This year's Living Within Diversity (LiDI) SiG will be a workshop that introduces grassroots leadership concepts and activities by a grassroots group that promotes diversity and leadership, TABUNKO.

Lisa Rogers will introduce the role of gender in leadership. Women tend to create networks and assert collaborative leadership. This allows them to maintain independence and focus on various women’s issues while collaborating to leverage group efforts in working together to exchange information and work towards managing a wide variety of women’s issues at the same time.

Michi Saki & Elisabeth Williams created one such group, TABUNKO, to focus on women’s, family’s and ethnic group issues.

TABUNKO is a grassroots group created by foreign women, for families of all ethnicities and diverse backgrounds who live multiculturally in Japan. The purpose of the group is to provide support and resources, as well as provide a safe & comfortable space for these families to gather and exchange information with one another 公益財団法人 京都市国際交流協会（kokoka）の支援を受けて、TABUNKOという草の根グループを作りました。 「多文化共生＋子供育て= TABUNKOという名をつけました」 TABUNKOは、外国人女性によって作られた、日本で多文化に暮らすあらゆる民族と多様な背景を持つ家族のためのグループです。このグループの目的は、家族への支援と情報を提供すること。そして、情報交換ができる、誰でも気楽に行ける居場所を提供することです。

TABUNKO is: -A group that offers information exchange opportunities, workshops and events for all families who are wishing to raise their families multicultural regardless of ethnic background 多文化な背景を持つことに関わらず、多文化社会の中で子育てについて関心のなる人のためのワークショップ、イベントなどを開催するグループ

-Supports and connects multicultural families 多文化な背景を持つ家族と支援団体の間の懸け橋になること

- Provides a space for multicultural families to meet, connect and share experiences and information多様な文化的の背景をもつ家族のための居場所作り

Research has demonstrated that effective leadership is critical for successful businesses, as well as for educational, social and political organizations (Bush, 2003). Even in everyday life, there are numerous examples where disappointing outcomes can be easily traced to the people at the top. In the past, it was thought that a good leader would have knowledge and experience in their particular field; however, studies have shown that effective leadership, in fact, involves an additional separate skill—it is not necessarily a naturally given talent. The effective leader has the ability to shape the goals, motivations and actions of others. Some would claim that vision is an essential requirement, and all would agree that the ability to communicate to others is essential. Rather than an academic analysis of good leadership, this workshop invites participants to explore this area in a unique way—through first observing an actual interaction of two people and then participating in a discussion to try to understand what qualities and actions of leadership occurred or were not displayed. It is expected that there will be different points of view as far as what motivations were displayed and what actions were most effective. The goal is not for everyone to reach the same conclusion, but instead to encourage a diversity of perspectives where hopefully every participant can hear a new viewpoint that had never occurred to them before. Unlike most conference discussions, this one welcomes healthy disagreement. Bush, T. (2003) Educational leadership and management. Sage: London