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Address：URBN Boutique, Shanghai
183 Jiaozhou Road,
Near Beijing West Road,
Shanghai
Date：20-06-2018 18:30 - 21:30
What is the meaning of living in a big city? Looking for the key to success? The answer is yes for most of us. We are living in the era, which people are willing to take the challenge of a hustling lifestyle: running around in the city blocks to meet clients, hopping at various social events, giving inspirational speeches to hundreds of audience at big events…
They do sound inspirational, while they do cut out so much more from our life. Ask yourself, when was the last time you look up the sky? Have you ever heard the bird chorus out of your window? How about giving a hug to your loved ones? In the sea of opportunities, it is easy to feel lost and let go of our original life purpose. Our mind is simply wandering in our physical forms. Even worse, we are unconsciously destroying our natural environment in a massive way.
So how to find the balance between life and work? How to give life to our inner being? Are we making it on time to change the destiny of our living earth?
The Abundance of Less is a philosophical build-up towards a slow life, which allows one to rediscover a life with enough time. The journal, which contains the true story of 10 individuals author encountered in rural Japan, provides a comprehensive interpretation of these individuals' relationship with material, money, time, work, art, people, and nature. The lifestyle they chose also shows the journey of their daily practices towards mindfulness, which is also known as a revolutionary social movement nowadays, as issued by Time magazine in 2014.
Join us for a discussion at URBN Boutique in Shanghai where, together with Andy Couturier, Zhou Yiyan and our audience, we will be seeking the pathway to a simple rich life.
Event Itinerary:
18:30-19:15 Registrations and networking
19:15-19:30 Zhou Yiyan speaking on No.1Organizing and Green Sha Ri Movement
19:30-20:00 Andy Couturier speaking on The Abundance of Less
20:00-20:30 Moderated discussion / Q&A
20:30-21:00 Open discussion with the attendees
21:00-21:30 Networking / end of event
About Andy Couturier
Andy Couturier is the American author of two books, Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the WritingandA Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance.The Abundance of Less, his latest, is a revised and updated edition of his previous work. He is the founder and creative director for The Opening, a center for creative writing. His essays and articles on ecology, sustainable living, and the problems inherent with nuclear power have appeared in The Japan Times, The North American Review, Adbusters, Kyoto Journal, The Oakland Tribune, and Creative Non-Fiction.
He was born in New York, New York, United States, and grew up in Washington D.C. and Chicago. He is a graduate of the English composition MA program at San Francisco State University, and lived in Japan for four years. He runs a private writing school, The Opening, in Oakland, California, and also teaches in Santa Cruz. He is also the winner of the prestigious 2017 Nautilus Book Award that recognizes barriers of culture, gender, race and promote green values, vitality and most of all – positive social change.
About Guest Speaker Zhou Yiyan
Zhou Yiyan is the founder of the No. 1 Organizing Platform, which aims to introduce and educate about organizational techniques of tidying up one’s living space. Her passion for decluttering one’s belongings, in order to reveal more space, was sparked after reading Marie Kondo’s book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying” in 2013. Yiyan believes that tidiness is a virtue and that by getting rid of the clutter one can feel lighter and establish a different kind of order in a daily life as well. She devoted herself to this belief, which in 2016 took her to Japan, in order to study further clutter elimination and to obtain a certificate. Yiyan now has more than 200,000 followers, and she believes it is due to a growing interest of new simple lifestyle which she named it “Green Sha Ri” - decluttering and tidying up our homes as well as our lives through a more eco-friendly way.
She will share her experience visiting two Japanese minimalists home in Tokyo in 2016 and how they practiced “less is more” spirit into daily life. She will also introduce the new Chinese sustainable lifestyle, Green Sha Ri movement, which combines Dan Sha Ri and Zero waste idea into one to encourage people to pursue a more eco-friendly way to organize their home, mind and inner world.
Note
Preference will be given to prepaid attendees.
Money goes towards supporting the entire TAOL campaign including travel, stay, speaker honorarium, and other resources.
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