Join us to explore the changes we’re living through and how they’re affecting us, our communities and our world. Be part of extraordinary conversations that reveal to each of us important aspects of what we’re experiencing. Bring your curiosity and your stories.

What happens in a Warm Data Lab?

A Warm Data gathering is like the best after-dinner conversations you’ve ever had, with people you may have never met. Participants share their stories and observations about a common question, moving between small groups to explore the day’s topic from different directions. Everyone moves whenever and wherever their curiosity takes them, listening to and creating new points of view. In the last half-hour we come back together as one group and share what we’ve noticed, weaving together the sense we’ve been making.

A bit more background.

“How do we think our way through the messes we’re in when the way we think is part of the mess?”

– Nora Bateson - Originator of Warm Data Labs

In these turbulent times many of us feel we’re standing on unstable ground. Making sense together helps us see fresh possibilities for being OK within our changing world.

"I suddenly glimpsed a new way of seeing as I listened to someone else describing her sense of the complexities we all live in right now". It can be confusing to be in our world. We find ourselves confronted by challenges that include bushfires, droughts, social inequity, loneliness…and COVID-19 has shown us all how one tiny virus can change our lives completely.

You are warmly invited to a heartfelt, caring exploration of the changing world we are living in. We are no longer striving to see and make change; we are in it. One participant said recently "I'm leaving my first Warm Data session feeling joined-with, sort of expanded, more hopeful." Another replied "I don't want it to stop. Putting your own words to something means you can hear yourself differently. You get to see what's important to you in the midst of everything".

People are welcome to stay and chat at the end.

For COVID-19 safety reasons we request that at the event you:

practice physical distancing by keeping 1.5 metres between you and a person not known to you and keeping close contact to under 15 minutes
practice hand hygiene by washing your hands or using hand sanitiser
if feeling unwell stay home
be prepared to complete a contact register.

Transport

The is ample parking at the venue. Several bus routes run along Manning Road nearby

Below some Reference Information:

"Finding a Way: Will Peoples' Responses to the Emergencies of the Coming Decades be Warm? Or Cold?" by Nora Bateson and Mamphela Ramphele
Nicholas Tan's longer description of "My first warm data lab"
An article sharing descriptions of Warm Data through several participants' perspectives
ABC Radio Interview with Co- Host - Fiona Brooks - Warm data reference is at 24 minutes: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/perth/programs/focus/big-talk/12662076