 So those of you who haven't weren't able to join the meeting. Hello, my name is Jim Bumble and there's 23 of us on this call PDA facilitators meeting, which we also announced in the holistic approaches and guidance group in order to make those connections because this is about how do we hold space and provide support for people at this particularly stressful time with the pandemic now leading to isolation Countries effectively shutting down concerns about future income My case concerns about visas and where I should go and that kind of thing So What I want to do is just Say something about what I've shared with all of you and if you Don't know what I'm talking about the document that summarizes the new initiative, which is about basically widening our Support for deep listening online There is a website now. It's called deep relating dot space So if you go to if someone could type that in please a deep relating dot space So anyone who's listening to this later as well, just go there and you'll see the summary document of the initiative which I'm intending to Publish and also blog about later today my aim for the call is to Tell you as facilitators who've you've been working with about the idea where it's coming from Explore well get your feedback, but I explore how as a group we could Support it but also then Hear about your own initiatives that you may have been taking outside of the the da explicitly with the da forum and theme And share that with each other, but also then see what new ideas there might be and how people might help each other So if you look in the agenda, there's um We've got another 40 odd minutes on this section So very quickly then if you go to go to that link that I mentioned you'll see a summary there It's I've been talking to quite a few people who I know outside of my deep adaptation work My parents my brother work colleagues and it's been and and friends here and They are all beginning to feel many of the emotions that I felt in various times before 2018 In and then since when I when I when I published that paper and I realized that we have experience expertise Personnel who who can really help people Like not trying to suppress those feelings but to connect with them share them Even find connection and community in the fact that those feelings are in in all of us to some degree so I Then also realized that I Myself and quite a lot of people I've worked with have been a bit reticent to explicitly engage respond with respond to Coronavirus in the pandemic because we were thinking well this could be Something that will cause a wobble for some months but The deep adaptation framework is more about Anticipating and preparing for a whole scale breakdown and collapse of society induced by climate change whether direct or indirect and so How do we relate to this? Existing issue was was initially was a bit difficult for me and other people who work on deep adaptation But then it became really obvious that that This is an experience of societal breakdown obviously right now for hundreds of millions of people around the world and it's true and Some people are also then thinking about this. This isn't something we bounce back to to business as usual this is Something that's that's either Can going to continue to degrade society in some ways or at least industrial consumer society or it will create a drag on That way of life and that economic and social form of organization which will make the Climate induced collapse More likely and harder unless we use this crisis to build resilience to You know all the four hours the things those conversations that we need to have to see how we can adjust so So because of that I thought yeah What do we do as a network as a community and I came up with this this idea and talked it through with the core team and it it's I Think one of the reasons why as a core team We haven't really jumped into this as well as that we're feeling quite over stretched And we've been involved in basically organization and movement building in terms of strategy dialogues setting that up Establishing and launching a holding group and bringing them on board And talking to a lot of different fundraisers and having to get to know them and and and so on and so there's And myself I've been busy on a book So yeah, there's I think that's also why we've been holding back a bit And then that is a real insight into how we need to design for emergence that no one's depending on anyone There's no There's no point Anywhere where we're thinking oh so-and-so is doing that or I meant to be doing that Oh, I must get around to that and we need to design for emergence And that was the original philosophy for the forum and I'm realizing that already that philosophy can sort of Reduce somewhat so that was the also the idea of talk behind the concept of widening Widening deep listening that we actually invite anyone in our networks or even anyone We talked to to give it a go to give it a go in holding space For people to show up and share their emotions and that we can offer support in terms of you know Look at this document post what you're doing to this network Invite someone who knows how to hold space in personal online to then join in with you and hold your back or To give you feedback afterwards, and if you're feeling that I I don't know how to deal with the fact that some people may be presenting with Extremely distressed emotions and that you'll worry for them and their mental health and how to hold that then Reach out to say you'd like a therapist to join your call as well and you know, there are various things that we could do but that that sort of Attention to being really professional ethical rigorous thorough It's good, but not if it becomes a barrier to just getting on and doing something. So that that's where the idea came from And I had a really super chat with them Amy a few days ago and Amy. This is your fault This is this is came at those key time that chat and I realized yeah sod it Let's just sort of unleash things. So that's the idea, right? We're ever got to I present the widening deep listening. So at the moment, I'm thinking of an out I'm right. I've written a blog which I'll publish after this. It's called a pandemic of love deeper deeply adapting to corona and It's it's about so then I just present this widening deep out of deep listening initiative and Just throw it out there, and I have no idea whether it will just be an invitation Or it will actually become an initiative Um, and I've come up with some ideas about how we as a group can help people who step up And it will be lovely really lovely if the first people just stepping up tomorrow to hold space say on a 40 minute free zoom um People who've never done it before and have never seen themselves as facilitators before And it would be lovely if they posted that in the pda group and one of you said yet that time zone fits Yep, I've got a slot. I'll hold your back and I'll give you some feedback afterwards. So that would be amazing if that happens So I've talked now for five minutes. Um, please put your hand up if oh, hold on No, let me do some jazz hands or not sure that I just want a general check in who likes if you like the idea Um a bit do one jazz hand if you like the idea a lot do two jazz hands And if you're a bit doubtful about where this is the way to go then just give me a A doubtful sign just so I get a sense of things everyone go on gallery views. So we see how things are