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Hi Everyone,

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

For the sessions on WED August 13 we will be using a different Zoom meeting account.

Zoom Link:

https://zoom.us/j/9555752618?pwd=aVVSL0RCVkRyYWJrTCtTSjZORFVNdz09

Password:

kandai

I will also send this information to your email.

Don

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For the sessions on 13 August we will use a different Zoom account.

Zoom Link:

https://zoom.us/j/9555752618?pwd=aVVSL0RCVkRyYWJrTCtTSjZORFVNdz09

Password:

kandai

I will also send this information to your email.

Don

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We will always meet at the following Zoom link:

MCP Mental Health & Well-Being

Meeting ID: 811 9852 8946

Passcode: jmcp

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Welcome to the Summer 2025 MCP Program "Mental Health & Well-being"!

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Welcome to the Summer 2025 MCP Program "Mental Health & Well-being"!

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Please note that all listed dates and times are in Japan Standard Time (JST). We kindly ask that you convert them to your local time zones accordingly.

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Check out this A4 designed by mariya@kandaicourse.net IIGE CD.

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This course is taught by Prof. Keiko Ikeda and Prof. Don Bysouth from Kansai University

If you have questions, your first contact point should be the IIGE email provided iige@ml.kandai.jp

For questions to the professors, please raise them during the classes or post them in the Q&A area on this Pallet

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If Padlet is new to you, these videos can help you get familiar with it:

Introduction to Padlet: Getting started for absolute beginners

Introduction to Padlet: Posting different things

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After posting your ice-breaker, check other students’ slideshows.

Find three people who are from a different country than you, but have something in common with you and leave a comment under their post.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here!

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Hello! I look forward to meeting everyone and working together!

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TBA

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Hi everyone, I am Don the person who will be instructing you for the program. I have a PhD in psychology and have worked in Australia, the United Kingdom and for the last 15 years have lived and worked in Japan. While that might not give you much in the way of common interests - I play drums, guitar and bass, enjoy gaming and VR, and really love animals (particularly dogs, shoebills, and parrots). Maybe we have things in common after all!?

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Very excited to learn and to work with everyone!

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Looking forward to this opportunity, may it be fruitful and a wonderful experience.

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Looking forward to work with you guys! I'm sure it will be a great experience.

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Excited to learn, connect, and grow with everyone! <3

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Excited to connect with people and cultures. Looking forward to this opportunity.

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MCP Icebreaker

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I can't wait to meet everyone! I look forward to learning and growing with you all.

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This program will issue digital badges (certificates) to all students who complete the program. To qualify, you need to: attend at least 8 out of 10 sessions, complete all homework, and participate in the final project.

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I can't seem to connect to an open meeting in the old or the new link. Is there a new link I missed?

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Hi everyone! Hope y'all are having a great day! I'm excited to meet everyone and also looking forward to learn together. ♡

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apart from the learnings from the course, i'm looking forward to meeting you all as well! ^^

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Nice to meet y'all~ I might have gotten too excited and written a bunch ^^"

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Looking forward to our first session guys, see you!

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Hello. Looking forward to meeting you guys!

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It was great to learn a bit more about you all. Now here’s a little about me, so you can get to know me too.

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nice to meet you!

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Nice to meet you!

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Sorry for the delay. I’ve been struggling with a cold, but I managed to get it done.

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Hi! I'm really excited to meet all of you, see you soon!

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Hello! I am looking forward to meeting and learning from you! ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡

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Sunwoo Kim Self Introduction Presentation

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Drop your IG username(or other active socials) below.

Or join in the IG groupchat through this link:

https://ig.me/j/AbbiCC1bSHIjsOER/

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I’d appreciate it if someone from Group 6 could follow and share my Instagram account below.

Yamato Manda

IG:yamato_tennis_35

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Slides for the Session 1 presentation.

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Drop your active social media accounts here:

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Hello team 7! Let's drop our socials here

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Miguel Espinal

Ice-breaker

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hello! there’s a messenger group chat created for team four. please join thru this link:

🔗 https://m.me/j/AbZUC2ZxtXprYp5-/

please feel free to say as well if you prefer other applications we can better communicate at :))

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Hello, I’m Isa. I study at UFES, in Brazil. I had a problem related to time zone. I was supposed to attend yesterday, but I made a mistake thinking it would be today. So I missed session 1 and 2. It will be possible to participate in the next meetings?

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Here are the slides on Health and Culture.

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Hello, I'm Janna Marie! I just wanted to ask if attendance still counts even if my camera was off, as long as I attended the session? I wasn’t able to turn on my camera during the first session earlier because I didn’t know it was required. Also, I arrived late to the session. However, I have a screenshot as proof that I was able to attend. If this affects my attendance, may I know if there’s anything I can do about it? Thank you!

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Hi Everyone,

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

For the sessions on WED August 13 we will be using a different Zoom meeting account.

Zoom Link:

https://zoom.us/j/9555752618?pwd=aVVSL0RCVkRyYWJrTCtTSjZORFVNdz09

Password:

kandai

I will also send this information to your email.

Don

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Here are the slides on Emotions and Culture.

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Here are the slides on Gender, Identity and Sexuality.

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Mental Health & Well-Being Gender, Identity and Sexuality

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Hi, I'm María! I wanted to ask something and clarify the whole thing.

About the Project Group. I'm actually working with team 2, like you guys told me so the first day of the program, but turns out that in the list you uploaded in the Padlet I appear on team 7. I suppose that you, the Kansai staff, made an rearrangement of the members and putting me in the place of the other girl from my same university that isn't attending any of the sessions done by now. At the same time, I can't help thinking that this must be a misunderstanding, and I don't want to cause more confusion towards the Final Project to any of my teammates and other teams. What do I do? Do I keep working with team 2? Or work with team 7?

Thank you.

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Group Decision Making: Within Group Processes

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Mental Health and Well-Being Interpersonal Conflict Overview Readings Bysouth, D., 2011. Conflict assessment guide. [handout] Osaka University. Bercovitch, J., Kremenyuk, V. and Zartman, I., 2009. Introduction: The nature of conflict and conflict resolution. In: J. Bercovitch, V.

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Hello Professor. For the final project, do we need to record a voiceover for the presentation, or is just having a slideshow sufficient? Thank you!

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For your projects, here are some guidelines that might help you complete the task.

The project presentation should ideally be a multimedia presentation that is approximately 5 minutes in duration. Try not to exceed 10 minutes as the focus is making something concise, punchy and effective.

You are free to use any apps or software, as long as your final project can be uploaded or linked to the padlet.

You are free to choose any topic that relates to the broad theme of mental health and well-being. This could be a focus on a very specific issue, or could take a broader perspective. You can take an applied perspective or adopt a more conceptual or theoretical approach.

What might be worth considering is how you could incorporate some aspect of culture in your topics, particularly given the intercultural teams/groups! For example, how might attitudes towards mental health be similar or different in the cultural settings that you are familiar and experienced with?

If you want to use AI tools to help with the design/aesthetic aspects of presentation that is fine - but ensure any other content is done by your actual group. No point in doing it otherwise!

Not every person in your group needs to speak/present - you should aim to have group members contribute based on what they can contribute most to the presentation.

Given the freedom to approach the task in many different ways, we do not want to give to many tips or guidelines as they might be mistaken as rules you need to absolutely adhere to, which is not the intention. Provided the presentation is of appropriate duration, and that your grioup has a clear focus on a topic or theme relevant to mental health and well-being, the most important aspect is that you produce something you think makes for a useful contribution for anyone interested in these topics.

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Hello everyone, I'm Helena from China. I'm currently studying in Japan. I'm very glad to meet all of you.

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Technical issues happened but we still have a session starting at 10am (JST). It's now on.