Dear Kyudo friends in Europe and North America,
On behalf of Zenko International's Council, I wish to send you our warm
greetings. Hopefully at this time of the year we can all find a fresh
and inspiring start in our Kyudo practice.
At the Zenko Int'l Council Annual Meeting last January, in Munster,
Germany, the Council decided to establish a New Communication Structure.
The purpose of this New Communication Structure is to facilitate and
encourage easy and regular exchanges within the Community, and to
develop closer and stronger links between all Kyudo practitioners under
Kanjuro Shibata XX and XXI.
The New Communication Structure is to be used to realize Shibata
Sensei's desire to bring his Kyudo groups in North America and Europe
closer toward being "One Kyudo Family."
The following lines describe the structure itself and highlight the very
simple, yet important role we all have to play to make this happen:
1)
By the 15th of each month, all information to be shared with the Kyudo
Community is to
be sent by e-mail directly to me at jean-pierre.poggi@sympatico.ca
The information can come from an Individual, a Dojo, a Practice Group
(PG), Zenko Int'l's Council or Kanjuro Shibata XX or XXI.
2)
By the end of each month I will send out a message entitled:
Zenko Int'l (All Tiger Groups) - Online News 00/00/0000
Said message will contain the information received by the 15th of the
current month and will be sent out to :
- Kanjuro Shibata XX and XXI
- every Kyudo practitioner of Europe and North America
- Zenko Int'l's Council Members.
3)
The simple but important role we all have to play is the following :
Firstly,
each of us should share the present message with the other practitioners
of our own Dojo or PG and inquire who would not have received it in
order to invite said people to e-mail me their name, complete address,
telephone number, e-mail address(es) and name of Dojo or location of
their PG.
Secondly,
we should identify one person (and ideally one back up) in our Dojo or
PG who would have the following two responsibilities:
- print a copy of each - Online News - for those who would not have
access to e-mails
- make sure that the newly arrived practitioner sends me his/her
whereabouts.
That's it !
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I must say that the Council Members of Zenko Int'l find this project
very exciting and important for all of us.
Sharing - and we all have a lot to share - and thinking how enriching
and inspiring sharing can be to our own practice and to the Group is
even more exciting.
Suggestion :
Since the beginning of this year, many programs already took place:
3 in Europe with Kanjuro Shibata XXI,
2 in North America with Don Symanski and
1 to happen at the end of April with Kanjuro Shibata XX.
Maybe some people would like to share their experience?
I am looking forward to receiving by May 15 what you wish to share with
and what you think would be of interest to the whole Kyudo Community.
All the best to you all,
Jean-Pierre
Communication facilitator
jean-pierre.poggi@sympatico.ca
On behalf of Zenko International (All Tiger Groups):
Council Members:
Don Symanski - Head Instructor
donsymanski@indra.com
Ellen Mains
dranyen@yahoo.com
James Boorstein - Chairman
jboorstein@earthlink.net
Jean-Pierre Poggi - Communication facilitator
jean-pierre.poggi@sympatico.ca
Marion Taylor
mtaylor@hampshire.edu
Max Baltin - Oko Representative
baltin@nrw-go.de
Michael Wenninger - Financial Comptroller
mwenninger@earthlink.net
Vacancy - Oko Representative