Addressing the immense ecological crisis facing us requires that we learn to think, speak, and take action in ways that reflect how natural systems actually work. Come discover the Warm Data Lab, a practice developed by Nora Bateson that seeks to nudge us away from sterile, habitual patterns of thinking and speaking into far more genuinely “ecological” modes of perception, cognition and communication. The Warm Data approach asserts that we need a new language that’s alive, responsive, in-play with living processes, one that permits us to perceive that we are embedded in “nests of relationships,” constantly co-learning and co-evolving with all beings. With: Nora Bateson, founder, The International Bateson Institute and Warm Data Labs, Fellow, Lindisfarne Foundation, author, film-maker, and lecturer; Rex Weyler: co-founder, Greenpeace International, founder, Hollyhock Educational Institute, ecologist, author, and journalist.
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March 30th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
President
International Bateson Institute
Nora Bateson, President of the International Bateson Institute, is the creator of “Warm Data” theory and practices, an approach to information science that studies the “interrelationships that integrate elements of a whole system.” Shewrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her late father, the immensely influential, revered and renowned thinker, Gregory Bateson. A recipient of the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (in 2019), Nora Bateson is also the author of a new book, Combining.
Co-Founder
Greenpeace International and Hollyhock Educational Institute
Rex Weyler, a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979, Director of the original Greenpeace Foundation and Editor of the organization's first newsletter/magazine, Greenpeace Chronicles, served on campaigns to preserve rivers and forests, and to stop whaling, sealing, nuclear weapons, and toxic dumping. Rex is also the founder of the Hollyhock Educational Institute and an ecologist, author, and journalist. His books include Blood of the Land, a history of Indigenous American nations, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Greenpeace: The Inside Story.