■ December 16, 2023  
Vol. 1: “Thinking Together About the Future of Education”  
Guest: Yasuko Kimura (Founding Principal, Okura Elementary School)

This event marked the starting point of TAF Physis.  
It began with a powerful statement:  
“School refusal is not caused by children, but by the school system itself.”

Participants engaged in deep dialogue about what it truly means to protect the
right to learn for every child. Rather than idealized theory, the discussion
focused on structures of exclusion occurring in real school settings.
This gathering laid the philosophical foundation of Physis as more than an
alternative to school — a place built from lived realities.

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■ March 3, 2024  
TAF Physis Event Vol. 2: “Between the Seed and the Soil”  
Location: “Tane no Chikara,” Awaji Island

Leaving behind abstract educational theory, participants entered a farming
environment. Touching soil, chopping firewood, and gathering around fire,
they explored the harshness and richness of life through bodily experience.

Instead of seeking answers through language (logos), this event emphasized
embodied understanding (physis), questioning modern society’s obsession with
efficiency and rediscovering fundamental human vitality.

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■ March 22, 2024  
Vol. 2: “Thinking Together About the Future of Education”  
Guest: Yasuko Kimura  
Venue: Osaka Dawn Center

Returning to the question “Who is school for?”, this session shifted from a
lecture-style format to an open, circular dialogue.

Participants explored concrete actions that could be initiated immediately
in their own communities and families. Rather than forcing conclusions, the
event encouraged participants to take home unresolved questions as seeds for
change in their respective contexts.

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■ August 23, 2024  
4th Event: “The Essence of Inquiry and Breakthroughs for Transforming Schools”  
Venue: Azalea Hall, Ikeda City  
Guests:
- Yohei Iketani (Otemon Gakuin Junior & Senior High School)  
- Hirokazu Tashiro (Principal, Joshogakuen Junior & Senior High School)

This event brought together students, educators, and citizens to explore how
schools might change through inquiry-based learning.

Students shared their own practices, delivering a direct message to society:
students themselves are allowed to transform schools. The event expanded the
conversation beyond institutional boundaries and reimagined learning as a
community-wide process.

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■ September 14–15, 2024  
Future Teachers Forum 2024 (In-Person)  
Venue: J. F. Oberlin University, Shinjuku Campus

TAF Physis was selected as a student organization to host a seminar at this
national forum for educators.

Under the theme “No More Escapism: The Future of Education as Envisioned by
Students,” participants rejected superficial idealism. Students spoke from
their own experiences, standing as authentic human beings and questioning the
essence of education alongside professional educators.

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■ February 15, 2025  
Vol. 4: “Thinking Together About the Future of Education”  
Theme: “What Will Become of Our Future? What Is School? What Is Happiness?”  
Venue: Joshogakuen Training Center, Osaka  
Guest: Soichiro Hirai  
Co-host: Joshogakuen Junior & Senior High School

Students and adults engaged as equals to examine the meaning of school and
happiness amid serious issues such as school refusal and teacher shortages.

Four organizations collaborated to explore education beyond institutional
frameworks, questioning tradition, school culture, and the very purpose of
learning in contemporary society.

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■ August 4, 2025  
Fukano Junior High School: Dialogic Workshop (Session 3)  
Theme: “Rethinking the Future of School: What Are We Afraid Of?”  
Venue: Parallel Village  
Guests: Masaya Otsubo, Mainon Nakagawa (TAF Physis)

In a relaxed environment, students initiated dialogue about the future of
their school. By listening to differing perspectives and sharing meals
together, participants revisited the meaning of school from the students’
own points of view.

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■ August 6, 2025  
Special Event: “Living in One’s Own Way”  
Guest: Satsuki Nishihara (Actor, Model, Founder of Otomeza Academy)  
Venue: Osaka Dawn Center

Triggered by a student’s question, “Why are school uniforms predetermined?”,
this event explored self-expression through clothing.

Through exhibitions of gender-neutral uniforms and open dialogue, participants
questioned social norms and examined how everyday choices shape personal ways
of living.

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■ September 14, 2025  
Special Event: “Disability and Freedom with Eiji Hamaguchi”  
Guests:  
- Eiji Hamaguchi (Painter, namesake of “Physis”)  
- Sonoko (Painter)  
Venue: Osaka Dawn Center

Artist Eiji Hamaguchi, who lives with dyslexia and designed the Physis logo,
shared the joy of expression beyond language through live painting.

Together with reflections from family experiences, the event challenged the
framework of “disability” and reexamined freedom of expression as a universal
human value.