Genseki Kobo
Genseki Kobo is the name under which Makoto Ikeda, a certified SME management consultant operating as Tunagibito, runs courses and writes about noticing, on your own, what is already inside you. Its policy is to hand out questions, not answers.
Notice the hidden gem, and let it bloom.
That is the subtitle of this workshop.
Genseki means a rough, uncut stone. Kobo means a workshop.
The name comes from my family's metal-polishing trade.
Before it is polished, a stone usually looks like nothing but a stone.
And until you polish it, you cannot tell what it was.
The order is always the same.
Notice → Polish → Bloom
The hard part, I believe, is the first step: noticing.
We see ourselves least clearly of all.
I only understood a number of things about myself after leaving the company where I had spent 36 years.
No answers handed out
In this workshop, I do not hand out answers. I hand out questions.
An answer someone gives you feels clear in the moment.
But unless you arrived at it yourself, it is gone by the next day.
I have watched this happen many times while teaching.
So I take a route that looks like the long way around.
What is open now
The courses are being built one at a time.
Announcements go out from the places below.