Hey Virgos, welcome back to my channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo if you're new please do hit like share and subscribe if you Enjoy this reading If you want to get a personal reading for me, there's a link in the description box below this video I am running a special for the month of February So do go over and check that out. All right. This is going to be your general love reading for Virgo Sun Moon Rising or Venus Please be mindful that the message is may or may not resonate. It's a general reading All right, you guys, let's get started. Hope you guys are doing well. Oh My goodness. What is the drama? Let's see. What are we getting? I'm feeling this energy shift and I know that This week, I believe Thursday the third Coming out of Venus retrograde. So things are gonna start picking up again in love. All right, let's take a look here What's going on? Okay clock perfect This is all about time cycles Some of you've taken the Venus retrograde to heal. You've been a reevaluating Your love lives what your what your plans are what you want to do if you want to get back out there If you've healed from a past Bullshit relationship if you are of I don't mean to say it like that that sounds so harsh But yeah, it for some of you it was okay So a lot of you took some time much needed time to yourselves, which is awesome okay, and Needing to take that time Is something that you needed to do? Let's see So there's a cycle finishing out here, which is exactly that Venus retrograde All right healing heart see that's what I'm saying and I also feel like there's other people who are healing as well Okay, so if you had a separation with someone during the Venus retrograde, which I do believe Started December 18th or the 19th. There might have been this period Some people here are healing from a heartbreak Freedom from toxic relationships or addiction. Okay, so this can go both ways. Let's see what else is going on Look you've got addiction. All right, so Somebody here Healing codependency healing obsessive behaviors getting rid of them Possessiveness controlling Some blocks are being removed There was restraint That someone is practicing restraint or two people. Okay, so I really feel like coming out of this retrograde is You guys are gonna be like brand spanking new other relationships I feel like absence has made the heart grow fonder and they're just telling me to pull another card Okay, time heals all wounds for a go All right, let's see There might have also been Well, when we say addiction Addiction to really anything could have been connecting with someone that had an addiction problem Or it was you or both could have been a very codependent relationship. So now you have the hammer Okay, sabotage rebuilding integration repetitive persistent effort and working on it. So, you know, Virgo, I have to say It's either it's an well for some it's an energy of your heart, you know, you're healing your heart and Getting a lot of you are just really getting into this. I Guess I want to say this energy of working on self Yeah, that's what it feels like working on yourself So this is a physical the mental the emotional the spiritual, but there's an energy here of Somebody else or two people that were in separation I'm coming through it was just the clock makes me think of that time period during that retrograde and I feel like two people here healing their hearts and For some rebuilding a relationship again, it sounds promising. Just remember it's a general reading. So For some it may be occurring for others it may not and if it doesn't occur Where you and another person are reconnecting or rebuilding or working on something, you know, really using the tools to Put in good effort. It's just you yourself Okay, it could be another person, but separately, right? All right, let's just you know what I want to use. I Am not specifically live right now you guys. This is just a prerecorded live So let's see what's going on here a Lot of you are just I really see you're working on your homes. You're rebuilding Some of you are building a home buying a new home having a home built Really working some of you are just hanging up some pictures maybe as you're listening or redecorating Working with some type of tools construction tools and Spiritually energetically working on yourselves. All right, let's see what else going on Boom, okay, we've got a tower coming in here. I Mean, this is a hundred percent after every storm comes the washing away and New growth coming and your advice here stand firmly on the ground and know that this is all for the best, okay? So tower energy would be for something that Scorpio energy Some type of strike that has sent a ripple effect in your life That is just kind of like a tsunami of change happening here. Let's see what else going on Okay, spiritual principles. All right a lot of you are like rethinking your belief system Maybe you're changing your spiritual beliefs in some way a lot of you are just kind of like hmm What do I want? Have I been conforming? Should I do I need to keep conforming to something or do I need to rebel and go off on my own path? you know Asking yourselves what path where have you been led to and a lot of you are standing at the crossroads Really asking yourselves. Well, where do I go from here? Which direction do I want to go now? Let's see Okay, a lot of you are just no contact. You're just going into no contact Complete utter done and rebuilding yourselves. You're you're not communicating with your past. You've let people go Exes people that were not in alignment with you You're a lot of you did kind of like a cleanse Like a re-evaluation Say Okay, I have a loving older female showing up here in this month of February This would be someone generally of the water element female who is or a male a nurturing person healing someone very supportive Someone who's tolerant Someone who's empathetic this person could be in a position of Like teacher or a trainer For some of you this could have been someone that you have been in no contact with and are remaining in contact or Remaining no contact with and for others.  It may be that this healing or this absence is causing a reworking of a connection in your life with someone and Somebody maybe tries to reach out to you but realizes that the message isn't going to go through They try to reach out to you but the message won't go through because there may be a blocking But someone here is legitimately like thinking they're not wasting any more time They're going after what they want No hesitation again blockages being removed show me this no contact. I feel like it sits here at the center So I feel like this energy is all about a no contact situation During the Venus retrograde Has caused some type of an awakening which with the tower. I just kind of feel like an upheaval It's called cause an upheaval It's it's no contact thing is just broken everything down Very violently, let's take a look. What is the no contact card about here? Okay. Yeah anxiety stress the Nine of Swords. Oh my goodness Somebody here was forced to make a change because the anxiety and the stress of the situation Nightmares, maybe depression creeped in or crept in some grief Let's take a look. I'm gonna see what else is going on there. Oh Yeah somebody eight of cups a Lot of grief about somebody leaving a relationship eight of Cups Yeah Abandonment withdrawal. I really feel for some of you that there's I'm picking up like a water element here Now this feels like a very past and we're gonna get more into the present and the future, but this feels like for some of you you may have Taken time to yourself like I said to heal your heart Maybe you were codependent or there was maybe you were feeling obsessed with something or a feeling a bit controlling a lot of you needed to implement some restraint And block something or someone in order to fast track your healing Okay, so you could rebuild and I feel like your actions To people in no contact has caused a major wake-up call for someone here Or for both people. Okay, and I'm I'm picking up very strong like male or female energy masculine Feminine water element cancer Scorpio Pisces and what's happening here is now things are gonna it's like gonna start taking off Okay Let's just they said pull clarifying card here.  They're coming for the connection. All right, so I'm just gonna pull I want to look at and I feel like it's maybe two people Okay, in other words you and another person, you know It it needed to happen something needed to happen to be able to reassess to see Time apart needed to happen to see if in the absence the feelings grew stronger or if they withered away All right, so let's take a look here at Let's take a look at you. I want to look at your energy Fully, okay, just you Virgo Okay, you have justice you have the lovers Okay, and you have the Sun so you're feeling very positive. I feel like some of you You made the decision out of love Some of you let someone go because you do or you did love this person Okay, we have Libra Gemini and Leo Some of you needed to do what was best for you and for your heart with the lovers, okay Because you needed to come out of maybe a grief cycle or a difficult period and get it Kind of like I feel like you're getting happy about love again. I also feel like with justice This is like a win-win solution because if this person were to come back You would be in a better position and if they aren't to come back. You're still in a good position King of sorts. Okay male or female again with the Gemini Could be Libra again or Aquarius. All right temperance Some of you are just in this position where you you just want to have a partner or a lover who's a good communicator Okay, that's really important to you Virgo because You are mercury ruled communication. That's where it's at for you and you know you want someone who is going to You know do the work with you put in the effort Okay, I feel like you are getting yourself in a really good place where you're more balanced You're more in harmony with your you're more in alignment with yourself and with spirit You could be currently connecting with an air sign or they could be coming in Who is very stable? Well balanced, okay But or just connecting with someone male or female. Maybe you're talking to them right now With this person. I feel like they They work in the legal system or with the courts Or in law, it's very strange, okay So you've got the devil capricorn energy You have Seven of pentacles. Okay, someone from your past is returning you have the six of cups Okay, um Now I do feel In relation to the beginning of the reading that I was giving here There is someone coming back from your past a water sign an air sign Could be any sign really it's just someone that you Um, this is a soul mate But it could have been a twin I a little bit of I'm gonna just have to call it a soul flame um, but I feel like Like I said here with the four of pentacles, there's still this Don't I still this don't want to let go or just want to have this long-term security And I feel like someone from your past is going to be returning but but You got that devil that devil energy It's just kind of like you're hesitant like oh is this going to be a repeat Of the same thing You know, am I going to have to wait More things going to be delayed You know, it's just or is this person going to put in the effort and I feel with the Eight of pentacles that somebody will put in the effort Definitely Um more organized more in a power position That kind of thing, but let's look let's look a little bit more into um This other person and see what the energy is for this other person Because I feel some of you want to be married to to this person um I don't know though if you want to go back to the past now for others You may Still be working on if this person shows up There may still be triggers And if you still have triggers that means your healing is not done yet, you know, it's kind of like When you have a wound It's real sore in the beginning and after like a month It's just maybe only 50% sore if you touch it and then maybe after two months It's like only 10% sore. So you're not fully if you're still Like if this if somebody reaches out to you or you get some kind of message um If you feel If you don't feel anything then it's done. You're healed. Okay So that might you might have a little bit of a trigger because I do feel like in um February there is going to be somebody trying to reconnect with you again. All right this other person Okay, query is energy Eight of swords Nine of wands Four of wands. Oh my gosh This person's trapped. They don't know whether to just take a leap of faith with you Come towards you or if they should just hold back and wait Or if they're just they're hesitant Okay six of pentacles They have the moon the hermit and the four of cups. What the Okay. Yeah, this person is like They there's a lot of restrictions insecurity. This person is quite isolated at this time They're on their own. They're not with anybody else not serious Um, I mean, I don't know if they're talking to other people or dating they could be but They're pretty much on their own but when it comes to you I feel like they're kind of like, hmm They're curious about you. I feel like they're watching. They're trying to get some information About whether or not to come towards you or not But that eight of swords energy This person's really like holding back Imprisoning themselves, you know, they're feeling kind of Salty or but hurt They're feeling like a shit stain, you know, um, I don't know why I don't know what happened obviously There's a healing that that needed to happen. So there may have been some kind of a wound in the past, okay but it feels to me like, um I'm just hearing that very old song. Of course, all my songs are very old Leanne Rimes can't fight the moonlight You just gave me that song Anybody remember that, okay so we've Pisces sufficiently might be on the cusp Um and another Virgo, but I just see they're telling me to pull some clarifiers here for you. I Mean for this person. I'm gonna pull clarifiers for all of you Okay, so this person like I said whoever they are to you I mean, I feel like there's a huge upheaval and change this coming out of this retrograde things They're gonna start moving forward, but I feel like I don't know for in a shadow Phase at this time or we'll have a little shadow after the third honestly can't remember how that works, but This person really wants to come toward you and take a leap of faith and just you know That like getting their hope back again, but they're still a little bit trapped Let's take a look at this fool card.  Hmm because they got to take a risk It's a fearful situation for them six of sorts. So it feels like this person They got to make a move Maybe there's a long distance because this is a card about travel for some of you Or it's just that they have to come at you in a different way and they're thinking about how to do that Rather than taking a car. They're gonna take a boat. That's just that's just figuratively in other words However, they came to you before they want to come in a more softer gentler way With the six of swords to come out of this chaotic water here this turbulence and Get into calmer safer calmer waters with you Why is the eight of swords here? What's going on with this person? Okay Well the two of pentacles showed up in the reverse at first But I flipped it over this person is trying to decide if they are capable of committing They have very low self-esteem when it comes to romantic relationships. Maybe not in other areas of their life They may be confident and you know their career or things like that, but Relationships may not work for them. I feel like They have I mean I do feel like they they freely talk to others You know of Just other people but I don't feel like anyone's really a prospect because they're suffering still Okay, they're also some of you called this person out or Left the relationship because of romantic juggling this person maybe was couldn't make it to so they were just too busy juggling Weighing their options and that might have caused a lot of delays Weighing their options between you and others or just options of whether to take a risk and stuff like that Okay, so they're they're they're definitely fear-based But that tower I feel like that tower moment came down and really just like hit him on the head I got like a boulder Okay, so look this person sitting here with this four of wands, which is another card of reunion Let me see here. Why is the four of wands here? Oh my gosh, here's the tower Where this person's where this person lives Maybe had some destructive weather, okay Or their home They're not in their home anymore I don't exactly it could be destruct maybe lightning hit hit the home or Some type of um, maybe the building collapse. No, no, I'm not seeing anybody hurt But something here is showing me that this person is unable to stay where they are Part of part of their decision here to come towards you is Connected to they have nowhere else to go. I know that's not a good reason To come back to somebody because what are you a freaking shelter? No but It's also a wake-up call that this person has or is having or will be having that you are home to them Okay Just want to get one more clarifying card on that. Oh my gosh the three of swords.  You were not going to compete with Anybody it's basically I feel your energy here. You left to heal your heart You were like called time on this with the clock you called time and Started rebuilding your life working on self Okay, which is what you should have done, which is what you should do Whenever you're in situations like that if there's third party affairs Romantic if there's arguments Like a like hardcore arguments like heartbreaking arguments, you know pain in the heart type things Divorce any kind of loss if there was a third-party interference By friends or work. There was no balance in a relationship. I Feel like a lot of you just said I'm out. No, I'm not competing Love is first love always comes first because what the hell are you working for? I mean, what what good is what good is life? Who could who would you have to share your successes with or share your days in and your days out and all The awesome things and sometimes the difficult moments with if you're alone You know That's just something so beautiful wonderful about having someone who's got your back and they got your back and you have There's and you know, I'm like repeating myself. So I feel like this person You know, I don't think this person has ever gotten their heart broken before Not really or if they have it didn't have this kind of effect on them like what happened with you and them Okay, I just don't they may have had their heart broken before but Not to this level not not in the tower way.  Anyway, you're pretty direct Virgo At to some degree would have whatever shade, you know, you're direct and you could be any any color of direct but you get your point across and I feel like This person I do feel like they wanted to be with you here, you know, they wanted to have that structured foundation Or that home or live together or that kind of thing, but whatever happened here in the past You I feel like a lot of you left the relationship or you were forced to leave it Maybe they left it, but then you were forced to leave it or they gave up on it But here they are now with the six of pentacles Wanting to give that exchange wanting to share Wanting to do what it takes here Sixes are always about exchange Giving and receiving reciprocity Sixes are about realignment when there's inconsistency Okay, when there's in uncertainty Sixes are always about change and giving security. Look at how Those two people there they're in a less or a less kind of a position lesser And that one person's up there sharing and giving it's almost like Charity or helping but this is like Because we can right and I feel like this person is coming to terms with they were very selfish in the past They weren't sharing or they were over or like or they were sharing with too many other people, you know And so with a lover in other words, they weren't making you a priority They were kind of at the very top and you and everybody else were all in the same box and They weren't putting you up top next to them and Everybody else underneath they had you down low and a lot of you just said, I don't that's not my place I don't know who you think you are, but that's not where I belong Have you seen me? Do you know me?  Mm-hmm. I deserve better Because that's what I would give to you because I put you up at the top next to me Okay, so here they are coming in Without willingness to have some kind of an exchange with you Wow This person wants to I see them coming in in February They're learning that their confidence comes from Being hospitable and sharing okay Leo energy here. I just heard feed the cat. Please please feed the cat Somebody needs to feed the cat or somebody's feeding stray cats. I don't know Feeding a bunch of cats or felines So, let's see Yeah, see Courage wow this person was so damn selfish Self-centered One for me one for you Two for me one for you three for me two for you four for me three for you Very like put themselves first if if you were both going into a store this person would go in first and Kick the door behind them to hold it open for you Really like no class whatsoever, you know why because this person was raised on a frickin farm There are a barn with the animals they got treated that way too This person I feel like is never known how to court or be in A relationship extreme insecurity if you were connecting with someone who is very insecure That's very dangerous it's very dangerous because that can cause insecurity in you and You know that can I mean That can do a lot of damage Okay, but I do feel like this person is tired being this way And they're gaining the confidence and the strength to come out of themselves and start Contributing because I don't feel like they were contributing All right, so why is this moon card here? And I'm going to pull some clarifiers on you as well Why is this moon card here? Okay Virgo Remember I was saying That song can't fight the moonlight There's something. Oh my gosh Aquarian energy here. There's something That this person thinks about at night their dreams Okay, because that's what the moon is when we have our dreams at night their fantasies their dreams their illusions of when the two of you Were laying next to each other. It was a very healing It's a very healing memory. This is what this person thinks about Maybe you guys were in the shower together Naked naked naked Or you were in bed because the four of swords can be a card of rest There was very restful peaceful Time with this person late late at night when the moon was out And that song I feel like maybe they're listening or they'll be listening or they they hear that song Can't fight the moonlight lienne rimes. You should look it up. Listen to it. It's old What was she a country singer? I think this is from the what early? I don't even know Was that from the late 80s 90s? I don't even know um Maybe the late late 90s. Maybe um So yeah, that's what this person thinks about like they did well they night dream not daydream although they could daydream because This is kind of a half moon half sun and something to do with new york city because those look like the twin towers to me. I know they're not here but Maybe it was that long ago. I'm not sure but this person. Oh look at the lovers underneath Okay, just when I was going to clarify the night of sorrows. This person is coming in you both Needed to be away from each other for a long time To heal this might have your separation might have happened a really long time ago But the healing needed to happen. You have the lovers and they have the lovers These these are two people who you're both meant to be together Okay, and here's this person's coming in making a huge lifestyle change like they're going for it They're going for it Okay, they're making this decision like I said sixes Sixes are about appreciation Self-sacrifice and I told you this person did not make sacrifices in your relationship And you guys just said that's it. I'm out. I'm going to go heal myself I'm going to put I'm putting the hammer down. I'm built rebuilding myself I'm rebuilding my body. I'm working out. I'm eating better. I'm eating clean I'm getting rid of any toxic In just in anything toxic Just totally cleansed just cleansing cleansing the mind getting some healing Going into some spiritual counseling or any kind of counseling, you know, um And interrogating yourself as well like Okay, what did I do? What what happened? What's the reality of the situation here? Some of you are coming to terms with You know yourselves. What role did you play in this connection? It just it just feels like it was a reevaluation phase for a lot of you And I feel like you're both coming to this place. You're like, wow, this is my person I do love this person now. I know that this isn't going to resonate for all of you Okay, so just enjoy the chat if that's the case, but there are some you know but a lot of you are just really like I feel like the the clock was ticking and the years were passing by for some of you and you stayed in this marriage Or this relationship for such a long time And the whole time your heart was breaking And you needed like the only way you needed Or that you could get set free or heal it became almost like habitual That's what we say like an addiction or it's habitual this connection It became so rote to just keep talking To each other in the same ways that you always did coming home Saying the same things how was work work was great or talking on the phone and having the same conversations like you Virgo, I don't know what happened to you but you guys just it's not that you stop loving this person It just that it wasn't enough for you anymore This person's coming in to surprise you When you least expect it Yep Yep Three of wands on the four of cups I feel like it's travel I feel like this person is going to surprise you. They're going to either show up at your door They're going to do something physical Okay Not a phone call not a text. It's something physical And I know somebody like well, I move that person's know where I live Okay, well, they're going to find you are they going to go to places that you Used used to go it could be sending an actual see it's physical, right? It's a physical thing not necessarily tangible um I see this person Stay like standing on a dock Um So it could be a boat. I don't know people usually take planes Or maybe you live across the lake from each other or they could be at like a terminal standing at a terminal Um or a station They're they're they're standing there right now. I see them They've got like some suitcases or some stuff And they're catching they're getting a ticket. They're catching a train plane or an automobile Maybe an uber they're coming towards you.  They'll be in your area. They're going to surprise you They've been thinking about this Yep, that's what they've been thinking about here nine and ones They've been thinking about you reflecting Searching for wisdom and answers and here's the nine and ones. What did I say? Coming out of that comfort zone taking that risk They want the freedom because their freedom is with you the freedom they feel is with you.  They just know that there's this connection um And something needed to end in order for it to be reversed again Okay So with the nine and ones here this person's been really thinking about it deeply You know, they've been hesitant they've been Kind of holding back and that's why there hasn't been a lot of communication Because they've been thinking about how to come towards you. Okay, but the persistence they're going to be very persistent now Let's take a look A little bit at you here Do I have Give me just a second. I have to get one more deck. You guys have used like four decks here four or five decks All right, what's this justice card here for you? What's going on with you? huh Well, you listen Virgo, you've got the six of cups twice on your side. I mean A lot of you I feel It's not that you don't want the person back You do you would just Like them back in a different energy. You want this person to come back awakened You know, if they're going to come back your thought processes, they got to come back right Okay And that's what justice is here. They got to come in and do the right thing and make things balanced out Right and and I feel like that's your energy. That's what your thought processes And you're also your thought processes if it doesn't happen.  Get that f out You've got the lovers on the lovers Virgo what the f You Virgo you know In your heart of hearts that this is your person And they know it too, but this person just a lot of insecurity Okay Virgo you have this is also You have so much love in your heart to begin with that if something doesn't work out you still have so much love to give like You might you're like What I could have like two three or four lovers if I choose, but I want this person But if this person's I could show up, you know, I'm still living my life I'm still choosing me You know to and loving myself You know and so I love that Double Gemini energy there. I love that with you Virgo Beautiful you're so beautiful Virgos and handsome and so amazing All of all of my Virgos. I love my Virgos.  Okay, I am Here I am Live in my life Okay, I have released I have new hope I am escaping from any kind of prison that anybody tries to hold me in even the prison of my own mind I have healed I or I am on my way to healing those swords are dropping out You see the handles the handles are real heavy So they're just Fallen out and that toilet paper dress you've been wearing you're getting rid of that now and you're going for the Gucci Right, so you're you're like I mean for the guys, maybe You've upgraded from one ply to two ply. I don't know but you guys are You're just like listen, it's not a problem. I'm free no matter what happens. I'm free It's gonna be a win-win for me. I am happy And I am free happy and free. That's it All right, let's take a look at this king of swords. What's what is this king of swords? You're even being fair with yourself where you're accepting That the memories the good memories of the past if the situation doesn't rebuild You're even I see you getting into a good place where You think about the good memories. It's still like it's a win-win for you. You're fair You know occasionally like lovers, you know, you always have you always have the good memories of lovers past always Because when the heartbreak is over You know and you're healed then really all that's left are the good memories and you can just kind of You don't dwell on them, but I see you being able to think about maybe not right now For some of you, but when you go forward, I see you being able to look back on things And just kind of say be a little nostalgic or look at a gift that was given to you or Some of you will be able to look back and say well, we were so young You know, we didn't know That kind of thing But yeah, let's take a look at the king of swords So Six of pentacles just like this person has Maybe that's your king of swords over here. So whatever sign they were your person I feel might have been more cerebral and less emotional. They were more Cerebral in their thinking and their thoughts Okay The things they would they would talk about maybe just work or maintain or just things like that Not really someone who shares the feelings the deep, you know, the The feel the deep feelings, which is fine But with the six of pentacles, I feel like this person They're not listen Virgo be aware Your person is just not at the depth that some of you are when it comes to the emotions Don't project that onto another person. Some people Believe it or not are just not even aware of how they feel And if they're not aware of that how they feel they become aware They just Can't articulate or verbally express it very well That doesn't mean that they don't have feelings and that's how I feel about this person The best that this person is going to be able to arrive at is to make sure not to leave you out in the cold ever again, okay, and to be more how I want to say More giving and also more receptive Right and be able to help be more helpful. That's a love language That this person is able to will be able to show you um and and maybe not someone who's full of affirmation But someone that is able to help you or to give to you Things that you know, what is one of the love languages gift giving or Doing tasks or doing things for you. This is what this person That's what they know to do. They're not going to sit down with you and Have long deep emotional conversations with you Virgo Male or female this person just doesn't operate that way And if that's something that you need to have then you need to connect with people who are able to do that So that you get fulfilled in that way, but this person the best they're going to be able to arrive at here Is to you know, give you that Reciprocity that you want now everything's going to balance out. Okay, and I feel like for you Um things it was all divine timing. That's what this whole thing has been about the angels have been conspiring To make healing happen in this relationship to bring you both into harmony and patience Um are bringing both into harmony with patience Okay, and self control because like I said, there might have been codependency Or some type of an addiction where things got out of hand Between the two of you and the separation needed to happen It's kind of like two two siblings who are fighting the parent comes in and separates them I mean the parent was god or the angels and just stroke, you know What's the word I want to say just striking it down like Putting a wedge between the two of you so that you needed to go to your your own corners And think about things and reassess before you decide to get back in the game And I feel like that's what's happening here Okay, so We have the eight of pentacles look Okay You're willing to make this transition just as much as this person is with the six of swords again Taking that risk to rebuild you're you're you're willing absolutely burgo to rebuild this if they are Okay But they have to come out of They're fear-based that eight of swords that insecurity that self-sabotage imprisonment Or their inability maybe passive behavior and inability to make a decision Okay, why is the devil here? So remember I was saying this person coming back You will be a little bit hesitant Fearful if this is just going to be delayed or they're going to make you wait or the addiction will prop up again Crop up again is what I mean Okay, you have a fear that this person for some it could be like a serial dating Or they indulge too much with the three of cups in the reverse Are they or it's gossiping or they won't be in they won't come in supportive. They just come in selfish You definitely like I said, remember if they do like you might still be a little triggered You're definitely freeing yourself But your heart is very tender when it comes to this relationship And you're you're willing to take a risk and rebuild if they are but you need the person to make the first move That's really what I feel you're not going to be the one to initiate this And I feel like if somebody was Just left you out in the dark or left you out in the cold when you try to express your love or try to You know, if they said they wanted to be with you and then they didn't really put any effort in and you left You're not gonna if you Virgo if you go after this person start chasing them This person needs to love themselves in order to love you if they can't love themselves They're not going to be able to love you. That's just point blank period But I feel like yeah, you'll assess you'll take a look and see if this person's coming in with that emperor energy See if that person's going to take the lead You know, you're not going to sit around and wait the rest of your life, but you will look and see Okay. Well, this is what you did before and I got one panic. Are you coming in here? Like this airy's energy this emperor like you're going to take the lead You know, you're going to come in.  Um, are you going to be somebody that like wants to have this child? You know, um Are you going to be there for our child? Like some of you are just like is this are you going to make plans here? If you make some plans and you show me the pile of plans that you have then, you know, look at my pentacle and like I'll add to it, but No other way All right, why is the six of cups here see Your reconciliation with this person is a lot different than theirs You know, you both have it but The yours is more in innocence.  Maybe some of you were only with this person one time it could have been But there was that memory sticks in their mind.  Um, this reading is going to go on a little bit longer, but that's okay I want to give you your romance angels messages I want to do it one for you and one for this person What is your romance angel message for you Virgo? Okay, chemistry see strong magnetic attraction. This was a difficult To let go of this relationship because of that chemistry or that that magnetic pull That you and your person have towards each other. It's so It's like It can't even explain it Virgo. I can't even explain it for you. I just know that it's there You know, oh my gosh, it's like a chemical reaction between the that you felt with them. I mean This feels more like That's what you felt. Okay. I don't know what your person felt.  You're healing Let's see What do they have? Okay, that's why I said this could be the one your person knows Virgo, I'm not going any deeper with these romance angels This person that's why nobody else. I think the last reading I did nothing compares to you They've met other people, but they know like You're the one that they want Do-do-do honey the one that I want you are the one I want All right, um, okay, I just want to get Some love messages here. I have some more love messages Okay, you guys are you still with me? Are we still here? It's gonna make up for Okay Obstacles Unhealed wounds are blocking forward movement. You know what this person's obstacle was It wasn't distance It wasn't um different lifestyles. It wasn't race. It wasn't religion Um, it wasn't only that this person's the obstacles Excuse me. Let me rephrase. Slow me yourself down This person's obstacle was self They were the obstacle to love to them having true love. Okay So any other excuses that they made were just excuses the fact is this person Had unhealed wounds And either they were self medicating through drugs alcohol sex food Um Work whatever it was they put the obstacles In place to cover up for the true obstacle was that this person was like a walking raw nerve They Self sabotaged and that's what the obstacle was. So whatever that anybody told you do not believe it Okay, because love conquers all and there is no time or distance or anything that can ever Stand in the way of true love They themselves made themselves the obstacle but they blamed it elsewhere Because they didn't even know what was going on. What's your message? Soulmate, there you go point blank period.  They weren't that don't doubt that this person Didn't love you based on their actions.  There's other soulmates out in the world and I think you know that you had something with someone that just You got caught up Okay, and you're healing and you're moving forward with your life and it's good And if it doesn't go forward, which I feel like it will but if it turns out like Virgo You could be the one to say no, I can't go back there.   I love you.  Oh You don't want to shave your head. Okay. Uh start going to church with me. Oh Oh, you don't want to do that. Okay counseling coming to counseling. Oh, you don't want to do that. Okay um, let's see Rent a plane and fly my name. How much you love me put somebody to the test That's all you need to do a lot of you are just afraid to make somebody work for your love because Virgo You're you love this person and if they asked you to do something like that you would do it because you love them right love is We're vulnerable. We take those risks We write those love letters. We reach out. We expose ourselves and we're in love and we're truly in love with someone You see it all the time people. I don't care. I make a fool of myself. I love this person. I don't care You know, you don't want to do anything that is going to cause harm But something put somebody to the test And if they're really in love with you like you're it for them, they'll do it.  Right? But other you know think put put in the chat put in the comment What kind of things do you think your person that you've never asked them to do would do for you if they really love you? Yeah, okay. Let me hold you to that. Let's see You really love me give me um, I don't know give me five grand. I'll put it in a bank account And we'll I'll hold that as collateral For like a year and then you show me for a whole year And if you can't make it through a whole year showing me You forfeit and I get the money and you're free to go and if you can show me well now we've saved five grand Together How about that? How about that mother? Oh All right, let's see this person's hidden truth message I look for you everywhere Well, rightfully so because Virgo you're not there They're looking for you. I think I told you that And you Virgo, you're like we'll be together again. I'm not even worried. I'm not sweating it and if we're not Oh, well, somebody else would be there for me It's like you got this confidence like you I feel like venus retrograde really did you Did you some justice? I really do This person's wondering if you are happy without them And Virgo, some of you are or some of you're getting happier You know, you're coming out of something some of you already are you just like hey, if it's meant for me It'll be for me. And if it's not It's not what can I do about it? You're taking a real like Jerry Seinfeld kind of stands. You're like, uh What is it is what it is Which is great. Did you ever think you'd get to that position? It happens All right, let's get into Let's see what your special unique Specific messages are here names dates Okay Oh Oh, oh, oh somebody drives a big rig You know like on the road big rig Like a driver 18 wheeler Um somebody's birthday is on the 8th Let's see somebody's 38 Somebody's got blonde hair short blonde hair like a bob cut short blonde hair Okay, let's see Huh somebody's going out In a red dress very soon Lady in red Let me see Okay, are they giving me anything on that Uh oranges somebody lives in Florida Or somewhere where there's orange trees Okay, whoo And somebody wears a belt like everywhere they go. They always have a belt on So they have jeans or slacks or something. They always wear a belt I just heard that somebody's always wearing a belt. Okay. Somebody's birthday is on Let's see the 19th Um And somebody i'm seeing a brand new rug somebody got a brand new rug or carpet putting rug down Are they shaving their rug? Okay, let's see I just heard it's either it's it's it's either you got to choose it's either me or them You can't have it both ways. We're me or them. That's what I just heard Somebody's a Taurus Okay, they just gave me a Taurus um Universal they just said universal um, let's see And then I just heard somebody say you need to ask the dentist. I don't have the answer Go ask the dentist You'll have to ask your dentist a question or somebody's asking the dentist something. That is such a weird message um Okay, I'm getting the number 21. All right I'm also getting october 21st Which is strange I heard sojo or soju Sojo or soju Okay, all right. They're giving me april 15th It's very strange and I'm getting march 3rd I'm also getting the 10th The 13th somebody's 33 All right, and mix Mix mix tape or or mix Our mic or mic Our michelle mic michael mickey Jose they just somebody's just said Jose Okay A lot of a lot of names Okay, um Now somebody was born in 1974 And I'm also picking up the 11th And I'm seeing um, it's weird like um, a ring of fire I just saw a ring of fire I guess like Animals jump through tigers. Oh the year of the tiger Is going to be on tuesday, I think isn't it starts on tuesday or this week the year of the tiger Maybe somebody's born in the year of the tiger um And I just heard year of the rat Okay Now they're saying sim I don't know if it's like a sim card or sim or someone's playing the sims All right, did I Okay, they're giving me um the 15th. Did I say that already? And I'm hearing um So the initials MJ I'm getting mj and I'm getting um A and r I'm also getting an h Um, february 28th is going to be a significant day this month Well february for the month of february february 28th. You thought I was going to say 29th, didn't you? um Yeah, february 28th And I'm I'm getting um The letter e in k A t and there and a w All right, I don't know if those are initials or what the heck that means. I'm also getting area code 3 1 0 And I'm getting also 274 you could switch those numbers around if you want 310 and 274 All right, um, let's get some charms and then we'll finish out your reading All right, three charms. Okay So, okay, listen some of you So it's like somebody's a diamond in the rough. I'm telling you unexpected A diamond in the rough I'm hearing Um, but I'm also getting um, oh, I just got that's so weird There's this I just saw I think it's it's an old video game Oh, what the heck was it called it they look like that Oh, uh, uh, I think it was called temperance. No Tempest or is there a named tempest? Or temp temp something tempus like an old video game. I don't know what the hell that's about um But I also feel okay. There's some type of architecture That's made out of still steel beams somewhere where you live Like it's art like artwork And we also have a turtle Okay This is a rather somebody has a really small weenie Because like this turtle's head you can't even see it. It's like kind of popping out. Maybe somebody's not Circumcised I just heard That's way too much information. I need to be seeing Um, and somebody right now.  Okay That's all I'm saying and if you have hemorrhoids you need to go get them taken care of Okay, let me see I just want to get a couple more All right You know, you love my readings. We're candid heroes furgos. Oh, we have a dragon beautiful Well, chinese new year Coming up here Okay So we have this beautiful dragon Something to do with a dragon some type of connection with a dragon. Maybe somebody has a username dragon But there's Actually, this is the first time i've ever seen this I know you can't really make it out. Sorry about that, but Fire breathing dragon or some kind of something to do with a dragon. Maybe you're watching a show with dragons in it or there's like wings and Dragon fire breathing kind of dragon. Okay, they're giving me a couple What the? Oh, wow, look at these double stars Somebody definitely likes the a n a l Um, you're gonna get some kind of flowers, but I'm also seeing um Somebody likes to wear silver And this is so cliche to say and another person likes to wear gold, but i'm also seeing that's what i'm seeing like flowers I don't know if they're metal flowers Or maybe it's wallpaper or some gift wrap or something but it's got like Like silver and gold. I'm seeing silver and gold or maybe it's like A charm with silver and gold like a necklace of some sort. We also have a doggy print There's something silver and gold around you And if that's the case That's a message for you very strong message. Maybe they're anniversaries silver anniversary. Cool. I don't know Um, but also puppy prints if you lost your your doggy Somebody here's lost their doggy and i'm very sorry or if you've lost someone very special to you um My condolences I can feel that energy and I definitely feel like there's a Paw print of some sort.  I just see like a paw print door mat Or somebody's getting their doggy's prints made. I love dogs.  I'm not a cat person I can't do it. You would think I'd be a cat person because cats are neat And you know with my Virgo, but no, I don't know. I just the dog something about a dog I just love doggies and puppies. Um, I think cats are just very snobby. I don't have time for them So, yeah, I'm gonna leave your messages there. I think that's it for now I think we went a good long while hour and 15 minutes So don't forget Um, I'm running a February personal readings special Um, go over to my website moonpiterra.com check that out If you want to purchase your readings for all of February, I've opened up some more slots So you guys can get in there and uh, yeah, don't forget to purchase go to my website peruse it Don't forget to purchase my twin flame Reading don't forget to join the channel Because I'm here every sunday 4 p.m. Eastern standard time live chatting with you Where you can get um mini personal readings. All right I'm going to upload this now because so that I get there by 10 30. Hopefully It'll be uploaded to you in time. So love you guys. I will see you all Hopefully a day tomorrow day or two. We'll see how it goes. All right. Bye


learners connect new formal knowledge which is often abstract with their prior knowledge which is typically about the real world which is linked in the learners mind with the social circumstances such as the people, the interactions, the activities and so on. We also know the challenges that learners may face when new concepts are abstract. An important principle to follow when we design e-learning is to situate and contextualize learning to emphasize real world connections. Before we understand this further, let us pause at a reflection spot. Another physics class which also has a lab component, maybe it is 7th or 8th or 9th standard in a school, do you think doing physics experiments in the lab can be considered as contextualized learning? Make your choice and when you are done, please resume. One of the essential criteria for situating and contextualizing the learning is that the learner makes connections with real life. So in the case of the physics lab experiments, it could be contextualized if it is directly connected with a real life situation, a real life scenario that the learners familiar with. A well-known example is that when learners are doing experiments with circuits, if the experiment helps them connect to a situation in their home where for example, a bulb becomes very bright just before it burns out. So if learners are able to connect these two situations, the abstract experiment about the knowledge about the circuit with what happens when bulbs burn out in their homes, then it can be considered as contextualized learning. On the other hand, if such, if learners cannot make such connections, then we cannot consider it as contextualizing the learning. Situated and contextualized learning can have the potential advantage to strategically tap learners prior knowledge on a given topic, can increase the likelihood that the learner applies their prior knowledge and the current knowledge in a new situation. This is the learners in realistic settings where the informal socially acquired ways of learning are as valued as the formal knowledge that they learn. How do we implement this principle of contextualizing the learning in an e-learning context? One way is to use a simulation or game-based environment which we have seen earlier. But what is important here is to provide an activity where the learner directly applies the abstract or scientific or formal knowledge in the realistic scenario present in the game or experiment or the simulation experiment. In the example shown, what we see is a blood typing game developed by the Nobel media to help lay people understand the details of work that has got Nobel prizes. This particular game involves a scenario which is in an emergency department in a hospital where car crash victims have come. The player of a game that is our learner is a doctor and he or she has to identify the blood type of a patient so that the correct type of blood can be given during the transfusion. In the game, the player has to drag and drop the syringe on top of the patient arm, draw some blood and then put the blood in three different test tubes to check the blood type. Then the learner has to see the result of the chemical reaction and based on it decide the blood type. So this is a clear application of an abstract concept of blood typing and recognizing the blood type using some chemical reactions to a situated context of an emergency room. There is also the element of role playing where the learner is directly making these connections. Another example is to use inquiry learning spaces wherein learners are presented with a real life problem in which they have to apply and analyze the scientific concepts underlying that phenomenon. In the example of inquiry learning spaces that we see here the scenario is what affects the floating or sinking of an object. The learner or the player this also has a slight game like element goes through an orientation phase to understand the context and in the next phase she or he has to do a virtual experiment to identify the factors which can affect sinking or floating and after this they can create a hypothesis in the investigation phase, they do variable manipulations to test their hypothesis and this is followed by a conclusion phase where discussion and reflection occur and the learner has to conclude about the generated hypothesis. The tools in the inquiry learning space allows anyone to create inquiry spaces for their own topic for their own content. So based on the topic that you are teaching for which you are designing e-learning content you can create activities using the tools shown and within a context that is familiar for your learners. An important point for us to remember is that contextualizing the learning is not only about giving an example. Very good instructor gives examples but it is actually helping the learner connect formal and abstract knowledge within the example and by providing scenarios by providing activities so that the learners required to make this connection. As we design e-learning content using a learner centric approach what we need to do is to design learning activities around a contextualized example. We need to choose the context carefully so that it is extremely relevant for the learners for whom we are designing this content and finally we need to design the activity so that the learners are required to connect formal abstract concepts with the real world informal setting. In order to do this we may need to break the linearity in the organization of our e-learning content and this is in fact a good thing this is what is recommended. This will enable the learner to readily move between various parts of the e-content such as between the abstract concepts and the real world scenario. It will enable the learner to come back to repeatedly access various parts of the module and return to various elements to the previous elements that he or she has encountered before. All these are important for the learner to be able to construct their own understanding to deepen their knowledge and to make connections. Thank you.


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Moving on, the next functional entity that we will discuss is the access relay functional entity. As the name suggests, it is related to the access side and it is related to the relaying of traffic. Is that traffic the communication or the data or is it the network configuration? Anyways, for either of the two, the access relay functional entity is responsible. We shall see how the access relay functional entity manages the data relay and the IP assignment relay. The access relay functional entity is closely related to the access management functional entity. As you can expect, it is part of the transport stratum which is responsible for determining what relaying mechanism is implemented between the two endpoints that is the network side and the user equipment side. As far as the data relay or the communication relay is concerned, the access relay functional entity interacts or provides a mechanism to implement interaction between the customer equipment and the network attachment and control functional entity. Different relaying mechanisms that is transmit, receive, store, forward, retransmit are implemented here. It all depends upon what access technology is being utilized. For instance, if it is a serial link, then the most commonly known protocol which is used on the IP networks is the point to point protocol. If it is a wire line network, then the access relay functional entity on the user equipment and on the network side is going to be point to point over ethernet and if it is wireless, then it is equivalent that is point to point protocol over wireless is implemented. So it means the choice of the relay technology is dependent upon what hardware or layer two technology is being utilized. As far as the network configuration related relaying activities performed, then IP address assignment relay is a natural responsibility of the access relay. That is when the dynamic host configuration protocol DHCP is used. You know DHCP is used for IP address assignment in a dynamic way in which an IP address is given to a requesting device out of a pool of predefined range of IP addresses. So when DHCP is used, then the IP addresses have to be managed on the network side and these have to be shared on the user equipment side. So it means the access relay functional entity would now be responsible to manage the sharing of IP addresses which are shared or which are basically assigned through the DHCP protocol.


Thank you all for joining us today for a new session of the Getty webinar series. The Getty webinar series serves as a platform for the Getty network members to share experience and expertise in evidence synthesis and to learn about potential collaboration. My name is Zahra Said, I'm a research assistant at the Getty Secretariat and I will be moderating the session today. So before we begin, and if you are using the GoToWebinar for the first time, as you might have noticed, you are automatically muted. So if you would like to submit any comment or ask any question, please use the tab on the right. And if you would like to comment and address our presenter directly, you can use the raise your hand button and we can unmute you so that you can discuss directly with our presenter. Today's session is about rethinking communication, storytelling for stakeholder engagement in environmental evidence synthesis. And our presenter is Anna-Lou Sandin. Anna-Lou works with science communication at the Stockholm Environment Institute at an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges. She supports research projects with advice, planning and delivery of professional, tailored and strategic communication activities. Anna-Lou has a background in environmental science, resilience and sustainability. Anna-Lou loves working together with researchers to find the most efficient and fun ways to communicate science. Hello, Anna-Lou. Yes, hello. I hope you can hear me. Yes. Yes. That's great. Thank you, Sarah, so much. And thank you also to the GESI initiative for inviting me to talk at this webinar. I'm very happy to be here. Looking forward to a really interesting hour. I'm happy to have you with us as well. Thank you. Super. And thank you for the introduction. As you heard, I work at the Stockholm Environment Institute. I've been working here for the past five years or so with science communication and beyond my everyday work with supporting research projects with tailored communication. I also really enjoy giving trainings on how to craft and also deliver key messages and also to explore what actually works in science communication. So what is called the science of science communication. And that includes storytelling. And that's what's brought me here because as part of that work, me, together with two colleagues here at SCI, Caroline, Anne, Deshaune and Robert Wott, we were invited to write a commentary paper for stakeholder engagement special series. In the environmental evidence journal, back in 2018, and that was focusing on trying to to revamp science communication in systematic review processes, looking at storytelling, specifically in what way storytelling can contribute to an increased engagement among actors and end users. And wait, I'm just going to try and change the slide. There we go. So these I hope you can see them. These are my talking points of today. We're in the, at the end of the introduction now and then I'll talk a little bit about storytelling because I'm sure many of you work with science communication. And I'm very familiar with storytelling, but I think it's important to talk about it and explain a little bit the history of it and also some definitions and a kind of the paradox that is there is a debate around today of using narratives when communicating science. And then we will go over to talk about what's in our commentary paper, the proposed framework that we suggest can be used for systematic review processes and then I'll just conclude with some some takeaways that I wish you to bring with you after this webinar. And I think Sarah mentioned that you can easily contribute to the webinar and ask questions and give comments. Sarah, did you want to say something more about that? Yeah, there is a question panel tab. It appears to the attendees, they can either type in their question or any comment they have, I can read it out loud, or there's a raise your hand button option where they can press it and I can unmute them so that they can ask their question verbally and directly to you. That is great. So I will present, but people are very welcome to ask questions or come with comments during this time. And if you do as Sarah suggested that you raise your hand and you want to say something, please introduce yourself very briefly if you wish. But we will also at the end have a section where we can get to discuss the topic and ask more questions and I actually might have some questions for you. And we also have some a couple of polls embedded in the webinar throughout. So I would like to start off with what you could potentially call a story. It's a GIF that we, again, there we go. That might be very familiar to some of you depending on what science field you are working in. As you can see, it's a GIF moving image, and it's showing the global temperature change. This is actually slightly old. There are newer one of these with data up until 2019, but this is showing the average temperature change from 1850 to 2017. And what it's called, it's called the climate spiral. And it was developed by a climate scientist called Ed Hawkins in the UK, and it was tweeted out as a GIF just like this. And in a few days it had had 10,000 of retweets and a huge readership. And all it is, it is a spiral. Why is it so popular? And you're very welcome here to comment on this. If you think, what is it that draws your attention to it, please feel free to contribute. Keep an eye on the chat or on the question if someone gives any comments. But what it is, is that it's something different, right? It's something we're not used to. And brains, our brains are very good in detecting novelty. And it's also very immediate. It's familiar and immediate. It's the same shape of a clock. And it's a moving image. So actually your brain doesn't have to do much of the thinking. It's the eyes, your eyes that do the processing and understanding. And it's done automatically compared to if you were just looking at this data in static bar charts. So, and it also has a metaphorical perspective to it as well, that this is something you could say something that is spiraling out of control, which is what we see today with climate change, right? And without even knowing it in the beginning, Ed Hawkins, he produced something that made people connect with it in a much better way. So these static sharks and diagrams, you could call them that they are data or they are stories without a spirit or without a soul. And here he actually added a bit of soul to it and made it much more comprehensive or understandable among lay audiences. But what is actually storytelling? It's something we were telling stories before we could write or read. It's always been considered kind of an art form with a purpose to educate and inspire and communicate cultural traditions, history, values. And today we know it's an extremely powerful means of communicating messages and engaging with audiences. And the last decade or even further back, we have been seeing how storytelling have been booming in certain sectors such as the marketing sector. But we also see that in recent years there is an increase in using storytelling in different scientific fields such as the health science field or science education. However, I think it's important to note and remember that this is something that has been discussed and debated for several decades. Back in the, I think, 60s, 70s, there was this American scholar named Jerome Brunner. He was criticizing the Western society that the Western society was putting in so much effort in the scientific and logical way of approaching thinking and knowledge. And this quote, the choices we make in telling stories become so habitual that they finally become recipes for structuring experience itself for laying down roots into memory. It's from this scholar Brunner.  And also brain science, brain research, showing how we are often thinking in a narrative way. And before we move on, I thought we should just, I will just go through some of the definitions or some of the terms that I'm using and that are being used. I sometimes use story and narrative interchangeably. But they are actually considered different things. So story is a structured account of events or of people. And he has these very familiar story elements, you can call them, the setting, there's a plot, there are characters, there's usually a protagonist and maybe an antagonist. And there's a sequence of events. So while a narrative is more the actual sequence of events, organized into a story so they can come in a certain order and they relate to each other. And if you changed order of these events, then you've changed the narrative but not necessarily the story itself. So it's kind of a representation of the story. And anecdotes, they are simply there to illustrate a point. They can be, it can be just a moment, something that happens, a lesson, something that is amusing, life changing or tragic. And that's actually that means that we're now up for the first poll. I think Sarah will will help me and we're quite a few attendees. So it would be great if you engage in the answer this poll. I think it comes up on your screen. It's on our right Sarah. Yes, I think these are already answering. Oh, great. So yeah, have you recently read results from a scientific study in a distinct narrative form that is this first poll, it would just be interesting. And there's no, we can wait a couple of more seconds and then we can close the fall and we can share the results. I think someone has added a comment right in the questions. Correct, Sarah. Yeah, we have a comment from Angelica. It says that it's easy to understand. Yeah, she's probably referring to the, to the stories. Yeah. Yeah, people are still voting a bit. Yeah. It's working. I also commented that she was talking about the spiral girl. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it has its reasons to that it is easy, you know, because of these things I was saying that it's kind of intuitive and the eyes do most of the understanding automatically. So thank you for that Angelica. So we close the poll now. Yeah. The results. 5050. 50% have recently had some results being a research results being described in a very distinct narrative form a 50% haven't. We could, we could remove that poll or is that me who does that? Maybe I'll wait for you to do it. What I am a comment I often get is that from researchers is that but actually what we are doing sometimes when we're writing scientific papers is that we are using a narrative structure. And I would agree that that is true to just a certain extent. You are following some kind of narrative structure with starting off with the background and having a result section and which are some common parts of a scientific paper usually from a based on a scientific study. And you have a conclusion recommendation conclusions part, but you are really missing these story elements to to make it more compelling. Then you're missing these important elements such as the climax the top bit the resolution. For example, but on the other hand before the interruption. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, but we have Tony then so that's and you would like to address a question to you. So I will unmute him now. Ah, if you would like. Yeah, do you want to read it out with July. Hi there. I just wanted to know the numbers involved in there pulling that we just had because it's a 5050 I don't know how many people are participating in this now so that we know. Of course, two out of four is 50. And it's not the same as when the number is high so how many of us are participating. Thank you, Tony. There was there's 15 attendees of this webinar. I was thinking that maybe you see. In total. And so that it's this poll is just more for fun to test you a little bit and see what has actually heard about storytelling being used in science communication. For that reason. Thank you. Thank you. I will make sure to mention that in the next poll. Okay. Yes, I'll move on. The last thing I was going to say there that, of course, scientific articles can can be very well written and could be more populous science or useless jargon and shorter sentences and clear language in in in some ways and maybe add some of those various elements. I think there's definitely potential for that. And that's something we could discuss later on as well. However, it's very important to to raise a bit of caution as well. Let me just go to the next slide. There we go. And there is a paradox of of using storytelling which I'm sure many of you are aware of. I know that there are huge benefits of using storytelling for science communication. Because of the brain science that is out there, the brains are brains have fantastic ability to adopt and remember narrative messages and actually there are many parts of the brain that are activated when you're listening to a story, more than when reading out reading facts listed facts that are listed in a in a scientific article, for example, and the hormone dopamine is being released in the brain. When we're listening or reading or taking in something that makes us emotionally charged, which stories usually do. And this actually helps us to remember better with the better accuracy. And then for people who have low numeric literacy, struggling with numbers, which there are many people out there, including myself. Then it's usually much, much easier to take in information through a story rather than data displayed in charts or diagrams. When we wish to inform and engage is really a great tool, but it's important to be aware of that not one really needs to be careful in the way we use storytelling. I'm sure no one has missed that we are in the age of fake news and disinformation. And we are seeing constantly how many populist leaders both political or other types of leaders, they're using narratives to sway their voters or their audiences. There is a debate, which the scientific organizations, even universities are starting to engage in around how storytelling can actually be dangerous. Especially when we have science communicators or science journalists or ordinary journalists starting to hype results from scientific studies or even mislead their readers or listeners with the way they present data. And there is really a big need to provide some kind of guidelines to help scientists and communicators to navigate or know that when their attempts to engage actually cross the border into this misinformation or the hyping of results. And on top of that, when we want people to actually take on lay people, non-scientists to take on a scientific or logical reasoning around evidence and research results, then narratives can actually be counterproductive. And we know that narrative messages, they can be persuasive and that's good. We want them to be persuasive because often in many scientific fields, we want our audiences to take in what we're telling them and act upon the research. So whatever the underlying factual claims, there is still this risk that the data or the results can easily become oversimplified or even worse, manipulative. We've seen that is in some very concrete examples are the discussions around vaccines, also the climate change. And it suggests that science communicators and scientists, they must find ways to confront the beliefs or the perceptions that sometimes is promoting this resistance to science-based communication and recommendations. And the scientists need to be aware of unintended consequences that might occur. And there's some really good papers that I could share on this afterwards, talking about intended and unintended consequences of science communication. However, researchers should not be deterred. I think it's still very important to encourage scientists to go beyond just informing stakeholders of research evidence and actually continue to seek to have an influence, but an influence that is positive and intended. And there are studies from the last two years where they often combine fields of psychology, neuroscience, niatology, and other types of fields such as climate change or health, where they're looking at what is triggering the positive kind of behavior that you're looking for. And there is one study by Maurice et al from 2019 that implies that we actually should consider presenting information in story structures that it's having a better effect in how the audience is receiving the information from the research. But as I said, I can share this afterwards. So now to go back to the paper that we wrote, we, as I mentioned earlier, in the recent years, we've seen this increase in using storytelling in different scientific fields, and we went out to look for some of those examples. And you see some of them presented in the table in front of you. And you see that it varies quite a lot how storytelling has been applied, everything from in the health sector, it has been used as a tool to highlight the benefits of using systematic reviews. To storytelling being a tool to gather perspectives from people locally on the experiences and knowledge about drought and its impacts and how to adapt. So there are some really exciting examples out there. And we were focusing on how to increase stakeholder engagement in these systematic review processes. And when we looked into that and we were looking specifically on the in the environmental field, and whether storytelling was a common communications method, we hardly found any examples. So we really think that it has yet to reach its potential and needs to be further explored. And this is our the framework that we are proposing could be potentially applied in a systematic review, which consists of two parts, really. One is in the beginning of the systematic review or map process, where we suggest the storytelling techniques can be applied right at the beginning when the research questions and research plan is being formulated. We call them here contextual narratives. And they would of course be developed in collaboration with the people that have a stake in in this research project. And these contextual narratives, we think that they can really help researchers or the review team to better understand people's perspectives and prior knowledge. And we believe that it's an approach that can increase engagement and interest and even ownership of the of the review process. And it's, it gives the space to the review team to identify if there's an agency of marginalized groups and individuals and potentially also help avoid misunderstandings and misperceptions. Secondly, as the second part, we propose that the review team could also create a so called final story, final storyline that relates to these contextual narratives gathered at the start of the process. So, in contrast to the format of the final reports, ways of communicating from an evidence synthesis, where usually information is plainly presented here, we hope to be able to generate a fuller experience among the stakeholders. When you're in bending or rounding it at the findings into a contextually contextually relevant story. I'm sorry, Anneli. We have a question from Crystal Perez. The question is, is the political equivalent to methods. Sorry, I'm thinking from the traditional approach to communicate the research. And so I am not a systematic review researcher, but the protocol is part of a systematic review process and it's something that you come up with in the beginning before you actually start the evidence synthesis together with the stakeholders. I hope that if there are any systematic review experts, or even Sarah, if you have any comments on the protocol, you're very welcome. I hear someone. Sarah, did you hear if someone had something to say? Or shall I move on? It became very quiet. Anneli, I wasn't able to listen to anything. I don't know what happened to the speakers. Ah, okay. Maybe people can tell us in the chat if they've had problems with the internet or with hearing what we're seeing. I hope not. This was from my laptop. I don't know what happened. I was just saying that maybe there are other people that are doing systematic reviews on a daily basis. They could tell us a little bit more what the protocol is. That was it, but I think. We have Tony Denso. He would like to. Yeah, I will unmute him. Hi again. Yes, I just want to know, where is the departure between this storytelling and narrative synthesis? Because to, okay, answer me that one, and if there's anything that probably I want to add. Is there any departure between this and narrative synthesis? Because from what you have the picture over here from the diagram. It means that the final part of narrative synthesis. And most of the systematic review that we do, even if it's a narrative synthesis, we have the plain language that communicates the evidence in the lay person's point of view. So where is the departure? Is this an extension of narrative synthesis or what? I'm a bit confused. Can you shed light on it? I assume that narrative synthesis is a type of systematic review or evidence synthesis. That's what you're referring to. Here we are talking about how to use storytelling, not only a narrative structure, but storytelling in the beginning of a systematic review and at the end. And if I, if I may continue, I will explain a little bit about the end of the systematic review and what we're proposing there. Okay, that's fine. Cool. Thanks. Yes, so at, let me see where I am. I don't miss anything. At the, at the end, we, as I said, we're proposing to, that you develop a final story, which are based on the, those contextual narratives that you gathered in the beginning that fed into the question formulation and to the protocol. And the aim is to make this story easier to digest even easier than the plain language that is used today for the stakeholders and other end users, and where you actually use these elements of a story in a much broader sense. This final story could also be a building a base for a range of different types of communication products. For example, you can adapt the story and use in a conference presentation, or you could use it as the storyline for a video or for a podcast. And I think it's important to mention the contextual narratives or the stories that you gather from stakeholders in the beginning that it might be really useful to get some help and use some proper methods. So we are in our paper, we're suggesting that you could even consult a storytelling professional depends on the, the context of course you can also give stakeholders storytelling templates or use story cards, story boards, for example. There's also this other excellent communication tool called the message box, which was developed by a science communication organization in the US called Compass, where, where, which is a tool that helps stakeholders to identify and formulate the relevant problem that is in need of investigation. So that I hope that made it a bit clearer that here we are not proposing using the narrative structure but actually use story elements and really ground the research results into a story that can be used in many different ways. Before I enter into my last few slides, I would like to just sum up a little bit the takeaways that I would like you to bring with you from this webinar. I believe there is, there is a recognition that we, we are already doing that in many ways. We're starting to think outside the box, even within the network such as the Center for Environmental Evidence and the Cochrane community that we need to innovate on the ways we, we communicate scientific results. And what we're really encouraging is new, innovative communication tools to be used by these research networks and storytelling could be one such tool that could complement the traditional portfolio of tools that are being used. I think through a story, the context is provided to the audience and complex scientific data is easier to understand and analyze by a lay audience. And in this paper, you know, we've argued for a more systematic and integrated use of such innovative tools such as storytelling from an early stage of systematic reviews or systematic maps to final stages when you are communicating to a wider audience. And on top of that, a very good benefit of that is that you can use the final story that you're developing in many different settings and purposes. Of course, we are very aware of and it's important to acknowledge that the effectiveness of using storytelling as an engagement method, as well as the different types of methods storytelling methods that are being used. They are determined by the type of review that you undertake the stakeholders that are involved and that is context specific. And we propose that further research should be done to understand storytelling as an effective means of science communication. I think what do I have? I have my second poll actually. Emily, before we can launch the poll, there's a question from Richard Morely asked some questions. The first one is that is there attention between patient stories where there's this only person's experience and what the evidence may suggest based on gathering more data. I have seen decisions made in research priority setting where on one person's personal story is very powerful and has influenced the outcome of priority setting. Perhaps disproportionately and can the stories trump evidence? Very good question, Richard. Thank you very much and please feel free to comment further because I know you're also into this field and very knowledgeable on the topic. This is the big debate that stories sometimes trump evidence and that's a problem and it's a shame when one person's personal story overtakes the science. So I definitely think it's a problem and a big tension and I really would suggest that we need many stories and we need collective stories and how they will look like I'm yet to explore. But we need more collective stories and that brings out the science in the way that it has a positive response. So that's my answer. Richard, if you want to add something or if someone else wants to add something to this, please feel free. I think we'll move on. We have another question actually from Tony Denzel. He's asking, is there any systematically synthesized evidence to support the case on the effectiveness of storytelling? That is a very good question. To my knowledge there isn't and I'm actually in a couple of slides I will bring up this in particular because we feel that there is a lack of exactly this synthesized evidence that actually shows how effective storytelling is. But I'll get back to that when I come to that slide. So maybe we can do the poll in the meantime. Richard said, I see Richard's comment there. Thank you. Let's do the poll, Sarah. Yes. So do you think using storytelling for systematic reviews can be useful? And of course this comes with a lot of reflections and things that I've been discussing already. I mean you can also answer this question thinking a little bit more broadly. If you think using storytelling in general for scientific communication, if that can be useful as well. So you can think more broadly if you prefer. That's okay. This is just for fun to see what you participants think about this. Now we have around 11, I think, participants voting in the poll. Yes. 91% have voted. So there's like one or two people who haven't put their vote. I can take the opportunity to mention that this webinar is being recorded so you can listen to it afterwards or if you had to leave early or you missed the beginning. You can always listen afterwards or share it with colleagues that you think would benefit from thinking a little bit outside the box regarding science communication or who other colleagues that might be interested. I think it will be available sometime from next week, right, Sarah. Yes, possibly in the upcoming two weeks. Maximum. I will try my best to finish it by next week. I will close the poll now and we can see the results. Everyone voted. That was a positive outcome I would say. Everyone thought it can be useful. I believe so too. If you're aware enough and you make sure to get the help you need to use storytelling methods and different types of performance of storytelling, then I think it can be really useful. So, I'm sorry for the interruption again but we have a question from Tony. I will unmute him. Hi again. Yes, I think my first question has not yet been answered. I don't know if it will be answered at the end. I sort of asked. Where is the departure from between this and narrative synthesis because from what you have discussed with us presented I see it is the end part of it. That is the after the results that this story telling becomes essential. So the rest you're using systematic review narrative synthesis approach, formulating your question and protocol and those 10. So where but have you mentioned that stakeholders engaging stakeholder that is okay but even narrative synthesis. I'm quantitative person, but my experience in narrative synthesis, even there. I'm not going to direct with stakeholders to get information from them to start to bury your theories and things. So I just want to know, is this an extension is a means of helping to communicate the evidence or it's an entity itself, and, and then after that, the results that this the last question we took we see the answers are just yes and no it doesn't give room for us to even to be able to tell what we think the margin of effectiveness, because now this is I think this is now evolving. As I add that you don't have any systematic reviews or systematically synthesize evidence to show how effective it is. So nobody can really give any yes and no is yes probably everybody will see yes because you don't know. Yes, so that is a big decision. So if you take it that yeah this is a we need more for me to show that this is really working and we don't have it yet. I can I comment. Yeah. So I would, I was going to get back to the effectiveness of using storytelling in science communication and for systematic reviews and and as to regard to the narrative synthesis and the work you do in this in the beginning of a systematic review. We are proposing is is not to change the way you do the, the, the start of the systematic review process, but to add on different types of storytelling methods to make the engagement even fuller and better. Okay. So we are today, most likely using different types of stakeholder engagement tools to get everyone on board and help formulate these research questions and the research plan, and the problem definition, etc. But we are proposing that you can refine that and use some of these storytelling methods where you're using story elements as part of it to gather deeper perspectives and due to the fact that storytelling is such a powerful means of communicating.  That's, that's the one of the expressions around storytelling we are thinking in stories. So that is what we're proposing but let me go to my, I think it's the next slide. The next steps because we have yet to to understand. And I totally agree the reason, as far to my knowledge, there isn't any evidence synthesis on the effectiveness of using different ways, different storytelling formats. And you're communicating research. And, and, you know, if you're using one type of storytelling, what are the characteristics of that type with that design. Or if you use storytelling in the protocol stage, what happens when you use it and what happens with the stakeholder engagement. We have some ideas of this and we have actually tried to, we've tried to get some funding to test this because we really would like to understand and empirically test how stakeholders are appreciating and engaging in different formats of storytelling. But yeah, if anyone has ideas about how if there is any work that have been done on this you're very, very happy to to share that but to my knowledge, it hasn't been thoroughly tested. And this year we're exploring whether we can actually test this framework that we are proposing in the commentary paper in a new project here at SEI on water sanitation and hygiene. And it's specifically taking looking at gender and social equality in interventions in wash. And here we were thinking we actually have a great opportunity to apply storytelling in the code design in the beginning of the systematic review that will be undertaken in this in this project. And then the review scope and developing the questions etc, as well as towards the end but we're just about to start that exploring how we could could do it, but we hope that we that I maybe can come back in a year's time or or more with more research on this but please if anyone has any comments on this and know of any good research out there, I can definitely share your research on storytelling being used as a science communication methods method in general not looking at systematic review, particularly, but more in general. There's some really good stuff out there. I can go to the next slide. Thank you very much. And thank you, the guest initiative for posting this webinar and thank you everyone for listening and engaging in with questions and comments. I hope it's been meaningful. And if you have more questions. I realized that we may be running out of time, but I hope I can be able to answer or point you to work that has been done by other scholars on this topic. Thank you, Emily for this very interesting. It was true very informative and interactive webinar session. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them we have some summary. I will unmute. Yeah. And please introduce. Introduce yourself. I just want to know if you want to share this slide from today. Thank you, summary. Yes, we will definitely. Yeah, there we go. And Sarah, will we be able to send out the slides to the ones that have attended to their email address. Yes, yes, we can do that. And we will for sure do that. And I will, I will make sure to add some links or some titles of papers and that I would recommend you to look at the on on the topic of storytelling. In one of the last slides or so. We also have a comment from Angelica. She says thank you so much. It was very interesting. Yeah, awesome. Thank you. Thank you for joining.


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