The work of the coming decades is not the work of manufacturing, of software development, or of retail seduction, it is the work of caring. Caring for each other and the biosphere. In that care there is the hope of finding new ways of making sense of our own vitality.  The ‘my’ in my health […]

By Nora Bateson 2018 *This is a small piece that was written for the document presented for the General Assembly 2019 Global Risk Assessment. The problems the world is facing now, including ecological damage, natural disasters, poverty, species loss, political upheaval, refugee trauma, and even health epidemics, can all be described as complex, that is,

“If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room would you trust it?” -Kendrick Lamar The revolution, the evolution is not going to be found in conference centers or seminars in 5 star hotels. It won’t be definable in righteousness or sanctimony. The resonances will be and are where the pain has

Nora Bateson, Filmmaker, writer, educator, lecturer and President of the International Bateson Institute, Sweden, USA   I am very honored to announce that this paper recently received the award for the ARTICLE OF THE YEAR by the Norwegian journal Fokus på Familien. It is now nominated for the larger award given by the group of

Slicing open the screen, Possibility drenches in colors sluice through the gap A bubble of my own making, and instead of climbing through I mend the portal, And I am again contained Safely steeping in this familiar trap Here reason is tethered to abstractions. While life plays on the other side My skin too keeps