Whatever you perceive is lacking in any situation is what you have failed to give. It's an amazing sentence because it gives us the key to the gateway to the Kingdom of Heaven for ourself to really take the key and then to use the key, to turn the key. Whatever you feel is lacking in any situation is what you have failed to give. So what does that mean? What does that say about us as human beings? It just means that we've emphasized the human part and we've de-emphasized the being part. You know, it's been such a focus on scarcity, on lack, on survival. I'm just going to use a real short word so you'll be able to remember it. Getting. Get. Getting. We're human getters. We're trying to get attention. We're trying to get money. We're trying to get love. We're trying to get affection. We're trying to get notoriety. We're trying to get noticed. We're trying to carve out a niche for ourselves like we were taught. carve out a niche for yourself, you know. Nobody's going to take care of you. You've got to take care of yourself. You're going to have to be a pretty good getter, a proficient getter in this world in order to survive.  God doesn't give in order to get something back.  God is watching us. God is watching us. God is watching us from a distance. That's not it. It doesn't sound good. I don't like being watched. Especially from a distance. I don't like it closed up, but even from a distance. To me, that sounds a little sneaky. God is watching us from a distance. No, a lurker, huh? That's a lurker. Always lurking, lurking, lurking. Voyeur, you observer of voyeur. Well, I'm from a distance. No, God is a giver. God gives love. God extends love. God extends only love. And God doesn't even know what reciprocity is. So God is not saying, listen, I'll give, give, give to you, my beloved child, and now, here's the conditions. This is what I want back in return. Even when Christians, really well-meaning Christians, sometimes will say, our God is a jealous God. You've got all these distractions and God wants only your focus and attention. That's still a bit bizarre to say God is jealous. Because if God is aware of all these distractions, somehow, he's like, pay attention to me some, too.  At least come. Pray to me some. Praise me. Come on. Praise, praise, come. Praise, praise. You know, God does not have an ego. And God does not want anything, actually. But God doesn't even know what wanting is. God doesn't know what getting is. And the condition of human beings are, we're born with an ego. Born of an ego. People are peopled from the ego. The ego peopled the world. The ego put the people out there. These seven billion little bottom-featers wanting to get, get, get, get, get. Psychologically, physically, get, get, get. And the ones that are called the successful ones are the ones that are the better getters. That's a pretty sneaky trap. The ones that get more are admired. And yet they have nothing to do with God. Because God is not a creator of getting.  And we've heard what goes around comes around. What Jesus teaches us is giving and receiving are the same. So all that I give is given to myself. That's why I need to be a giver. Because I won't know my true identity. Because I won't receive the love that I'm giving unless I learn to give the love.


Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend. Had a good restful weekend or was it a busy weekend? Enjoyed your weekend all of you? Yes? No? Yes, okay. So are you all meeting in churches or is it still online? Okay, online in Nepal. Okay, Erin, you're a meeting in church, okay, Prince also in church. How's the situation, COVID situation in Nepal? Dave? The, the ... and I, it hit the past few weeks was not very good. Okay. A lot of cases, but now it's going down. okay okay that's good to hear it's going down so in Kolkata also it's an in-person how is the situation in Kolkata yeah ma'am it's good it's a little bit good okay okay so anyone remembers what we did last class what are we basically studying what is the topic we are studying come on class at least a topic you've been studying that the last these three four classes no one knows the topic okay the developmental needs thank you Prince developmental needs of children we saw the developmental needs of the younger age groups and then last week we looked at the developmental needs of children six to nine years old okay today we look at developmental needs of children who are 10 and 12 11 and 12 years old okay and then we will look at those who are teenagers preteens and teenagers as well and we'll end with hopefully today's class will be the last class we're talking about developmental needs of children okay so we look at today the developmental needs of children ages 11 and 12 year 12 years those are those who are in sixth and seventh standard okay now what is the goals of this age they're basically people or children who are learning more about their strengths their talents their abilities they're learning to make friends and how to basically get along well with others they're able to they're trying to understand and trying to learn how to handle their own emotions basically these are preteen ages preteens so they're going to there in the transition stage from being children to growing into adulthood so you know it's a very very turbulent time difficult time challenging time and also a very time where they need to take a lot of care caution they need a lot of help or support and also you know exciting time for most of them all of us have been preteens all of us have been teenagers so we know the you know the the challenges the struggles and also the happy times that we had as preteens or as teenagers okay so they're learning basically how to handle their emotions because they're in a very moody their emotions are like a roller coaster sometimes up sometimes down and they're also learning how to resolve conflicts basically how to resolve conflicts with the friends or more so with their parents okay they are good readers so it's a good age for us to get children in this age group to basically you know read their Bibles practice reading their Bibles every day so it'd be good if you give them portions of you know to read each day in the week and maybe if they can just write down one or two things that they just learn from that will be very very helpful so you know get them into a practice more so like a habit of reading God's word because if it becomes a practice it becomes a habit a lifestyle you know they'll continue reading God's word and we know God's word is truth God's word is power God's word is life God's word is a fire that cleanses water that fire that purifies you know it's water that cleanses it's like a hammer that breaks the hard heart it also is the word of God that encourages and strengthens and will build them up okay so get them into practicing to reading God's word they're also able at this age to use information to write short reports and papers so it's a good time to get them to write down you know what they have understood about a particular passage or what you know you've taught them something but you can get them to just jot down points to write down what they've understood about what was taught give them you know because they're good at writing and they can write fast give them reflective questions you know questions that will reflect back on what you taught them theological truths truths from God's word truths about God his nature his ways of doing things so more reflective questions that can help to bring about the learning in a more better way and also to help them to really study the Bible in a in a in a more deeper way in a more better way rather than just reading it and saying okay I finished doing my responsibility it's like brushing your teeth and say okay I'm done with it you know it should not be like that but something that will get them into questioning thinking reflecting and then you know jotting down what they have really understood also writing down what they have learned and how they're going to apply ask them to practice it during the week and then then maybe they can write it down how they have practiced it okay now children in this age they love complex games they're very you know they love to play games but their excitement level is not as high as children in grade three four five you know six and seven are yeah there is a kind of excitement but there is they also kind of withdraw sometimes so you can a good age to get them to you know learn scripture potions have Bible quizzes and also teach them the importance of playing fair being honest and also how to play safely because you're so excited super excited they love to sorry play the fool at times which can you know hurt some other child they can hurt themselves so very important that you know they get too excited when playing the games especially when you're playing more complex games like running jumping you need to ensure safety measures are there for them and also give them you know guidelines on how they need to play the game they love to do art and craft complex art and craft and they also are learning new skills painting sculpture beadwork you know painting on t-shirts and and all of those things so some of them even get into love to cook and to bake and to do a lot of things so at home parents could utilize this age group to get them into doing house chores or house you know get them get parents can get these children to help them in their home responsibilities or the work that needs to be get to get done at home okay so it'll also teach them and give them some skills that they can learn for life and will help them in the future so it's a good age to also train them when it comes to children's church or Sunday school you can teach them to take responsibility because they're very active enthusiastic at this age you know they're quiet but they love to take on responsibility so you can encourage them to do something in the children's church or Sunday school like cleaning up you know the classroom cleaning up the area or when it comes to when we have bbs or the summer vacation school Bible school that you have you know just serve snacks help the smaller children bring them from class take them back to class get them part of the worship team as well if they play any instruments or they love to sing of course they need training but you can guide and help them when you have a general session in children's church or in Sunday school they can do the opening prayer closing prayer they can pray for the offering they can take offering and they can just help in any which way you need them to okay so it'll be a good time to mold them to train them to give them responsibility so they can take it on and build on it later on and also because they are enthusiastic they learn love to learn new skills you can get them to serve others okay serve even church maybe serve tea or coffee or welcome people you can do this as you know once in a month or you know once in three months they'll be excited they love to do things in adult church because they're growing from they don't see themselves as small like children or kids they look at themselves like you know now young people adults so they love to do things so in adult church so you can get them to help out there as well and also take them for you know to visit the elderly the sick the needy just do some things to help them out and they will just enjoy it but they're praying for them or you know just having a meal with these people helping them out and things like that or spending some time they would like to do it okay they also like to pray together or individually so get them to pray in group prayers teach them the importance of praying teach them how to pray so that you know it will build in them up a pattern to to you know pray for others as well okay you can have a lot of quiz for them get them to learn bible passages like i said for the other age group last class no good to get them to learn the books of the bible some 20 some 121 some 90 some 91 all of those sums some 100 some one different portions about you know the fruit of the spirit the gifts of the spirit all of those things are good age for them to memorize things what is love the books of the bible so just get them to memorize also get them to memorize their favorite verses in the bible because these are times when they can learn and memorize or will come back into memory even after they have grown old okay so most of the things that i had memorized in scripture was was what i did when i was in these age groups and i still remember all of those scripture portions so good age for them to learn you know i remember that i went to this martoma camp in summer you know the martoma church basically has all their children from across all you know churches in banglore city and i think from outside banglore as well they attend a camp and then you know they have a competition where they have to recite psalm 119 you know such a long psalm but they say it word perfect you know they'll just stand in front of the audience and they'll just say the entire psalm 119 it will be word perfect if i mean word perfect it is word perfect so you see children at this age can really learn scripture don't limit them or think they can't do it it's a good age for them to learn okay encourage them to treat others kindly because they struggle in this area so you can discuss about first current is 13 about what is love love is patient love is kind that's not in me does not post all those things teach them the commandment that jesus gave us to love the lord our god with all our hearts so i'm trying to love our neighbor as our self discuss about how you can they can practice and treat others with love because this is an age where they are preteens they're getting very irritated emotional also their relationship with their parents how to treat others with love and also you can use so you know scripture patterns passages or narratives to help them discuss ways to resolve conflicts in peaceful and mature ways and how to speak the truth in love how they can express their frustration or their anger with calm words and how to seek resolution so you can use all of these topics because they basically are struggling in these areas and you can teach them how to love others basically love god first and then his love will sorry and his love will help them to enable them to love others okay so these are the areas where they really need help and building up good not to just keep on giving them all information but just throw it open to them to discuss to analyze things to see how the person in that specific narrative reacted why they did so how how can they do so the same or how will they react in a different way if they were in the same situation you know it's good to get them to think because they like to think make it more reflective for them don't give them all the answers because as preteens they don't like to be told what to do and what not to do so you know and they're capable in a position to answer to think um and you all you need to do is just you know guide them and channelize them in the right way okay encourage them about spiritual disciplines like praying giving offering reading their bibles they're able to understand abstract ideas now so you can teach them about trinity uh atonement for sin holy spirit about the person work of the holy spirit how the holy spirit leads us into all truth you can talk about the old testament prophecies um uh you know which foretells of the future the coming of the messiah also about the old testament prophecies regarding the uh signs of the you know rapture the end of age old and new covenants you can discuss about you can also give them uh an overview of the bible in terms of them finding out how the bible you know is one unified whole how everything is you know is happening in history but how everything is happening perfectly in unity in history nothing is contradicting history and how it all falls in line with the historical facts and the truths and how everything is um also going to work out uh you know to prove the prophecies um and it's going to happen in history okay um and also talk about what Jesus who Jesus is what was revealed about him the prophecies of Jesus's work his incarnation his beginning and um how he came he began became a human being how he lived on this earth so you can tell them about Jesus from beginning to end you can also teach them about the different books of the bible uh and um who wrote the different parts the bible and why okay now they are um this age group the spritians they're looking for a lot of answers so you can provide them um answers and uh to their specific questions like who is Jesus why did Jesus come why or how does God love me what am I supposed to do with my life okay so these are some things that they really are trying to get information about so you can help them the spiritual messages they'd need to hear a salvation message uh that they can accept Jesus um you know uh that God loves them uh and everyone else God knows all about them he loves them just like they are it's a wonderful plan for their life God will never leave them nor forsake them they can trust God God is all powerful all knowing and always present with them there's nothing they need to do to make God love them more or less Jesus is the way they're saved by grace and they can tell others about uh what Jesus has done for them okay so these are some things that they need to hear they're saved by grace um and Jesus loves them okay now mentally these children are very very curious they ask a lot of questions uh they love to reason and discuss so don't just you know um give them everything they'll be bored get them to reason to discuss the thing to analyze um uh they begin to develop longer attention spans but if you keep on talking it's not going to help you need to get them to discuss with you analyze give their opinions um okay so they can also memorize like I said uh they're developing self-confidence so you need to encourage them and build them up in that area uh they can think abstractly I've already mentioned that um they have a mature sense of time and the you know the the situations they are in the space they are in and they also know as the adults are not always right they also have their own faults their own weaknesses so they need to think they need to understand what they're trying to mean and say and sometimes they can also be wrong now as preteens they want a lot of independence so they try to make their own decisions uh so you know you can let allow them to but you know guide them and channelize them in the right way physically um they're growing uh they enjoy being active they want to participate rather than watch um they mature at different rates you know girls their growth rate is much faster than boys maturity as well um they love to compete um and they are now becoming very conscious about the opposite sex so girls are very conscious about the boys boys are also conscious of the girls okay spiritually they're asking a lot of questions about christianity um they kind of evaluate different points of view they enjoy participating in worship uh so you can get them to lead in worship or sing or just basically play the instruments or you know do actions some of them are very good at choreography so they can do actions for the song so that all the children are also able to follow them and do them because you know it's one among them who's doing the actions um they also learn to apply what they have learned from the bible or the bible biblical truths to their own moral behavior um they like to share in all the church activities and participate in the church activities um so you can get them to do that as well okay socially they're learning to um you know how they can be better friends how they can keep their friends not fight um they're also strong have strong feelings about what is right and wrong um so sometimes if they hold on to something that is wrong as right they'll be very strong about it uh so don't get um uh you know alarmed or don't get uh you don't feel cornered by them or don't get angry uh but just help them to think through uh you know help them to analyze and help them to see that what they're saying is right what this what uh no wrong they're seeing and they're saying is right is actually wrong and how uh you know help them uh analyze things and judge for them uh cells okay they need to belong to a group of friends so they can also get into their own small small groups and clicks so it's very difficult for you to move them out and you know even when they're playing games or having quiz they like to be in their own small small groups uh they like to belong to a group because that's kind of building their identity their values uh and who they are it's defined by their friends um and they're learning to actually relate both to boys and girls uh they're learning to become more responsible and dependable um so you can just give them responsibilities and guide them and help them to be responsible and dependable okay now when you are providing activities give them more challenging activities uh give them time to reason to think uh to solve problems so it's good to give them various situations scenarios okay you can say like you know uh Robert uh you know if you're talking about sin you can talk about uh Robert who was in school you can give them uh you know uh a scene or you can present a scene or you can give them a situation which Robert was involved in and then you can get them to discuss what do you think Robert should have done what do you think Robert shouldn't have done why did he behave like this why did he behave and so when they're you know give them time to think and reason and bring out their viewpoints and then get them guide them in the right way they're able to take information better uh rather than you saying this is the way you should do it this is what how you should be this is how you should live it's going to not go down well with um them okay um important to provide an atmosphere of trust and acceptance that they're accepted uh and also a place where they can be trusted with what they're going through what they're experiencing their challenges their difficulties because their preteens they're going through a lot so you know giving them that place of acceptance or trust or building relationships of acceptance and trust will really help okay give them a variety of activities to do creative activities uh avoid or any kind of comparison or competition between girls and boys uh get them into groups where boys and girls are part of each group it will just help encourage them to read the bible and apply it in their their own lives help them to understand the plan of salvation guide them in expressing their own faith okay and making when you're finishing each lesson make sure that the application is something that they can do here and now in today's time uh through the week it's not something that is very vague for example if you're talking about love just don't say we need to love everybody we need to be kind we need to be compassionate and caring just like Jesus was well that's a very general kind of an application but get them to specifically apply how they are going to practice or how they're going to love others for different people showing love can be in different ways for one child it'll be I'm not going to back answer my parents that's how I'm going to show love another child it can be I'm going to you know share with my friends that is love for another it can be you know I'm going to care for my grandparents that is love so different children have different ways of expressing their love so you know get them to write down how they are going to apply it okay and also try making prayer worship and reading of God's word a natural part of their time together at children's church okay they understand that God is real he's eternal and he is supremely powerful they know God cares for them here and he acts on their behalf so help them to develop a consistent relationship with God a real relationship with God a consistent prayer life and also encourage them not to run to their friends or to their parents or you know when they need help or they're in a difficult situation or when a struggle arises at home or you know on studies wherever but you know they can just lean on God they can just speak to God anytime ask him and get his help okay so we see that you know these children 11 to 12 years of age like I said they move from childhood to adulthood they're becoming slowly adults in a few years time so they would you know some of them want to become adults some of them are forced to you know join or become adults in the near future so everything around them is beginning to turn complex even as you know they are changing physically there's a lot of changes that are happening emotionally spiritually socially intellectually there's a lot of changes there are a lot of things that they are to cope with so what do we expect in this age you know the boys in this age are very very competitive the girls physically are maturing faster than the boys and we need to be very sensitive about that make them feel accepted trusted love for care for and ensure that other children are not making fun of them you know children at this phase begin to have best friends with whom they share their activities but at the same time you know their relationships will become more complicated and competitive and also is begins to change this is particularly true of girls so we need to help them in this whole area of relationship and also whole area of choosing friends choices okay because they become easily affected by their friends standards lifestyles values because they want to be more like their friends so they accept it I told you they like to be part of a group that gives them basically their identity their self-worth so very important for us to talk about choices basically about choosing people friends you know and guide them in that ways it's otherwise it's you know it just brings about a whole change in personality because they're just there in children's church for one and a half hours but the rest of the time in school they're having friends who are non-christians non-believers you know unbelievers sorry and you know they can influence them with a lot of things of the world so you need to get them to and help them to choose the right kind of friends okay they develop a capacity to reason and they try to work things out by their reasoning so sometimes they can get very a little cheeky or they can you know they can give you a smart talk they can talk very smartly but you know don't take it too offensively that is who they are but they can also at the same time be very interesting and funny to be with so just help them understand what they're really trying to say you know sometimes they can get cheeky and try to fool you but you need to be very smart and help them through that okay they like to be independent so you know they're changing their their relationship with their parents is significantly changing so there's a lot of conflicts that are also arising because they want to be independent their parents are still telling them what to do what not to do so you can help them also how to you know resolve conflicts how to deal with their relationship with their parents through various narratives in the bible okay what you can do for them so what we can do for them is be conscious of the fact that they're going through a lot of physical mental emotional social and spiritual changes be extra understanding sensitive and help them and guide them you know give them you know a certain limit or a certain degree of independence so that they know that you know yeah they have the independence but also you can guide them and how they can use their independence in the right way important to hear and understand their point of view and not make fun of them and put them down or laugh at their viewpoint if you do that they will never speak up for the rest of the classes and if you listen to their viewpoint acknowledge it even though it might be totally contrary but you can guide them and lead them in the right way you can hear them out they will show interest in speaking and giving their opinions the suggestions and their viewpoints and I'll also show that show them that you care because you listen and you're not overriding their opinions okay also have safety limits and take interest in what's going on in their lives and what they are doing you know mentoring is very very important at this age for this age group because you need to be involved in what they're thinking what they're watching where they're going their friend circle what are their viewpoints okay so that is basically about children or preteens in the in this age group of 11 and 12 year old six and seven standard okay any questions anyone has any questions any questions if not we'll move on to the last age group that is 13 to 18 years old seniors who are basically more teenagers will move on to this section if there's no questions no doubts okay now these 13 to 18 year old who are seniors and basically you know they are the early adolescent years there's a lot of changes that happening physically emotionally spiritually intellectually they're transforming or there's a transition from being a child to an adult so from childhood to adulthood now what to expect you know they begin there'll be a shift that you will notice from them following rules of authority you know if you're a teacher or if you're a children's church pastor there will be a shift from them following your authority or the rules that you have laid down to doing things that they think are right they value they want to do that will define themselves basically what they feel what they think rather than doing what you know is required of them so even as they do this we need to be very sensitive we need to help them we need to guide them and enable them to see why rules are important so it's good to go through you know come the 10 commandments the laws the various rules why did god have all of these why was all of this instituted in the first place not to make life difficult for the Israelites not because he wanted to get them to do what he wanted but it was just for their own benefit for their own life well-being wholeness that he gave them these laws so help them to see it in that way now they're beginning to live independently so they like to do things their own way you can allow them to a certain extent but sometimes when you they have to follow certain rules which everyone are doing it you can just encourage them you know say it in a more positive way and help them and guide them okay they begin to develop a capacity to think in much border terms they begin to you know understand issues and see how things are connected to each other even difficult abstract ideas they're able to think through reflect so it's good to get them to reflect and to take responsibility to share their viewpoints get them to see parallel views contrasting views and let them help them make their own judgments and guide them okay now we know emotionally they're very turbulent so they can get very moody they can get very sometimes they can just not speak up they'll be very shy because in this in the senior class basically it's very difficult for them to get answers out compared to the younger classes where they're quick to answer quick to tell what they feel what they think because they are always conscious about what others will think about them if the answer wrong or say this or say that or people will laugh at them so be sensitive about that you know frame your questions in such a way that you know you get answers more than you know just if you have questions which end up you receive end up you know and just receiving yes or no answers then it's going to be difficult for you but frame your questions as such a way that you know they have to reflect think and give their own viewpoints okay they are powerful peer group relationships they need to belong to a gang or group so it's a good thing to get them into you know you know into good relationships with each other also you know not just get them to stay in their own cliques but also meet and talk with the rest in the class not just do things with their own friends or their best friends but you know in a class setup relate with everybody discuss with everybody play with everybody and learn from each other okay even though they are struggling in their relationship with their parents because they are asserting their own independence but we see that the family is still the strong social support for an adolescent so we need to get them to build meaningful relationship with their parents at this age so use different passages in the bible where you can help them okay now what you can do is you know get them to you know write down the rules okay once you get them to write down the rules then it's easier because they have to follow it now if you say these are the rules you better do it then they're going to you know get a little stubborn and adamant and they might not like coming to a children's church so you know in the class setup you get them to basically set their own rules but you can always you know have the final say or the final word and tell them why you're having this and get them to see it and do it in more in a fun way so that you know it's more exciting than just something that they have to follow okay and once you make those rules just ensure that you know you get them to stick to those agreements that they have made for example if a rule like you know if they have a lot of this age group they'll have a lot of things to say but they won't say it to the teacher or to the whole class they'll keep on talking to their friends okay so that can be very disturbing so one rule is if they have something to say they have to say to the entire class and not just personally talk with their own friends and when you're having group games that they're not in their own groups or cliques they have to join with others and play with others or you know have competitions with others as well so simple things like that you know when a teacher is talking they don't talk when they are talking a teacher doesn't talk everybody listens to them when they are talking you know everyone respects their opinion we don't laugh we don't mock we can see a point of view but we respect the other person's point of view so you know to negotiate some fair rules where it's easy to work with them otherwise it'll get very very difficult okay don't criticize them for their hairstyle their clothes so what you know how they addressed and all of those things because they get very very sensitive there's a lot of changes they're kind of trying to adapt with the physical changes that are happening they're trying to you know be accepted be loved so you know don't make fun of them or don't criticize them keep talking to them even when you get only one word answers you know sometimes you think they're not listening they're not interested they're being very arrogant no they just give one word answers yes no I think so that's the way it was or I really don't know you know so answers like that so maybe you can give them different scenarios once you give them scenarios real-life examples of different people get them to share their viewpoints then maybe you will have a better response or you can have a short quiz short quick debate you know where they are you know debating on a certain issue where you get all their points and information okay you know when you when you are teaching them be very positive encouraging and you know be very honest with what you are telling them don't mince word don't compromise with things compromise with values don't compromise with with rules don't compromise with how they their behavior because those are the things that we need to you know be very be a little more strict about and not strict we can say firm about firm because if you are not going to be firm about those things then they will not learn to value the things of God they will not value you know or they will not have a code of conduct in God's house and that is why it's it's very sad to see that many adults who come to church when they were in children's church you know they were treated as just kids it's okay to do anything in everything so you see them come to adult church they don't carry their Bibles they come late it's okay for them not to come to church on Sunday but it's okay for them you know to go outing or attend a function or travel but it's not okay for them to do on Monday no because they have work they have to get to work it's not okay for them to go to their office without carrying their ID badges or their laptops you know but it's okay for them to come to church without their Bible they can walk in late but it's not okay for them to walk in late at the workplace or walk in late to the movie theater so we need to ingrain certain standards when it comes to the house of God they have to carry their Bible they're typing they're offering you know reading the word of God they kind of behavior dress code you know all of those things in the house of God is very very important if we are kind of compromising on these standards then it's not going to help and we are going to raise up a generation that's basically not going to value things of God because we've taught them not to and they will compromise on those things because we have a compromised okay and also be very positive and encouraging but don't compromise stay honest all the times and don't do things because you know you want them to love you and feel accepted and they'll come to children's church no sometimes we need to be a little firm and it'll just help them okay listen to their viewpoints and their opinions but don't just leave it you know in in thin air but bring it to a conclusion draw a conclusion you know and give them what is right and what they need to be doing okay give them the opportunity to reply or to participate in discussions then they feel that they heard out they're accepted and then you know they will state their viewpoints so this is a few things that we can remember for the ages 13 to 18 any questions any doubts with this with this we finish the developmental needs of children in different age groups I hope it was helpful if anyone has any questions you can ask no questions I hope all of you are in class okay thank you thank you Aaron thank you Dave okay if there are no questions then we'll end class and have a good day ahead and a good week ahead as well okay I'll see you tomorrow for our next classes okay thank you everyone thank you


Guys, I'm going to show you The solution for procrastination that came to me after many many years of struggling self-sabotage huge frustration huge degrees of guilt and shame and Really this approach you could put it this way. It's about Retraining your nervous system It's about retraining it to be more cooperative with you know doing the things that we want to do for a long time mine was I was caught up in a lot of conflict inner conflict about doing things not doing things shame about not doing things and You know wanting to push myself harder now spoiler alert here to begin with It's not about pushing yourself harder. In fact, it's actually the opposite of that Because the nervous system doesn't respond well to threat. It just makes it dig in even more and stay in its defensive position But what I'm going to do here? I'm going to read a question and this question is from Daniel and I wanted to share this question because It's really going to help a lot of people I think because so many of us have this This was the problem I had in the past and so many people I work with have this issue So I'm going to show you Daniel's question and then I'm going to show you a technique for procrastination And it's a very very practical technique It's counter-intuitive, but if you try it for a little while you'll find that it's it's going to be helpful So let's take a look here at Daniel's question to begin and Daniel says I know David that you've said in the past that the Little have to voice which is that voice that bullies us and pushes us all the time This have to voice is the thing that causes procrastination Which is true. I have said that in the past and I'm going to get to that a little bit more here in a moment You will also say we should drop it or question it, but I can't convince myself of this So this Daniel is finding it difficult to challenge your question this little voice this belief system that relies on have to I Just believe there are things I have to do How can I even go about? Questioning this belief when it seems so strong, and this is why I wanted to share This question what you and Daniel has asked me to do this video here And I'm going to show a technique is no willpower involved. In fact All you need is a little bit of boundary control to step away from something rather than to do something Okay, and if you can if you can grasp this concept I've made other videos in this, but I'll keep kind of explaining that may be in different ways but if you can grasp this concept the emotional freedom and Really above all the resolution to inner conflict goes away, and that's really what we're after here So let's just workshop this here together for a little while. Okay, and see if we can come up with a really understanding of why This this paralysis kicks in why this procrastination shows up here So if we take a look at this right? Essentially procrastination comes down to this It's a conflict within ourselves. Okay, so what we have in this conflict is we have To a kind of a mind that is at war with itself Okay, and we're right in the middle and we've been torn apart between the two of them Well, we want to do with the solution and this is very abstract. This is not the technique I'm just giving you a little overview here What we want to do is get into a unified mind that is not split that is not At war with itself. It's unified the resolution to it. Okay, there's peace Now on one hand when we have procrastination we have one little voice That says I don't want to do it or even I can't do it. It might even say things like look It's hopeless. It'll be no good now. Anyway, it's an undermining kind of voice And of course when we're in that little mentality We're gonna have a lot of shame and we're gonna also feel stuck and stagnation. Okay, but main thing is shame or guilt We're gonna feel in that Now if we were to just accept that That'd be that it wouldn't be a good situation to be in at all And in fact, many of us do find ourselves stuck in that situation But procrastination is slightly different because the other side of the equation is this You have to do it Okay, this is our our bully you could call it the the inner critic and Not only does it say you have to do it But it's going to make threats against you sometimes and it'll it'll hold these terrible consequences over you if you don't do it Right and sometimes those come in the form of visual images that you might see in your future for instance, right? now So if in one hand, I didn't look I don't want to do it and I don't want to say and you have to do it You can see that there is it this is what we mean by a mind at war with itself two different parts two different motives Pulling each other apart and you're stuck right in the middle and that looks like paralysis or stagnation. You just can't move Okay feeling guilty usually and what we're looking for here is When we do resolve this issue Decisiveness is what we're going to experience much much more often We're even a better way to put it is a lack of indecision We won't be pulled apart like this anymore. This is what it looks like when we heal procrastination I'm a lot more peaceful because the mind is in a war with itself and will be in what they call it in that state of flow We're just gradually quite happily getting things done So we're talking about ending in decision Becoming more decisive ending that battle with it Now, you know If you listen to that voices as you don't have to do it or I don't want to do it You know what? That's fine Also, if you listen to that voice that said you have to do it That would be fine. You go and do it. The problem is there's this competition. There's this conflict So we're in agreement. I hope at this point that the problem itself is not necessarily either voice It's not even have to which I mentioned and Daniel mentioned that I was talking about getting rid of it It's more that there's a conflict with it. Okay, so we're trying to end this conflict within now This technique just dive into the technique here It's going to be it's I'm going to call this technique the agree and amplify technique now The reason I developed this technique was for people in Daniel's situation Who you know, there's one way you can get rid of that have to voice which is to inquire into it You can challenge it and you can realize because the truth is you don't have to do anything There's always a choice and you deserve choice for every right You deserve praise for every positive choice that you make But when we're so ingrained in this have to and this have to is so strong This this technique is a stepping stone that will get you on the way. Okay. Now what it involves like is is this? Let me show you typical Experience what someone who is procrastinating and they have to do these two competing voices in their mind, right two different drives or motives and You know, this was my experience for many many years So you're sitting there and you know, maybe it's 6 p.m. in the evening and You're thinking about okay. Well, look, I have a lot of things to do What am I going to do with my time? So you set an attention for maybe 6 30. I Have to start soon. I have to start at 6 30 because this have to voice is so strong, right? And there's all that anxiety there now What happens? 6 30 eventually rolls around and I find myself Still sitting there. Maybe I'm watching TV or playing video games or something I'm not taking action Now believe it or not at this point, there's no problem Although you may be looking at that thinking that's not good. I'll explain why it's not a problem so far It's the next thing we do in this sequence here. That's the problem so far There has been no problem believe it or not and you'll understand why in a few minutes It's the next thing we're about to do here in this scenario. That is the problem What we do is we fail to show up at 6 30. I have to do it. I have to do it Fail to do it and then I look forward to the rest of my evening I'll say well look 8 p.m. What do I tell myself? I have to do it I'm telling myself the exact same thing again What happens at 8 o'clock? I don't do it Now this is procrastination at this point, right? Telling myself I have to I have to have to and actually not having to not doing it, right? So this is the scenario That's the behavior. We want to eliminate Okay Now I'm not going to tell you you need to push yourself.  Believe me What we need to do is to agree The problem that the reason this has been happening here constantly putting it off constantly putting it off Is that I I'm telling myself I have to but I don't fully agree with it I haven't made a decision to okay. I have to It's almost like we're agreeing with the inner critic And we're going to call it out. In fact, we're going to out critic the inner critic here with this technique Now, so this is what the technique looks like the next step here Same scenario. You're sitting there at 6 p.m. You're looking out into your evening Time ahead. You're going to set an attention for 6 30 And this time now we're going to agree with the inner critic That's telling us I have to do it. I have to do it and now we're going to say to ourselves Okay, I actually have to do it Now you might be thinking yourself. Oh, well big deal, right? That's not so great so far. What's all this big technique about? Okay, so I actually have to do it is what I'm telling myself now 6 30 comes and I don't do it Again at this point if you remember back I said nothing has gone wrong at this point It's what we do from this point forward in our evening that makes all the difference in this technique So 6 30, I haven't taken action now We look ahead. What's my next step? Am I going to continually push out start times and disrespect the boundary I have with work? This is the technique The inner dialogue becomes much more like rather than I have to do it. I have to do it and maintain that That folds have to which I don't really believe we're going to really agree with it here I'm going to say I had to And I didn't do it Okay, then I guess it won't be done today at all in other words what you're saying to yourself is Okay, this have to voice Was threatening me and it was showing me all these consequences. Okay I believe in have to I fully believe in have to let me have the consequence Show me the consequence. That's it. I didn't do it Therefore it's not done Where's the where's the consequence? Give me the consequence right now What we're doing is We're we're basically saying have to wins Okay, you win now show me the consequence But what you do not do is say, oh, I have to do it. I have to do it Like if it's really something you have to do It either gets done Or it doesn't Right It it will be something that happens now what you're seeing here is well, it didn't happen. I didn't do it Therefore, okay, let me have the consequence now the big fear for procrastinators anyone who's having procrastination is that they won't get the work done That becomes the consequence that we that we bring in here. Okay What I'm saying here is if you keep doing this approach, right and train your nervous system train that inner Inner critic voice right to say well, okay, I agree. Let's go ahead I have to do it at this time and if I don't do it at this time. Well, that means clearly It's not going to get done now because you were telling me I have to do it at that point You step away from it. You no longer make promises yourself. You no longer allow yourself to do it for the rest of that day We're we're out inner critic in the inner critic. We're out have to win the have to voice We're basically agreeing and amplifying Now all the threats that it puts over you, right? All those horrible scenarios that are going to you're going to fail. You're not going to be good enough Okay, let me experience it right now And what you'll see is all those threats are bravado. There's nothing behind them.  Okay. Well look I have to Set a time If you show up, yeah, I did show up because I had to If you don't show up you say, okay I didn't do it Let me see the consequence for this And the consequence should be that you step away from it Right, you're training yourself to take yourself seriously and it only takes a couple of days in my experience Right three days into this technique You may not have done anything on this project if you're in a chronic state of procrastination Much like I was in many of the people I've spoken with But after maybe two or three days You're the inner critic realizes actually I'm not in control here at all There's a decision maker here that is calling the shots and they need to be respected Not bullied or intimidated Right, that's you your personality Your personality is perfectly capable of doing this without any of this bullying or threatening stuff going on So call it out. Call out that half-de-voice Daniel, right or anyone else who's watching this Eventually what this technique will show you is that actually I don't have to do anything I only ever do things because I make choices to do them. There's always a choice Now I can either to choose to choose to do it or not do it I'll I'll live with the consequences of not doing it. I'll be happy to have them But I'll also live with the I also have to take responsibility for when things go well For myself. I deserve the credit for that not some Weird rule that about having to do things when it's not even true Okay, so I know it's a strange technique But I can promise you one thing if you can do that for a few days do it as an experiment You will find that this issue goes away Okay, now there are other things and I you know I talk about those other things in my book You can check out the book. It's on my website. The link for it is is below Some other main things to keep in mind here with this and I'm really trying to get these ideas out there because I I have seen now with clients that they respond to it well And it is just getting rid of that guilt and getting rid of that shame and indecision and that psychological energy that has been wasted in all this People who are using this this technique and the other techniques in the book Are beginning to enjoy themselves more in their free time Which is allotted consciously planned Fun time relaxation time And they're getting a lot more done and it's just peaceful and easy. There's no real willpower or discipline or being strict with yourself with it It's just natural Okay, and your your confidence starts to build I personally I don't care that much about your personal productivity. I couldn't care less if you make you know a million dollars or euros or Or not, right What I care about is developing yourself esteem And that's what this technique will show you how to do Guys thanks again for watching today, and I'll see you in the next video


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. On Friday in a train accident involving three trains led to the death of around 300 people and 900 people are reportedly injured. Naturally the questions are going to be asked about what went wrong while the government has set up a probe to examine the reasons. Right now the focus is on rescue and relief of all the people who are caught in that accident and also to help the families find those of their family members who were on those trains. Joining us today is Mr. Sita Ramya Churi, senior leader of the CPIM. He has been in parliamentary committees looking at the railways and examining their role. And he's going to tell us the direction that the government probe as well as the systemic issues that arise with the railways over the years. Mr. Churi, thank you very much for joining us. Now after a very serious tragedy of the scale that has happened in Orisha, questions are bound to be raised about what went wrong. I know that the government has instituted a probe. But you have covered the railways for a long time. You have tracked its progress over the decades. What are the systemic issues which need to be highlighted at this point? Well, there are many systemic issues that have been ignored for many, many years. And that is the reason for all these accidents that are occurring. In my opinion, the issue of railway safety is something as far as we are concerned the most paramount. Railways are something that keeps our country united. I mean, it's the railways and the Postal Department. It's the Dakhia and the Gangmen. These are the two that have kept India united and integrated. Now the moment you start privatizing them, I mean, it has its own revocations. The Gangmen's daily walking routes, checking every bolt on the track, every single bolt is checked whether it is in place or not. Because anyone trying to sabotage, you know our railway lines, how they are unprotected.  Now the amount of distance he had to cover in a day. In order to save money, you double it. So how will he actually check? It will only be hitting it and seeing if the sound is right. But you are doubling people's walk in the... I mean, you are doubling the work, increasing the workload and thereby reducing the efficiency. And even there, there is a dearth of Gangmen. Your signaling systems have been under scrutiny and question mark for a long time, which is what this accident apparently is also leading up to the same. Signaling failure, a managed signal failure or a fault of whatever it is, that we will have to wait and see what the probe will say. But the fact is that from 2017, there has been a task force that was appointed by the railways and its report is in public domain. And they had warned very seriously that there is an urgent, urgent necessity to address the issue of track renewals. And also the issue of your... No, there is a signal in the, you know, the systems, etc. Generally talking in terms of saying that many of these issues connected with railway safety need to be urgently addressed. That has not been done. Instead, what has happened? The recommendation was address track renewals. Right. And in the 2022 budget, 14% has been reduced in allocation for track renewals. But the government says that we are increasing the budget, we are increasing not just the budget but the capital expenditure. So where does the money go? That is what the government has to answer. Whether that is also accounted for with all the great publicity, inauguration drives. How much is being spent on that, rather than spending on the actual infrastructure connected with railway safety? Right. Now if instead of the entire, you see the question is railways have also been reduced in order to be a sort of a publicity area. They are flagging off trains. Yes. It becomes the main occupation. Right, right. No, no. If that money is accounted for saying, naturally the budget will increase. The more the inaugurations you do, the more the money you spend. So the budget can go there. So the question is where is that money going? Is it going into high speed trains? Is that the direction we are moving in? Yeah. I mean these trains that you already have, Shatabdi and Rajbani. Yes. You are one day Bharat, so called high speed train. It does not match that speed yet. Absolutely. So it is not really a high speed train. You already have these high speed trains. All this great propaganda blitz about bullet trains and all that. Now can your track sustain that speed? When your track renewals are under question for decades, you have to strengthen your tracks.  You cannot unless you renew your tracks. No. For that you are not allocating money. In fact you are reducing the allocations. So when it comes to hiring for the railways, now you have a very large number of skilled people who work here. They are engineers and then there are people who have particular tasks like the gang when you said, those watch and man, the signals and so on. One of the concerns is that the government will turn around and say that everything is automated and so we don't need these 3 lakh people who, you know, those posts which are vacant. How do you explain this? What is the reason to not hire people? It is cutting costs. As simple as that. The government wants to cut costs and instead outsource it to private companies. Okay. 3.12 lakh posts lying vacant in the railways. And that is what? Non-gazeted posts. Which means these are the people who actually do the groundwork. That's right. The gangmen which we already mentioned. Yes.  And that is where the safety is all, that is where the safety is all connected with. Whether your bolts are in place on the track. If one of them is loose, the train derails. Whether the signaling systems are working all right. Like now the speculation about this gruesome accident is that the signal was given to travel on the main line. But it was withdrawn and suddenly the Coromandel Express went on to the loop line. The loop line is the line where many trains are stationary. Right. Also mostly good trains. Okay. So there is now, again speculation all this. Only a proper inquiry will prove what's happened. That it went and crashed into one stationary train derailed. And then that crashed into the third train coming in. And mayhem happened. And this sort of overcrowdedness in the Coromandel Express. It's actually heart-rending. The passengers who reserve their seats in the reserve compartments. They have sent out videos of complaints to the minister. Before the accident. Before, just before the accident. Asked maybe over minutes before the accident. Saying that this is the state of this bogey. 72 people have put in their reservation. There are more than 200 travelling in that. Today when you want to identify who is dead. Your record only gives you 72 names. Yes. What about the rest? Who are they? And it's inhuman. That sort of thing. So we have two things going on at the same time. On the one hand there is this whole conversation from the government side about high-speed travel, luxury travel, better quality amenities. And then you have the reality of hundreds of people who cannot, who need to travel urgently or otherwise. Go home. School holidays are going on. And they have no space. So what will it take to actually make it very apparent to everybody who uses the railways that this is an issue? You see the Indian railways was one thing that made everybody uniform. From your poorest of the person. Who could travel in undeserved compartment. To the richest who could travel in AC first class etc. On the same train. On the same train. Yes. So you had that egalitarian this thing on. So now what have you done? You are eliminating all these passenger trains which cater to the poor and instead focusing on your high-speed trains which the poor cannot access. They are too expensive. So that is it. In Indian railways also you are creating two Indians. Everywhere else you are doing it. But in Indian railways also which so far has not been subjected to that sort of an insult. So now the net result is you see railways is the lifeline for crores of Indians. They get on to their passenger, local passenger train.  Crores and crores of people. Now you deny them that. Then this is what happens in reserve compartments. They will come and occupy. Then what? It will be a law and order situation. That's what you'll create. So please focus on providing facilities for people to travel rather than on very publicity-oriented high-speed trains which only the rich can access. And you're also suggesting that in fact once the tragedy is right now in a very heightened state of emotional because of the 300 people who died. But once all this calms down a little, you're saying that even the numbers of the people who have died and who have been injured we may perhaps never know. Never. Never. That is the unfortunate and that is the most inhuman part of it. There are photographs that have been sent to me from Balasur. Of dead bodies piled up in school buildings. Now who they are, whose relatives would come and own the apartment? Whom do you inform? Unless the relatives themselves, they know that so and so their family was travelling in the train. Yes. They come to Balasur looking for the person. Otherwise it's impossible. As I told you every the sleeper compartment has 72 births. You only have records for these 72. The other 200 you don't know. And from all the videos that were sent by the passengers as complaints to the real minister. Minutes before the accident. Saying that what is this? What are you doing? Why did we reserve our seats? Those videos show you that the sort of people that are there are clearly migrant workers. The poorest of the poor. From the comments narrative also sometimes it feels like they have a lot to do. They have the signaling to take care of the track to take care of new trains to launch, etc. Is all of this beyond India? Of course not. We had all of this being done most efficiently and trains ran and I would say ran on time earlier and when you were known what to call mechanization, computerization, etc. Right. In our youth when we used to do the student movement and go by you know work class. Those days there was a third class and third class sleeper and there would be only a wooden sleeper. Right. There was no cushion at all you know which is there now and there you would find the ticket collector coming and suppose I extend my journey from one station to another. He would make a receipt with three copies. Give me one. Okay. Send one to the railways and send one to the audit. Right. And all this work and work very well I mean we all grew up on that. I mean so it's but the system if you try to actually distort it which is what is happening now. Distort in what way? That you ship the priorities. You see this is not your concern now. It is not your concern to provide service to people. Your concern is to provide service to the rich who can afford it and the publicity involved in it. Bullet trains, high speed trains, better facilities, etc. Who will access them except for the one percent of Indian population which is large anyway. It appears so but if that this priority is shifted that is what will happen. Do you think that this government is actually going to become a little more sensitive after a tragedy of this scale or does it have another agenda? Different plans for the railways than what you and I are talking about. You see unfortunately right now when we are discussing the priority should be on providing relief and ensuring that the debt toll doesn't rise further by providing and therefore to provide adequate and proper medical attention to the injured. Now that is what the focus should be. And then you set in motion a proper independent inquiry which will establish and I am sure that inquiry will re-endorse what the task force has talked about. Track renewals, you know your signaling systems, your technological upgradation of various things that are involved in the operations. No and that is where the focus must be. Now you have this one day by the train with an aerodynamic engine. Now our designs are such that you have logs at the end of the track in everything where the train comes and stops. So the drivers are used to a point where the train stops. Now if the train stops at that point, your one day by the engine goes and bangs into their rods. Every one of these engines is damaged today. Because you were doing it for publicity not for actual operational efficiency. And you are also not working towards benefitting or helping those who are actually the biggest users of the railways. That is right. Which is working people. And it is, I mean as I said, I mean it is the gangmen and the olden days the Dhakaia who actually kept this country integrated. I mean you would have the postman running from one village to another village to deliver the letter. And the gangmen inspecting every bolt and every connection on the rail track. That is right. Now if you say that you doubted, you privatize it, I will give it to all sources. So now Indian Postal Department has gone, you have to use your courier service. And instead of a 5 rupee postal stamp, you spend 40 rupees to send a letter. So I mean whom are you catering to? That is the question. That is the question and this government is increasingly not only elitist oriented but there is a very very dangerous corporate communal nexus that is emerged. But the real minister, in fact other ministers in this government have said that they are not privatizing the railways. They are monetizing. Is there a difference? That is all gimmickery for you. What do you mean monetizing? Beats me. The railways has huge lands. They want to give those lands on lease to private payers. So they will build these fancy stations. Yes. Like the malls that you have. I mean they are with malls and cinema halls and things like that and everything else in the station. And the focus is on providing those facilities and not on improving the conditions of the track so that the railways can be more efficient. So what is this monetizing about? Monetizing is actually selling off your railway land to private players to maximize their profits. What else is it but privatization? Will it not help the railways itself? Nothing. Where does the revenue come from? The revenue doesn't go to the railways. To sum up, Mr. Ichuri, are you saying that this accident, not this one particular, but accidents in general are preventable if the government takes the right means at the right time? Absolutely. What I am saying is not only accidents preventable, if the government's priority is focused on railways safety not on publicity, given free. A lot of things can improve. But we have Kavach now, the security system. Indigenous security system. Yes, that's right. I mean you also have Indigenous rail collision, anti-collision system. That's right. That is what the... But why are they not being deployed then? But right now I think the priority in the focus should be human. Please, for heaven's sake, the problem that has to be addressed is actually the people who have unfortunately lost their lives. More importantly, people who have injured, who should not lose their lives. Focus on that. While the inquiry goes on, yes, we will come to those issues later. But right now this is the priority that the government must address. As Mr Yajuri just told us, the immediate relief and rescue should lead to an extensive probe into the reasons for the tragedy and the tragedy will not be completely examined unless the systemic issues have been studied. Thank you very much for joining us.


Ladies and gentlemen, it is being reported that the Carolina Panthers have hired Frank Reich as their next head coach, Frank Reich, formerly the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, obviously was able to make it to the playoffs with Philip Rivers. I do believe Frank Reich has the capability to be an incredibly successful head coach. Do they have all the pieces around him there to be able to succeed? They don't have a quarterback. They're going to have to be in the market for that whole thing. And they have a Nucleus though. It seems like that played good football after Christian McCaffrey was traded, after Robbie Anderson was traded, after Matt Rule was fired. They still played some good football. So it seems like the culture's there. A lot of people thought Steve Wilkes was going to get that job because what he was able to do was seemingly a mail it in here with a lack of their best weapons, but other dogs stepped up.


I've run many group programs where I have recurring events for the program and I need the members to know when they are, especially if I schedule new ones or remove old, you know, remove ones that are no longer applicable that the calendar needs to update automatically their calendar needs to update automatically The way to do it is to create a shared Google calendar. I find that that's the most convenient way of going. So I'm going to go and show you in this video how I do it. I've been doing this for years and this is the method that seems to work well right now. So let me share my screen with you. Okay, so go to Google calendar and scroll down. So, you know, scroll down on the left side until you see other calendars and click on the plus button. Okay, so, and click on create new calendar. And then this is where you can, you know, the greatest program group, the greatest group program ever. Okay, and then don't worry about the description. I don't find that you can put whatever you want. Time zone. I would say put the time zone that is most, you know, I would say this, put your own time zone, because it'll be less confusing to you when you schedule things. And the time, the events will be automatically placed into the clients and the members time zones when they open the calendar so put this in your own time zones easier for you, and then click on create calendar. Okay, once you've done that, you can now, once it's finished doing that, click on configure. Okay, click on the configure button.   And click on the three dots and click settings and sharing. That's the same thing as if you had clicked on configure earlier or, you know, but you can always come back to settings and sharing and scroll down now. And what you do is, you should probably change this to. Do not show invitations, click okay, that's better because if somehow, however, some spammers starts inviting you, you don't want that to populate in your group calendar so do not show. And then this one is what I recommend, all of you do I, I didn't recommend it in the past but after having some research I'm now recommending this last year or two I've been doing this. I would recommend make available to the public. Let me let me do this again. And it sounds scary like oh my gosh are people going to find my calendar through Google search. I have researched a bit this and the answer is no, even if you make it a public Google calendar. And no one on the internet that I've researched has been able to find public Google calendars, unless they are like really popular or, or unless they have embedded the public, they have embedded the Google calendar on a public webpage, which you're probably not going to be doing because this is most of you are doing like private group programs so even with a private group programs. Click on make available to the public click on this it says will make it available to the entire world, including via Google search that's nonsense because I can have researched this and it works only if you embed the calendar on a public webpage which we're not going to do. So are you sure yes, like okay. All right. And then basically, the question is, when someone adds the calendar can they see all event details are only free busy well you want them. If it's especially the group program you want them to be able to see the event details you want them to see what the zoom link is and what the, you know, description of each event is so you definitely want them to see all details. If they only see free busy then they have no idea what the events are about so click see all event details that should be default, and then simply click on get shareable link. Copy link. And I will show you what this looks like. When I go there and add it, but I'll, I'll, I'll just copy the link for now but before I, I move on I just want to show you here down here, if you want to have other administrators for your program, be able to add events or events then you need to click add people in groups and add them to be able to make changes or manage sharing and things like that. But otherwise, you don't have to do don't worry about the event notifications and and anything else. In terms of allowing people to add it to Apple calendars, I will give you another tutorial below this video that shows you how to how to create it so that people can add it. And by the way, the other tutorial I said don't make it public but I've changed my mind and I that's how I do it now I make it public. It'll still work the same so check out the other tutorials below this video for sure. Let me go and show you what it does now when when someone goes to that particular link. All right, so let me go and show you what happens if I go to that link that gets shareable link right. Basically, one second here, basically it says add, add calendar. Okay, the greatest program ever whatever. And if I click add, then all the events from the calendar that I've created in the other screen will be added here and going forward if I add any more events. The person who has added the calendar will see them added in real time or see other events removed if needed. So hopefully this is helpful. And thank you so much for watching via any other tips for others who are needing to create group Google calendars you can go ahead and comment below. Thanks. Thanks. As a reminder, I have other tutorials related to this in the description below this video so be sure to check those out as well. So if you're wondering, well, why make it a public calendar versus private. I just have noticed that it's easier to share it with people, especially people who aren't logged in to their Google calendar. You know, if they have the link, then they're able to see it now. By the way, this is important as well. If you put private group information into the calendar, like zoom links should definitely be private if it's called totally public you're going to see trolls and zoom bombers coming to your zoom call which is a bad thing I've had experienced that before so if you decide to make it a public thing which is how I do it, make sure that the links within your events are, you know, make sure you tell all your group members please do not share this link of course keep it extremely private because all this private information we have. As long as people don't share that link, no one else is going to find it. Now, if it's a larger group program, and there's a risk that someone might not understand something and share the link. What I do is for my group events, instead of putting zoom links in the description, I put the link that leads them into my private group platform, that particular page that they have to log into to find the zoom link. So that's kind of how I circumvent the fact that just in case it goes public. No trolls can find my zoom link because they have to click a link and log into their private course platform to find the zoom link there. So that's one way of, you know, of doing it but otherwise I do find that, you know, if I wanted to share with you know Apple calendar people and other folks. It seems like making a calendar public, it just is smoother. But you can feel free to experiment first with not making a public try to get all your group members to add it if there's some issue, then you might want to come back and try making a public so thank you for asking.


Thank you so much for joining us. Today, Evelyn and me just had a meeting with the head of the Deutsche Bank, Christian Zeving and his spokesperson. We would like to firstly very much make sure that the meeting was confidential, so we won't talk about specific details of the meeting. We appreciate the invitation very much. It's not something we see all the time. Yet also our criticism stands firmly. We need banks like the Deutsche Bank to get away from fossil fuels. We need hard decisions to be made about fossil fuel investments. And we need honesty about where we're heading towards a 1.5 degree world that is as safe as possible, that is a climate justice future, that respects the rights of people everywhere, no matter where they are born, or a world heading towards climate disasters where only the most privileged and wealthy people have a small chance of staying safe. And we have made a decision what we are fighting for, and we're demanding governments, but also banks and investors, insurances and so on, to make a decision themselves. And we are not only waiting for them to make that decision, but we're calling that out, we're confronting them. That's what we are doing with Deutsche Bank, but also many other investors and institutions that are part of the whole fossil fuel world, but should be part of a decarbonized world. And I think we will start now with statements here, Evelyn will go ahead.  Thank you so much for joining us, and of course there will be time for questions and answers and interviews and so on afterwards. Hopefully maybe you introduce yourselves too. If there is a wish for something in German in particular, I think we can do this afterwards as well. Thank you so much. My name is Evelyn Acham. I would like to thank Deutsche Bank for accepting to have this meeting with us. It's very important for me, someone from Uganda, a country that is experiencing some of the worst impacts of the climate crisis. This is us calling out banks to put an end to any new fossil fuels because fossil fuels are killing people right now. Disasters are happening in my country right now. So the dangers of fossil fuels are very clear and we do not need any new fossil fuels right now. We need an upscale and renewable energy and we need finance for loss and damage from my country. This is to the G7 leaders. My country and Africa and countries in the Global South are demanding for loss and damage finance now. We are demanding for climate finance now, which was promised years back to be delivered to the most vulnerable countries, to help them in mitigation and adaptation. We are demanding you to provide climate finance for the people and stop investing in any new fossil fuel projects. Thank you. My name is Joshua Amanup, a climate justice activist from Uganda. I am grateful for this opportunity today. My message to Deutsche Bank is to be consistent with keeping 1.5 alive. When you make commitments and you publicize that your efforts are going to be consistent with 1.5 consistent with net zero and get your investing in fossil fuel business, that is not keeping 1.5 alive. We request that you invest more in more sustainable forms of energy because those are the forms of energy which deliver justice. Investing in fossil fuels in my country doesn't deliver justice, it instead delivers injustice. My message to the G7 leaders is to put loss and damage back to the agenda and deliver climate finance. Hello everyone. My name is Edwin Namakanga, a climate activist from Uganda. I'm part of the rise up movement. We are here as from Uganda demanding an end to the financing of the eco pipeline because we see that it's pretty near over 14,000 households. These people will be affected by their livelihoods and then we only have one water source and this oil pipeline will be passing through this one source and that's like Victoria and it will pollute the water and we have seen that quite a big number of people are depending on this lake to get what to eat and it's greatly going to affect their livelihoods. So my message to Deutsche Bank and also the people in charge and people who are supporting these fossil fuel projects to go on is that to stop it now and make sure that they invest at least in renewable energy sources because we want a sustainable future for all because we can't adapt to loss and damage. We can't adapt to lose our culture, our homes and our livelihoods. Thank you so much. Some people say that the climate activists like us that we are the radicals and Antonio Guterres lately made very clear that the radicals in this world are those who still invest in fossil fuels, who still make fossil fuel investments possible, who fight for what the IPCC calls the worst case scenario. That is the climate track we are on right now. That is not a future problem, that is a present problem and here today sitting together and especially the Ugandan perspectives make that very, very clear. What we demand from banks and investors and governments is a clear phase out, not a phase down but a phase out of all fossil fuels. This must include for the G7 a clear ending with coal in 2030, the latest. It must include a clear end date for gas and oil exploration as well and it must include a clear no to new explorations of oil and gas anywhere. Right now, some of the dirtiest industries in the world supported by banks and governments are planning more and more new fossil fuel explorations knowingly that this is clearly not in line with what the International Energy Agency calls a safe pathway towards a climate justice future. And what we are having to do here and we don't haven't shown them to do this and we have many more things we can think of but we need to call that out. We need to call out these news investments and we need to call out who's behind them, whether it's governments, whether it's banks, whether it's investors. That is what we have to do. No more new fossil fuel exploration. That's a very, very easy thing to understand and people who are in such powerful positions today in numerous institutions will have the capacity to understand that it's not rocket science. It's very black and white. For institutions like the Deutsche Bank, this means being honest and clear about their investment plans.  That is a black and white decision and that accounts for governments as well. We are very worried about the G7 meetings. We are worried about where Olaf Scholz would lead us in this G7 summit as we couldn't trust him if we didn't have a reason to trust him to stick to 1.5. And that is a devastating acknowledgement that we had to make from a chancellor that is so relatively new in his office. We are seeing that some of the worst decisions could be prevented in this G7 meeting. We are seeing some strong language on gas being included, but of course that is not what is needed right now. We need voter decisions, we need braver decisions, and we need governments to be clear about their planning for a climate justice world or their planning to undermine it. And this accounts especially of course for the G7, some of the richest industrialized countries in the world. And in regards to the wider decisions that are being made, just a few words on the taxonomy. We're not only looking at banks, we know that banks need to be regulated. And for this we look at the EU right now making big decisions about the EU taxonomy. And of course the greenwashing taxonomy that was proposed by the commission needs to be voted down by the EU parliament in the upcoming weeks. It's some heavy and very bold and very concrete demand that is also not so hard to understand I would say. And as of course for governments like the G7 they need to be clear. And in the light of the Ukraine war, a fossil fuel war that is funded and financed by fossil fuels, we need governments to respond to this war with a ramping up of renewables, with climate justice, with honest and bold decisions about decarbonization everywhere. The answer to this war cannot be new fossil fuels, it cannot be new exploration, it cannot be new investments but it needs to be just the opposite. Renewables, climate justice and an honest discussion about where energy comes from and what the price is we are willing to pay for peace for the future and secure democracy for everyone. Thank you so much. And I think we now have, we now have, do we have some water maybe? Can we have some water please? We I think have now time for questions, if there are any. Hey my name is Steve, Steve Ehrens, I'm Bloomberg News. You've made some, you know, you're asking, I guess, Deutsche Bank to stop financing Total, the company that's behind the ECOG pipeline. Do you have any other demands? I'm pretty sure. I mean, I know Deutsche Bank pretty well and I'm pretty sure they walked you to their carbon commitments in their meetings just now. And they're all on the record so you can comment on them. You don't have to comment on your meeting. Do you think those commitments are ambitious enough or does Deutsche Bank need to do more with their public commitments? Thank you. This is a, of course, public record. Some of us spoke at the AGM at Deutsche Bank as well so we also made it very clear in public that of course we need banks to step out of the ECOG pipeline. Several banks have done this already and at least according to some sources the Deutsche Bank has done this too. But of course we need, we're asking banks like Deutsche Bank, all of them to step away from the financing from Total as a company as we know that looking at the investment plans of Total, they're not even trying to hide the fact that they are giving nothing on the 1.5 degree commitment, that they're not planning to stick to anything that you consider climate justice promises. Companies like Total will not learn. They will not change the logic under which they operate for whatever it takes.  And ECOG here is just one of the catastrophic projects they're planning to go ahead including new exploration in numerous countries across the globe, new gas fields, new pipelines, new projects everywhere. And those companies that will not learn, they need to be cancelled and they need to be cancelled by investors like the Deutsche Bank. And then of course Total is only one company among many so we need to look at the wider picture at the investment plans that are being made and we need to be bold about what is a 9 of 1.5 and what not. And as a bank if you support a company that is not sticking to 1.5, well good luck with your promises but you're not sticking to 1.5, that's the reality of these investment plans that we are seeing everywhere. And of course we won't stop at Deutsche Bank but we will call out those investors for as long as it takes. We continue to call out all banks investing in fossil fuels to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry. This is not only to Deutsche Bank but to every bank that is listening to us right now. But Africa as a continent does not need any new fossil fuels. I hear countries, the rich countries like Germany transferring their drilling of oil to Africa, like Senegal, like to my country. But Africa as a continent does not need any new fossil fuels. We have so many things that are affecting us. Girls are dropping out of school. Women, the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting people in my community and the present is very bad right now. Children are dying. Women have to do more farm work. Children have to drop out of school because their schools are being washed away by the floods and girls have to end up being given away from marriage in exchange of bride price. So for us we are already seeing the intersection of the climate crisis. It's too interconnected in our country. It's affecting education. It's affecting the environment. It's affecting our schools. It's affecting gender. It's affecting everything. And this is why we demand countries like Germany to listen to us, to listen to the voices of people from the most affected. If you don't believe that it is very serious right now if you don't believe that fossil fuels are causing so much harm to the planet listen to our stories. The stories are very real. The stories are being reported everywhere. Like Louisa said we all need to take 1.5 degree target so seriously and everyone can be an activist. You can do activism in your capacity. You don't have to stand on the streets with placards too like we are doing but like the banks can look at the contracts that they are approving contracts that are sustainable contracts from sustainable people are not from fossil fuel companies and even the media most often should look at what they report. You need to put the climate stories at the forefront. You need to put the stories of people from most affected, people from on the front pages. I would like to thank the media that is reporting this right now. I hope this can go out there and these stories can be amplified and people understand exactly what is happening around the world and not stay comfortable. Is there another question? Please talk about re-washing again. Yeah, I think that's a very important question. In response also I think to the climate movement rising heavily in the last years we see players everywhere reacting yet the most common reaction we see is heads of companies of banks and investors not running to their strategy department but to their PR department coming up with sustainability reports with nice numbers, with green headlines, with climate summits and climate speeches and climate everything. Yet when we look at the investment plans it's not adding up and the reports are out there. Most, the vast majority of banks, of investors, of insurances but also of governments have no plan how to stick to their so-called climate promises. And then these are not climate promises anymore but then it's just climate wishful thinking that we just don't have time for. And it is dangerous what we're seeing in terms of greenwashing across the industries not just because it's boldly lying to customers to the public, to governments, sometimes to the media but it distracts. And it puts people in a place where they are very, very likely to believe that it all will be better. In the same or similar pattern we're seeing just now in the Ukraine war when we see all the arguments on the table why we must phase out our fossil fuels, they strengthen autocrats, they weaken democracies it makes just so much sense. And just because it makes so much sense we're seeing the people looking away from what's actually happening that they're closing their eyes to the realities that's telling a whole different stories about fossil fuels being ramped up everywhere about the gold rush on fossil fuels how it's being called in the media recently how reports have made very, very clear. Just looking and listening to the nice promises is not what is needed. But we need people, that's what we're doing as activists we need media, we need institutions to look at what's happening on the ground. We do not care about your net zero agreements for something, something in whatever distant future when right now you're doing the exact opposite as an acting in line with 1.5 degree. That is a message to Deutsche Bank that's a message to banks everywhere and to the G7 leaders just as well. I'd like to add on that basically I would like to base on loss and damage when countries commit that they would like to support mapper countries on loss and damage they make commitments for instance in the commitment of delivering climate finance of the 100 million. That commitment has never been honoured by any of the countries that committed to that and if you fail to honour that commitment to commit to that promise and yet publicly on media you say you're standing with mapper you're working towards 1.5 that is another form of clean washing. By keeping the promises that you made climate finance must be delivered. Another thing about loss and damage loss and damage may not make sense to people who have grown up from Europe few people who have grown in Europe loss and damage might sound like a fable heard from far. But loss and damage is real and it costs money to recover it costs money to go back to the state that you were in for instance in South Africa there were floods at the beginning of this year a lot of property was damaged and when this damage came it did discriminate between the rich or the poor everyone's property was destroyed the same crisis is happening in Africa if you don't keep 1.5 alive they'll soon come to Europe they'll soon come to all the other continents so when we demand for climate justice not only look at it as something profiting only Africa the climate crisis knows nobody and the climate crisis will affect all of us Is there another question? In that sense I think we will end this setting here I would like to again flag if the Deutsche Bank wouldn't have invited us to speak today we still would be here but we couldn't talk about how it is a very positive signal to meet with activists and to be confronted like that CEOs have chosen otherwise in the past and we again appreciate very much the dialogue that is happening there are some industries that we I don't think have an attention to talk to but we came here knowing that we could talk honestly and confidentially about things and that is something we would like to flag is unusual and worth noting again at the end of the meeting also knowing that it might come across as a slightly provocative with the signs in the background that is the reality we're in facing these hard questions and confrontations we have no time to lose we have no time for blah blah blah we have no time for empty handshaking but we need to get down to things and we need to talk truth to power whenever we can everyone and not just us climate activists thank you so much for coming today I think we now have time for some interviews or photos and I think sitting here the sign kind of got lost over there in the wind but we are also facing a big meeting coming up by the investments by the insurance broker Marsh discussing who could possibly ensure the eco pipeline as insurances are breaking away and we of course calling out the insurance broker as well to step away from finding any new insurances for the eco pipeline this is nothing that can be insured ever as it's a project that is doomed to fail doomed to lead to more insecurity and damage and destruction no insurance can count on that to be something close to a safe bet so of course that is happening this week as well it's a full week for climate finance and climate insurance and we are full on to tackle whatever there and so is the wind