2 hours agoSelf PortraitIf I were a mathematical formula I would be a chalkboard full of symbols and arrows. No. I would be many such chalkboards. Or maybe a 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…Codes3 min read
Mar 29People Need PeopleNora 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 Diamant, The Red Tent. Of all the necessities to human life: water, air, food, shelter — probably the most…Warm Data7 min read
Feb 13Symmathesy(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…Symmathesy1 min read
Jan 2A Quick Look at 4 Films that Address Systems ChangeWhat 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…Dont Look Up9 min read
Nov 4, 2021AphanipoiesisAphanipoiesis 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: …Warm Data44 min read
Mar 30, 2021Something NewNora 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, …Systems Change1 min read
Feb 18, 2021What is Submerging?Nora Bateson, Jan 2021 This is one essay in two pieces, like one cupcake in two bites. In the first piece, I am laying out the enormity and near impossibility of systemic change. Something I hope readers will feel in their bellies like a thud. The perpetuation of the existing…Emergence20 min read
Jan 29, 2021Family is Where We Live(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 systémique des relations familiales in September 2020 thanks to Salvatore d’Amore) Family is the blood tie, and the non-blood tie. Bound, unbound and always returning to…Family Systems Theory4 min read
Dec 5, 2020The Squishy Mud of Warm Data — Where Senses Find SensesWarm Data is not an artifact. The processes of Warm Data do not produce artifacts. Information: the gathering of senses through differences that make differences in the Warm Data processes are alive. By that I mean that the way in which the senses are sensing, and the information is forming…Warm Data5 min read
Oct 15, 2020What Now?In the forest, boots crunching, tree tops sweeping in wind. Silence is not silent. The season is revealed in the wet soil and yellowed leaves, but time is an abstraction. Transformations are now everywhere all at once. Intimate and global, mental and environmental, economic and political. There is rigor needed…Complexity13 min read