“Using Dream Map® to create a place where you can believe in yourself”: Building a nationwide “Dream HUB” where schools, families, and communities join hands to help everyone redraw their future as many times as they need.
The NPO Yumedori is launching a nationwide initiative to establish "Dream HUBs" where children and adults can share and celebrate their unique dreams. By integrating Dream Map® workshops into schools and communities, the organization aims to foster self-belief and create a society where people feel empowered to redefine their goals at any stage of life.
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Our organization supports "April Dream," an initiative that aims to make April 1st a day for sharing dreams.
This press release represents the dream of the "Non-Profit Organization Children's Future Project Yumedori."
Toward a “Dream HUB” where we can share “dreams true to ourselves” and celebrate them as a community
The NPO Children's Future Project Yumedori (Representative Director: Yuko Miwa / Headquarters: Nagoya City) declares its intention to build "Dream HUBs" across Japan—places where both children and adults can share their "dreams true to themselves" and have them celebrated by the entire community.
■ Responding to the voice of “I have no dreams” with community-wide kindness
"What is a dream?" "I don't really have anything I want to do." "Someone like me..." These are the children we face, carrying such anxieties. We do not force "big dreams" upon them. Through Dream Map® workshops, they learn to acknowledge the small things they "like" within themselves and give them shape. By involving not just school teachers and parents, but also adults from the local community in this process, the "power to believe in oneself" begins to sprout in the children's hearts.
■ A co-creation model of “supporting each other” that spreads beyond regions
Our activities are steadily expanding through "co-creation" with local leaders and companies who share our aspirations.
Tokushima: A tag team of NPO, local leaders, and a long-established company
Masayuki Kurobe (Representative of the NPO Sports Patrol Network), who is responsible for promoting local sports, brought his passion to the project, and Yamato Co., Ltd., a company with over 100 years of history, responded with product sponsorship. In Dream Map, we emphasize the analog, physical experience of "pasting dreams onto a mount."
Children from the youth soccer team "Gioioso Ronda" used high-quality "Yamato Glue" to paste their dreams onto their mounts, seriously mapping out their own unique futures.
Kannami Town, Shizuoka: Local adults enter the school
At Tanna Elementary School in Kannami Town, students in grades 4 through 6 created Dream Maps with the support of local adults. Comments from the students included, "I'm happy that everyone knows my dream," and adults noted, "Voices were raised wanting to support friends' dreams," creating a warm atmosphere of mutual respect.
■ Toward a society where “dreams true to yourself, at any time, as many times as you like” is the norm
We aim for a society that is not bound by dreams decided once and for all. Graduating from yesterday's dreams and finding new excitement today. We want everyone to be able to smile and say "That's great!" to such "dream updates"—at the family dinner table, in the classroom, and at shops on the street corner. By creating HUBs in every region that connect schools, families, and communities (companies), we will work with you to realize a world where people can challenge themselves again and again without fear of failure.
※ "Dream Map®" is a registered trademark of Yumeno Chikara, Inc. Through a close partnership where the corporation handles program development and quality control, and the NPO Yumedori handles implementation and operation in schools, we are fostering children's ability to live proactively.