3/28/2007

As the title suggest, the DaVinccian Lifestyle is a lifestyle aim at enriching people’s life and it is currently becoming a part of Japanese lifestyle. William Reed, training and coach, who trains his poeple on the DaVincian lifestyle aim to help people realise their dreams as well as targets in life by emulating the late Leonardo DaVinci’s principles in life. Reed currently has a bestseller’s book in the Japanese literary world and is collaborating with Michael J. Geld on a translated version of the book “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci”.

Books may motivate us, but what’s inside them can be easily forgotten. “The problem with some traditional methods of learning is that it doesn’t stick,” says Reed. “Learning has to do with [engaging] the whole body. In a crisis, our body is the first thing to respond.”

This interesting way of life is adhered by 7 principles:

Curiosità: An insatiably curious approach to life

Dimostrazione: A commitment to test knowledge through experience

Sensazione: The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to clarify experience

Sfumato: A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty

Arte/Scienza: The development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination

Corporalità: The cultivation of ambidexterity, fitness and poise

Connessione: A recognition and appreciation of the connectedness of all things and phenomena.

Reed has created 6 programs to help participants experience and learn about these 7 principles that has created a genius like Leonardo DaVinci. Along with Gelb’s best seller, this lifestyle trend is fast becoming popular amongst the Japanese people.

Each one-day workshop costs ¥30,000 and will be held at the International House in Roppongi. Early reservations are recommended. 5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku. Tel: 03-3470-4611. Nearest stn: Azabu-Juban. Face Drawing and Communication, Apr 15, 10am-6pm; Handwriting of a Genius, Apr 29, 10am-6pm; Shortcuts to DaVincian Drawing, May 20, 10am-6pm; Body Mapping, May 27, 10am-6pm. For dates and more information, see www.agili.jp or email William Reed at willreed@agili.jp.

Source: Metropolis

Picture courtesy of Ishii Yuriko