You are warmly invited to a heartfelt, caring exploration of the unprecedented systems change we live through.

Warm Data Labs and People Need People are story-weaving experiences that move from “life stories” to “stories alive in me.” The former is a practice and sometimes a rehearsal of what I might say or share about myself to others, influenced by the “right way” to tell about myself. The latter is relayed best through metaphor – like water seeping into the dry earth – filling cracks slowly. Something familiar in someone else’s story softens the soil around a story of mine. Perhaps I forgot my exact story by accident or perhaps on purpose. Regardless of the reason, it is ready to be shared now. These stories are often familiar and not about what I studied or worked on. Instead, these stories are wonderful and warm surprises of what I have lived and experienced. Each Warm Data experience is unique and different. The experience is co-created with other participants and opens possibilities in ways we can’t predict. Warm Data Labs are in-person experiences and People Need People is facilitated online.

Want the online experience?

Join us for People Need People Weaving Communities.

It’s a historical time and everything feels unpredictable and uncertain. These are the times we are living through, so how do we live within these complex times? How do we meet what is already wild? How do we center love and care in an increasingly silo’d existence?

Weaving is a potent option. We offer People Need People online practice with invitations to members of Bayo Akomolafe’s community (Vunja!), Rev. angel Kyodo williams’ community (Liberated Life), Resmaa Menakem’s community (Black Octopus Society) and the Social Presencing Theater facilitator community (Presencing Institute and Theory U.) We have also extended invitations to the Monterey Bay Meditation Studio and a few other groups.

Join our People Need People – Weaving Communities where English will be the shared language and no preparation is required. All sessions below are on Mondays from 12-2PM ET. Please register, at no cost, for each session that works for you. 

Note: The data collected during registration will be used to help us understand how the experience is being woven back into community. Further, you may opt-in to e-mails about future Warm Data Offerings in person and/or on-line. Your data will not be shared and you have options to opt-out.

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December 8, 2025

“Hope lies in the very fact that, as living beings, we are made for relationship. It is only possible to express our humanity in relationship to other human beings. We exude warm data in our eyes, our smiles, our verbal and non-verbal conversations, and the importance we attune to relationships with others at the personal, family, and community levels and in local, national, and global contexts. We also can reach into ancient wisdom to add to our store of warm data and the capabilities unleashed when ‘I see you in me and me in you’. Our well-being and that of our planet is possible only if we permit ourselves to perceive and embrace the rich expressions of who we are as living human communities and to find a way in relationship. This will require warmth and rigorous attention to relational integrity above the anxiety to control.”

– Nora Bateson