Nora Bateson is President of the International Bateson Institute, teacher of complex living systems, research designer for the study of complex living systems, and founder of the Warm Data Lab. She is the author of “Small Arcs of Larger Circles” and director/producer of the award-winning film “An Ecology of Mind”. She is member of the Club of Rome.

Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. Tyson is author of the recently published “Sand Talk”.

Amanda Tattersall is an internationally recognised community organiser, a researcher at the University of Sydney, and the host of ChangeMakers Podcast. Amanda was the founding director of Sydney Alliance, Co-Founder of Get-Up, and Deputy-Assistant Secretary, Unions NSW. She is the author of “Power in Coalition”.

Sam Rye has worked in the public, private, academic, NGO and the social enterprise sectors. He is now specialising in social and environmental innovation with a focus on supporting people to work in complexity, to make better decisions, design better programs and services, and communicate their direction.

Wednesdays 6.00-8.00pm*

23rd Sep / 21st Oct / 18th Nov / 16th Dec

*NOTE: Times are shown in AEST (UTC+10) for September 23 and Australian Daylight Saving Time (UTC+11) for October 21, November 18 and December 16.

Registration is essential to receive the login link

WARM DATA ONLINE • OCT 1 - 15 - 29 - NOV 12 - 26 • 5.30-7.30 pm (ADST)*

Join us in an inquiry into sense-making

Over five fortnightly sessions we will dive into deepening conversations using People need People (PnP), an online 'warm data' group process developed by the Bateson Institute, to explore the multiple interdependencies of our place in the Earth system.

This is the context for humankind's encounter with the unknowns and dangers and creative possibilities of systemic change in the Anthropocene Transition. 

Pre-covid-19 ‘normalcy’ is over.

What is this telling us about what it means to be alive at this time?

How do we learn to transition together?

In these conversations we will exchange stories, perceptions and imaginings. We will share...

• the various ways in which we are each trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world;

• how these changes are rippling through the multiple contexts of our lives;

• what is being revealed within the complex dynamics of climate disruption, covid-19, great power rivalries, biodiversity loss, mass migration, and poverty; 

• in what ways are the contexts of creativity, politics, social learning, power, big data, planetary health, war, economics, artificial intelligence, spirituality, the more-than-human world, and love interacting?

This series of participatory conversations will be held on Zoom. The first conversation starts on October 1 at 5.30-7.30pm*. Subsequent sessions will be each fortnight on October 15 and 29 and November 12 and 26.

* NOTE: Times are Australian Daylight Saving Time (UTC+11)

Your facilitators, all International Bateson Institute accredited Warm Data hosts, will be:

You are invited to register for all five conversations

Caring for Three Environmental Domains of the Anthropocene

The Earth System

The Technosphere

Extra-planetary Space

We welcome three guest presenters to lead a seminar in which they will explore three interactive environmental domains of the Anthropocene. Their aim is to offer a framework for holistic systems insights into the possible future environmental journeys of today’s youth.

Genna, John and Monica bring their different disciplinary perspectives to a transdisciplinary inquiry into emerging challenges for environmental care.

Online Seminar 

Wednesday 28th October 

4.30-6.00pm Daylight Saving Time (UTC+11:00)

Register here to receive the Zoom link

ATN Dialogue Circles

"Thinking Together"

The Anthropocene Transition Network is currently convening two monthly online Dialogue Circles, one with the inquiry focus: Living in the Anthropocene, the other on Creative Transformation.

Bohmian Dialogue is a freely flowing group conversation in which participants explore a common theme by experiencing everyone's point of view fully, equally and non-judgementally. This can lead to new and deeper shared insights and understanding. The Dialogue method was first proposed by English physicist David Bohm.

To join or form a new Dialogue Circle you are invited to first participate in an Introduction to Dialogue workshop which is offered when there is sufficient interest.

Follow this link to register your interest...

The Anthropocene Transition Hub is an online community membership platform

Some recent posts include:

• Creating Spaces for Support, Creativity, and Inspiration – from Emergence Magazine

• What futures are you living into being? (video with Joe Brewer, Regenerative Communities)

• Gaia Versus the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Dorion Sagan

• Re.Think Talks: Sense-making in Crisis (video with Owen Gaffney, Stockholm Resilience Centre)

• Coming Back Down to Earth: Exploring Distress, Loss and Grief in the Anthropocene

• Celebrating and Sharing Martuwarra Country and Peoples – Assets in Common for Our Common Good

• Why We Need to Declare a Global Climate Emergency Now (Johan Rockstrom, Financial Times)

• Reinhabiting the Future with Jason Twill (ATN video)

• Living in the Time of Dying - a documentary with Jim Bendall, Catherine Ingram, Dhar Jamail and Stan Rushworth

CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE AND REQUEST TO JOIN (IT'S FREE!)