Warm Data, Living Systems argues that the polycrisis confronting our world — climate disruption, health-system strain, social fragmentation, political polarization, ecological decay — is not primarily a failure of information but a failure of perception. Modern institutions rely on cold data: information extracted from context, quantified, isolated, and optimized. But living systems — bodies, families, communities, cultures, ecosystems — do not operate through parts; they operate through relationships. Warm Data, a practice developed within the Bateson lineage and advanced by Nora Bateson, cultivates the capacity to perceive these transcontextual relationships, revealing the patterns that underlie complexity, coherence, and regeneration.
This book integrates Warm Data with coherence biology, Caribbean climate and health resilience, double bind theory, schismogenesis, relational psychology, and life-value axiology. Drawing on experiences in medicine, disaster readiness, and community systems, it offers a relational operating system for meeting crises without matching them. Through case studies, stories, and practical rhythms for families, clinicians, communities, and institutions, the book demonstrates how coherence can be restored across scales — from cells to societies. Warm Data provides not a blueprint but a way of seeing, sensing, and living that enables people and systems to recover responsiveness, dignity, and regenerative possibility. In an era of accelerating complexity, this shift in perception may be our most essential form of resilience.
