Two Warm Data Practices for Today’s Fragmented World -
Warm Data Lab (In-person)
People Need People (Online)
In order to interface with any complex system without disrupting the circuitry of the interdependencies that give it its integrity, we must look at the spread of relationships that make the system robust. Using only analysis of statistical data will offer conclusions that can point to actions that are out of sync with the complexity of the situation. But information without context and interrelationality is likely to lead us toward actions that are misinformed, thereby creating further destructive patterns.
Grounded in over a century of deep theoretical roots and a lineage of systems thinking, the Warm Data practices transform complexity science into an experiential approach of profound mutual learning and relationship building.
There are two warm data practices made for today’s fragmented world — Warm Data Labs and People Need People (Online).
The Warm Data Lab is created to help release and revitalize sensitivity to the sacred processes of life that have been fragmented by the last several hundred years of history.
People Need People (Online) adapts this practice to offer uniquely rich and storied online communication, in contrast to the common experience of polarized and divisive digital communication patterns.
There is no goal in a People Need People (Online) session or a Warm Data Lab as they are not about solving identified problems. Instead, they allow movement through many aspects of memory and perception that can alter the underlying assumptions about who I am, who you are, and what life is about.
These sessions have been designed to deepen the collective perception of complexity through personal stories and the study of life’s process. Together these groups of people are building relationships that build relationships that build relationships— a vital ingredient of how systems change happens.
One of the most profound experiences of Warm Data is the observation that ‘Your story changed my story’. The joy of Warm data is in how this change shows up unpredictably and profoundly. This is fundamental to the theory and the practice of Warm Data.
“There will be no community without first communing.”