On behalf of the GO foundation thank you
for having us, supporting us, dig deep it
does go to an amazing cause and
hopefully everyone has a lot of vodkas
before you put your hand up to bid.
Thank you guys. Cheers.
Let's move on to another outstanding performer of the David Lynch foundation, Mark Bunn is the CEO of
the foundation here in Australia much
more than that he's a trained teacher of
Transcendental Meditation and best known
for his research on health and
well-being and for his sins he was also
a professional AFL footballer back in the 1990's.
He told me that he was the sort of player who made Michael and Adam look good.
That's not true you've got to be a great player to play AFL football, so would you please welcome Mark Bunn.
Thank you. Yes, when I think you followed
two of the greatest footballers of all time
the less said about my career the
better.  I would also like to acknowledge
the traditional owners of this land, the god of all people.  So who is David Lynch?
Good evening ladies and gentlemen in
Australia.  I hear you're having a
fantastic event tonight and celebrating the beginning of a DLF,  a David Lynch Foundation for Australia.
My hand disappeared.
It's happening again.
What's happening again?
My hand disappeared.
I don't know if you can
hear me.
I think I, rather I feel I'm getting close to your event.
I can see bright lights up ahead.
Wow. I don't know if I'm gonna make it.
I'm surrounded by koala bears.
I want to, I want to say if you can hear
me?  I want to say a great big thank you
to Ed Federman and ARA for your ongoing
support.  Thank you.
Oh that...
Get TM to all the people.
So that's David Lynch.  
He was the man not the Koala.
That video tells us a lot about David Lynch. The back story to that was about a month ago
we requested from David a short video to
play on this evening. We told him about
the event and if he could just explain a
little bit about the foundation, his
reason for starting it.  Seriously in my
mind I thought his PA would hold up an
iPhone at the end of a lunch break or
something get a quick 60 seconds face
the camera and three days ago we received this.
This in seriousness does tell you a lot about David,  one he's completely generous with his time and energy.
He has a great passion for the
David Lynch Foundation and what it does.
And thirdly, I believe the time and
energy he put into this shows the value
and respect to Ed and Leo and everyone
at ARA for the opportunity that we've
been given. So we thank you very much for
that.   Those who know David Lynch probably
think of him as a very successful
American film director, Twin Peaks,
Mulholland Drive,  Blue Velvet.
What you may not be aware was that in
his early days he went through some
challenging times.  At that time he
learnt Transcendental Meditation.  A very
simple, natural mental practice that
people do for about 20 minutes, twice a
day sitting with their eyes closed.
And he credits that technique with
turning his life around at that point
and also enabling him to be one of the
most successful film directors in
Hollywood over the last thirty years.
When I think of David, I think there's
only two things bigger than his hair and
that's his vision and his heart.
Many years ago he had the desire that every
individual in the world suffering from
mental health issues, trauma, toxic stress
could learn this technique free.
That was his vision.  Fourteen years ago he was
approached by his very dear friend Bob Roth
who suggested he'd create a
foundation and the David Lynch Foundation
was born to try and fulfill that vision that no one in the world has to suffer.
It's now my great joy to say
that Bob Roth who looks after the
International programs of the DLF has
also kindly done a short video for us to
give a little bit more background of
what the foundation is about.
Hi my name is Bob Roth and I'm the CEO of the David
Lynch Foundation which is a nonprofit
organization in the United States,
started in the United States fourteen
years ago with the purpose of bringing
the simple evidence-based
stress-reducing Transcendental
Meditation technique to at-risk,
under-resourced, underserved populations
including veterans with post-traumatic
stress disorder, adults and young people
who are in fighting substance use disorder,
women and children who are
survivors of domestic violence and
inner-city school kids who faced such
trauma and violence in their lives every
day they're just overwhelmed. So the David Lynch foundation was established
14 years ago and today I'm happy to say
that we've now provided this to over a
million inner-city school kids in the US
and all over the world, 35 countries.
As well as to veterans and everybody else I
was mentioning and I was so happy to
hear about the establishment of the
David Lynch Foundation in Australia
yeah and I just wanted to say that we're
so David Lynch Foundation here is so onboard
for supporting you in anything and
everything that you want, that you need
to have happen there  because so many
lives can be saved, so many lives can be
transformed through this simple technique.
You just clap at the end if your like.
But that may seem a big statement and I
realize it's 9 o'clock at night, it's a
Saturday night, you probably all had a
couple of drinks by now. But if I could
just take a one short minute to see if
we can explain how one simple technique
can in fact transform lives and possibly
save lives. When we think about trauma,
when we think about toxic stress, when we
think about depression, extreme anxiety,
even towards suicide we could say that
there is some lack of inner peace in these individuals. TM is just a very
simple technique that allows what we
call in the TM fraternity the gotta, gotta mind
and we've probably all had it
at some stage in our lives, we're going
to do this, we're going to do that, we're
going to go here, we're to go there, we're going
to buy this, we're goint to  buy that,  we've got to
create a sheet to remember everything
we're going to do,  gotta gotta, gotta.         
 In extreme anxiety and trauma
the  gotta, gotta mind is completely
out of control and they can't settle down.
TM is a very simple technique
that allows that agitated gotta, gotta mind
to settle down to experience finer
states of thought ultimately
experiencing what we call a state of
restful alertness.   The body gets a deep
state of rest allowing it to eliminate
old stresses but the mind remains
perfectly clear and awake and alert.
Science shows that this state is
correlated to everything that's good
about our brains, more integrated brain
functioning, more coherent behavior and
most importantly what we know as alpha
brainwave coherence. All the athletes in
the room know about zone states
predominant alpha brainwave coherence.
The artists in the room will know about
flow states.  The business people in the
room will know about getting in the flow
in business where you get more done in
two hours than usually do in two days.
This is what TM creates very simply and
very easily so those that are suffering
from trauma can very quickly
get out of that state of functioning.
The other benefit and the unique attribute
of TM that makes it really suitable for
those struggling with trauma is that it
is completely easy to do, it's in fact
effortless and simple. So no matter how
stressed or anxious they are they can
very quickly get some peace with this technique.
So the next video is just another short one to give you a bit of a feel for those groups that the David
Lynch Foundation does serve and the
results they have been getting so thank you.
Before I held everything in and when I
couldn't take any more I took it out on
somebody else. Now it just goes away now.
I feel like all the stress is just
leaving my body or the situation
formulas just clearing out
It took me roughly five years to admit
that I had PTSD. Transcendental  Meditation
has taken the stress out of my life, has
made me relaxed, the anger is gone.
Within ninety days I was off of all the anxiety
pills, antidepressants, the pain medication.
You don't have to suffer
anymore there's a better way.
Started meditating it changed my demeanor.  I really felt like it changed the dynamics for me.
The way I responded or interacted
with people and also not sitting like this,
sitting like this, coz I got rest.
Meditation has significantly helped my recovery
and I think it should be taught in every  rehab facility there is.
I think this is what people need,  they
don't need high-minded talk so much as results.
So what about Australia, we're
very pleased to say that thank you to ARA,
DLF in Australia has been
established for about eight or nine months,
so we're fairly new but just recently we've been able to give our first  individual scholarships
to some young women suffering extreme trauma related to school and domestic violence.
We've also just started our first group program
with an inner Sydney women's
shelter, again all the staff have been
taught and also the first women coming
through again homelessness,
domestic violence backgrounds have been taught
with really really great results and now
we're looking into next year with a
long-standing joint venture with the
Noffs Foundation who do great work with
street  universities throughout Western Sydney
and throughout Australia and many
more projects I think we can all
appreciate that trauma is everywhere
whether it's the police, ambulance service,
emergency service, our dear
indigenous populations, whether individuals
or even whole communities
it's very pervasive so I think there's
no shortage of programs that we can
hopefully attend to and of course the
funding is what we need so we're so
grateful to every single one of you here tonight
that are supporting the
endowment fund.  We're really, really
appreciative of the connection now with
the GO Foundation and all the great
work that Adam and Vic and Shirley are
doing and obviously the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
that I think we're
going to hear about a little bit later.
But all that of course is thank you to
our great supporter Ed and ARA which
we couldn't do anything of what we've
done so far and hopefully we can in the
future without that support. So I feel
like almost a week does not go by where
I'm thanking Ed on behalf of the
foundation, I'm sure he's absolutely sick
of my face in the sound of my voice. So a
few months ago we decided to travel up
to Brisbane to see if we get a a note of
gratitude from one of our other great
David Lynch Foundation supporters, so I'd like to finish on that note
but it's not just for Ed and ARA
but basically all of you here tonight,
so our last video thank you.
Hi everyone it's Katy Perry and I'm an
Australia right now on tour I'm just
about to go on stage but before I do
I just want to say hello and a big shout
out to Ed Federman and our group and
thank you so much for all the incredible
work you're doing for people around the world
and I'm a big believer in TM and
Bobby Roth is my guy, he taught me how
to meditate and I just want to say that
this is such an important tool, it's the
most important tool that I have learned
in my own life and that I apply.  I got to
teach my whole tour how to meditate and
we have daily meditation when we're on
the road at 6:00 P.M. so I just wanted
to say that it works keep on doing it,
I love you and I love the work that you
guys are doing.
It's a nice way to finish.
So on behalf of all the foundations, thank you all very much and have a great night. Thank you.
