Hi, today's episode of We Are Only One is brought to you by usgoalkoins.com, 1-800-HOT-COIN, and Mese Grill, M-E-Z-E, Grill.com, and MtGox.com. Hi, welcome to We Are Only One. We're going to be exploring new thought and ancient wisdom. Are they soulmates? And I'm very honored to have as my guest Reverend Dr. Jane Galloway, the spiritual director of Sacred Center in New York here. Welcome to you. Thank you. It's wonderful to be here with you today. Well, I know you've had a very varied career as counselor and educator and an actress and now you have a master's and a doctorate. I do. And I wonder if you can tell us a little bit about your journey. Well, let's see. I was raised in a family of artists and so it was kind of a pre-ordained idea that I was going to be somehow involved in the arts. And I remember when I was age 12 telling my mother I wanted to be a social worker and she looked at me with horror and said, what is that? So I think that I was waiting for the day when I could really do the kind of work with people that I wanted to do. That was on my heart from the time I was very young. However, I did, yes, become a professional actress. I was, I start on Broadway and TV and film and starting to pilot right over here at the Ed Sullivan Theater a number of years ago. So, you know, I did that career for many years. I was really pulled into a deeper level of vocational commitment to service, although I taught preschool and worked with children and did a lot of community service work all through the years. But I was called into a vocational focus on something deeper, which turned out to be ministry. I thought it was going to be psychology, but you know, we're led along as we go on our path. So when my friends in New York in the theater began to get sick from something we didn't understand then, we called it the gay cancer, we called it, we didn't know what happened, but people were dropping dead right and left and it was really a death sentence then if you were diagnosed with AIDS or HIV. I don't even think it had a name yet at that point, quite frankly. But I was really a wash-in loss and grief and was watching the world not respond too much to this, but I had many many friends who were in disarray and terrible fear about their own diagnosis, and it became, it was interesting, I was doing television by then sitcoms, and that was a world in which, you know, you didn't talk about anything like HIV or AIDS, for God knows. So the disconnect between what I was doing professionally, because that kind of becomes a whole life, you know. And and and what was going on in the world and in my life became too great. That disconnect just was too great. And so I began to go within and to really study and be pulled forward into what has become my new vocational focus. And by vocation, of course, I mean much more than a career. It's really a calling and and one in which I can utilize all of the the new thought teaching and the and all of the acting and arts teaching, of course, comes in very handy. I mean, it's it's all part of it. So I kind of see it all as an evolution forward. And yes, I have a master's in doctorate from Claremont Graduate University, too. So that's been great because it's helped me to understand the common thread in many world religions. And I think I didn't have any idea of the specificity, of course, of the belief systems and how culturally based they are until I really began to study at a deeper level. So so when I began to understand that connectedness, even though I was initially ordained and I'm a rather rather traditional Christian, well sort of traditional Christian denomination, I really was very tuned in to this universality. And so have of course moved into teaching that through ancient wisdom, new thought, combining the two. I say, well, sort of traditional about the ordination process, because the ordination is extremely traditional. It's the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The only part about that ordination that wasn't traditional was that I was European American and 99.9% of the people who are ordained in the AME Church are African Americans. So that was a completely wonderful experience, but it was also a very non-traditional call. And I think prepared me in many ways for looking at the world from different perspectives, really looking at the world from different centrisms, if you will, you know, being being able to be afrocentric in my perspective. When, you know, I choose to, as opposed to Eurocentric, which largely is what our cultural view is, is Eurocentric. And so anyway, so that's kind of a synopsis of how that big journey happened. And now I'm at Sacred Center New York, which is a new thought spiritual community in New York. And, you know, we teach the wisdom path there as taught through the modality of new thought. And new thought is really an interpretive lens, of course. And we'll talk more about that maybe. But anyway, so it's fun to be back in New York. I lived in New York for many, many, many years. Never thought I would leave was taken out to California by my previous career and kind of like the palm trees. And I have a banana tree in my yard there that actually has bananas on it. So I lived there for a lot of years and it's fun to be back. And Sacred Center is a wonderful community too. Yes, well, I've had the good fortune of experiencing it. And it's great energy and a great consciousness for myself. I know we've spoken before about how new thought and ancient wisdom resonate so well together. Yes, yeah. And I just came back from Santa Fe and New Mexico, where there are a lot of Pueblos and there's a lot of ancient wisdom. And the Pueblo people, you know, have lived on their same land for 1,000 years. Amazing.  And on feast days, they allow the public to come and experience the dances, which is their prayer. Exactly. One of the prayer ceremonies and it's so beautiful. So I feel very enriched. I was there last month. So I feel very enriched by that experience. And I wonder if you could talk a little bit about where you see the interconnections of new thought and ancient wisdom, what most moves you as a spiritual director and how you would incorporate some of that in your ministry. Sure. I found new thought many years ago through Eric Butterworth, attending Eric Butterworth in New York, who really transcended his own tradition. He was a unity teacher, but like great teachers of all traditions. He really transcended even that culture. But he, this brilliant man, was teaching new thought principles under the rubric of unity at Avery Fisher Hall on Sundays. And so I attended Eric's lectures for 10 years. And I was very, very regular in that. He totally transformed my thinking. I mean, he did. The principles did. He was the one teaching it. And as I said, it was a very fraught time in New York because many, many people were getting sick from AIDS. And so it was interesting because as I began to go through the grieving process of trying to deal with the illness of my friends, what I discovered in the teachings of new thought was that I said it at the time. I said, there's no base note in that chord. I need to go someplace where you can really grieve, where you can go through what the mystics have called the via negativa. Sometimes it's not all treat, treat, treat, positive, happy, hippie-hoppy, you know, everything's great. Life happens to us. And there is a need in the human psyche and human heart for being able to go fully into that via negativa in order to come out the other side because that's how then the via transformativa happens. In other words, transformation happens, not through saying, I don't want to, you know, everything, something's great about what's going on here. Well, if you're a person who's in the middle of a storm like that, maybe it doesn't feel so great.  And but but in those moments at in those days, and this was in the late 80s, new thought, at least as I experienced it, did not provide this any kind of depth path on which one could go in order to process the kind of devastating circumstances that were going on in my life. So I began to search for that. And when I was in California, I really went to several new thought churches discovered the same thing. And then I was led to the AME Church and to a wonderful depth teacher who again transcended his culture. So he was ordained through the AME Church, but was really a teacher of great wisdom. Dr. Cecil Murray, who was the pastor of First AME Church. So I ended up finding my way to the Black Church tradition, which is a depth path. I mean, it got an entire community of displaced Africans through the horrific chattel slavery in this country. And so it is present hidden in plain sight within many more mainstream denominations, which are predominantly African Americans. So I discovered that path. Really, I went there initially to hear the music, which is great. And and also to find a teacher, I was really looking for a depth teacher. And Reverend Murray really was that teacher. So I found that depth path and ended up going through this entire ordination process in the AME Church. There are other things about the traditional Christianity of the AME Church that, I mean, didn't didn't really suit my worldview, my spiritual worldview as fully as I needed. Whatever path I would eventually be on to to suit. But but it was a fantastic, incredible. I mean, amazing learning process. So I was ordained in the AME Church and then I ended up actually leaving the AME Church over a couple of reasons. The main one was that the AME Church developed terribly discriminatory policies against LGBT persons having full inclusion within the church, which in my mind was completely against the tradition of their founding, which was around having been excluded from the White Methodist Church. But it really wasn't. That's where being a person of another ethnicity really does figure into a situation like a non-traditional ordination like that. Because I really felt that even though I did speak to the issue, it really was not my issue to raise within that community. You know, there are times when it's just not appropriate if one is being respectful of another rich cultural tradition. So I kept looking and I had always watched and listened to Reverend Michael Beckwith at Agape International Spiritual Center. And I watched him as he progressed. When I first went to Agape, Michael was really, I mean, he was in a real straight suit and he had kind of a weird mustache and he was a totally different person than he is today. Not a totally different person, just he presented very differently. So I began to listen to what he was bringing. Now he brought the richness of the Black Church tradition to new thought, but also he has great personal experience of transformational processes he's undergone personally. But also very active interest in indigenous wisdom as you raised through the Pueblo, through the indigenous people worldwide. And he has a global focus. He really does. I mean, he's really a global kind of guy. So I began to kind of study there while I was still in the AME church and I had already been called to pastor by this time. So I was pastoring a church and that was a whole other process. But I said to Michael at one point, I said, you brought the base note into new thought. And so I would say he doesn't strictly see himself as a new thought teacher either. And so it's interesting, he told me in a conversation I had with him once that he found himself having these spiritual revelations and was drawn to religious science because he said, that's the closest to what I'm understanding to be truth. So he was not confined by the understanding of religious science either or any new thought denomination and really moved Agape into a much more independent focus. So I began to study at Agape as I was also pastoring a much more traditional church, which was very transcultural. And it was an evolutionary process. And what I began to see was that the kinds of linkages between the wisdom path of many traditions and the new thought modality was very, very strong. Meaning, the new thought path began with experiential healing through a guy named Phineas Parker's Quimby. What a name. But he was a guy in Maine, a clockmaker really, who began to understand that through working with Mesmer, you know, you've heard of being mesmerized, well, this was that he was able to understand a hands-on healing process.  Well, they were going on tours exhibiting to people in New England especially. This idea of working with the subconscious, of working with this deeper realm of wisdom that we possess, which is what Carl Jung called, you know, connectedness to the collective unconscious. So all of these things kind of come together in the wisdom teaching of new thought. Then, of course, one of his students, one of Quimby's students was Mary Baker Eddy, who really began to pull in religious science and then one of her students was Ernest Holmes or Emma Curtis Hopkins. She was a whole lineage. But the new thought teachings were really trying to pull an experiential thread from what honestly was more traditional Christianity. It really has its origins in Christianity. Now, the interesting thing is Jesus was a metaphysical genius, teacher, avatar. He said, you know, the kingdom of God is within. If you do these things, I do. He doesn't say if you spout some doctrine that Constantine figured out and, you know, he says, if you do these things, I do greater things than these will you do? Meaning it's an empowerment doctrine, not doctrine even, a teaching. Yes. So the combination of new thought, new thought teaches you how to pull out the power from all of these teachings, which are so similar. And they have to do in a very redacted way all of them with do unto others as you would have others do unto you. And the kingdom of God is within. Very simple teachings based on love, based on the fact that we are one at a deep level. So new thought as a modality, and I use that word with purpose, because I think that the wisdom path is something which is one which we all have access to. The modality of meditation, prayer, affirmative prayer, affirming, resonating with the all that is, with that deeper reality which always exists, then begins to show that that begins to manifest in our lives. And so it's a modality, it's a form, it's a way of looking at these ideas. And in essence, it's also a commentary. You know, there are commentaries on biblical texts, commentaries on the Quran, commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita. This means people saying, okay, here's what I think this means. So you look for a good scholar to tell you what it means. And many of the new thought teachings are really helping to break down the metaphysics of cortex. And in denominations, and they are now like unity, it's called metaphysical Christianity. So they really deal with Christianity. Agape and the movement that sprung out around really I think the genesis of Reverend Michael Beckwith, because he kind of came up with this way of putting those ideas together, ancient wisdom and new thought. Those groups deal more with what is the essence of those wisdom teachings, and then how do you use new thought to make it effective, to really put the mojo into it so that it will work in your life. It gives you tools. Is that, I hope that's great. That's a lot. Thank you. Really going so many places with that. I have several new thought minister friends, you know, and I was asking them prior to this, what did they think about the two? And several of them said, new thought is ancient wisdom cloaked in modern language and modern customs, which I thought was interesting. Someone else said they were exactly the same. You know, everybody, but that there's a very strong interrelationship and my own experience, I'm sure you're going to refute it, a little spin on it. For me, the greatest freedom, new thought offers such a freedom for the individual to have the direct relationship with God, which I think the ancient wisdom practices also emphasize as opposed to the doctrine getting in the way and that the church is the people, it's not the legal structure of things. It is more the consciousness, which I feel very strongly. Jesus said that. So that's not new. That's really not new. So to me, I have a hard time differentiating the two if you'd like to share more. I would say basically I think new thought is a secondary text. In other words, it's an interpretive lens through which you can look at ancient wisdom. I don't see it as ancient wisdom. I see it as a new modality, a new way of understanding the ancient teachings because the word ancient means ancient. And so new thought is a 20th century religious movement, which is based on the teachings of, as I said, Quimby and these folks, but also the transcendentalists, which are this group Emerson, Thoreau, people who were hanging out up around Cambridge Mass and Walden Pond and really talking about what is the essence of this spiritual experience. And so it was a revelatory path for them to pull the deeper teachings, the deeper teachings out of traditional Christianity, honestly, and the experiential. So I see new thought almost as a commentary on the deeper teachings as opposed to revealing deeper teachings in and of itself. That's my experience of it. Well, I'm very much interested in the blend of the healing aspect of it. I know several, you were speaking about Mesmer and one of the co-founders of Unity, Myrtle Fillmore, how to healing and how it is kind of very empowering to each person to realize, as you were saying, Jesus, these things and more, you can do too. That's quite a legacy if we will embrace that. Absolutely, absolutely. And to really look at the fact that, I mean, I think that one's idea about what God or this power that is God or that power of allness could care less what we call it. So I mean, we get all hung up on these names, but the allness that is. But your idea of God, you know, if you come through a very doctrinaire or traditional kind of ecclesiastical background frequently in order to control large groups of people, you were told that God, you were pointed to some of these mythological texts in the First Testament of the Bible, which said, you know, God's going to, you know, make an earthquake come. That's an awful thing come and do you in. It's a wrathful God and understanding which then controls people. Okay, here's, you know, give me some money and I'll make sure that God doesn't do it. Confess your sins and I'll go talk behind the curtain to that God. So new thought in its purest form does not do that. The interesting thing, though, I will say is that fundamentalism seems to creep up in every path that emerges. Even the 12 step path now has a group called the Pacific group and the Atlantic group and they're very, they're very fundamentalist and also in new thought. There are people absolutely who are, you know, it's not okay in certain new thought circles to show up at a new thought church if you're going through what I was going through when my friends were dying of AIDS.  A lot of people end up not showing up to a new thought environment because you're supposed to be up and everything's wonderful all the time. Everything doesn't feel wonderful all the time. So there's really a difference. I mean, yes, you can manifest by aligning yourself with the higher consciousnesses will for you, which is always for your prospering, for your good. And that goes back to, okay, what's your definition of God? Do you believe, really believe that that power wants only good for you? That's the question I think people need to ask themselves. And yet then new thought, yes, is a wonderful modality. There are many very traditional and fundamentalist people simplifying the concepts. I think you can't be reductionist about these teachings. You can't reduce them to magic bullets or to magic tricks. And a lot of people looked at the law of attraction, which is really a law of physics. After the movie The Secret became very widespread, people thought, you know, that guy sat, what, he's sitting in a chair and pretend like he was clicking something that was going to create a red Ferrari, I think. And so people came into these teachings. I was studying at Agape then, it was really interesting to see the people who showed up and they got very irritated when they realized after the third class, this was not a class to teach about how you click on something and make a red Ferrari show up. It's always about inner work. It's always about going on our inner path. It's always about clearing out anything that is not of that connectedness to Hashem or this higher power Kabbalah, by the way, is another depth path. And so whatever path you choose, Yogananda, wonderful Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship, said, pick a path, any path, and go deeper. Because the point is that if you keep, you know, really hopping around, you may have heard of church hoppers, but also there are tradition hoppers. I'm Buddhist now. Now I'm a, you know, Sufi. I'm twirling. I'm chanting. I'm doing whatever. Well, the point is those are all fantastic practices. All of them designed to take you deeper. And when you go deeper, what are you confronted with? You. Wherever you go, there you are. And so then you get to that deeper place and staying on that path, then that deeper breakthrough is possible. Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who was kicked out of being a priest because he talked about original blessing rather than original sin, has written a book whose title I love and the premise of the book. He says, One River, Many Wells. So if you see, so if you want to talk about ancient wisdom, ancient wisdom is the river. One river. One river. We are one. The truth is one. The truth of the capital T is one truth. So one river, then the wells are various ways of getting there. So how do you get there? You get there through Buddhism or Shinto or through Hindu practice or through Judaism, through Sufi practice. You get there, then suddenly halfway down the well, there you are. And so people's, unless you're learning that, okay, this is really a process, which is one of deepening and letting go. A lot of people freak out at the, at the points where you're really about to have your breakthrough. So I would say the essence of the path really, the wisdom path is not about how much more, what you can do to get. And that's some of the focus of a lot of new thought teaching. I think it's very problematic. It's about, that's great for an early stage in spiritual development because you suddenly realize, I'm not powerless. I really can create a new reality in my experience. How do I magnetize that? It becomes extremely heady and wonderful. And then just as you're thinking that's working for you, something happens. That something happening is where you can have your big breakthrough and get to the deeper question. And the deeper question really ends up being a totally different thing. What do I need to let go of in order for me to be truly free? That's like switching the horses, but it's not. Because the first one shows you, okay, I am one with this larger force, and now I have, have, have, manifest, manifest. I don't know if it's working for me. Now what do I let go of for me to be free and then to be really one with this power? So I would say that I see, that's a long answer to a short question, I see new thought as tapping in to how to access the teachings of ancient wisdom. I wouldn't say I see it as ancient wisdom. I see it as, as a new take. I mean, just, it's not ancient. It was developed in the 20th century, so. Thank you. You're welcome. I haven't thought about this at all. Obviously, this is, it's a journey. It's a journey I've been on for a while and I feel very enriched by it, you know, and keep going deeper and deeper, and I know that one of the criticism sometimes, which you briefly touched upon, there's such an emphasis on prosperity and acquiring where instead of focusing on the consciousness that it starts, it's a prosperity consciousness and then taking it once we are one with the idea that we are one, that we take it out into the world. And service, exactly. Towards what end, that's the big question too. Yeah, I'm thinking of the Pueblo as you raised that.  Gratitude and putting the corn pollen out to recognize just oneness with the all that is. It's a continual process of showing gratitude and the gratitude is its own magnetizing force. Then, once you begin to receive both tangible and less tangible benefits from being more in sync with this higher wisdom, then how do I share that? How do I share that? How do I make this blessing something which I share, what we discover is going back to the getting thing, the more you share, the more you get, but you can't give to get. And that's where the paradox comes in. A lot of people misunderstand the teaching and think you're giving to get, right? I love there was a Pfeiffer cartoon years ago. Do you know the Pfeiffer in the Village Voice? Love him. Yeah, and he did a, I love, every spring he would have his dancer, his modern dancer doing, this is my dance to spring. This particular year, she was doing one, a meditation on the idea of I want. And it was, I love it. I had it on my refrigerator for years till it literally disintegrated, but she was saying I want, I want, I want, I want, you know, all these things. And then there was a frame where she was just frozen and this voice comes down from heaven and says, you got! And all this stuff is crashing down. It's a car, it's this handsome guy, it's all this fabulous stuff. And she stands there in this modern dance pose looking at it for one frame. She's just staring at all this stuff.  So, I mean, I think that a lot of times really we don't know what our highest and best is. I mean, not to say that we're out of touch, but I think that we live in such a consumer world. We think things or a certain person, a certain kind of something is going to fix something for us. And when we really have the courage to go deeper and say, thy will not mine. What is thy will? And then say, who am I talking to? Thy will? Well, who is that? Then that's a deep question. Who's talking? Thoughts without a thinker. That's a Buddhist idea. What is it that I'm saying? What is the will of this benevolent again back to what's your idea about who God is or what God is or what this force is? Because you really have to grapple with it. Because if you come from an abusive family system or a punitive, fundamentalist, religious background, you don't want to turn your will in your life over to that God or that parent and a lot of people confuse parents with God. Because actually that nomenclature that is used in the Bible a lot. Jesus says, I and my father are one. He's really saying, of course, that I and this higher consciousness are one. That anthropomorphizing makes it feel easier. We like to talk about people. We get people. You know, the Greek mythology. Talking about Apollo and Zeus they all had personalities and Isis and you know, you kind of Greek God you know, you kind of get these ideas of a more personal relationship to that, to that. But it really, I think a lot of it so much of it goes back to, okay, what do I truly really, really believe about the nature of this higher power and then if I say I want to get in sync with that will for me, it may take you. It will take you to many places you don't expect to find yourself. People have, you know, accrued, acquired huge riches on the physical plane through these kinds of teachings and found themselves not satisfied. It's not about the things they acquired acquiring is great but it's the consciousness as you say behind it. Because if we're not deepening the consciousness as we're doing it, the result is a result. Right. We had on the show David Friedman who wrote the Thought Exchange and he talked about something very interesting which was that sometimes and you were mentioning going into the unconscious and the subconscious that we have our own blocks that we're not aware of that prevent us from that connection with the one by different messages even from childhood of course. And a lot of traditional paths also stress that we are not worthy and getting rid of that and making our way through to the deeper that is sometimes a more complicated path and just saying it is one thing but really feeling it and owning it. Yeah, there's an old phrase that says I wouldn't want a religion I couldn't feel and I think when you put the body anguish of feeling behind any affirmation any kind of really you know any prayer then watch out you know I love this song Use Me by Ricky Byers Beck with Use Me. I stand for you and I always tell people watch it when you if you really sing that with feeling watch out you will be used you will be used and then you get on your path then you have to say yikes am I ready to be used because exactly what you're referring to is what always comes up it always comes up we all have those things and Bruce Lipton Dr. Bruce Lipton talks about in his biology of belief most of these unconscious beliefs are formed and encoded at the deep cellular level by age six and they're not accessible except by getting into some kind of altered state through prayer through meditation to really get the ideas of change deeper into that so you can do all the affirmations you want but if you don't get down there to however we call it the wonderful thing that excites me so much now is that we're recognizing through quantum physics and ancient teachings and modalities and traditions like new thought that this teaching is really teaching us all the same thing and the Jungian teaching the collective unconscious isn't it fantastic that he got on to that oh I love him and taught us this through the psychological and really the deep mythological and spiritual too so the more that we're realizing all of these things are interconnected I love the graciousness of native persons who have allowed us to discover quantum physics because they've known about this for millennia really they've understood these teachings you know this from being in the in the southwest and understanding the depth understanding of the medicine people really understanding the concepts of physics these are ancient concepts yes yes we were blessed to start the show off with the wind eagle and rainbow hawk yes wonderful wisdom teachers yes and the simplicity and the profound depth of what they shared and you wonder why do we get how did we get away from that and disconnected you know good question and yeah what is it Maya illusion the Hindus talk about I mean how do we get away from it it was ever thus it's in all the texts you know I love the idea of the monkey mind we love shiny things on my way up here today I saw a store next door with all these shiny things in the window and I was you know jewelry made out of glass but fabulous and I was being there and I said boy you don't need diamonds to have your mind distracted by something somebody said a phrase long ago which I thought was great she said I realized I was clutching on to rhinestones when God had diamonds in store for me and it's a great yeah but it's all shiny so you say how do we get there I think that it's just part of the nature of humankind we go for shiny objects and then we want more of them hahahaha it's true yeah I like shiny objects I do too hahahaha we can enjoy it all yeah it's just where you know how you get that deeper thing going hahahaha yes well we are one that's right we are one I think might be time to take a short break and thank our sponsors for allowing us to be here so first of all I'd like to thank usgoldcoins.com 1-800-HOT-COIN our trusted advisor for investments in rare gold and silver coins Andy Gosman takes the mystery out of buying silver and gold by holding your hand that's 1-800-HOT-COIN and our next sponsor we'd like to thank is Mese Grill where authentic Mediterranean food meets modern flavor they're now serving breakfast and they're located on 8th avenue at 55th street just a couple of blocks south of Columbus circle and Mt. 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cooperating with the association for global new thoughts program of season of humane service for the month of well we're going to really focus on it for the month of August but on July 31st we're going to have two tables in the back of sacred center so come and join with one of these groups one is going to be really focusing on sustainability and humane ways of eating and one of our members is going to there it's going to be gathering a group together to talk about meatless Mondays and to teach about this and there's a whole movement I guess there are a lot of restaurants in New York City steak houses that have meatless Monday menus let's try to say that fast so one of the tables is going to be focused on that and really with the sustainability focus and the other one is going to be the west side campaign against hunger which is actually housed at St. Andrew and St. Paul where we meet on Sundays as well and this is a fantastic program which feeds so many people in New York City who need groceries who need the basics they have a diversity of programs but the biggest one is their food pantry and it's set up like a regular store their fresh fruits and vegetables, canned goods everything and it's a wonderful program so we're having a table for west side campaign against hunger and also a table for this meatless Mondays idea we're asking the members of sacred center to go back and figure out hopefully people will want to get engaged with one of those for the month of August and become a volunteer and learn what it feels like to do in a group it's fun, it's fun to do it as a group and so then they're going to come back to do sacred service so then they're going to come back the first week in September and tell us tell the congregation about that my hope would be that certainly some longer term of members of our community would come out of that process and I love it that the season for the association for global new thoughts slash season for humane service synced up perfectly with the theme of this month at sacred center which is use me is use me so it all goes together so I would say that in the short term that's what we're looking at we're really looking at kind of invigorating the community by creating conscious participation in what do we do next and what do you do next once you've achieved this aha moment through new thought and I'll tell you something then what do you do with it but I'll tell you I really think that especially when I've experienced this in my own life and so you can only experience it you can't talk about it but when people are going through a moment of saying wait a minute do these teachings work what's happening I've lost my job I've lost contact with a feeling of connectedness with this higher power doing something for someone else and it makes a huge difference suddenly you realize wait a minute I have purpose again something shifted and so it's a teaching tool to it's going to be a teaching tool for the community and I know given the fact that sacred center is full of very imaginative creative people many people in the field are professional artists actors dancers singers therapists people in the medical field holistic healing practitioners I know that we're going to create some fantastic opportunities for service and I would encourage people to come on to on Sunday afternoon at two o'clock at St Andrew and St Paul for our service because we have a fantastic gospel choir now can you imagine I discovered through all these years of looking for how do these pieces come together a community that focuses on these kind of universal teachings with a depth perspective but also has a fabulous gospel choir and so it's a great experience and I would just invite people to come people who want to make a difference in their own lives their families lives the life of New York City and then of the world because you know arguably New York City is our global capital so we're in a place where these kind of principles have the potential of making a huge difference in really the world and isn't this what we as a global community we're on an internet program right now which could go anywhere even up in a space capsule so we really are in touch with the fact that we're a global community even though of course we've always been one we're really in touch with it now so anyway Sunday 2pm St. Andrew and St. Paul 86th and West End Avenue in Manhattan is where we have our service and for the month of it'll be July 31st so come and choose one of these two things and anyone can come to July 31st or the service you don't have to be a member it's open to all I just want to mention the website is sacredcenterny.org and there'll be information about about this that's great I'm excited about it and that's so true about when you get outside yourself if you're stuck somewhere and you focus elsewhere and help someone else you feel better immediately right exactly and I think this is one of the places where some of the more doctrinaire new thought teachings lost their way a little bit they didn't incorporate a consciousness of sacred service into the teaching although it's very much got to be a part of that circle you know it's a circle of completion you can't take it just you think about it you can't take take take in and never ecologically clean out you have to create some space so it's feng shui it's all these different ways of looking at it so I'm excited about adding that component more and more to the life and to the spiritual experience not only of the sacred center community but of New York City exciting I was thinking about the aspect of community with the ancient wisdom people lived in community there so it was an integral part whereas now we're so much more insular and interesting dichotomy we're so connected by the computer but we're much more insular you know China but by ourselves so we're bringing it together here on only one TV yeah I love the name of this me too only one TV yeah so we'd love to hear from all you people who are on the web right now if you have any feedback for us we'll be reading stuff yeah and commenting on it in future shows so any input you'd like to give us great well it was a pleasure having you here I wonder if you say a prayer for us well sure I will do something affirmative in the form of affirmative prayer in this moment thank you one of the things that we typically do often is kind of reset internal meter by breathing so if we breathe together we come into that we are one place and so then we affirm what the nature of this oneness is so we say right here and right now because the power is always in the present moment right here and right now we just give thanks for this time together for the process of understanding through conversation through relationship this piece of our understanding of our spiritual path we give thanks for the goodness of the all that is recognizing that harmony health healing wholeness oneness is our birthright and that in this moment as we turn over every care and every level at which we feel some sense of disconnectedness to this higher wisdom we become part of this all that is this universal force for good which is always breathing us living in us as us and through us and so for this time and for each person connected to this program and to this consciousness of this wonderful producing team and of Jude we give thanks we give thanks we turn over all of this gratitude and vibration into the universe recognizing that all good comes back to us a thousand fold and we say together and so it is so it is beautiful thank you


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in just today. September 30th, 2021, Springfield Armory released. This handgun here, it's an XTM Elite Compact OSP model, chambered in 10 millimeter. They have a couple other 10 millimeter models. This is brand new. They have the Ronin 1911, right here, love this pistol. They also have the full size XTM. Now they have the Compact model. It's an XTM Elite that's OSP 3.8 inch match grade barrel. It comes as a package with this hex dragonfly red dot. A lot of people love red dots. This is a first class red dot, I will tell you that. Two 11 round magazines. It also has these base plates that will shorten the mega bit and that will allow 10 round magazines for those with restricted states. A couple back straps, two magazines, the red dot and the entire package, 818 MSRP. And you can see there's some red dots out there cost like four or $500. All together, 818 is the MSRP. Now I love the XTM Elite 4.5 full size nine millimeter handgun and I really enjoy the enhanced features that they produced with the Elite models. All that you see here that I've bragged about before is copied right here with this 10 millimeter model. Does have an extended mag well. This is reversible but it is a flared mag well for those quick mag changes. You'll notice that the slide serrations are a bit wider. All right, that's an Elite thing does have a rail but it also has a trigger, a flat face trigger that they are calling a meta trigger, match enhanced trigger assembly. And it is a nice trigger. And I love it on this. I'm measuring right around four and a half pounds. It breaks nice and crisp with a reset. Right there, we'll do that again. Right there. And it was apparent at the range that this is a very accurate gun, right out of the box. I felt great with it. A couple of adjustments with the dot and I was on target, I was really impressed. Shot at three different types of ammo, fed, fired, ejected, everything just fine. Now you'll notice that it does have the U-notch rear sight, all right? You can take off the optic if you want and go with this rear sight. We see that on the Hellcat models. We see that on this XDM model. We see it on the Emissary, 1911, all right? So that's been an ongoing thing. I really liked that sight system and it does have a red fiber optic front sight. Getting the job done. And ambidextrous gun with both the slide stop and magazine release on both sides. Lefties will certainly dig that. A squared off trigger guard and a very nice textured grip along with the grip safety that forces a high grip on the pistol. I took it to the range. I primarily shot these blazer target loads. All right, those are cool, but also Hornady Critical Duty, all right? 175 grade of these 200 grain federal fusion soft bonded hollow points. Let's go ahead and roll through some of that footage and we'll come back and talk more about this XDM Elite Compact chambered in 10 millimeter. Here we have Hornady Critical Duty 175 grain self-defense loads. Now we have federal fusion 200 grain bonded soft points. Self-defense loads. The included red dot is a hex dragonfly. It is encased in aluminum. It has an anti-glare, anti-fog, anti-scratch glass and it has a red dot that is 3.5 MOA.  And you'll notice that the dragonfly on the right is a bit larger. The glass is a bit wider, all right? Nice clear dots on both of them. And it's easy.  Of course, you have your elevation and your windage adjustments. A few clicks here and there and I felt very confident and accurate at the range. So I'm impressed with the hex red dots so far. You know, they've been great for me on that RDP model with the wasp but now with this dragonfly, it was nice. But let's go ahead and show the internals of the pistol. We'll go ahead and lock the slide back and move this lever upward. Drop the slide, no need to pull the trigger. There's your polymer frame. And here we have a dual recoil spring, all steel guide rod and your 3.8 inch match grade barrel. And there is your very cleanly machined slide. I really enjoyed it at the range. It just, you know, the 10 millimeter will kick you back a little bit but I really didn't feel it too much. You know, I didn't much with the Ronin, the full size XDM or this compact OSP model. Three finger contact with this 11 round mag and they also have a 15 round mag that will be available. That stretches down to, I would say right there to give you that full size handgun feeling with 15 rounds of 10 millimeter. And I, I'm definitely getting that. Let's go ahead and check out the weight. Here we are with an unloaded pistol, one pound 14 and a half ounces. We moved that to just ounces, 30 and a half ounces. But over here we've got 11 rounds. I've got the Hornady critical duty. We'll put that in there. So it's loaded weight, 37 ounces even, right? So it's not, you know, you're not gonna get the weight that you have with a Hellcat but considering that you have 11 rounds of 10 millimeter at 37 ounces, that's pretty good. I'm gonna slap that in there when it's full but you know, it's definitely a carry piece for those who love 10 millimeter and those who don't wanna lug around a super, full-sized, super-sized, full-size handgun. You can go with something smaller like this. There are already holsters available for this handgun. What I have here is a QVO tactical, Kydex holster. It's called the More Discrete Model. We'll take a look at the belt clip. There are two of them there as well as this wing that presses the holster closer to the body, aids and concealment. And it has a nice look to it. There are the retention screws and once inserted, has a nice clean fit, okay? Cut to fit that red dot there. This would be separate as well as that 15 round, 10 millimeter magazine that I spoke about. That's separate, but the rest is a package. You have the Hex Dragonfly, which is a great red dot. The features of the XDM Elite models that I love so much or I still do with that 4.5 inch, 9 millimeter XDM Elite that I showed. And now the 10 millimeter XDM Elite Compact OSP model is available from Springfield Armory. I love 10 millimeter.  So it's available now. I think price well, 818 MSRP. I don't know if the stores are gonna sell it for probably right around there initially, but if you love 10 millimeter or perhaps you're a lefty who loves 10 millimeter, it's available right here with the XDM Elite OSP model chambered in 10 millimeter. If you get a chance, check it out. I certainly like this entire package. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Shashi and I am going to help you with the following question. Question says, A B C D is a trapezium in which A B is parallel to D C and its diagonals intersect each other at point O. Show that A upon B O is equal to C O upon D O. First of all let us understand basic proportionality theorem. Basic proportionality theorem states that for line is drawn parallel to one side of a triangle intersecting other two sides at two distinct points then the other two sides are divided in the same ratio. That is if A B C is a triangle given to us and D E is parallel to B C and D E is intersecting A B and A C at two distinct points that is D and D then A D upon D B is equal to A E upon E C. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Now let us start the solution. First of all let us write what all is given to us in the question. This is a trapezium in which A B is parallel to C D. Now we have to prove that A O upon D O is equal to C O upon D O. Now before starting the proof we will do some construction. We will draw O E parallel to A B. Now here we have drawn O E parallel to A B. So we can write construction through O draw O E parallel to A B. Let us start the proof now. Now we know O E is parallel to A B by construction and also A B is parallel to C D. This is given in the question. So this implies O E is parallel to C D. O E is parallel to A B as well as C D is parallel to A B. Now two lines parallel to same given line are parallel to each other. Now let us consider triangle A D C. Triangle A D C. O E is parallel to C D. This we have shown above. My basic proportionality theorem we get. A E upon A B is equal to A O upon O C. Now let us consider triangle A B D. In triangle A B D O E is parallel to A B. My basic proportionality theorem we get. D E upon E A is equal to D O upon O B. Taking reciprocal of both the ratios we get A E upon E D is equal to O B upon O D. In triangle A D C A E upon E D is equal to A O upon O C. Let us name this expression as 1 and in triangle A B D A E upon E D is equal to O B upon O D. Let us name this expression as 2. Now from 1 and 2 we get A O upon O C is equal to O B upon O D. Since both the ratios are equal to A E upon E D. Now we can write A O upon O C is equal to O B upon O D. Multiplying both sides by O C upon O B we get. A O upon O B is equal to O C upon O D. We can rewrite this as A O upon B O is equal to C O upon D O. So A O upon B O is equal to C O upon D O. Is there a required answer? This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Take care and have a nice day.


Right. So virtual training. What exactly is virtual training? Who knows what that is, virtual training. So your host today is me. I'm David. I'm David Brown.  I've been training for almost 20 years, and I'm also an analyst, I'm a Microsoft MVP, I'm a consultant to the World Bank, and I'm the managing partner of DBrown Consulting. So I kind of participated. I did a lot of virtual training off-site doing virtual training, probably like for the last four or five years now. And we have an e-learning platform, office training hub where we record content, online e-learning training, e-learning content. So you see the difference between that and what is really virtual training. I'm also a chartered accountant and a member of many institutions, CFA and the rest. But I really like teaching, I really like training, and this world of online virtual training is something that I think it's here to stay, and there's a lot we can learn from it. Right, so what are we going to do? We're going to introduce virtual training, we're using virtual training instead of classroom training as a replacement to classroom training, secrets of effective virtual training, creating a successful virtual training strategy, tips on hosting a synchronous training or synchronous, and there's something called a synchronous training as well. And then I'll give you some reading recommendation, some books I think you should buy. If you're interested in this topic and you want to move forward with this kind of technology, this expands your horizons as an instructor and you'll be able to teach everybody everywhere in the world at the same time, and it's just wonderful. What is virtual training? So what exactly is virtual training? Let me give you a definition of virtual training. So virtual training is basically highly interactive training that is online, instructor led, and has defined learning objectives, is individually connected, that means each participant is individually connected to this platform and it's using a web-based platform. So virtual training is training that is highly interactive, online, instructor led, where individuals are connecting to this online web-based platform and there are defined learning objectives that are basically going on. So that is virtual training. Anything outside that is really a kind of subsets of virtual training is not really virtual training. The most important bit there is highly interactive, which is what a lot of people fail to do. Their trainings are not highly interactive. All right, so why use virtual training instead of classroom training? Why use virtual training? For starters, virtual training is cheaper, right? I mean, there are many reasons why we should use virtual training instead of classroom training, but yeah, virtual training, I think one of the first one is cost, but really is also very flexible. So the reasons to use virtual training, flexibility, virtual training is flexible. So you have a big challenge of getting all participants from all over. Let's assume you're a big company, you have participants all over the country, you need to get them to do this very critical, health and safety training. Very critical health and safety training that everybody needs to do. So you're gonna bring all of them to Lagos, let's assume you're in Nigeria, you fly everybody into Lagos or you fly the instructor to the various locations. Such kind of training can be done virtually and the virtual training doesn't mean it's not interactive, it can be very interactive. You design the course in a way that it works as good as real face-to-face, as good as real classroom training. So that's where virtual training comes, that flexibility allowing you to kind of deploy that training to loads of people at the same time. Another reason why you should use virtual training in place of classroom is it's economical. So that's one of the very first reasons many people go for virtual training, it's cheaper. But the thing about virtual training is, let me tell you what, it's cheaper for the client, maybe the company, let's assume me, David Brown, I'm supposed to give a financial modeling course virtually, it would be far more expensive for me to give it virtually as an instructor than for the participants. And that is because to be true virtual training, I must make it interactive. So I must change the entire plan of how I want to teach this course. Because for one thing about virtual training is you can't train for eight hours straight, that just won't work. Maximum is probably two hours, maximum two hours. And there's certain rules about virtual training, the interactivity must interact with your audience three to five minutes, every three to five minutes. And we're going to talk about how the different ways of interacting with the audience. But it's economical for the clients or for the company, not necessarily for the trainer or the instructor. It's far more expensive for the instructor. But again, at the end of the day, when you add all the costs, it's kind of cheaper for everybody. So that's virtual training. Right, let me just close some notifications. So it's economical. Yes, we agree. Very economical. So what is another reason to use virtual training in place of classroom? So our fourth or third reason is easy evaluation. So it's very, very easy to deploy evaluations when you use virtual training. So typically the classic evaluation is your quizzes or you do evaluation at the end of the training that says, how well did you understand XYZ? But in a virtual training environment, you can quiz instantly. I can send you, I just did a poll right now for you, right? And you answered the poll and I could see everybody's answers. That's so much easier to do in a virtual training environment than in a classroom training. You can imagine there are a hundred people in the classroom training and you want to poll them, give them a quiz or give them a poll and everybody is writing. It takes like probably 20 minutes. Here it took me what, 10 seconds to poll you guys. So yeah, easy to evaluate and see whether or not people are getting stuff. Yeah. So that's the benefits I think from virtual training versus classroom training. Let's now go into secrets of effective virtual training. What are the secrets of effective virtual training? Right. And the secrets, before I jump into the secrets, I'll give you one. Secrets of effective virtual training is you need to know, to be very good. They're gonna give you nine secrets but you need to know your subject matter. You need to be very good. Understand your subject matter in detail.  That's a given, right? You must know your stuff. What else do we have? What other secrets do we have for virtual training? But typically people that go into virtual training should have been the ones that are already doing classroom training pretty well. That's what I think anyway. They're pretty good at facilitating classroom costs for their own expertise. And then they can easily move to virtual, or it's easier to move to virtual training. But it's a different ballgame. So that is it. You need to know your subject matter. That's number one. Then the next thing, another secret of very effective virtual training is focus on your audience. So you need to focus on your audience. That's the next secret about effective virtual training. Focus on your audience.  Just take it that every four minutes you need to interact with your audience. Now what I'm doing right now is a webinar. This webinar is a form of virtual training, but it's not a true virtual training because interaction is limited. I can interact with you as much as I should in a virtual training. As I said, virtual training is every four minutes. So this is more, you're listening to me. I'm not interacting as much with you. I could tell you to do a quiz and stuff, but let me show you one form of interacting or focusing on my audience and helping that interactive or interactive process with my audience, right? I could ask you to watch a video and right now that's what I'm going to do. I'm gonna ask you to watch a video about virtual training and letting you understand certain tools, right? Basic virtual training tools. I'm gonna give you tools for virtual training and you're gonna watch basic virtual training tools. A very short video and this is me focusing on my audience, trying to interact with my audience using a webinar platform, right? But watch this video on tools for virtual training. Okay, it seems that the tools didn't work. You think that's another thing about virtual training. You have snags and you need to have backup, but that's one of the secrets. I'm coming to that secret soon. So let's just jump on. Focus on your audience was our second secret of effective virtual training. Our third secret of effective virtual training is to keep it simple. Keep things as simple as possible. Don't over complicate. Look at this slide you're looking at right now. It just has very few texts. I mean, you have your numbers one to nine at the top and you've kept it simple.  Keep things simple, right? Take out all the industry speak, all the jargon and stuff in your talk. Make your talk clear, simple word choices. Learn how to adjust jargon so that anyone taking the course can understand it quickly and easily. Too much information is too bad. Cognitive overload, keep it simple. Right, what's another secret? So secret number four, coming up now, develop a theme. You need to develop a theme. So you need to pretend that you are a movie director when you're doing a virtual training and draw out your scenes. So just like any movie, if you look at a movie, you will see that there's no scene that's more than like five minutes. If you watch a movie critically, you'll see that there are scenes, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny scenes that all come together to kind of produce that movie.  And I think your scenes should be every three minutes, three-minute scenes. So you need to kind of like document or do a production. Every virtual training is a production. And you have all these themes on scenes that you're trying to push through, to kind of push through the concept or whatever it is you're trying to pass across. So you put in interactivity, obviously, into your scenes. So if you say every three or four minutes, that means every four minutes you do something, you're doing something else, and hopefully every four minutes you are also adding interactivity. So you need to develop a theme and the general theme and scenes for scripting your entire virtual training. What next? So another secret of virtual training is you need to add personality. So number five, we are going to talk about adding personality. Trust me. So add personality is your number fifth, number five secret to effective virtual training. So humor is good. Jokes and stuff, put in some interesting things, even games, there are ways you can use a whiteboard and stuff to play games or show games in your virtual training. So there's a lot of interactivity that you can use in your virtual training to bring your virtual training to life. Then add your own personality to it. Let people, cause people can't see you. There's no body language and stuff. You need to find ways of adding that personality to your training and that will really enhance your virtual training or the virtual training experience of your participants, right? Another of the secrets is to plan the structure of your training. So you have to do a detailed planning. How do you plan the structure of your training? Proper visual aids, use effective visual aids, number seven on the list. So number six was plan the structure of your training. So you have to list the topics which need to be a detailed instructional design. You need to do your objectives or have your objectives listed, separate those topics and plan what you want to cover in each course. So this gives the learner a feel of the course and provides logical breaking points in the training. And as I said, for those breaking points, you just take them as your various scenes. So you should have probably three minutes scenes planned out throughout the two hours or so that you're going to do the virtual training. So that was number six. And number seven, as you can see, is select the proper visual aids. Pick the right graphics, the right bullet points, the right videos to keep your users engaged without visual, without any visual overload. Really don't do too much cognitive overload, but select your proper visual aids to make sure it's engaging. So that's number seven of the secrets. Number eight, what do we have as number eight? The next thing in number eight, I'll ask you guys to do that now is you need to ask questions. So ask questions. So first thing I want you guys to do is ask me questions. So always ask questions. Let people ask questions. And then of course you provide answers. So that's one of the easiest ways to engage. Say, oh, hi, Jack, could you answer this?  What do you plan to do with Y? So I ask questions. So you are the virtual training facilitator. You need to guide the discussion. So you already have questions prepared or you already have sessions prepared that will encourage people to ask questions. And that's number eight. So what's the last secret to effective virtual training? Is to encourage group collaboration. Now you wonder, this is an online training. How can we encourage group collaboration? Now, most modern virtual training tools have this ability for you to encourage group collaboration. It's amazing what you have out there. Really amazing. So I'll attempt to show you a video on one of those tools. How do you avoid information overload? Details are necessary too. So I, Obami, you're right. Details are necessary, but really sometimes the details, just like they have an appendix inside your manual, you have an appendix. You could have some attachments on your virtual training platform. People can download for the details, but don't go too much into detail in your virtual training. Those can be, you could do a breakout session where people can kind of talk in more detail in the breakout sessions. And in fact, I'm going to show you a video of one of the ways to encourage collaborations in the virtual training is to have breakout sessions. So let's see how one of the platforms in virtual training call GoToWebinar. Let's see how they manage breakout sessions. So this is a platform called GoToWebinar. Let's just see how they manage breakout sessions. Hopefully. Welcome to a video on GoToTraining's breakouts, a feature with GoToTraining's activities. When you are setting up activities, you will have welcome to a video on GoToTraining's breakouts, a feature with GoToTraining's activities. When you are setting up activities, you will have the option of keeping all of your attendees together, or you can split them into smaller groups or breakouts. You can break your attendees up into a maximum of six smaller groups. Some of the latest updates to breakout include a faster and more reliable telephone and VoIP experience, as well as a better overall experience in session. Regardless of how you've connected in, VoIP or phone, the audio will automatically transfer to the breakout session. Once in a GoToTraining session with attendees, a trainer can launch a breakout activity by simply clicking this button in their control panel. For this example, we will use two breakouts. As you can see, the trainer has the option to use audio only, which would allow the respective groups to simply discuss a topic. The trainer can choose here to allow attendees to share their screens in a breakout. Trainers can click here to have attendees watch a video or view an image or PDF in their breakout. And trainers can choose here to have attendees edit a document together in breakout. If you would like attendees to edit a document together, you must have a Google Drive account and you must sync your Google Drive to your GoToTraining account prior to your breakout session. By following the steps to sync your Google Drive account with your GoToTraining account, a folder is automatically created within your Google Plus Drive. This is where you wanna put any materials you wish to share with your attendees during a breakout session. These materials will then be available to the trainer from the control panel during a training. Click here to edit a doc and then select start to begin the breakout. From the attendees perspective, seen here, they'll be able to collaborate with other attendees in the breakout room to edit a document. From the trainer's view, seen here, they're able to join a breakout and view what those attendees are working on. Trainers can send messages to attendees and end any particular breakout when they are done. All breakout documents are saved in the Google Plus Drive. Similarly, before starting a breakout, trainers can choose to have breakout attendees view a video from YouTube or Vimeo. Please note that when sharing a video, the audio will always play out of the computer or devices speakers. It does not play through the phone if that's how someone has joined or view images by clicking here before clicking start for a breakout. Again, all edited documents will be saved for later use as needed. When a trainer selects share their screens before starting a breakout, attendees in the breakout rooms will be able to share their own screens with each other for collaboration. This is different from when a trainer chooses to share something with the entire audience. Finally, trainers can choose to have breakout attendees use audio only. Once this is selected and breakout is started, attendees will simply join individual breakout conference rooms. Here they can verbally work on a project in a smaller group setting. Thank you for watching this overview of GoToTraining's updated breakout feature. Best of luck in all your GoToTraining events. Well, let's talk about creating a successful virtual training strategy. So, well, the very first thing is you need to have a detailed outline. So again, planning is key. If you don't plan, then you plan to fail, right? If you really need to plan at all times. So you have to have a detailed outline and research of your core content before you start this virtual training journey or before you do anything virtual training. You need to understand the tools available to you, how you use those tools for interaction effectively. You don't just use a tool because oh, you like the tool. You use it because it's effective to effectively pass the message across to the audience that you want to train, right? So one of the most important aspects of a successful virtual training is strategy, right? How do you, what's the strategy? And what organization are you actually training? Which organization or which participants? Where are they coming from? Knowing your audience. So by creating an outline, you can stay on topic and more effectively structure your overall virtual training delivery.  You're producing a movie and have virtual training and you must make sure that every scene goes according to plan. So that's number one. So that's one of the, creating a successful virtual training strategy is to have a detailed outline. What about the second strategy or how to create a successful virtual training strategy? The key is same thing we said before, consider your audience. Always, always, always consider your audience. So when creating your virtual training strategy, you should always have a firm grip on who your audience is and what they hope to achieve through their training with you. So again, the learning objectives are very key. Knowing those learning objectives are green, those learning objectives and that's what will help you to select key pieces of information that should be included in your e-learning course plan. This is very key. Get your learning objectives. Let them be blooms, use bloom staxonomy when you're developing your learning objectives. This will also help you develop a virtual training strategy that caters to the varied learning needs of your audience. But for example, if your audience needs to learn basic skills, job based skills during the virtual training event, then you can incorporate exercises, discussion topics and real world examples related to what exactly it is they'll be doing or the skills that you want them to acquire. So considering your audience is very, very key. So that's a number two tip for you in creating a successful virtual training strategy. The next one, the next tip is you need to use user-friendly content. So user-friendly content delivery is another key tip. User-friendly content delivery. For virtual training, for your virtual training should be easy for people to access, right? They should easy for them to access even for participants who aren't tech savvy. So it's not techy-techy. You don't need to go for a virtual training. You don't need all that tech. It should be very easy to access. So, and again, this comes to the platform that you're using. Try and use platforms that are very simple and very intuitive for people to use. Platforms that work on your iPad. Platforms that work on your phone. It's very important that your platform now should work on your phone or iPad because most people use their phone to go online for certain things and their phone is a far more convenient. So if there's an app, excellent. Let them use the app. So one of the platforms we use is called Zoom. I'll show you one or two of those platforms soon. Zoom, and it's excellent when it comes to using your phone with Zoom, where all the interactive features work very well. So that's another user-friendly content delivery is when you're creating a successful virtual training strategy, it will really help. So have a user-friendly content delivery. What other tips do we have for you in that strategy formulation? Is you need to offer periodic recaps. So you need to recap. So you need to constantly recap what it is you're doing so that people can be up to speed in what it is you're doing. So offer periodic recaps of whatever it is you're covering. This will help employees to better acquire the information, absorb it, and recall it when needed. Also, you may want to consider offering periodic recaps throughout the virtual training course itself. So for example, I did a virtual training course on finance for non-finance managers. The actual classroom course was a two-day course. So probably let's say seven hours a day times two, 14 hours. So that course, we split it into two hours, two, two, two hours for two months. So we had eight weeks of two hours. Eight weeks of two hours is what we used to convert the classroom training to a virtual course and it lasted eight weeks. And in between those eight weeks, of course they were doing exercises and I think they learned finance for non-finance, far better than they would have in a classroom setting because they had more time to practice and then they come back to virtual, do another two-hour virtual. So offer periodic recaps is key, even in the sense of a very large course. Then lastly, you need group collaboration via social media. While they are doing virtual training, try and use all those other social media tools as well. In between the trainings, you should use those social media tools, Twitter, Facebook, like right now, I can ask you everybody here to go and tweet. You can go and tweet on my handle. For example, let me put my handle there and let's see how I show the Twitter. I'll just do ads. So this is my handle. If you're on Twitter, keep an analyst. While we're learning, I want to say, what was one main learning? What's one key point you got out of this? Can you guys tweet about it? That's my handle at D Brown Analyst. So tweet about what main points you learned. And let's see it on Twitter. And of course you're gonna add me. So let's see if you can do that on Twitter. I'm looking at my Twitter right now and let's see if you can interact that way. You could even have a hashtag. You could have a hashtag that you could use in your training. So you're using this collaborative with social media tools, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, all those are excellent tools for collaboration even during your virtual training class. So you could just tell them pause everybody. Can we go to the Twitter handle and type what you've just learned and then now show the Twitter, whatever they've said on the Twitter handle on the screen. That's interaction, right? You easily brought an interaction into your training. So tips on hosting a synchronous training. These are gonna be similar to the tips I've already mentioned before. And key ones, as I said, is provide pre-training materials. Pre-training materials when you're doing a synchronous is you tell people to do certain things before they come to class. They need them to provide pre-training materials. So they need to encourage the participants to complete all pre-training materials before the classroom to enable class participation in class activities and give them a background and kind of encourage them or give them reasons to want to really jump into the classroom. We do this a lot. This is actually called blended learning and we do this a lot in our own courses. So if you go to office training hub, for example, you'll see that we have our classroom courses who have their pre-work on office-training-hub.com. I'm gonna check it out. I'll just put that on the chat so you can see that. And yeah, I could give you something. I'll give you an offer, a course that could help you plan for your retirement. So build your own retirement plan with this course. So I've put that offer for you guys. It's a build your retirement plan, learn how to plan your retirement in Excel. Now this is, that course is a face-to-face, it's like a virtual training, but really not, it's not interactive. It's online, but we have some interactive tools where you can chat with the trainer. So it's semi-semi interactive, not fully. So I won't consider that virtual training is self-paced online training. So provide pre-training materials is very key when you're doing virtual training. Another key tip is you carry out your tech check. Make sure your technology is working and make sure you have a backup on top of the backup, on top of the backup. So make sure your producer has everything he needs and you have to realize that it needs two people to do a good virtual training. You can't do a good virtual training with just one person. One person will be the instructor, the second person is the producer and your producer will be at the background. It's just at the background producing, helping you with all those technical difficulties. If something happens with your connection, he or she can back up and stuff like that. So carry out tech check, very key, very key. Right. What else do you need to know? What other tip, what final tip do I have for you? Final tip is once you carry out your tech check, you also need to be a little bit technology savvy. Technology savvy, yes. And you need to be able to manage your technology. So managing your technology, for I have two monitors right now with my phone, my phone and I, well, I don't have an iPad but I should have an iPad. So if you look at a virtual trainer, you would see many screens. One screen is doing something, another screen is doing something, another screen is seeing, showing me what my participants are looking at. Another screen is a backup screen. In case this screen goes down, I can just quickly back up.  You have backups on backups on backups. So that's how you do virtual training. You, it just looks like a cockpit. As a cockpit to various screens, right? So managing your technology is a very key thing. You must have backups. Now let me give you some books that you could, I'm gonna recommend some books just before that. I'm gonna play, I'm gonna play you guys another video. And that video is going to talk about virtual training or basic virtual training tools. So let me play that video. Virtual training design doesn't need to be difficult, especially when you take advantage of the tools and features available in virtual classrooms like Cisco WebEx and Adobe Connect. One thing that you really need to consider though is that because the virtual classroom is not the same as the traditional classroom, you have to adapt engagement techniques in order to create meaningful learner-centered programs. Without consistent engagement, virtual classroom participants will get bored. This is where virtual classroom tools come into play, including them in your instructional design, battles learner boredom and disengagement. You can engage as frequently as needed, ideally every three to five minutes. By using the virtual classroom toolkit effectively and appropriately to encourage engagement, you can achieve the ultimate goal in e-learning, training that sticks. Fundamentally, there are six tools included in the virtual classroom that you should think about. They are chat, whiteboard, breakout rooms, application sharing, synchronized web browsing, and surveys, polls, and feedback tools. The first tool we will talk about is chat. Chat is a versatile text-based tool that allows participants and facilitators to communicate with one another using text messages. Next up is whiteboard. Whiteboard is a virtual tool that is used the same way one uses a flip chart or marker board in a traditional classroom. It allows facilitators to record participant comments, emphasize important points, and write exercise instructions. Now, breakout rooms. Breakout rooms are a virtual classroom tool that allows groups of two or more participants to meet and collaborate during a larger live online session. Next, application sharing. This allows the facilitator to share software applications like spreadsheets, word processing, and custom apps with participants, even if they don't have the software installed on their individual machines. Let's discuss synchronized web browsing. This tool allows the facilitator or participants to bring the class to an internet site or corporate internet. This option is available on many virtual classroom platforms. Finally, there are surveys, polls, and feedback tools. These tools help facilitators create engagement and determine whether participants understand the material. With so many different tools, there are lots of ways to engage. By leveraging them, your instructional designs will create virtual learning environments that are as impactful as the traditional classroom settings. The NSYNC Training White Paper, Virtual Classroom Tool Design Basics, a virtual engagement primer, provides additional information on this topic. Access it for free at www.nsynctraining.com. Additionally, our Virtual Classroom Instructional Designer Certificate course provides in-depth application design instruction. For more information, visit www.nsynctraining.com and select the certificates dropdown on the top left-hand side of the homepage. The links for both the white paper and course are included in the video description below. All right, so that was a nice video on those tools you could use, so six core tools that you could use. So anytime you guys want to move or change to a new platform, virtual training platform, just remember that you need to make sure it has to the minimum those six tools are available to you, right? So here are some recommended books for you. Three excellent books I think you should go by to start your journey as a virtual trainer. Cindy Huggett and Jennifer Hoffman. I've seen this wonderful people at the ATD conference as the Association for Talent Development Conference in the US. Every year there's an international conference. It's around May. I advise you go to the next one, you'll learn so much. So Cindy has just been an inspiration when it comes to virtual training and I learned a lot of what I know about virtual training from her, both live as well as with her books. So she has quite a number of books. I would recommend the virtual training guide book and the first one of the earlier books she wrote, which is the virtual training tools and templates. I also recommend Jennifer Hoffman, who has been doing virtual training for more than 20 years and she's written the synchronous trainers survival guide. So facilitating successful live and online courses, meetings and events. So that's Jennifer Hoffman. She's in sync, in sync is her company and that's what the video you just watch was from her company. So I recommend these three books and of course go online to their websites and check them out to go to Cindy's website, Cindy and then other websites as well. Now there's a future. I'm gonna leave you with one last thought, one last thought about virtual training. There is virtual reality that's coming now. Virtual reality training is also virtual training but this is something else. Virtual reality kind of puts the virtual right into your head.  So my last short video I'm gonna play for you guys is an introduction really to virtual reality. So virtual reality training is just a one minute video or so, one and a half minutes. Watch it to see what's coming up when you talk about virtual reality training. Just have... Diagnostic says there's a loose connection at the top of the tower. If you go get your gear ready, I will go call it in to make sure that we're all clear. Great, so that's virtual reality and it's amazing and it's getting cheaper and cheaper. It's very expensive now to probably create a course with virtual reality. But the guys at eLearningStudios, if you go to eLearningStudios.com, that's e-learningstudios.com. You see all sorts of wonderful stuff that those guys are doing and there are quite a lot of other companies as well. But that video was from eLearningStudios. So the future of eLearning, the future of virtual learning, the future of virtual reality, it's just amazing what you can do with all these tools. And I advise all facilitators, yes, classroom is good, classroom is not dead. I mean, there are some things that really, you need physical presence to be able to do that, maybe change in behavior especially, but virtual, virtual reality, I can assure you changes behavior pretty fast when you do it properly. So here are the recommended books and I will advise that you keep on researching and keep on checking things out. Virtual training is the way to go when you want to make things cheaper and better. But as I said, for instructors, it's a bit difficult. You need to have and learn a whole new set of new skills because you need to engage every four minutes and everything. So if you want to be a good virtual trainer, advise you read some of these books and also try and get into the habit of learning a little bit more technology. Social media is also extremely good. You can use social media in that interaction that you have on virtual. So we are Deep Brown Consulting and this is our details of 700 Training. You can go to our online platform on Office Training Hub. I hope you've enjoyed this webinar on virtual training secrets and we look forward to seeing you again next month. Every Thursday of the month, we do webinars on talent development. We do webinars on Excel and Power BI. We do webinars on financial modeling. Every third Thursday. So we're gonna see you next month for the third Thursday of the month. I know this is not the third Thursday, but this month we had to delay our webinar a bit. But next month is gonna be the third Thursday of the month.  Thank you guys and we'll see you next month.


Hello and welcome back, I am Rajesh Argiddi from CAC department of doubly distalable. Today we will focus on data structure topic that is link list in which we have singly linked list, doubly linked list, singly circular linked list and doubly circular linked list. Let us focus on doubly linked list. The learning outcome of today's video at the end of the session student will be able to explain the doubly linked list data structures. Let us see what is doubly linked list. It is a link list which has two pointers through which the list can be traversed in both directions that is in forward direction and in the reverse direction. As we know that in singly linked list the traverser was in only forward direction. So we used to traverse only one direction but in doubly linked list we can traverse forward as well as reverse. Doubly linked list provides a natural implementation of the list abstract data type, nodes in the doubly linked list store three parts. The first part is called as a data or element, second is called as a link to the previous node and third is called as a link to the next node. In data or element whatever the data we want to store it may be integer, character or any data type that can be stored in the data part. And these two links link to the previous node and link to the next node. Let us focus on, let us look at this diagram. If you look at this diagram the middle part which will store the data, actual data may be the integer, character, float, double and the left part of this data which left part has called as a previous and the right part of this data is called as a next. This previous means that it is the storing the address of the previous node or it is a link provided to the previous node. And this part will store the address of the next node or it is linked addressing to the next node. So in a list, suppose there are more number of nodes are there. So every node will have previous link and next link, data part and element part. This is called as a node. Now if you look at the entire linked list, it will look like this. There are five nodes are there. The first node which stores the value 10, second stores the value 20, third stores the value 30 and the fourth one stores 440 means only four nodes are there, not five. So these are called the nodes. So middle part will be storing the actual element or a data part. Now every node has two pointers that is linked to the previous node. This is linked to the previous node. Now since it is a first node of the list, which will be pointing to the header, header part, which will store the address of the entire list. And the right part of this 10 data, which will store the address of the next node that is 20. Similarly, this 20 node will have three parts. In the middle part, it will be storing the data 20 and the left part, which will be linked to the previous node that is the first node. And on the right-hand side, this will be storing the link to the next node that is third node. Similarly, third and fourth are stored in this way. And the last node, in the last node, there is a data called as a data 40 stored. And left link is having address of the previous node that is third node. And here it will be storing the address of the next node. Here this is since it is a last node, it will be addressing to the trailer. It will be addressing to the trailer node, which will store the address of this particular node. And this header part is also storing the address of the first node of the address of the first node. So special header and trailer nodes are used to denote head and tail positions in the link list. Now, sentinel nodes, to simplify programming, two special nodes have been added to both ends of the doubly linked list. Head and tail are doubly nodes also called as sentinels do not store any data elements. So this is called as a header node header sentinel has a null previous reference link. And this particular part of the list is called as a trailer or tail trailer sentinel has a null next reference link. The set now go to the next slide doubly linked list structure and pointers doubly linked list object would need to store the following. It will store reference to the sentinel head node, that is, address of the head node will store the address of the list first node reference to the sentinel tail nodes, then size counter that keeps track of the number of nodes in the list, extremely two sentinels. Now empty doubly linked list empty doubly linked list, let us see what is empty. It means that there will not be any nodes in no data part will be there using sentinels. We have to we have no null links. Instead we have head dot next is equal to tell this one and tell us tell dot previous is equal to head. Now this diagram shows that the links are provided from header to teller and trailer to header. There is no node between these two header and trailer. It means that this list is empty list now singly a single node in a doubly linked list the size is equal to one. Header shows that header is there in a list and trailer is also there in between we have one node is there in one node the first the middle part will be storing the data part or element is stored and this will addressing or it will store the address of the header and this will be storing the address of the trailer. So the single linked list the single node is the first node and also the last node first node is called head dot next and last node is called as a tell dot previous reflection spot the question based on the this particular topic the header pointer points to the dash node in the doubly linked list. Take a pause over here answer the question the answer is the header pointer points to the first node in the doubly linked list this is header part which will storing the address of the first node address of this particular node where the data 10 is stored. Now in this again the same example is there four nodes are there and this is a trailer part which will be storing the address of the last node doubly linked list node creation how to create a node for that we have to define one structure named as a node the variable name of structure is node it consists of three parts the first part is in the data part and the two parts are the pointers which will be pointing to the next node and the pointer which will be pointing to the previous node. Now the first part that is data type is integer means only integer can be stored in the data part and here the pointer is declared pointer is declared saying that node star next it means that it will be storing the address of the next node pointer to the next node in a doubly linked list this struct node star previous is pointer to the previous node in a doubly linked list. Now let us see what are the advantages of doubly linked list or the single linked list list can be traversed in two directions in forward as well as in backward it is easy to for traversal and applications like searching quick update operations such as insertion deletion at both ends head and tail and also at the middle of the list in a single linked list only in one direction we can go we cannot go in the reverse direction the these are the references I hope you understood the concept of doubly linked list thank you for watching this video.