Thank you for the introduction, and thank you Edwin and your team for organizing this. I would just like to check first, if you can hear me. Okay, great. Because, like, you know, there's always this Murphy law that 15 minutes before the summit, my computer didn't recognize my audience. I think so I'm on different computer. Okay, when I was thinking about my experiences with empathy circles, I realized that there are two main areas that I would like to share with you. So I decided that my today's talk, I will divide into two parts. And in the first part I will talk about my experience facilitating empathy circles with a group of my old friends. And in the next part, I will talk about how we are integrating empathy circles into the programs that empathy based Institute, empathy based society Institute, has as part of our mission to cultivate empathy towards animals, nature and the planet. So compared to most of you, I've been practicing empathy circles for a relatively short time, but I like them from the beginning, and because whenever I would practice them, I would feel this deep connection and sense of presence. And it made me really curious. You know, if I can experience this speaking English, which is not my mother tongue, how would this experience be for me, practicing them in my own language. So I decided to invite couple of my no five of my old friends, and I said, Would you like to practice this with me? And what I expected it to last maybe for some months, has been now going on for over a year and a half, and we meet every week on Zoom, and we meet once a month in person. And at first, empathy circles were simply a meaningful way for us to connect to support each other. But then with time, it somehow became actually naturally depend into more inner work. And we do empathy circles like we normally practice them first, whether we share of what I mean, we can share what is alive in us. And every week, I also prepare a topic, and all only when I was preparing for this summit, I realized that I'm actually choosing topics that encourage self reflection and self connection much more than I was pray before consciously aware of and these topics, for example, I will list some of them, acceptance, space, courage, Shadow, expectations, my body, balance, connection, Grace, curiosity and authenticity. And looking back, I see, I can see how these topics actually drove the direction of our empathy circles, and how we were much more also developing this self empathy. Another thing that I would like to share with you is that our experience was that we would like the feedback stage to be longer to time wise, because we and we named it integration stage, because it became A space for us to integrate everything that came up for us during the circle as a whole, and all the realizations that we had during this process. So in this stage, we reflect on what came up for us, we acknowledge it, we name it, we hold space for it, and in that way, we can integrate experience more fully. For example, somebody may say, I realized I spaced out during the being silent listener. I realized that I did that when this and this, such and such topic came up. So I'm realizing there's still there's space, that there are things that I still get to heal, obviously, or somebody might say it was hard for me to be a listener today, because I felt chaos in my mind. I couldn't listen. I notice I'm just getting lost. So. This stage became like integration stage to realize everything that came up for us during this process and overall, when we talk about our experience with empathy circles, we shared that this technique, this practice, help us connect more deeply with ourselves, with our values. It helps us grow also our self regulating capacities. And what I also noticed is that it helps us set healthy boundaries and much more connect with our authenticity. And so these these experiences, with these empathy circles actually, then inspired me to look, how could I, how can I explore the potential of these circles also as a way to reawaken the connection that we have towards animals, towards nature. But before I do that, I would just like shortly introduce you to the empathy based society Institute non profit that I founded last year, and our mission is to drive a cultural shift through empathy education and training for fostering personal growth and systemic transformation. Because we as society, we have normalized violence towards people, towards animals, towards nature and towards planet, and we have built economic system on this basis, and what we often treat as separate crisis, beat wars, be it hunger, animal factory farming, These are we treat them as individual things, but actually these, these are just the symptoms of violence. However, we all know we are born with brains hardwired for empathy, but this is in itself. It's not enough. Empathy needs to be developed. Needs to be strengthened, and that's why, and even in adulthood. I mean, we in in this movement, we know that even in adulthood, we can train and develop empathy as adults, also as Anita Novak in her book, purposeful empathy, so beautifully presented so but the key neuroscientific finding that for me, in this context, is really important, is the finding that empathy and violence share a part of the same neural brain, a circuit in our brains they overlap, which means they cannot be active at the same time. When one is active, the other one is silenced. So our idea is the more we cultivate empathy, the more we silence the violence on all levels of society. That's why the our mission of our institute is raising awareness about empathy, violence, connection, developing and promoting programs for purposeful development of empathy towards self, others, animals, nature and the planet, and systemic empathy implementations through policy engagement, advice, advocacy and think tank initiatives. So now I'm going back to the empathy circles, how they are helping, how they can help us reconnect with animals, nature and the planet, because our relationship with them has in modern society shifted from coexistence to control, from gratitude to exploitation, and this disconnection carries serious consequences for us, on individual and on collective level. And animals are in nature bring us back to the present moment. They keep us mindful. And I believe that expanding empathic awareness beyond humans is, in my opinion, the next step in fulfilling our innate potential for empathy. And this is where empathy circles with nature and animals come in, because they help us reawaken the disconnection. They help us reconnect, and they show us how empathy can become a way of living and being with the world. I will present now practical example how empathy circles with nature can look like. And I will make it, yes, I will make it on the example of when we go out outdoors and connect with nature, let's say so. We take a group of friends or group of people that we have empathy circles with, go outdoors, and each person chooses a point of connection that they feel called to, whether it's a tree river, a bird or some natural space, and each person just sits in that presence, quietly, without analyzing, without expectations, with. Out projection, just be simply in the presence of another that we choose to connect with.