John Priestland

Secondly, the professional support that's needed for therapists, counsellors, psychologists and others who will be new to this topic to make that resource as focused as possible on the support needed around disclosure and UAP.

continuing professional development in this area at pace when it's needed and then thirdly the provision of structured conversations and we're piloting an unhidden conversations group in australia at the moment structured conversations to listen to support

uh to understand the sorts of dynamics of ontological shock which of course are different than the response to a sort of a physical trauma and to try and design the mechanism for rolling that out at scale the greatest group there is for conversations in volume that we've come across is alcoholics anonymous who at any one time are supporting amount around a million people

in this structured conversation group that they have.

What's needed for UAP disclosure is clearly very different to that but the number of people who are affected could run into the millions or the tens of millions so we potentially need conversation groups at that sort of scale and we're piloting that and we'll put together the methodology for how that can be done safely and efficiently and with the volume needed.

So that's the way we went about it.

Long answer

There's a lot in the report and I would guide people to our website www.unhidden.org to go and take a look for themselves at all of the documents I've mentioned.

Well, I work in the construction sector and we plan for earthquakes by making buildings seismically qualified.

Doing that is not frightening.

Preparedness done in the right way is reassuring.

And the same argument applies to disclosure.

I'm reassured that governments plan for pandemics and other things.

I would be more reassured if they do.

And so we're not promoting fear.

We're promoting awareness.

the potential for care and the reduction of harm, which I don't think is argued as a bad thing, or can be.

What we do find, so in terms of what we've been talking about, and Hidden's role is not to do all of this.

There are public health and other health organisations, disaster management, contingency planning organisations in the UK.

We have the