What’s MBDGs?

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What is MBDGs?

MBDGs stands for Mind-Based Development Goals. This is an educational project to establish the foundation of the mind systematically with six goals to create a better society. It was born from the ideal that the fulfilled stable mind of many people make the real sustainable development, and that development make the society develop sustainably.

This education was created by a lecturer who struggled with the gap between the reality of Japanese education and the ideal for the next generation who will achieve SDGs.

Awarded by Awarding Organization

MBDGs’ educational challenges have been approved as Revolutionary Leadership in Education by some awarding organization, and the advocate was awarded some awards.

Outstanding Leadership Award 2023 Education 2.0

Asia’s 100 Women Power Leaders 2023 White Page International

MBDGs advocate is a speaker and contents advisor of international education conferences

Delivering the idea of what is the true sustainability of mind fundamental education.

CIO TIMES selected the advocate as “5 Rising Leader in Education to Watch in 2023”
Also has been nominated for “Influential Leadership in Education Award” by HEaL 2024 in Las Vegas

Two quick introduction videos

1.If you’re interested in mind fundamental education, please check out this↓(4mins)

2.If you’re interested in achieving SDGs, please check this.↓(6mins)

6Goals

Goal.1｜Self-Establish
Establish self-awareness by self-understanding, self-approval, and self-reliant. The goal is to be aware or remember own value and possibilities, and to love and care oneself.

Goal.2｜Vision
Have a vision and vision-based actions, if one wants to. Vision contains the happiness of others’ too. This can be born from self-awareness established to a certain level.

Goal.3｜Diversity and Inclusion
The mind or love to accept and value others can be born only from stable self-awareness well-established by Goal1. Also, the mind and actions to support others’ visions can be born from Goal1 and 2. Self-reliant mind can value and trust others or other’s values, and this make Diversity and Inclusion achieved at a high level sustainably. Also, cross-cultural understanding can be achieved on the basis of understanding own culture.

Goal.4｜Cooperativeness
Cooperativeness with no stress and positive communication can be born from the mind well-established by Goal1-3.

Goal.5｜Grow Cycle
Get oneself in a Grow-Cycle by self-questioning habit and finding causes in oneself. This cycle is gainable by well-established mind.

Goal.6｜For the next generation
Support the next generation to find their way and achieve SDGs.

People who are in a state where diversity can come and go freely, and acceptance and love are widespread are more likely to make a good use of their abilities. We believe that when buried individuality and neglected abilities are put to use, a society that is easy for everyone to live in will be born.

In order to develop a sustainable society, we believe that it is important to spread activities and businesses with an essence of the mind born from the six goals. “Accepting and supporting others” can only be achieved stably with the mind established by the six goals. For those who are aware of their value and potential, understanding and accepting others is quite natural.

What can be solved if the 6 goals are achieved?

MBDGs mind education can solve…

the acts that don’t value oneself or the mind which can’t believe oneself.(Self-Establish)
the feeling that “I can’t find out why I was born.”(Vision)
the acts to offend others or pull other’s feet.(D&I)
the acts not thinking about others.(Cooperativeness)
suffering setback and focusing on only blaming people or society.(Grow-Cycle)
young people not getting excited about becoming grownups.(For the next generation)

MBDGs aim to be a help to solve the problems caused by unstable self-establishment, such as…

A society with low acceptance for others
Young people’s low motivation about career and lack of social participation
Regional resistance to the acceptance foreigners and coexistence with foreigners
Motivation of workers that doesn’t reflect the good results of work environment reform
Accepting diversity with knowledge alone
The constitution of organizations that do not fully utilize diversity, such as foreign human resources
Increasing number of suicides

Foundation of the mind established by MBDGs.

What is built through MBDGs mind education based on the six goals is an important “mind foundation” for human resources who support sustainable development. If the mind foundation is built to a certain level, people can make the good use of their skills, abilities, information, network, and so. It is just like that if the ground condition is enough solid, even a big building can be built on it. Solid ground is the mind foundation, and the big building is the skills or abilities. To maximize the effects of using skills or abilities, well-established mind foundation is vital.

Relationships of SDG, ESD, and MBDGs.

About the relationships with SDG, ESD(Education for Sustainable Development), and MBDGs.

SDGs can be achieved by people.
People can gain the abilities to achieve it by ESD education.
ESD can be effective by positiveness of people.
Positiveness can be born from the mind.
Mind can be established by MBDGs mind education.

ESD is to gain abilities, and MBDGs is to establish the mind to gain abilities effectively.

ESD educational trials such as valuing others, relating each other, communication, or D&I, can’t always turn to success. One of the reasons is the foundation is skipped, and cram knowledges or take actions only.

Stable Positiveness and creativity

Improving the HR system or working environment are not the only way to boost the workers’ positiveness or satisfaction. In order to increase productivity, it is necessary to establish the mind of each individual.

The graph below shows the workers’ motivation didn’t reflect the good results of working environment reform in Japan.

Stable positiveness or creativity can last only when they are born from the mind.

Now that sustainable development has begun to be emphasized around the world, the mind conditions of the human resources who support it will become even more important. MBDGs education supports the systematic mind establishment of those who support the SDGs.

Vision/Mission/Goals

MBDGs Vision

The vision of MBDGs is “A world created by self-reliant people” with the states below.

1．Many people around the world…
・accept oneself and value one’s worth,
・be aware of own value and possibilities,
・and have a vision if they want to.

２．Above leads to…
・accept others and value others’ value,
・can trust others’ value and possibilities also,
・and can support others’ vision.

３．Above leads to the society where…
・diversity come and go freely,
・many people make the good use of their abilities,
・acceptance of others and love to others are spreading,
・and conflictions turns to co-creation, co-existence and co-prosperity.

Mission

Make human resource mind education that springs up independence and positiveness that creates self-trust a common sense for education.
　

Goals

Educational activities worldwide
Certified MBDGs trainers deliver education Independently
Establish an educational fund to support mind education throughout the world

MBDGs activities

Activities

（１）Deliver education and educational support worldwide

　①Deliver education and educational supports worldwide
　②Deliver workshops or seminars for educators and students.
　③Deliver Cross-cultural understanding and communication seminars (in Japan)

（２）Train trainers
　①For educators in schools or companies
　②Train senior trainers who train trainers
　③Can start MBDGs workshops after taking the trainer’s course and passed the final exam
　④Join the worldwide trainer’s community

（３）Worldwide Community
　　・Join Facebook group to share information and communicate

（４）Support the next generation
　　・Hold vision events in the future

Who take education?

People who take MBDGs workshops or seminar are…
・the next generation at schools
・employees at companies
・citizens at local

Who deliver MBDGs workshops or seminars?

People who deliver MBDGs as a certified trainers are…
・educators at schools
・employees in charge of staff education at companies
・local trainers at local

Differences from general mind education.

Self-establishment education

For example, if people are trying to bring out the independence or positiveness of young people or employees, do you ever see such a scene?

The establishment of independence or positiveness is based on the principle of becoming proactive and taking actions.
In order to increase self-esteem, the methodology is to increase self-usefulness awareness (useful to others) and the accumulation of successful experiences.
It omits the most fundamental requirement, self-existence awareness.
Trainers who have not established their own mind foundation, are making it impossible to interact effectively with young people and employees.

As a result,

Positiveness that has been gained temporarily to meet others’ expectation keeps them away from sustainable growth and self-reliant mind.
Increasing the amount of action does not proportion to the increase in motivation.

Vision education

Or, for example, if people are trying to elicit vision awareness and action from young people or employees, do you ever see something like this?

The methodology of fostering vision awareness is said to have a vision and goal.
A tendency to value a vision that wishes for the happiness of others as “good”
Vision achievement is based on goal setting and action planning only.

As a result,

Vision harassment moves the young away from visions or dreams.
Fabricated and impromptu visions have become the standard in the organization.
Setting goals and taking action reassures them, and ultimately not motivates them because their fundamental minds are left behind.

This kind of misunderstanding of methodology can also be seen in D&I and Cooperativeness education.

Methodological misunderstanding

Misunderstandings of methodologies have not been emphasized in education until now. However, there is a need to pursue the “sustainability” of the growth and achievements of the human resources themselves who support the development of society. The essence of mind education needs to be emphasized more from now on for the better future.

For example,

The “way to utilize” the feature of good singing is “to become a singer”. As a result, those who listen to it are delighted.
The “way to utilize” positiveness or independence is to “take proactive action”. As a result, the results are more sustainable.

Seen from the opposite side.

I become a singer because I want to delight people with my songs. The result is divided into two. If I sing well, I can. If I ‘m bad at singing, I can’t.

The essence is whether I’m good at singing or not in the first place.

See in the case of positiveness.

I want to produce sustainable results, so I take proactive actions. The results are divided into two. If I have independence and positiveness, it will work. If I don’t have them, good results won’t last.

Do I have independence or positiveness in the first place? This is the essence. The same goes for vision, D&I, and Cooperativeness.

Independence or positiveness are not something that can be acquired from outside, but something comes out from inside. Because it comes out like hot spring, it is sustainable and stable. Appropriate and systematized way to build such a stable mind foundation is MBDGs education.

MBDGs are activities that want to accelerate the educational trend of pursuing the growth of human resources themselves and the “sustainability” of results.

Social background of Japan where MBDGs was born

Why MBDGs was born in Japan is related with social background of Japan. Here is the research results about Attitudes of young Japanese people from the Perspective of International Comparison Compared to other countries, young people in Japan have lower self-satisfaction, self-efficacy and affirmation regardless of Japan’s growth in technology. This is thought to be due to the “lack of self-analysis, awareness of looking at the negative, and lack of self-approval” among Japan, not only among young people.

Attitudes of Young Japanese people from the Perspective of International Comparison

Compared to other countries, young people in Japan have lower self-satisfaction, self-efficacy and affirmation. This is thought to be due to the “lack of self-analysis, awareness of looking at the negative, and lack of self-approval” among Japan not only young people.

Question 1: “Are you satisfied with yourself?”