 want to start by saying to Jennifer and to Melissa how honored I am to have been a facilitator in this process with you. It was the hardest thing I think we've I've ever done but probably most rewarding process to be involved in and they were awesome folks to journey with and so I've said that to lots of folks and they said what's it like to work with Jen it's actually crazy but very very rewarding also I should say this to the local group of experts who helped us through that process thank you as well as the international folks that we reached out to on a regular basis and many of you are in this room thank you for your ear for your guidance for your expertise we would not have been successful in this process without you and it means a lot now that being said with our Dalhousie legal counsel next to me I should say all of my comments are my own so it's just no one wakes up you know in the morning as a child it grows up one day thinking this is right that they're going to be a security there there's it sometimes happens in a variety of ways you might you might imagine one always wanting to be a cop and didn't quite make it here's where they land or on the other side of things retiring from law enforcement or military or something with a relevant skill set say I can do that and this is where they land I am not actually I got here because I answered the phone one day when Jen called and she said and you probably some of you probably had this kind of phone call buddy if I got a job for you I now manage those calls through voicemail but what what Jen was off was an opportunity to work with a guy Mike Burns in the back of her in this directive security about six years Mike decided he was going to do something novel with the campus security department at Dalhousie and the way that she does so well besides I can link this person with that person and it's going to be great before dentistry the biggest I guess scandal that we had in Dalhousie security was parking it seems like it seems ridiculous until I tell you that about 25,000 people come to campus every day and they have 2,000 parking spots and so what we've always been known for is parking enforcement and be very transactional and Mike said listen when you get here I want to do something different let's shake it up a bit if at the end of my term if people say well Mike and Jake there ran one hell of a parking program we've failed let's turn it upside down and so I guess that would be my first point about change change happens where you are and it's really helpful when you run into leaders who make room right leaders who have vision who make room this to spend their institutional capital to make a difference some of you in this room would are those leaders and so you'll make room for other people and others in this room are just jealous I found a really great to do the work that we love to every to a 17 or 18 year old is intoxicating student on a Friday night I'm going to give you a little bit of insight you've probably all been there but one of the most offensive insults they configure to hurl at us it doesn't actually bother me but is you're just a wanna be a little bit more slurred speech but that's essentially it this gives us an awesome opportunity to think about what do we want to be and so we turn this around within our security service we started thinking what would it look like to be more restorative what would it like like to transform what do we want to be but we want to be relational instead of transaction we'll always carry keys there will always be doors locked we will show up and unlock the door there's not a lot of room for engagement in that scenario cars will always park sideways and the lines go this way we'll write a ticket there's not a lot of opportunity for engagement so we needed to do so what we wanted to do is we wanted to find opportunities where we could find more meaningful work to engage more deeply to start building the capacity in our officers to not just be at the front end of taking a report and then passing it off but what would it look like if as a security service we started to build capacity as facilitators what if we hung in the game a little bit longer through the problem-solving instead of just being a referral source and passing along we decided that we didn't want to just duplicate a little police force we would do that we wouldn't do that well but we thought that if we could find a way to join the educational mandate of the institution we would have more capacity to make the difference first I read two more okay next thing you wanted to do we wanted to do truth-finding or truth-seeking with compassion we decided that we didn't have to investigate or seek truth by burning the house down there are more than there's more ways to get to the truth more than just what happened but what matters most about what happened the just-the-facts approach can burn the house down so what what we wanted to do is we wanted to participate in getting answers and you'll you'll recognize this we one time went out I went out with a residents life manager there was some problems in a residence they said listen we'll give $500 to the person will come forward and we went down the hallway and we're getting no no thank you no thank you and one person said something to me that resonated said I wouldn't I wouldn't take $500 to turn in my friend and I thought actually neither would I because as it turns out relationships are really important to students too and so when they think someone else is going to get in trouble they're less likely to speak up but when it sounds like change might happen that that systems may change the institution may change truth comes flowing out in ways that you can actually use it's meaningful okay the last one we wanted to invest we wanted to invest in culture change on campus now Michael get nervous I don't need money I mean time and talent 18 months ago we joined a process in the faculty of dentistry we are still there still working out restoratively in that in that space and I did say that I'm speaking for myself anyone can write a report and run it collaborate stay in the game