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Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, facilitator and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”
An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind.
Nora Bateson is also credited with the innovation of the neologism “symmathesy,” and the corresponding theoretical essay bearing the same title. Bateson defines this neologism as “An entity composed by contextual mutual learning through interaction. This process of interaction and mutual learning takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales of symmathesy.”[5]
As an educator, she has developed curricula for schools in Northern California and produced and directed award-winning multimedia projects on intercultural and ecological understanding. Her work, which has been presented at the world’s top universities, is described as “offering audiences a lens through which to see the world that affects not only the way we see but also the way we think”. Nora’s work in facilitating cross-disciplinary discussions is part of her research into what she calls, “the ecology of the conversation”. Her speaking engagements include keynote addresses and lectures at international conferences and universities on a wide range of topics that span the fields of anti-fascism, ecology, education, the arts, family therapy, leadership and many more aspects of advocacy for living systems– she travels between conversations in different fields bringing multiple perspectives into view to reveal larger patterns.
She also developed the idea of Warm Data
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The “campus” metaphor signifies a place where people come to learn, gain experience, interact with others, make friends, and initiate projects.
Campus Co-Evolve is a virtual learning environment designed to support the same functions, online. It consists of a rich and evolving set of learning resources and tools, organized around the familiar, spatial metaphor of “campus” with an easy-to-navigate interface.
They include, for example, live sessions via video conferencing with break-out rooms for small group exchanges, online forums, chats, a Knowledge Garden, sessions in residential retreats in inspiring natural settings, a virtual café, glossaries, and co-creation spaces. All that will allow for various self-organizing forms and unpredictable patterns of collaborative learning to emerge.
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The International Bateson Institute is a non-profit foundation for transcontextual research in ecology, economy, social change, health, education, and art. It supports a new kind of research to increase our ability to take into account the many relationships that coexist in any context of living things. In addition to providing much-needed perspective to existing research institutions, the findings of the International Bateson Institute projects are presented as seminars, media, and artistic exhibitions, which engage culture and education simultaneously in public spaces, for all ages.
The IBI research involves recognizing how patterns repeat and reflect each other across multiple contexts and across multiple systems – understanding these systems’ maintenance and renewal will be critical in the coming decades.
The underlying premise of the IBI is to address and experiment with how we perceive. Our mandate is to look in other ways so that we might find other species of information and new patterns of connection not visible though current methodologies. We call this information “Warm Data.”
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Un-pick-apart-able
Published on: 6 Nov 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Tearing and Mending
Published on: 18 Oct 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Ready-ing
Published on: 12 Oct 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
It’s Fantastic
Published on: 17 Aug 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Self Portrait
Published on: 2 Jul 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Self Portrait
Published on: 2 Jul 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Finding a Way — Warmly
Published on: 29 Mar 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Symmathesy
Published on: 13 Feb 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
A Quick Look at 4 Films that Address Systems Change
Published on: 2 Jan 22 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Aphanipoiesis
Published on: 4 Nov 21 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Aphanipoiesis
Published on: 4 Nov 21 in Nora Bateson – Blog
by Nora Bateson
Something New
Published on: 30 Mar 21 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
What is Submerging?
Published on: 18 Feb 21 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
What is Submerging?
Published on: 18 Feb 21 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Family is Where We Live
Published on: 29 Jan 21 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Family is Where We Live
Published on: 29 Jan 21 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Warm Dat too…!
Published on: 3 Jan 21 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
It is me who is inspired… in fact your account was the spark that got me to finally write out a…
Published on: 6 Dec 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
lovely Gemma
Published on: 5 Dec 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
The Squishy Mud of Warm Data — Where Senses Find Senses
Published on: 5 Dec 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
The Squishy Mud of Warm Data — Where Senses Find Senses
Published on: 5 Dec 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
This is a lovely account of your Warm Data experience.
Published on: 5 Dec 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
That is it. That is why. That is warm data.
Published on: 27 Oct 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
What Now?
Published on: 15 Oct 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
What Now?
Published on: 15 Oct 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Hallway of Hallways
Published on: 9 Sep 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Hallway of Hallways
Published on: 9 Sep 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Divided We Fall Together
Published on: 8 Sep 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Divided We Fall Together
Published on: 8 Sep 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Finding A Way
Published on: 18 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Blog
by Nora Bateson
Finding a Way
Published on: 16 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Finding a Way
Published on: 16 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
disagree…
Published on: 9 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
When a numb limb has sensation again.
Published on: 8 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
probably much longer…colonial,
Published on: 8 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Thank you Steven. It seems to me the future is going to require a lot
Published on: 5 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
What I learned
Published on: 5 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
What I learned
Published on: 5 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Just Doing Our Job
Published on: 5 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Just Doing Our Job
Published on: 5 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Forgiveness
Published on: 4 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Find a way
Where there isn’t one
Published on: 4 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Worth Evertyhing
Published on: 4 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Idea Nest
Published on: 4 Jul 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Salt and Iron
Published on: 17 Jun 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
My Health Is Not My Own
Published on: 5 May 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Preparing for a Confusing Future Complexity, Warm Data and Education
Published on: 20 Mar 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Preparing for a Confusing Future Complexity, Warm Data and Education
Published on: 20 Mar 20 in Nora Bateson – Blog
by Nora Bateson
Please Contact me.
Published on: 4 Mar 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
Love this…. an extension of Warm Data! So glad to see the idea continuing.
Published on: 18 Feb 20 in Nora Bateson – Medium
by Nora Bateson
This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). Building on Gregory Bateson’s famous book Towards an Ecology of Mind and her own film on the subject, Nora Bateson here updates our thinking on systems and ecosystems, applying her own insights and those of her team at IBI to education, organisations, complexity, academia, and the way that society organizes itself. She also introduces the term symmathesy to describe the contextual mutual learning through interaction that takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales. While she retains her father’s rigorous attention to definition, observation and academic precision, she also moves well beyond that frame of reference to incorporate more embodied ways of knowing and understanding. These are reflected in her essays and poems on food, Christmas, love, honesty, environmentalism and leadership. [Subject: Systems thinking, education, social anthropology, environmentalism, Bateson, symmathesy]
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Founder of The International Bateson Institute, filmmaker, educator, and author of Combining Nora Bateson shares the sense, and sensibility, of true interdependence — and helps us muster the courage to
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John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, and Nora Bateson discuss transformation and its complex, cross-domain dimensionality. This episode addresses topics such as how does transformation take place and in what contexts? How
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John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, and Nora Bateson discuss transformation and its complex, cross-domain dimensionality. This episode addresses topics such as how does transformation take place and in what contexts? How
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Jim talks with Nora Bateson about ecologies of communication and the value of earnestness. They discuss simple irony, dramatic irony, post-irony, & meta-irony; irony & the ecology of communication, the
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Playing for Team Human today, filmmaker, writer, educator, and systems thinker, Nora Bateson.Bateson and Rushkoff interrogate our moment of global crisis to challenge the very systems that drive human behavior
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Nora Bateson is a Filmmaker, writer, educator, lecturer and President of the International Bateson Institute. In this conversation we discuss how systems learn and evolve, the importance of moving between
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Nora Bateson International Bateson Institute Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Nora Bateson, International Bateson Institute. Email: norabateson@aol.com If you would like to cite this paper
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Will Peoples’ Response to the Emergencies of the Coming Decades be Warm? Or Cold? Will Peoples’ Response to the Emergencies of the Coming Decades Be Warm? Or Cold? Find a
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I published this piece Sept 2018 in the World Academy of Arts and Sciences Journal special issue on Education. As we enter this confusing moment of Covid-19 isolation and systems
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Nora Bateson 2019 For years I have written about the systemic crises of our times in terms of tenderness, and rawness. I have exposed my inner world in its morphing
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sense making sneaking in If place makes me Then maybe I don’t exist. And if the memory of redwood dust is enough to find outlines Then maybe I am still
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(This is a chapter from my book Small Arcs of Larger Circles, published by Triarchy Press, 2016) I would love you as a bird loves flight, as meat loves salt,
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Written Feb 1 2019 Is there space in the keyboard strokes for the pink of life? Assembling letters into words into images that reach into feelings, –inviting memories, things once
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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First published in Kosmos Journal in 2018Continue reading on Medium »
Transcontextual Learning and ‘Healing’Continue reading on Medium »
Here is a link to the new Ready-ing paper published in the journal of Systems Reseach and Behavioral Science.Continue reading on Medium »
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It’s fantastic.Continue reading on Medium »
If I were a mathematical formula I would be a chalkboard full of symbols and arrows. No. I would be many such chalkboards.Continue reading on Medium »
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I could be an ink on paper where the ink soaked through to where we meetContinue reading on Human Parts »
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People Need Peopleto-gather. (photo n.bateson)Nora Bateson 2022“We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust.This is not your fault, or mine.” — Anita
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(the poem)Continue reading on Medium »
What does system change look like?Continue reading on Medium »
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(This is a piece that I wrote as a forward for a French book on family therapy called Les défis des familles d’aujourd’hui: Approche…Continue reading on Medium »
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(This is a piece that I wrote as a forward for a French book on family therapy called Les défis des familles d’aujourd’hui: Approche…Continue reading on Medium »
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It is me who is inspired… in fact your account was the spark that got me to finally write out a small piece yesterday. I have been so apologetic, always
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Warm Data is not an artifact.Continue reading on Medium »
This is a lovely account of your Warm Data experience. When you do the next one I think you may notice a shifting from your attention on what is said,
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In the forest, boots crunching, tree tops sweeping in wind. Silence is not silent. The season is revealed in the wet soil and yellowed…Continue reading on Medium »
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In the forest, boots crunching, tree tops sweeping in wind. Silence is not silent. The season is revealed in the wet soil and yellowed…Continue reading on Medium »
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The Bateson Anniversary Sessions Continue: This one is on Abductive process, my personal fave, and I will be host. I hope this session will tickle the brain & enrich our perception of life. March 23rd from 6pm to 7:30pm CET. 9am California Link (Free) us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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