SYSTEMIC PRACTICE CONFERENCE Unveiling Minds : A Revolution in Mental Health & Neurodivergent Wellness
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KEYNOTE: MONOCROPPING OF PERCEPTION AND ECOLOGY OF PERCEPTION
When we think of neurotypical and neurodivergent descriptions, what is being obscured?
Neuro-divergent: is a response to many aspects of changes life and living has to offer.
Change, learning, healing, new ways of living - these are the banners of the era of polycrisis. As families, communities and cultures are faced with struggles from many contexts, the call for systemic change grows ever more urgent. Economic, political, ecological, technological, health and mental health crises are saturating our daily lives. And yet, even as the cry for change grows more intense, there is a paradoxical attachment to the idea that there is a definable way of being that is what can be called, “normal” or “healthy” - Like the way monocropping agriculture produces high yields while destroying the soil and future generations of harvest… What if what is most needed right now is the precious possibility of seeing things from other perspectives brought by those whose perceptions are different? What if what has been normalized is actually obscuring the necessary ecologies of multiple forms of perception that are necessary for mutual on-going learning? There are many ways to perceive the world around us. If you had been born 15,000 years ago, what sorts of daily experiences would you have been sensitized to? What would your hands spend the day holding, making? Likewise, people from other cultures or generations have vastly differing perceptions of the world from each other. Perhaps the stretch to commune with people who perceive the world differently brings vital new learning into what is possible to perceive. We need an ecology of perceptions to bring vitality to our lives today, and to future generations. Join me in our efforts to rewire our perceptions that can broaden our ‘perceiving’ and knowing of difference…
Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, educator, international lecturer, as well as founder and Director of Research and Exhibition of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. She is also the creator of warm data, and warm data practices. She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, ‘An Ecology of Mind’, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Nora’s speaking engagements include keynote addresses and lectures at international conferences and universities on a wide range of topics that span the fields of anti-fascism, ecology, education, the arts, family therapy, leadership, and many more aspects of advocacy for living systems — she travels between conversations in different fields bringing multiple perspectives into view to reveal larger patterns. Her first book, ‘Small Arcs of Larger Circles’, released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity. In her latest book, ‘Combining’, Nora invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity.
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