hey, thank you, Kara, and you're in a lovely background there. You're at the Eco village in Oregon, right? Eugene, Oregon, yes, loft Valley, eco village. Great digger. Looks wonderful that background. So yeah. Well, thank you again. And so I want to welcome you to this first of an ongoing series of empathy summits on how to build the empathy movement. These summits are going to be held every four months going forward now, so we have one in January and April, July and October, and we want to support the building of this empathy movement. We're really making this a focus of our center. And we have a wide variety of speakers, you know, talking about how to build the movement. And we also want to invite you to be a speaker, you know, to get involved. And if you have some, you know, if you're an empathy activist, if you have you know, ideas about how to mil build the movement, if you have projects you're working on, you know, like to hear, you know, have you share those? And what I want to talk about today a little bit, just a little bit. Only have about six, seven minutes to talk about this, to introduce this is why it is helpful to think in terms of building an empathy movement in a lot of us. And I just posted into the chat too that I'd love to hear your thoughts. You know about that, and you can just go on into that Google Doc and and add your thoughts about why it's beneficial to think in terms of an empathy movement, versus just, oh, I'm promoting empathy. And you just think in terms of it, it's sort of an individualistic initiative. And thinking about it is in terms of a movement as being part of something bigger, really bigger than ourselves. And I personally feel pretty, quite energized. You know about, when I think about building an empathy movement, we have our empathy center board that meets every week, and we have different project teams that meet, and really our focus has been on the empathy, you know, movement like, what are our different initiatives, and how do those initiatives fit into a bigger movement? And with that, I feel, you know, one thing that a movement, thinking in terms of a movement, gives us is a shared purpose, you know. And I feel that sense of connection, you know. I feel that, you know, working with others, we have this shared work that we're doing, and also, when thinking in terms of movement, it's, it's, there's sort of a sense of community that gets built out of that. And I know there's a lot of different projects out there, and you can be kind of in, you know, just involved in your own projects, but that those projects, when they're part of a bigger movement, I think that really adds a lot, and something that it gives, I think, is a sense of of belonging. You know, that you're part of something bigger than yourself. It also creates, fosters a sort of an intrinsic motivation. So if you're just doing a, you know, your own project, you know, campaign, the the motivation is more extrinsic. And you got deadlines, bonuses, you know, specific metrics that you've hit, gotta hit. And, you know, and with the movement, the motivation is intrinsic, you know, it comes from shared values. It comes from a collective identity and, you know, sort of a deep belief, I think, in the with the future, you know what future is possible. And people aren't just participating. They're, you know, believers. I guess I come from an evangelical background, so this is perhaps a bit of that kind of aspect to it, you know, that you're really part of something bigger, and that you want to really change a society. I think it, for me, it creates a lot of passion. You know, I feel very passionate about it, and really excited. And it's, it's really a renewable energy source, I think for everyone involved, money can't buy and I think the other part too is in thinking in terms of a movement, is it's healthy because it enables a long term change based on shared action, rather than. And again, like that isolated, short term effort, and the other, I think it's something that can unite the various tribes. Like, if you're familiar with Carl Rogers Person Centered work, there are a lot of different sort of tribes got created out of his empathy work. There was all kinds of therapy, various types of therapy. There's, you know, conflict mediation organizations like nonviolent communication, human centered design, you know, the focusing community, listening community. There's empathy initiatives in, you know, education, business and healthcare. And I think that empathy can be a unifying force to bring all those different organizations that have, you know, empathy is one part of them together. And again, it's really about, you know, about that ongoing, long term effect, you know, like, if we have, if you have a movement that's based on a leader, for example, you know, I would say a current Trump administration in Maga is based on a leader. And if the leader goes the I think the movement really falls apart, or that type of, you know, top, you know, authoritarian, more authoritarian type movement with one leader falls apart, but a broad movement that is sort of based on values, you know, different can can really help us, you know, be more resilient. And then what we're really wanting to do is change the culture. You know, the movement creates laws and and really changes the overall culture, and that's really what we're trying to focus on. And so I just wanted to look at some of the comments that people posted in the in the Google Doc. Bill says that thinking in terms of movement provides a framework to work together. So I think that that does, yeah, I really agree with that, that thinking of, hey, I'm part of this empathy movement to transform society to make mutual empathy a core cultural value, that, that, you know, creates a, you know, a common vision to work together effectively with and Daniel says, a movement says we're going somewhere. And I have that sense too, you know, that being part of this movement, there's a forward motion, you know, step by step, and we certainly need that in in society right now. And I think Jenna here, she quoted Martin Luther King, who says, Those who want peace need to learn to organize effect as effectively as those who want war. And I think that you know the the movement gives us that framework for organizing, and also a movement is going to work toward and Catherine Cooley, who's one of our speakers here, posted, a movement is systematic change, and it's necessary to embed empathy in our culture in any kind of meaningful and sustainable way. And somebody's writing right now. They're saying movement is dynamic, something that can spread organically. Yeah, I really, really like that. Once we create this momentum, once we create this momentum, we've got to build momentum for it, and that's really what we want to do in these summits. And again, I invite you to become a speaker and in one of the future summits that are coming up, and that's my time, so I'm going to pass it on to Kara.