The Study-Trip includes a hands-on workshop and meetings with academics and experts from various fields, as well as study visits to cultural sites, public welfare facilities and institutions in Hiroshima and Osaka.  The workshop itself is an intensive and interactive event, structured around elements of leadership and change, with the support of mentoring teams through the project implementation process, and requires Fellows to work in groups on exercises assigned by resource persons.

Multiple training methodologies such as case-studies, after-action review, peer review during sessions and in follow-up, debriefings and group work, and role playing are used. In addition a hi-level Public Roundtable is used to close the Cycle with post-conflict reconstruction issues.