The First Kyoto Kokoro Initiative International Symposium “Kokoro and Symbiosis”
[Date] September 18, 2017 (Mon.)
[Venue] Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall
[Program]
①Opening Remarks: Sakiko Yoshikawa (Director, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)
②Lecture 1 “Cognitive/Affective and Neural Obstacles of Human Symbiosis”: Shihui Han (Professor, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University)
③Lecture2 “Synchronistic Phenomena and Psychological Symbiosis”: Joseph Cambray (President, Pacifica Graduate Institute)
④Lecture 3 “Symbiosis of Religious Beliefs”: Tesshu Shaku (Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Soai University)
⑤Lecture 4 “Sustainable Society, Sustainable Mind”: Yoshinori Hiroi (Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)
⑥General Discussion: Shihui Han, Joseph Cambray, Sesshu Shaku, Yoshinori Hiroi, Toshio Kawai (Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)
⑦Closing Remarks: Nagahiro Minato (Executive Vice-President, Kyoto University)


In April 2015, Kyoto Kokoro Initiative was launched with support from the Inamori Foundation. Focusing on “kokoro” that faces many complicated problems today and valuing the richness and the deep nuance included in Japanese word “kokoro,” we will hold discussions from various perspectives.
Through this attempt, we are working on to obtain a new understanding about “kokoro” that forms the base of Japanese traditional culture and also becomes the source of our way of life, moreover, to find guiding principle heading for a global society that will nurture “kokoro.”