Thank you, Karen. And thanks to the previous speakers. That was really great. I appreciate that. Yeah, the picture you see behind me is what my goal was. As a special education teacher, I taught kids who were in danger of going to being removed from their families, going to prison, hospitals, or, you know, residential programs, and working with a wonderfully talented team, I couldn't have done it by myself, but working together keyword empathy, we were able to be successful in eight out of 10 with eight out of 10 students over a 25 year period, and that's what brought me to empathy. I was in Berkeley, and I was going to start my own thing, and I saw Edwin, and I thought that the empathy circles were much better. So I decided to put my energies there. So I put some questions in the chat, if you have them, if we have time for them, if not, then I put my email there. And if you want to find out more, please email me. Thanks. Okay, so I want to bring you up to date and what we've been working on, everything that we do, starts with our basic empathy circle. If we are to share the practice with others, then we must understand it. This understanding is not achieved by the mastery of intellectual information alone, but is also felt and needs to be understood on an emotional level as well. The Empathy circle seeks to create an empathic experience through two major dynamics, being heard and understood, and by providing that experience to others, this creates an atmosphere that is very similar to what therapists term therapeutic rapport. They believe that this is the level of trust necessary to influence change in their clients. And I believe that what we're trying to do with the empathy circle is change society. That's the empathy movement. I remember being in an empathy circle with a mental health professional, and they marveled at how quickly participants in the circle established their therapeutic rapport. In my opinion, one of the reasons the empathy circle process is so effective it that is that it provides just the right amount of structure, enough structure to keep participants focused on listening and understanding, but flexible enough for each person to accomplish this in their own way. Edwin Rutsch, the creator of the empathy circle, talks about our common humanity. This leads to the leads us to the conclusion that for us to share our common humanity, empathy must be an innate part of us. The Empathy circle doesn't teach empathy, but creates an environment where people experience it in their own way. When they do, they don't find devils or monsters from the ID, but discover that mostly we are well meaning, imperfect people who experience better lives when we try to understand each other, when people internalize that learning experience, we seek to help them understand it more deeply and enable them to and enable them to provide that listening experience for others, if an individual decides to become involved, that is the first step in participating in the empathy movement. The next step in that empathic journey is to take the basic empathy circle facilitator training, two core educational themes of the training that we feel express the empathy circle spirit is that we try to support people's progress at their own pace, and our primary learning outcome is that we seek to give participants learning experiences where they become increasingly aware of their inner strengths. While my experience over the seven years that I've been involved has demonstrated time and again how profound the empathy circle experience is. It takes time for its effects to be recognized. It's not understood through a sound bite or five minute pitch if we want to maintain the spirit of the circle and support people. Advance at their own pace. It takes time, because the empathy circle is not just about an intellectual understanding, but also involves an emotional understanding as well. In my first job as a special education teacher, my supervisor, who was a therapist, said, I've seen children make more than one year of intellectual progress in one year. But I've never seen anyone make more than one year of emotional growth in a calendar year. So our first task is to invite people to the circle who can give their time and attention to give it a try as and we've got to get started. Okay, times of the essence, people, as of this writing, we're a small group that puts on the training, but we hope to help expand the practice by providing a series of handbooks that take you step by step, through hosting an empathy circle, putting on an empathy online facilitator training and mounting an in person empathy facilitator training. We've released a draft of the first handbook that covers our history, core philosophy and provides practical advice on how to host your own empathy circle. The second book will contain the same background as the first book, explain our educational priorities and take the reader through the steps of an online training. In addition, it provides script templates that you can use, as well as sample emails to both the participants who are learning to facilitate and to the training team who collaborate to put on the training. This training is done one day a week over four consecutive weeks. The third book covering an in person training will provide the same information as books one and two, but condenses the training into two sessions, sessions each on two consecutive days. It adds some theater games from Viola spolins library and some more role playing and some other communal, communal sorry activities such as shared meal meals to deepen the shared experience. Our fourth book will be a compilation of all three, and we'll add information on strategies to introduce the empathy circle into business schools and other institutions, and we have the skeleton of that, but I'm I'm depending upon all you out there to give me concrete examples so we can add it to the handbook. So it's still a work in progress. We're copyrighting them and releasing the books on the Creative Commons share like license, which allows free reproduction, translation and distribute. Distribution of the handbook, if it's distributed free of charge and attribution is made to the empathy center. Over the years, we've met people who are in dire financial need. If that need is established, we will license the handbook to those people that would allow them to make a profit. The other activity that we engage in is bringing out the empathy tent to farmers markets, street fairs and political demonstrations on the left and the right. We canvass the crowd and offer chocolates and empathic listening. In our last outing at a local street fair, we made connections and listened. What we found is that so many people feel unheard and when they're given a chance to unburden themselves, they feel a great deal of relief. In this last outing, we listen to a woman who feared for friends and family in Palestine. Palestine sorry, an older woman estranged from her nieces and nephews, and a man worried about his relationship with his daughter after a divorce. In the past, I listened to a troubled young man living on the streets who found great comfort in being able to share a story with a non judgmental listener. There was also a woman in the middle of a dispute with her neighbor, ex military, an ex military, explosive expert, and what started out as a heated argument changed into a calm conversation about appropriate boundaries, and peace reigned once more. When possible, we try to get people on posing political ideologies to agree to participate in the circle. It's hard, but when it happens, people's lives are changed. Of course, you're attending an empathy Summit, where we hope to gather our wisdom, meet others who share our goals, and find the inspiration to continue our work. So this is great, and hopefully you'll all keep it going. The other projects that are in the work are Edwin Rutsch defining empathy book and lose wires class on how to facilitate a restorative circle process, which is much more intense process. So this is an invitation to all of you to take that first step in the empathic path, to join the empathy movement, to walk at walk it at your own pace. Us and help remind other fellow humans of what experiencing our common humanity really feels like. Thanks for giving your time to empathy. On this day, I'll briefly ask answer questions on any of the four subjects that I've posted in the chat, if there's time, and then if there's not, you can email me if you want to find out more. Thank you so much.