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

​​– Nora Bateson

​​Climate Week is full of urgency, solutions, and data. But many of the challenges we face aren’t just technical—they’re relational and systemic. They live in how we meet each other and how we perceive the living systems we’re part of. Before diving into the "cold data" and urgent solutioning, warm up in community at a Warm Data Lab.

​​Join us on the Eve of SF Climate Week for a Warm Data Lab!

​​This is an invitation to hang out, share stories, slow down, together. To arrive as you are, with all your messy complexity and whole selves.

​​To step out of fixing, faster, fragmentation, and into a space for collective conversation across contexts. To create conditions for new perceptions and the soil for new ideas.

​​After exploring an ecology of communication, you're warmly welcome to stay and weave ecologies of rhythm with reggae and contact improv following the Lab! (link below)

​​What’s a Warm Data Lab??

​​Warm Data Lab experiences have been described as a “kaleidoscope of conversation,” packed with enriching stories, laughter, and insight.

​​Warm Data Labs, developed by Nora Bateson, are hosted conversations that explore the interconnections between complex systems. They are not about solving or debating—but about noticing. Through multiple perspectives, we begin to sense the deeper patterns shaping the issues we care about.

​​Warm Data Labs can help strengthen and practice our collective ability to perceive, discuss, and hold complex issues.

​​The Flow

​​5-5:30 - Arrival, warming, and welcoming (with some intro music)

​​​5:30-6:30 - The Lab itself (storytelling, moving between conversations, self-directed)

​​​6:30-7 - Mutual learning & closing

​​7-7:30 - Mingling and continued weaving

​​​7:30+ Stay for reggae and contact improv, if you like!

​​No expertise or preparation required—just bring your curiosity and presence, and a friend!

​​Who Should Attend

​​​Everyone is welcome to a Warm Data Lab. Like a jungle, the more perspectives in the space, the more Life is possible!

​​Professionals, innovators, organizers, educators, farmers, public servants, young and old alike.

​​​What to Expect

​​This is a conversational experience, listening to stories, and telling them if you like.

​​It is self-directed, come as you are, move when you're ready.

​​The Lab itself is an experience, best experienced as a whole, so try to stay for the full 90 minutes.

​​This Warm Data Lab is brought to you by Sahra Brubeck Bateson, Jessica Groopman, Bobby Fishkin, and the Mabuhey Gardens in the heart of North Beach, San Francisco.

​Location

​Mabuhay Gardens, 435 Broadway

​San Francisco, CA 94133, USA, themab.org. Mabuhay Gardens is a center of regeneration, creativity and joy.

​A short walk from Montgomery BART, easily accessible by bus, allot time to park your car.

​After the Warm Data Lab, please feel warmly welcome to stay for Fluid Dance: Reggae Contact Improv Juliana Mendonca & Zane Groshelle (Dance Facilitator / Reggae Collaboration)- Friday, April 17, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM https://luma.com/sdd5k6l8.

​By registering for this event, you agree to share your registration information with the organizers of SF Climate Week.