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Welcome and Namaste and blessings. I get the distinct honor and happiness to welcome a very dear friend, the most formal thing I can say about him is he's one of the most good-hearted and giving and generous and wise beings that I know.

Welcome here to Dr. Jim Gordon and I'll let you know also that Jim is a psychiatrist and he's the founder executive director of the Center for Mind Body Medicine in DC.

Many of you know him for that and this center has done amazing things around the world and I can't keep up with how much is going on.

So that's first of all a big welcome to you.

Yeah, thank you.

So where I just was, you were there with me. I was just in Puerto Rico and I was at a, we're working with people who were whose homes were destroyed by the recent earthquakes and doing workshops in the countryside and doing quiet meditation and shaking and dancing with them.

But then I was at a meeting of something called the Clinton Global Initiative. One of the first people I met when I was there is a woman named Christine Needis and we're just talking and she said, oh, you're from Washington. Do you know Tarbrock?

And I said, yes, I do as a matter of fact. I do. She's a friend and I'm going to be with her in a couple of days. And she said, well, she is so present. I went to Wednesday evening events that she has.

And she talked to me and I talked to her and she was so totally there with me. I've never had anyone be with me in that way.

And she was beautiful and Tarbrock, of course. And then the other thing she said, and you can all blush, is it was so wonderful to be in this kind of community.

And she was wishing that she could establish something, she and others could establish something like that and some won.

Wow. Well, so part of what happens is you end up going into all these different places around the globe and that sort of starts happening.

And the thing is that community start developing around the programs you're doing. So the way I wanted to start off is catch me up.

The last time I saw Jim, I think at my dinner table about eight years ago. And wow, everywhere I go, there's just stuff happening with what you're doing.

So tell us about the center and your projects. Give us a little bit of a.

Some of the colleagues from the center here, Lauren and Tatiana. So afterwards if you want to talk with them as well as with me about what we're doing.

Do you want to stand up if you just so we can. Big bow to both of you. Thank you for your wonderful work.

And as you said, the work is very much about building and creating community wherever we go.

What's happened is that our work increasingly since I last saw you has really been focused on communities or regions or whole countries that are suffering from significant trauma.

And when I began doing this work almost 30 years ago, I was always having to go somewhere and see if people were interested.

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