One of the things I’ve found over the years is that if you just make a few changes to all the motivational skits, jokes and paradigm changing stuff that I do with teachers, they are just as, if not more so, effective with your average businessman or woman. And even better than that, most of…

Although I’ve done lots of speeches and workshops sponsored by the Ministry of Education (MEXT) before, this was the first time that they had directly contacted me to help out. I also haven’t chatted to any of their new people this year yet and it was good over lunch, and in their speeches that preceded…

As the Ministry asked me to go to Tokyo tomorrow, it meant today I had a 3 hour workshop in the morning in one city then another 3 hour workshop in the next city with only an hour in between. But the teachers were all really cool and after doing 2 hour workshops last week…

This is the fourth ( or it could actually be the fifth??) time I’ve presented at the Okayama city Summer workshops. Through all these years there have been hundreds and hundreds of teachers attending, but even today for the vast majority of the teachers it was the first time they had seen Genki English live….

There’s a strange sense of deja vu about my Summer schedule this year, it’s almost the same as last year! Today was a workshop for the Kagawa prefectural government. I was told to expect about half new people and half people from last year, but as it happens there were loads and loads of new…