Sense making in uncertain times - a conversation series

Are you looking for a space where you can explore our interconnected world and strengthen your sense making skills?

Are you wanting to move past polarity and recognise the complexity?

Join us to better perceive and make sense of the complex times we are in.

Following an introductory session at Spark Festival - Australia's Festival of Innovation - we're deepening our collective exploration and sense-making over two further sessions in 2020.

The first on the 24th of November and the second on the 8th of December, both run from 12.30pm to 2pm AEDT.

If it wasn’t already obvious - COVID, the recent bushfire crisis, climate change - are all revealing how our own wellbeing is inextricably linked to the wellbeing of others and the planet. These crises are showing up social divides, racism and privilege; inviting us to look more closely at our ways of relating to each other and how the most vulnerable are cared for.

How can we sharpen our perception of these inextricable links, this systemic interdependence, and the relationships between the many contexts – health, education, economy, family, ecology, culture, identity and many others - that are in flux right now?

What will shape our response to this moment? What awareness, assumptions, beliefs and perceptions will we bring, as we find a way forward together?  

We’ll be exploring the questions; What is essential? and What is being revealed? through multiple contexts using the simple but profound process - People Need People Online – a virtual Warm Data session.

The warm data process familiarizes groups of people with the ways in which the contexts of their lives marinate and overlap into each other and it offers an introduction to the complexity of their own lives, so that they may better see the complexity of others. Through this discovery people begin to see how vital it is to tend to their families, communities and the land, and they are able to respond to emergencies with warmth…

Our well-being and that of our planet is possible only if we permit ourselves to perceive and embrace the rich expressions of who we are as living human communities and to find a way, in relationship. This will require warmth and rigorous attention to relational integrity above the anxiety to control.

Nora Bateson, President, International Bateson Institute, and Mamphela Ramphele in Finding a Way

We’ll be relating in a new way to what we are noticing, a way that makes a difference. We are no longer striving to see and make change; we are in it. The old normalcy is not something to go back to, because it’s what got us here.

Now is a time to learn together, to tend to the relational soil and cultivate its vitality, creating the conditions for new responses to emerge. Responses that are born and grow from a rich and complex relational space.  

Innovators and entrepreneurs, trail blazers, change makers, mavericks and all those who care about our wellbeing and the planet, are invited into this space to better perceive these interconnected and complex challenges in new ways.  

10% of your ticket price will be donated to the International Bateson Institute.