, MCIArb

Ian de Stains was seconded by the BBC to NHK in Japan as an invited specialist in 1976. He worked with Radio Japan and produced and presented a variety of television programmes for the international market. In 1980, he established COMMUNICAT, a communications consulting service with clients such as Radio Netherlands, Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, BBC TV Co-productions, NTV, JCTV, and a wide range of corporate clients.

Since 1987 Ian has served as the Executive Director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan, responsible for public affairs and editorial output. Concurrently he is the host of the ITV Japan programme “Market Access” and is a regular speaker at international conferences. A Member of the Society of Authors, Ian is a published author of fiction in addition to the many articles he has written on Japan-based topics for local and overseas publications. A Councilor of the Yomiuri Economic Society, Ian is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of the Japan Arbitrators Association.

Ian is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Arbitration from Reading University.