“We, as humans, need community, but before community we need to commune.” —Nora Bateson

With the increase in loneliness among all people, but especially among the young, and the concerns about the future of Life on Earth, it is imperative that we slow down and listen to each other, really listen. There’s nothing to fix, solve, or summarize. This week we’re conducting an online version of Nora Bateson’s Warm Data* Labs. Lisa got training in this methodology last year, so now she can put it into practice, with support from the Warm Data community. This online-only session, called People Need People, explores a question from multiple contexts. We don’t approach it from the head, however, but from the heart, through our shared stories and conversations. We wander through the deeper patterns and contexts that shape our lives and relationships.

There’s no pressure to perform, debate, or fix anything—nowhere to get to, only the opportunity to be in relationship through simple, meaningful conversation that flows.

“Who can I be when I’m with you? Who can you be when you’re with me?”— Nora Bateson

For more information about the Warm Data Approach: https://www.warmdata.life/

*Warm data refers to relational information and is therefore strikingly different from information that is acquired by taking things out of their contexts. Because warm data is alive, responsive, and in relationship to other life, it cannot be measured, deliver definitions, or produce results that are repeatable. There is no such thing as objectivity in warm data.