OK Folks - we did it!
Yesterday we ran a symposium for 800+ people predominantly Chinese but with a few from Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and other Pacific Rim countries.   I worked with a simultaneous interpreter who also voiced over the videos in Chinese, and the wonderful team from Doers, our host organisation here.. The result was truly wonderful.  The message landed in the way we all know and love, I was besieged by people wanting to get involved - "Do you have a branch office in China?" one guy asked.  I said No, he said "You do now!"  In a couple of hours I will have a meeting with the people who want to get involved.  I also hope we will have the continuing support of Doers, a training company who work with DC Cordova (of TLC fame) to produce business education here and throughout the region.  And we have about 10 people here who will be bringing folk to the 2 symposiums I am running in Hong Kong on Sunday and Monday.  There is much excitement in the air about this, and an invitation to take the work to Singapore, a Japanese friend for Hide and even more I'm sure when we can sit (with a translator) and find out how else people want to contribute.And there has been heaps (really heaps) of learning and plenty of challenges to overcome, no sub-titled DVD, a "rough" translation, technical hiccups before and during the event, a distracted, exhausted and non-English speaking support team, going on after a speaker "as famous in China as Oprah in USA" had overrun by nearly an hour; I really saw and experienced the force of spirit at work in helping ensure a 'perfect' outcome despite the circumstances, it was as if we could transcend any problem [the interpreter said to me AS I was being introduced "I can't translate the videos (because of a technical hitch) - you'll need to do it without any video" - and even then I just knew it would fly].

And . . . I think there is some great video and some wonderful stills, plus several interviews, maybe even more today, so we've got valuable material to use, I'll be getting that shipped back to the team ASAP - (where to?).
DC and her business partner, Willson, have been generous and supportive in all of this, we owe them a huge thank you too.
Most of all I have discovered for myself the brothers and sisters we have who are Chinese, every bit as concerned, creative, inspired and inspiring as the audiences we meet in other countries.  I have seen that our message can appeal to them (adaptations and translations required of course) and I can feel our work taking root here as this expression of life's call spreads.
In an ever-expanding Blessed Unrest
Jon