Schismogenesis, Fragmentation, Polarization, and the Metacrisis

Schedule

Wed Sep 17 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

81 Broadway St | Asheville, NC

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Daniel Schmachtenberger and Nora Bateson in Conversation for a special event.
About this Event

The International Bateson Insitute and the Civilisation Research Institute presents a special evening lecture with Daniel Schmachtenberger and Nora Bateson

Schismo=Break Genesis= Create

Polarization, manipulation of communication, and breaking the relationships between people who might otherwise be helping one another… these are a few of the consequences of particular communication and relational patterns that have been named Schismogenesis: or how systems break. In this time, as humanity faces existential metacrisis, familiarity with this concept and ways to practice response to loosen the grip of schismogenic traps are vital.



About the Speakers:

Nora Bateson is an educator, writer, and artist who uses multiple forms expression in her teaching on how ecological systems change. She is the creator of Warm Data and the Warm Data Lab practices which are used worldwide toward shifting perception and cognition to include the interrealtionships in complex systems. The warm data work is currently used in communities around the world as they face polycrisis or metacrisis of these times polticially, financially, ecologically, medically, emotionally, technologically and intellectually

Daniel Schmachtenberger is the founder of the Civilization Research Initiative focused on finding a way through the twin attractors of increasing global catastrophic risks and control dystopias, addressing the underlying drivers of each and the unanticipated effects of our aggregate choices.



All ticket sales from this event are being donated to local causes.

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81 Broadway St, 81 Broadway Street, Asheville, United States

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