“The most important task of this moment is to generate a base of people who are eager to practice perceiving the complexity and interdependency in every aspect of our lives.”
~ Nora Bateson
You are warmly invited to a heartfelt, caring exploration of the unprecedented systems change we are living through. In this gathering, we’ll relate in a new way to what we notice – a way of relating and noticing that makes a difference.
People Need People Sessions are online versions of Warm Data Labs — conversations in which individuals share their stories and experiences. A creation of Nora Bateson and facilitated by certified Hosts, PNP sessions create a container for Hosts and Participants to practice being in relationship across all dimensions of our lives, including relationship with ourselves. What emerges has been described as “indescribable, subtle, and profound.”
The experience is co-created as a collective experience and opens possibilities in ways we can’t predict. Amidst these vastly changing times, the experience invites deep connection to one another.
“There will be no community without first communing.”
~ Nora Bateson
Registration is FREE
Each session is a stand-alone experience – come to one, two, or all. Please register for each session separately.
Invite your friends and experience a new way of being together.
May 11, 9-11 a.m (Pacific)
June 8, 9-11 a.m. (Pacific)
August 10, 9-11 a.m. (Pacific)
September 14, 9-11 a.m. (Pacific)
October 12, 9-11 a.m. (Pacific)
November 9, 9-11 a.m. (Pacific)
December 14, 9-11 a.m. (Pacific)
These sessions are facilitated by Certified People Need People Hosts (trained by Nora Bateson), including Marianne Rowe (MBMS Co-Founding Teacher), who participated in the Spring 2024 certification training.
“Beginning to embrace new thinking, warmer thinking – in relationships will nourish a new version of solidarity to participate in a world of vibrant, creative, and unimagined change.”
~ Nora Bateson
Host: Marianne Rowe, along with other Certified People Need People Hosts
Monday, Mar. 9, 2026
9 - 11 am Pacific (online)
Free
Marianne Rowe
As a humane being, co-founding teacher of Monterey Bay Meditation Studio, and licensed marriage and family therapist, Marianne Rowe is dedicated to cultivating eco-systemic consciousness and living in-cahoots with Earth, Cosmos, and Life in all forms. Marianne’s insatiable love of learning has led her into certifications as a nature & forest therapy guide, eco-therapist, California naturalist, and Authentic Relating facilitator, along with certifications in eco-psychology, climate stewardship and climate psychology. She has been practicing meditation since the last century and teaching mindfulness meditation to children and adults since 2006. Her sense of belonging and aliveness is sourced and deepened through walks, sits, and gazing with the Pacific Ocean, forest, night skies, along with evolutionary, envisioning conversations with beloved friends and colleagues. www.mariannerowe.net
This course is part of the Spirituality/Evolution of Consciousness and Relationships Currents.
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