Tanya Cushman Reviewer's Tanya Cushman Reviewer's Tanya Cushman Reviewer's Have you felt alone? Alone in the sense like when you're surrounded by your loved ones, your friends, family, and you feel alone. And you have nowhere to share the emotion, to process how it is. And growing up, have you been bullied? Or have you seen someone who was bullied in your school? Well, I was. And it's not only me, it's happening every day. Oh, shit. Sorry. It's happening every day. Like one in four teenagers has experienced bullying. In Austrian schools, in European schools, in third-order schools, everywhere. And it's not like schools are not trying to fix it, you know. Schools are really trying. But what they are doing is trying to teach emotions through lectures, through theories. Hey, don't do this. Emotions are like this. But as an adult, for me, it's difficult to process my emotion. Then how is it for a teenager who is bullied every day, who is got bullied by his own friend? And research shows that bullying is not coming from cruelty. It's coming from emotional illiteracy. Because an individual, they don't know how to process their own emotion and they think the other person is like, you know, they don't consider them as a person with emotion and like there is a space that is closing between us in this disconnected world. We are being disconnected from ourselves and to the other person. And that very question led me to believe and build a tradition. With one question, what if emotional regulation can be felt and not taught? Like not teaching through a lecture, not a course, but feeling by an experience. So what is an experience? Experience is like what I'm envisioning is an immersive experience where a teenager, like right now the focus group is teenagers, they go to an immersive experience, we let them feel like through stories, like storytelling, because stories are what is connecting us. We meet and we connect through stories. It happens to every age group. It's the oldest profession in the world. So a teenager goes to an immersive zone. They hear the stories from others, like they relate to the real life situations, which is private, safe, no judgment, and then they reflect individually in groups through the trained tutors like they already have in the schools. And finally they connect. They connect to their emotions, they connect to others' emotions, and they contribute to the moment by sharing their own feeling anonymously. And then it becomes a part of the collective and it keeps on going and going like a ripple effect, like a domino effect. And then, as I said before, it's not a lecture. It's not an app. It's a journey and experience. So it's not a one-time experience. It's a journey that goes from 14 to when the kid is 14, a teenager is 14, as is Deblo's 15, 16. And I'm planning it. We are planning it as like weekly or monthly sessions in coordination with the schools, because like I mean I'm a university student, I graduated and my course was like they were teaching in semester, in one semester I don't learn the whole Python programming, but I learn in a semester, so we go through a semester format like every week or month, we do the experience. Like we teach it as a course in the experience setting. So we go one step ahead. And yes, and it's built for real teenagers and starting in Lens. And another thing I would love to add, because I mean, we all look for the business thing, how it can last. So it's a real business because it's a real crisis. You can't deny it. It's happening. Go and ask a teenager, you know, how is their school situation? And it's a global market of SEL, like social emotional life is 4 billion and it's growing like 24% annually. I mean, Europe is a good place. So it is leading in it. And it's also leading in bullying, of course. But yeah, and we're piloting in Linz, like 10 schools per one year. It's a good revenue plan, and there are fundings from Erasmus and Digital Education. And, like, for the school, they have to pay 800 euros per semester, which is quite normal, you know, like a part-timer gets a lot more than that. So it will be a portable kit. We're going to use it in school. Like, if there are 10 schools, we can reuse it will be a portable kit. We're going to use it in school. If there are 10 schools, we can reuse it. The cost covers itself. And the best part is there is a city like Linz, who is organizing innovation like this hackathon. So there is a real support. And the support will go to the real people who need it, the teenagers in this case. So it's one moment, real emotion, real learning, and feel the experience, I'm just gonna show a YouTube video. I mean it's from another people like LimeLight, but it will be like this. So in an immersive interactive learning environment, the teenagers will learn to connect to their emotions, to learn to recognize others' emotions. And it's going to be a weekly session, monthly session throughout the semester. And yeah, that's the whole plan. Okay. Last sentence. It feels like the technicalities, you know. Okay, so finally coming to the conclusion, emotional intelligence is not taught, it's learned, felt, experienced, and that's what we're trying to build through tuition for the space between us, for the humans like us, and starting in lens and growing everywhere, because the kid, the teenager at 14 will become 40. He will be the leaders of the society, our neighbors in the hospitals, everywhere. And the things they learn at 14 will be valuable till 40 or like, you know, we'll build a better society. So that's the whole plan. And thank you.