“There is a territory of communication, relationships and daily living that allows for a total change—it is within reach, but not in the solutions currently being reached for.”

— Nora Bateson

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Warm Data Theory & Practice Course

The possibilities for people to respond to events of this era depend upon their ability to improvise and learn together within their complexity. One way to tend to this ability to commune is through the Warm Data Practices.

Too often, attempts to solve these complex issues are unwittingly perpetuating the very same problems. The quest for solutions, despite our best intentions, is inherently informed by the same patterns of thought that are creating the illusions of separation.

This course offers a deep dive into the Warm Data theory and practice toward a shift in perception. Through storytelling, archival documents, poetry, multitudes of texts spanning from ancient wisdom to modern complexity theory, a multiple description of the movement, rhythm, and resonances of life comes into study. This is both a felt sensorial inquiry and one of intellectual rigor.

As the Warm Data work is entering a new era of finding its place in the world in the form of many large projects in 2027, and because of this, we will be holding only a few Warm Data Courses worldwide that are open to public registration. We have tried to make offerings that include as many areas of the globe as we can.

The schedule for 2028 courses will also likely be limited while Nora is going to be teaching inside school systems internationally.

In 2027, we will be offering the following Warm Data Courses:

8 Days In-Person:
Asia / Pacific: January 9-16, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - email training@warmdata.life to be notified when application opens
Europe: May 10-17, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

3 Weeks Online: February 1-22 (the Americas and Europe time zone)

Apply Amsterdam In-person Course
Apply Online Course

The theories that will be discussed and explored include: 

  • Abductive Process (C.S. Peirce)
  • Aphanipoiesis (N. Bateson)
  • Differences of Abstraction (A. Korzybski / B. Russell)
  • Epistemological Frames (G. Bateson)
  • Complexity Theory
  • Conscious Purpose (G. Bateson)
  • Double Bind (G. Bateson)
  • Interdependency and Change in Complex Systems, Mind (G. Bateson)
  • Multiple Description (G. Bateson)
  • Nth Order Agency (Transcontextual Anticipation) (N. Bateson)
  • Patterns that Connect (G. Bateson)
  • Requisite Variety (R. Ashby)
  • Schismogenesis (G. Bateson)
  • Side-by-Siding (N. Bateson)
  • Simultaneously Implicating (N. Bateson)
  • Symmathesy (N. Bateson)
  • Transcontextual Process (G. Bateson)
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Participation in this course also includes:

  • Joining an international network of Warm Data hosts.
  • Gaining access to an online Warm Data platform to share insights.
  • Meeting online monthly with other Warm Data hosts from around the world for practice sessions, organizing projects, contributing and having an open invitation to attend regular theory booster session, reading salons on Bateson and other materials.
  • Completion of this course comes with an open invitation to join this course again and again, free of training fees (in-person trainings still have modest venue fees).
“The most important task of this moment is to generate a base of people who are eager to practice perceiving the complexity and interdependency in every aspect of our lives.”
— Nora Bateson

Upcoming In-Person Courses

  • Asia/Pacific

    January 9-16, 2027

    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Email Us

  • Europe

    May 10-17 2027

    Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Apply Now

Upcoming Online Course

  • February 1-22 2027

    This course is timed for people in the Americas and Europe.

    Apply Now
Listen to Mama Now
Nora Bateson

Mama Now

Your eyes will see the derailing of assumptions Your hands will hold the crumble of the old matrix.

I do not have any authority to lean into,
I have empty pockets where parents used to advise their children,
I do not have any maps, myths, or mother-wisdom for you.

I can fix your breakfast, but not the culture,
And when you ask about how to be a good person,
I cannot lie to you.
Everything you touch in a day is in some way bloodied.
You have been born into an edgeless violence.
But I will not judge or measure you against a bygone metric.

I am here, too, ready to learn with you.
Unsure how to be or who to be.

I can only read fragments of your worry,
As the future is a horizon of confusion.
I cannot protect you. And yet it is my only job.
Aching as I witness from this side of the hourglass.

Other generations of parents knew the outlines,
School, career, family, and retirement.
But your life will be another shape entirely.
Forming in the fractures.

When you say you need a goal, I offer you an expired ticket.
Superficial memes roll off the tongue right into your bullshit detector.
Success in the existing system is not going to do you much good.

Your integrity is your rage, and I will nourish it.
Your dignity is your curiosity, and I am tiny beside it.
Your courage is your pain, and I will sing to it with you.

We will riot together.
We will notice the nuance of small graces in the day.
We will wash the grit of loss for each other.

I am your mama, and your future is the story of a storm.
I am your cabin, your boots, your rucksack.