Libations in the Cracks: a Warm Data People Need People series

You are warmly invited to a series of online People Need People Warm Data gatherings from September to November, 2024.

It's been said we are each of us on a journey—viewed as our own by many—but we are living a story of stories. Multiple, layered stories we were bathed and are immersed within. Some stories are told to us explicitly, and others adopted in imitation in order to survive. Many of us were nursed on stories of individuality, separation, and division despite the interdependent nature of the transmission.

We are shaped by this early and ongoing story-ing, and in turn, shape our existence and relationships through the varied times and environments of our living. Our stories are interwoven, layered, garment-like patterns retold to others and ourselves, not only in voiced words. So many are invisible to us, yet exert great power.

Developed by Nora Bateson, People Need People Warm Data sessions offer a novel, playful experience that welcomes the full complexity of ourselves in a way that invites the sharing of some of these stories. An opportunity to see ourselves, not only revealed in our own responses, but also in the resonating tone and experience of other's stories. What might be possible when your story changes my story?

You are invited into mutual learning, wonderment, and curiosity in the midst of the divisive stories that have entrained us. Warm Data gatherings nurture connection without negating sense of self or identity, and perhaps offer a shifted sense of the stories we hold and inhabit.

Join us in the oasis-like sanctuary of four People Need People sessions conducted from September to November. You are welcome to register for as many or as few as you like.

Host or Publisher The International Bateson Institute (IBI)