*Listening Differently: Warm Data & Ears of the Heart

You are invited to join us for your choice of a half day or full day of shared inquiry, reflection, and connection through the interrelated practices of Warm Data and Ears of the Heart with a focus on Children, Youth, families and Communities.

A Warm Data Lab,
Is an interdisciplinary, lightly facilitated space designed to support collective reflection and contextual awareness in times of increasing complexity. Its also a unique process that helps people become aware of the contextual and relational information that affect all of our lives: It doesn’t isolate variables or seek answers to put out spot fires: but holds the complexity of many contexts simultaneously to allow people to sense into the ways that systems we have created impact our lives in so many ways.
We’re living in a time when many of us want to help—our families, our communities, our friends and the other than human world
And yet, the more we try to fix what feels broken, the more we sense something deeper is being missed.

Ears of the Heart is an Indigenous-informed way of listening, and a way of being.
This practice asks us to take our ears from our heads and “find them in our hearts.” When we listen in this way, we connect with our own Indigeneity—our deep belonging to place, to story, and to one another.

“It’s not in the fleshy part of us we call the heart. It’s a place we have become disconnected from in the ‘Munta’ (Walmatjarri language),
but it’s still there—we’ve just forgotten, forgotten who we are.”
Kankawa Nagarra, Goonyandi, Walmatjarri and Bunuba Elder.

This is not a day for quick fixes or easy answers. It’s a half day or a full day to listen—across difference, across systems, across generations.
To notice what is being revealed in these times, and to ask how we might respond with care, humility, and relational integrity.