From what I can glean in Bateson’s article and what I have heard about Warm
Data, what happens does sound parallel to what occurs when people meet in Open
Space.
I find her writing frustrating. But when one is attempting to give language to
new ideas, it’s rough. The effort falls into a
Thanks for sharing this Jeff. I have known about Nora's work for sometime
and although I don't fully understand it yet I think what I do know of it,
it's great.).
WHy does she choose the words she chooses? I think because this is how she
has come to an understanding about the simple truths that
Also I note that Nora is still very early in the practice of a methodology
that she invented (I think.)
Maybe it's like the first five-ten years of OST as folks were figuring out
what the hell this is all about... : )
And from the lens of an artist and family therapy researcher whose father
was
Hi Birgitt. My first guess is that it serves practitioners to be simple,
while it serves systems scientists to be complicated or complex.
They are writing about living systems at all scales and making very subtle
distinctions.
It may serve us practitioners to have some appreciation for the
One more email - I was amiss to mention this new theory by Nora, without
defining the word she is introducing, and she finds occurring in Warm Data
Lab and I think is true in OST too.
It is "a way to describe a life giving process, by which vitality, healing,
and creativity come into being by the
