 Pretty active already. And so I hope that we can step it up and take it to the next level in our community While you're eating I know you're holding your plate with one hand and you're eating with the other hand But I'm gonna ask you to raise your third hand Want to ask you a couple of questions? So raise your hand or stand up or something show us if you have been to others So have you been to more than one soil series? great All right, has is there anyone here that has not been to any of the soil series? right good to know So I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you all a little bit about the soil series For those of you that haven't been here. We have had six events from February through May 10th was our last no, that's two days from now. We didn't do that yet April 24th. Yeah, it's been a long run Six events and each event was packed with three speakers and then a go round We never really had a lot of time for community discussion and The feedback that we got that it was that people wanted community discussion. So that's why we plant this event The six events were One was about human health and soil health publicly One was about building soil or covering soil from the ground in covering bare soil One was about the water and pulling the planet one was about story-telling And specifically talking about soil related stuff, but using story As a way to tell our stories and to get points across Another one I should have the flyer in front of me. What am I missing? Social mycelium. Yes, the social mycelium that was all about community resilience And then I taught board Was Building soil from the ground up That's right building soil from the ground up and that was all about building soil and also about mycelium So we had we had 19 speakers. I think Through this whole series we had 23 sponsors that put up some funding and did a lot of outreach to help us Put the series together black cream provided food for us at a discounted rate. The whole series was put together By myself representing Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition and Chris Wood representing Bale building the global economy. I Am Kat Buxton. I'm so sorry. Thank you. Yes, my name is Kat Buxton And I live in Sharon Vermont and I co-founded the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition after I went to Pre-gay workshop with Dee Dee Purcells who's sitting right over here And she brought to town a gentleman named Walter Yenna who's an Australian climate scientist and microbiologist and I learned so much there and it really helped to shift the way I think about things as has my ongoing work with Dee Dee and Peter and the Soil Carbon Coalition and I was encouraged at that event as we all work to think bold think boldly act boldly and One of the things that came out of that group was well, what if we rehydrate California? Which seemed like a pretty bold thing which by the way is happening There is a group doing that and Dee Dee's involved But I thought well I live in Vermont and I don't really like it when people come to my town and tell me how to do things And I'm not a Californian and I don't know about living in dry climate. So why don't we do something in Vermont? How do we how do we soak up all the water in Vermont is kind of what I thought so Because that's what we are getting all the climate protection say that we're just gonna continue getting more and more rain in larger volumes And we know what what happens when we get a lot of rain We lose our roads we lose our topsoil who is so much and it starts to break down our communities and so The soil series was designed from Feedback basically people want to know more We have a Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition listserv where I get a lot of information from our members If you want to join that listserv we have a little handout on the table there You can just go to our website or take the survey follow the email instructions to join our listserv I've gathered from being on that listserv for a couple of years We've had that going now that there are a lot of questions that people want to learn a lot more people want to connect with each other And we have incredible Expertise all over our states in every community There's so much expertise right in this room. And so I thought we need to build our social mycelium I Like to think of learning from nature our greatest teacher is nature and the more I get to know humans The less I want to learn from humans Nature quite honestly Because we really haven't done a good job. We've done brilliant things and we'll do more brilliant things But I really find that that nature holds the answers that we seem to miss and walk right over And so I'm hoping So I'm not you can hear me over there All right, if you when you get this if you're quiet, please use it and you might have to like move the button back and forth and shake it around It's the real deal. Yeah, don't go ahead with it That's what Henry was saying So The soil series was designed to try and help us understand the significant Significance of soil for human health for public health for climate health for soul health To connect us with the planet that feeds us it connects to every single thing. I think That we need we need soil We can't do anything without healthy soil and globally. We are losing soil very very fast 40% of our agricultural land globally is Either degraded or severely degraded and in some cases even have been turned to desert Where it didn't used to be and as we create more and more bare soil around the globe It is absolutely affecting water cycles And so there's a lot to learn and I can't clearly go into that detail It took us six series to get to this point and barely cover a lot of those topics So what we learned from you is that you were very interested in all of those topics and that you wanted to learn more We also learned that you want to have small group discussions We also learned that a lot of people struggle with how do I talk about this? How do I talk about this to people who don't know about it? How do I talk to my town manager my legislator the public works department my cousin whatever it is? So we're hoping that this event is going to help us to do that We're going to start by a quick go round and there's a lot of us here We all have a lot to say we're going to have an hour in smaller discussions So as we do our go round, I'd like us to each just take one minute We're timing you And we have when we hold up a yellow piece of paper You'll do it all right Chris is a timer when he holds up a yellow piece of paper that means hurry up When he holds up the red piece of paper You're all done You're all done so if it's writer pink you're all done and it's not because we don't love you And it's not because we don't want to hear what you want to say But we want to try and get through this event and there will be more I think that's one of the outcomes will find is that there will be more so when we go around in a circle now I have to look at the notes When we go around in a circle, we are going to say our name Where we are from? one reason that you're here tonight and What is the best outcome for this meeting tonight? According to you So I'll start my name is Kat Buxton. I am from Sharon Vermont I am here tonight because you all asked me to do this and I'm delighted to do it And I want connection and the best outcome for this meeting for me tonight Would be that we stay connected and that we advance all of the work that we're doing in a cohesive manner I Center Vermont I'm here to connect with all of you Partly because I only got to go to the first part of the series and I was so excited to see them There were so many people coming And Best outcome for this meeting. I'm really excited in this topic about writing and communicating about this So I'm interested in connecting with those folks Things to go My name is Henry Harris I live in Marshfield And I'm here I'm just I think I'm gauged like the responsiveness that Kat and Chris are getting from the greater community and it seems like There's a lot of enthusiasm and possibly something will happen Which leads to the outcome opportunity to us to scale up big projects to for the soil and climate Nice my name is Graham you name screwed up. I live in Plainfield One reason I'm here tonight is because I'm so passionate about these topics Be an opportunity for so many people to Engage with life productive meaningful way with one another and also approach number of the issues that we're facing globally Best outcome I I think a lot of what Henry said is what I'd be hoping for you know Spreading information in a way that we can scale up effectively To achieve what you want and you say no I Bradley I just moved to Vermont about a week and a half ago from Copenhagen I'm an agronomist and I'm working with the Richard And just looking to plug into find out what's going on here I Really thinking a lot about the issue of Collective doing things for the collective good versus the sort of So I'm excited about the idea Here's some success stories Marilyn Guerrero, I live in Braille borough One well in the double reason I've been wanting to come but For the whole series, but it's just a long ride Especially if I have to do alone, but I came tonight because I had two passages in my car So that was wonderful and I got the best outcome for this meeting is I Mean Henry Swayze And like Kat, I attended GD's three-day workshop with Walter Yenna, and that converted my thinking that in order to solve the world's problems, I shifted to thinking we had to sequester carbon, to thinking we actually had to cool. And it turns out that all the things you do to build soil also cool. So it's a nice round robin. You can attack it from any level you want. Best outcome for me at this meeting is to see groups of people working together to mobilize and really make some massive action happen, because that's what's necessary if we're actually going to turn the thermostat off. Sorry. I'm Karen Bixler from East Bedville, and I'm here because I'm just really enjoying this whole series, and I think that's probably the best part of it, what comes out of it. And I'm sure whatever comes out tonight is going to be the best outcome. That's what I'm asking. Hi, I'm Mark, I'm from East Grand Elf. I come here because I've learned, and I've been able to apply these lessons to Amazon. And the best outcome for me would be if this whole group were to coalesce around one action which could be brought to a successful relation over time. I'm Gary Dern. There were four things that I was responsible to speak to you about. I'm really good at what I did when I was four years old, but I can't remember what happened five minutes ago. So I want to get this group connected with these artist-free groups. We have a cast leader group that's led by Pat Moulton from the BTC, and I want to get a couple of representatives this summer who could join us and tell the cast leaders what we want to do. And we'd like to join a group that identifies what we talk about, speakers this for the next year. My name is Keith Bolshow, I live in Bedford Center for Marm. The reason for being here tonight is I really kind of came with the intention of being a cheerleader of positive. So just keeping in mind that even though we face what seem to be staggering, momentous issues in front of us, I really firmly believe they're not just out of positive thinking, but also with positive thinking of what the major is going to unleash us to that point. So don't use the fake first thought. I think it will be the best outcome for this meeting. I think that we do remain connected with the people who are in the attention of the community. My name is Carl Teetamin, I'm co-founder of the Soil for Climate Group. One of the reasons I'm here tonight is to make sure people are aware of the group. On Facebook, we have over 11,000 members from more than 100 countries. So if this is a topic you're interested in staying current on, I invite all of you to join those of you who haven't. And the best outcome for this meeting is getting everybody to sing Happy Birthday for my friend, Seth, who's over there, a co-founder of Soil for three years. Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Seth, happy birthday to you. So we can go now. And the other first date, the end of the day. My name's Annie McClary. I live in Woodbury. I didn't make the rest of the series, and I'm here because Lutzi's is actually over now in Woodbury so I can get down the road. And it's light enough so I can come out at night now. And I really appreciated what happened in this circle just this moment. We started all over the place with our tones for Happy Birthday. And by the end of that short little series, we all sing quite harmoniously. So we'll take that as a model for the evening. And I think a wonderful outcome would be that everyone goes home feeling the connectivity, feeling closely connected in the web of life with not only the humans but with all beings. My name is Jayelle. I'm a farmer in Worcester, Vermont. So I'm the field organizer for 350 Vermont Solutions Campaign. And I'm here because I feel like this is one of the most incredible solutions to addressing climate change and many of the ills in our society. And I'm called to leave with some idea of policy, legislative, statewide or local initiatives that we can start working towards. Hi, I'm Lynne Wild from Opelier, Vermont. And I'm here because I didn't want to miss what might be happening tonight. I know something's going to happen. I wouldn't want to sleep through it at home. So the best outcome for me, in addition to being connected to what's going to happen here tonight, is that maybe five of you show up in Montpelier next week on Wednesday at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center for Ellen Savery's TED Talk and the Soil Carbon Cowboys film that we're going to discuss. Carla and I are going to be discussing this film with people. And I'd love to have five at least of you there to help move that discussion along. So just saying. In Montpelier at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center on Berry Street. And it's on the website at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center. I think it starts at 6. Jesse Scarlato, Montpelier. I'm here because I want to be working on solutions and supporting others in working on solutions. And an outcome I would like to see is developing some plans for next steps that we can do. Hi, my name's Sabra Ewing. I live in Berkshire. I'm an organic farmer, shepherd. We make hard cider and brandy. What else am I supposed to say? Well, I am here because I have a vision. I really resonate with the idea of mycelium and social mycelium. And I see Vermont as this incredible place of social capital soil. And I would like to bring children in on that and bring them to Vermont. And my outcome that I'd like to see happen would be for me to connect with others that resonate with that and just even families. And also that maybe we could create a nugget of a curriculum so that when kids could go to organic farms and do composting and learn about soil, that we could create a curriculum that enables organic farmers and progressives to help kids learn about all of this. Birthday boy, you go first. Hi, my name's Seth Escan. I'm the birthday boy. And I'm here to honestly, when I realized it was my birthday, I thought this is a great way to spend it. And I drove off the bus and I'll be there. And I'm really sorry I missed some of the other meetings. I do have some visions of outcomes, but I don't know if it's for this meeting or if it's for the state, but just to say really quickly, I know Bonita was here the other day. I thought it'd be cool to say something like, Vermont vows to be an erosion-free state. We're not going to have any soil erosion in the state. Just making a statement like that creates an area. And I think this is the kind of group that could do something like that. My name's Lisa McCrory. I'm an organic farmer and other than Bethel, Vermont. And why I'm here tonight is this is only the third of all the series that I've been able to make. And it was hard to miss the other ones. And I'm just excited to network. I'm also feeling overwhelmed. There's a lot of conversations, a lot of emails, a lot of discussions, a lot of events. And I got a farm to run. And so I just want to walk away from there, feeling a little more inspired and focused. And that I have a community that I can think about when I'm back there doing my shit. I'm getting shit done or never going to work. I'm Jess. I live in the Agile Center. One of the reasons I'm here is because I really like actually seeing people in the flesh, rather than little pictures of them on the computer. And I like talking to them in person. And I've already accomplished that tonight. I guess something else I'll mention just in terms of local projects is my partner, Camden, and I have been working on Randall Community Orchard, which is, I guess, our contribution, what we have time to work on. And this topic. Camden Walters, I live in Randall Center. She said we have a few projects going on. We've got a non-profit that's starting to have the Orchard, a general community Orchard, a home-stead, a baccalaureate style, also on the planning commission, something involved in town politics, and things like that. Just like coming here to hang out with people who come out for daily events, it's always a good discussion, a good time. And as far as best outcome, I like to form connections with people that lead to direct action, and work through things physical and physical kind of time in my life. So that's what I like to put all my energy and attention is to develop things. Mike Baldwin from Royalton. I came this evening and to a couple of the past evenings because I enjoy a good company. Not much of a talker, more of a doer. I just enjoy hearing what people have to say, and hopefully I'll learn from that. The reason I've been coming to the reason behind all of my activism and everything I do these days is I don't want the younger generations to see or feel or sense that we gave up on our challenges of the day, nor do I want them to see that we gave up on them. That's why I'm here. My name is Kai Cochran. I live in West Hartford on a small farm. The reason that I'm here tonight and that I've come to all the other ones is because I think it's what we've been discussing is the most important topic that anybody could discuss anywhere. And so I wanted to be in on it. And the best outcome I think is for us to form a strong group that is able to make what we have learned sound reasonable and sound good and teach other people. And I would like, it would be wonderful if our effort could combine with other efforts going on in this country and around the world to actually help us with this climate change. I'm Matthew Mackey. I'm actually non-Vermont-er in the crowd. I'm in Claremont, New Hampshire, right over the border. But we do share that Connecticut River water jet here. So we're all in it together, even if you guys all are upside down. This is the first one of these series that I've been to, but I see a lot of familiar faces from the event at Lake Moray with Dee Dee in multi-gaming last year. That knows me or my colleague, Jan, knows that we come at this more from a water angle. Our group is called Voices of Water for Climate. We're one of the four climate franchises. What I'm hoping to find out here, what I'm hoping to get out of this tonight is to learn more, just like many have also said, so that I can also teach more and to understand how best to fit in to help move the bar forward towards actual progress. I think we're all so busy and there's a lot of different groups and a lot of different interests represented if we understand each other a little bit better and are all working towards it. I think we'll find ways to work together to move the bar forward. Tim, Corinne, outcomes, scaling, bridging, coordination, dissemination, application. I'm nominally retired. I think I've got plenty to do, but I wouldn't be here if I weren't looking for productive work. I'm Sandeca Muir. I'm from Cophill Co-Housing in Heartland. I'll come tonight just to really keep learning and so that I can keep learning how to apply these concepts and talk to other people about it and the best outcome for me would be that I feel momentum at the end of this meeting towards something and that I feel hopeful. I have three gorgeous kids and I think a lot about their future, so this is a big part of my life. Moral Stevenson, I'm sort of from Heartland. I'm here because I think this gets it that this is actually an opportunity that we face now to decentralize power and this is the group of people I want to make this transition with because I skipped McKibben's talk tonight because I wanted to be with you guys instead with decentralized power and we can all figure that where we fit into that so we make our best contribution that we can. I think this is a kind of a living organism that needs to grow throughout all of Vermont and beyond. I'm Kepp Taylor, I'm from Williamstown. I've come to almost all of these meetings and have found great inspiration. I started just wondering about how soil worked. I wanted to try to make my garden work better and I found out that there was somewhat open soil for the future of people on the planet. And I think that the greatest outcome possible tonight is that everybody here feels empowered to take the energy that we all kind of gather here and then spread it. Thank you. Applause, but this isn't the end. Thank you guys for the last tonight. I'm Lauren. I currently live in Jericho, Vermont. I'm about to move up to Montgomery tomorrow. I'm here because I think the people in this room are invested in saving the world. And that's all it makes to save the world. My best outcome of this event is to get people out of their comfort zone and be thinking fundamentally how the world and American society works and their place within it and really overthrowing traditional paradigms of what you can and can't or should or shouldn't do. Hi, I'm Jan Lambert from Charleston, and I'm the vice president of the Springfield, where I'm very active at the Springfield Black River Action Team. I'm a writer, journalist, networker, educator, co-founded Voices of Water for Climate with Matt. Over here I've written several books and run a few of the journals. And I'd like you all to sign up for our new Jallie Waters Journal, Meet Water, also have several free handouts on the table and have a good take a look. I'm speaking with one of you. So I was one of the speakers about cooling the planet with water. So I'm trying to figure out how we can invest with service to this group. I love seeing people in person and somebody else mentioning the same people and the computer screen all the time. It's been way too much time with the computer and reps and the people in person and I just want to come over from this week and know the new purpose of how I can fit in with this wonderful group, thanks. Hi, I'm Beth Champagne and I live in St. Johnsbury. I have three grandsons and a granddaughter growing up at something Vermont and they're probably the biggest reason I'm here because I feel that everything I've been learning from Pat and Dee and countless, countless others including Jan gives them the very best chance for them and for all the other young people to get a life, to work for their own benefit and for other peoples. And I want to report that at the great hub of my social life, namely, hunger mountain co-op, I just yesterday met the RTCC, that's the Randolph Technical Career Center ag teacher who can't come on Wednesday nights who is just gone home about getting our principles into his program. All right, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Caroline Gordon. I'm living in Pondrins right now and as I'm originally from Germany, one of my main goals come here was to just stay literally in English on the issue and of course also be part of the social museum. And I agree that the best outcome probably would be that we take this motivation and inspiration that we are in here into our future actions. Marjorie Ryerson, I live in Randolph and I'm here as a writer. I have been teaching writing classes to people in Montpelier for the last three years. I was a professor of writing for many years and they're tough topics like the comparison of Trump and Hitler or surviving rape and incest. And I've been talking to people all over the state and I have been picking up a huge amount of depression in people. My tree guy is depressed about working on trees anymore. He said he lost the planet. And last night I went to hear Bill McKibbin and David Duperman, his friend, and I talked about the fact that Vermont, Vermont changed the world when it came to civilians and then gay marriage. And I said, Vermont can do that again. I had a conversation with Chris this morning and he said, come to this meeting tonight. I hadn't been to any of them but I want to shape a class on finding hope. And it's a big topic. There are a lot of things that go in it but that's what brought me here. So connection, I'm gonna get a red card. Connection here. You're not alone, Marjorie. I'm Josie Carrubos, I live in East Rainbow and I have been to most of these and I'm fascinated and entranced by the fact that I've come to a bail forum series and Randolph had been doing this for years. But this one is different. This one, not that the others weren't great but some energy that took place in this room over and over again. For me, an experience of the emotions have been allowed in this scene with people being deeply inspired. I have been deeply inspired by finding out all of this stuff about soil. So my dream tonight has been expressed over and over again, it's connectivity. It's the, there's something special we're providing for each other in terms of morale and what we can do and I have a great trust in all of us and what we're doing. Thank you. I'm gonna just talk, hi, I'm Megan. Stack out, I'm on the border with Vermont. Megan, come into the circle. Yeah, I'll come in. Take a chair. Sorry, I'm late, I don't work. Here's a chair, right? Yeah. I'm gonna put it up there. I'm gonna put it up there. This is what we do, we do this stuff in front. When you sit back, just put it up there. I'm on the border with Vermont and I'm on the border with the Senate progressives organizing and I'm here to meet you all and figure out how we can do it. All right. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Silan from Burlington. Also sorry, I was late. And I'm here because I'm a backyard gardener, have a little plot of land in the New North end of Burlington that I want to make as carbon-sinking as possible. I wanna do the best I can with my little turf and I'd like to influence my neighbors and their neighbors and so I'm here to see how I can contribute and how I can take this information and start peppering it through my community just to start with my new community. And Liz also wrote an article in Seven Days about... Oh, I know! I know! I know! I know! I know! Yeah, really exciting days as a writer and a creator and to get the story out of the cat because I can just put the word. It's a seven-day street. Did we miss anybody? Yes, thank you very much. Yes. And Chris. You know, I'm excited that I can get into it. Oh, what? Hi, I'm Jesse Markson. You have a change of day. I'm an amateur mycologist and a ecologist and a backyard gardener. I'm trying to be also a perennial gardener. I come to these meetings just because it's extremely rare for me to be able to connect with people that give a shit. I care deeply and I care deeply. I just want to, like, do all the works, do all the... That's where I thank the most. There was one more? Just Chris. Chris. Oh, you're with Chris? Oh, damn! Yeah, that's it. Chris, oh, God. Yeah, that's it. Red turn. I'm worried about the light. How am I doing, Beth? Great, you're good. You're good. She can't hear me. I'm going to cry without. So my name is Chris Wood. I live in Tundridge. I work at Bale. And the reason that I'm here for tonight is because I've been organizing the series. It will be a little hard for Kat. Maybe she could probably do... She has done 95% of this. I've just tagged along. But, and the reason that I'm here is to... It's for... I sort of pictured this group sort of in the systems point of view that I sort of lived in. Here's the early adopters. You are the early adopters. And there's a huge message that needs to go out from here. And so I am all interested in that. Hey, hey, where's that yellow card? Red card, I'm done. Okay, we saved time. I just would like to keep looking at the question. And there's... I don't know exactly where all of you fall. But my sense is that this is... Most people here are probably on the liberal progressive end of things. Just from hearing that all around. And this is an issue that, in my experience traveling on the country, that everybody can and does care about if it's framed in the right way. So to think about, as we go through some of these groups, how do we think in that way so that... And I know that is on a couple of these topics. But I want to kind of put that front in the center. How do we make this a space that is as compelling for everyone? Because this matters to everybody and we actually need everybody on board. So how do we make this not a us versus them or a kind of a fringe that's going to change the world from the fringe? But how do we make this something that is really, really inviting and compelling and interesting? And I love making Vermont an erosion free state. That kind of language is the kind of language that actually is inclusive. Okay, so our next job, I'm going to just review the agenda with you so you have a good idea of what's happening. Did everyone here get to choose your top three groups? Okay, well I guess I'm going to, for time's sake, I think I'm going to ask you to just join the group that you're most interested in. But so what we did, we tried to have everybody during the first half an hour make three dots, one per thing that you're most interested in. We have nine topics. Those topics are connectivity, local government agencies, policy and legislation, writers, arts and theater, water catchers, soil sponge and compost, consumerism, citizen science. The marks that we got here, looks to me like unsurprisingly, we have a lot of people interested in soil. Soil sponge and compost. So it looks to me like we have six groups our facilitators could have helped me agree on that. So maybe there's some people who came in late who are interested in that. Right, citizen science, the two that got the lowest votes and nothing is getting voted out. There's no out. It's just what are we focusing on now? There's also huge lists that didn't make it on here. And these were, by the way, created exclusively from the notes, from six series that Lauren took lots of notes on. And so we have distilled those notes and have turned that into nine topics. And it took a lot of time to do that. So the two that didn't get votes for citizen science, which are land listening, storm damage data, lots of opportunities. Maybe it wasn't super clear. That could also easily go into soil. The other one was arts and theater, which also, so that only got three votes, but it could easily group into writers. So taking arts, theater, and writing, kind of in one. So I see water catchers. I see arts, theater, and writing. I see connectivity. I see local and policy, like local government and policy could easily be one, and that makes 11. So that's four groups. Soil is a fifth one. Consumerism is the sixth one. So that's what I see as our primary topics. So what I'd like to do is just appoint groups. It doesn't matter what you did on these papers. I'm going to say if you want to, I'll point in a minute where to go, but I'm going to tell you where to go to join your group. One of our facilitators, we have a team of facilitators who's going to come and help facilitate your group. It could be that the soil group is too big. Maybe 13 people is too big and it's not a small enough discussion group. Maybe you split into two, and we provide a facilitator for that second group. We're going to break for an hour in these groups. For 40 minutes, we're going to break into discussion. We have some focused questions to help you facilitate or get that discussion going. Some things to consider. We'd love it if you come out of there with the next step, but it's also difficult to plan things like that in just a half an hour. So just do the best you can. I would love it if we all think boldly. Like maybe something we haven't done before or how can we step up what we're already doing to someone else who's doing something similar and then continue that connection. I think as a group, we will also stay connected, but I also see the possibility of working groups coming out of these, which could end up being much like 350 has nodes, or perhaps we get into sociopathy circles in the future. If you might not know what sociopathy is, but if you hang around long enough, we'll get there. We'll do a training on that. So I don't know what the future is going to look like with our working groups. That's for all of us to figure out together. We're smarter together. We're actually brilliant together. I don't think there's anything we can't do together. And the people in this room are all amazing. You all inspire me. So I think we're going to really have some good outcomes. The second part of that hour, you're going to have 20 minutes to figure out how you're going to report back to the group. And I would like you to create a skit. This is for you, Kai. A skit or a commercial or a mining. Something creative. Ideally it has some body movement. It can involve everyone in your group, or maybe you just have a few actors in the group. Maybe you don't want to do body movement. You want to do something else. I'm not telling you what to do, but you're going to have two minutes to report out. And so I encourage you to do that creatively. You'll report out in a skit and then also let us know as a part of your report out, is there a next step from your group? All of this is written down. You don't need to remember it and your facilitator knows all of this stuff. At 8.30, that'll be an hour in your groups. At 8.30 we're going to do performances. And I have a couple of prizes. But I'm not going to tell you to guess them. Because I'm still deciding. And then at 8.30 we do performances. And that could be how we end the night, but it might be nice to also have like a one word go-around. We want to keep the energy high at the end of the night. We all want to leave feeling inspired. We will continue to connect afterwards. And tomorrow I'm going to send you all an email with a survey that is now working. So if you've ever tried to fill out our survey, it was actually broken. So you couldn't. So sorry if you tried. So that's going to happen tomorrow. So that'll be the start of our next connection. Any questions about the agenda or the groups? Okay. Kat, did you say that people could move a thing? Yes. So when you're in a group, say you just really can't decide. You want to do water or soil. You can't decide. About 15 minutes in we're going to call out like we're halfway. If you want to jump to another group, do so. And at any point if you want to flow out of a group and into another one, you should feel welcome to do that too. You're not locked in. But the more you can stay with your group, the probably the better outcome from the group. So that's up to you. Sound good? Yeah. Okay. So connectivity. Henry, would you lead our connectivity group?