Transcontextual Learning and ‘Healing’ Nora Bateson Oct 18, 2022 “The fabrics of interaction are going to be torn and they’re going to mend. And after all, we are only a model of what we are trying to talk about, and it would be absolute nonsense to try to construct that model as though it…

Here is a link to the new Ready-ing paper published in the journal of Systems Reseach and Behavioral Science. If it does not open the paper is pasted below. Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sres.2896 An essay on ready-ing: Tending the prelude to change Nora Bateson First published: 21 September 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2896 Heiko Specking, Mervi Porevuo, Goran Janson, Motaz Attalla, Eeva Hellstrom, Steve…

It’s fantastic. Just to witness such a theater of tangled stories is indeed a show to beat all shows. The way each flavor of the stories of this moment have produced their own puzzle, complete with transcontextual overlapping versions is remarkable, even terrible, but beautiful in its intricacy. It is…

I could be an ink on paper where the ink soaked through to where we meet — If I were a mathematical formula I would be a chalkboard full of symbols and arrows. No. I would be many such chalkboards. Or maybe just a crayon writing 1+1= With no answer. Wondering. Perhaps as a song I would be a combining of something that resonates in thunderous bass…

(the poem) Each one of us is a crooked tree, Reaching for water and light, Bending ourselves around obstacles, Scary thoughts, hurtful moments, darkness & thirst, Finding a way to breathe in the sun and hold the soil, Our branches are kinked and twisted, Because that is what it took…

What does system change look like? Does it look like highly trained systems professionals making presentations in an organization or government offices using an array of brightly colored post-its and half a dozen models? Does it look like activism? Is it closer to advertising? Is it about getting the right…

Aphanipoiesis Nora Bateson, President, International Bateson Institute Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Nora Bateson, International Bateson Institute. Email: bateson.institute@gmail.com If you would like to cite this paper prior to its upcoming publication in the International Society of Systems Sciences Journal please use the following citation: …

Nora Bateson March, 2021 An arrangement of notes and soundscapes in an unnamed music — -I cannot quite find where it meets me. A combining of spices I do not recognize stews into an unknown taste. I am on a road, but I do not know the landscape, the turns, …