Warm Data Lab in Preservation Park

Join Aasim Shabazz, Jessica Groupman, and Sahra Bateson Brubeck for a Warm Data Lab on Tuesday, November 18th, in Preservation Park. This event is being generously cohosted by the 2025 Nonprofit Software Development Summit.

As the many overlapping crises of this era intensify, so too does the imperative to meet them. The possibility for responding together is not based in how much people know, or who knows what. The possibility is in people improvising together. To cope and thrive in the changing landscape of today’s world calls us forth to relate with each other in ways we have never done before. The cultivation of new collective possibilities begins with exploring the way we mutually learn as we perceive and make sense of our world.

While there are no straightforward solutions to our collective problems, when we pay attention to our senses, our relationships with one another, and our curiosity, the difference between how things combine within you and how they combine within me allows new collective perceptions to emerge.

Warm Data Labs offer space for conversations that nurture mutual learning in transcontextual ways. Expect to enjoy listening to others’ enriching stories, be surprised by what you feel inspired to share, random bursts of laughter that sometimes breakout, and the possible emergence of deep insights.

No special skills or know-how is required to participate. You’re invited and encouraged to show up as your totally flawed, infinitely complex, living system of a whole self. Join us for a heartfelt, caring exploration of the changing world we are living in, through mutual learning and the full living complexity of who you are. Participation is not dependent on knowledge or skill. Bring your curiosity and your stories.

Light refreshments will be provided ☕️

What’s a Warm Data Lab? Developed by Nora Bateson, these gatherings are like the best after-dinner conversations you’ve ever had, with people you may have never met. Participants share their stories and observations about a common question, moving between small groups to explore the day’s topic from different directions. Everyone moves whenever and wherever their curiosity takes them, listening to and creating new points of view. In the last half-hour we come back together as one group and share what we’ve noticed, weaving together the sense we’ve been making.

What is Warm Data? https://youtu.be/f8tTax7ad9g?si=UvGvVMdP2aNOxIDP&t=147