Schismogenesis, Fragmentation, Polarization, and the Metacrisis

Polarization, manipulation of communication, and breaking the relationships between people who might otherwise be helping one another… these are a few of the consequences of particular communication and relational patterns that have been named Schismogenesis: or how systems break. In this time, as humanity faces existential metacrisis, familiarity with this concept and ways to practice response to loosen the grip of schismogenic traps are vital.

About the Speakers:

Nora Bateson is an educator, writer, and artist who uses multiple forms expression in her teaching on how ecological systems change. She is the creator of Warm Data and the Warm Data Lab practices which are used worldwide toward shifting perception and cognition to include the interrealtionships in complex systems. The warm data work is currently used in communities around the world as they face polycrisis or metacrisis of these times polticially, financially, ecologically, medically, emotionally, technologically and intellectually

Daniel Schmachtenberger is the founder of the Civilization Research Initiative focused on finding a way through the twin attractors of increasing global catastrophic risks and control dystopias, addressing the underlying drivers of each and the unanticipated effects of our aggregate choices.

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