Hey friends, if you missed Restore this week, we've got you covered. You can purchase the full recordings to hear your favorite speakers anytime at faith matters.org slash restore. And we are so excited to announce the first ever waymakers conference called Repair. This is taking place October 23rd through 25th in Provo, Utah this year. And it's going to be such an incredible opportunity to learn from world-class peacemakers leading intensive workshops to help you navigate the most challenging situations in your life.

So if you're feeling frustrated or hopeless about a conflict, bring it to repair.

This year we're featuring a keynote from Jim Farrell as well as a series of intimate workshops

from the One America Movement, Jennifer Finlayson-Five, Patrick Mason, Melissa Mason, Thomas McConkey, LaShawn

Williams, and many more. Tickets are available at waymakers.substack.com. We'll see you there.

I'm going to be honest with you that my anticipation about this event was really high about two

weeks ago. And at a certain point last week, it became,

it felt a little bit more weighty. And so I'm wondering if you would mind starting us out tonight

to kind of lift some weight. Would you mind you have kind of some thoughts about how we could do

that before we jump into what's going to be, I think, a serious conversation. Yeah.

Waiting for me, too, right?

You know, the world changed in the last week.

Our world's changed in a lot of ways.

Lots of people here, I'm sure have as well.

I think a lot of us have been trying to care for each other, also wrestling with our own

concerns and fears and what have you.

And so some of the research that I do around conflict is around fear and the role that fear

plays in how we respond, you know, to conflict.

And as a conflict mediator, I actually know fear is in some ways my biggest enemy, right, in getting to peace, right?

Getting to collaboration or what have you.

And so I spend a lot of time with my clients that I'm working with, thinking about how we get into

like a little bit better space. And there's a lot of different ways to do it. But I want to care

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