Recently I proposed to introduce the new workshop to the company. When I emailed the meeting materials in advance, including this proposal, my colleague asked me if he could attend the workshop. I appreciated his immediate response, so I replied that I would like to run the workshop with him. I confirmed that he would join my workshop before the official announcement at the meeting. Then, after explaining my proposal for the workshop at the meeting, I explained that if anyone was interested in joining the workshop, they could respond either by chat soon or by email later. Someone had asked if participants had to join every time or at any time. I replied that either way was acceptable, but every time was preferable because I would like to continue the discussion in a few months time. She understood my thoughts and said she would let me know later after discussing it with her team member. This is a common conversation in our business, but I thought that when I have the meeting with European people for example, they will use chat if they are interested and available, because their decision depends on their own intention. they will not discuss with their team member whether they will attend the workshop or not. I thought this was the Japanese way of thinking about other people’s behaviour. I’m curious whether the Finnish method of idealogue is directly applicable to the Japanese or not. When I think about such Japanese behaviour, some more ideas might be needed to adapt this idealogue method. That is what I would like to study, and that is the interesting concern for me.