Hosted by Small Giants in partnership with Purpose Conference
Sensemaking in the Meta-Crisis
How to be of service in troubled times
Sarah Wilson and Berry Liberman discuss the Meta-Crisis we are currently facing and how we can step up to shape change.
Past Event: Webinar Thu 19th Oct 2023, 6:00pm - 7:00pm AEDT
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Show notes
Subscribe to Sarah’s incredible substack and her WILD podcast. Her interview with Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian peace builder, is such an important and timely conversation.
Sarah also shared this NYT article on social media, and on this topic Danny penned this letter as a reminder to not lose our humanity
Learn more about ‘Above the line and below the line’ from our friends at the Global leadership Foundation. Gayle is a faculty on our Mastery of Business and Empathy program. We’ll look to host a Masterclass to go deeper on Above & Below the line – if you’d be interested register here.
Kaj Löfgren, our Entrepreneur in Residence at the Small Giants Academy explains the Three Horizons
You can read about Berry’s reflections on the recent Scandinavia sensemaking trip. We’ll be hosting another in 2024, if you’d like more information, click here.
Books to delve into: Walking the Tiger by Peter Levine, God is an Octopus by Ben Goldsmith; Wifedom by Anna Funder, and Sarah’s book, This One Wild and Precious Life,
We love this mediation from Roshi Joan Halifax: Encountering Grief from our friends at On Being Project.
Lastly, music to suit all moods. Check out Riley Lee and Sanctuary (Music from a Zen Garden) or Sarah’s created a dancing & running playlist – please add to it!
Our guest Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is a multi-New York Times and Amazon best-selling author, podcaster, international keynote speaker, philanthropist and climate change advisor.
Sarah is known globally for founding the I Quit Sugar movement – a digital wellness program with 13 award-winning books that sell in 52 countries – which saw millions around the world transform their health. In 2022 Sarah sold the business and gave everything to charity.
Listen to Sarah and Berry on the Dumbo Feather podcast Listen here
Take a look at Sarah’s book
This one wild and precious life.
Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us - that deep down, we are all feeling that same itch for a new way of living. this one wild and precious life opens our eyes to how we got here and offers a radically hopeful path forward. Drawing on science, literature, philosophy, the wisdom of some of the world's leading experts, and her personal journey, Wilson weaves a one-of-a-kind narrative that lights the way back to the life we love. En route, she leads us through a series of 'wildly awake' and joyful practices.
Sarah Wilson is a multi-New York Times and Amazon best-selling author, podcaster, thought leader, minimalist, philanthropist and climate advisor.
Sarah’s New York Times bestseller First, We Make the Beast Beautiful is described by Mark Manson as “the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read” and was featured as a book of the year on NBC’s Today Show. Sarah’s most recent title, This One Wild & Precious Life, won the 2021 US Gold Nautilus Award.
In a “previous life” Sarah was the editor of Cosmopolitan Australia and host of Masterchef Australia, a News Corp journalist and opinion columnist. Sarah is known globally for founding the I Quit Sugar movement - which saw millions around the world transform their health. In 2022, Sarah sold the business and gave all proceeds to charity.
Sarah now hosts the thought-leading podcast Wild with Sarah Wilson, where she continues the conversation started in TOWPL, through deep conversations with philosophers, creatives, poets, and scientists on the big questions that haunt us.
Sarah is committed to driving a global conversation on sustainability and climate change. Her passion extends to promoting resilience, living a life of value, and leading positive change. Through her various platforms and initiatives, Sarah utilises her resources to raiseawareness and inspire action in these critical areas.
Berry Liberman along with her husband Danny founded Small Giants. Berry is a pioneering impact investor, businesswoman, philanthropist, storyteller and filmmaker.
With one of the most recognisable family names in Australian business circles, Berry is using her financial capital to make a positive impact in the world. She does this in service to future generations.
Berry is an accomplished speaker, thought-leader and creative spirit whose radical curiosity and intelligence is as sharp as her heart is big.
Berry and her husband Danny have co-founded and seeded many next economy businesses in several sectors including the built environment, venture capital, regenerative agriculture, financial services, nature-based climate solutions and energy systems. Their impact funds, Impact Investment Group and Sentient Impact Group have moved fortunes towards impact as pioneers and leaders in this space.
Berry believes in the power of storytelling to ‘heal us and give us a vision of a way forward’ and, for over a decade, has interviewed hundreds of the world’s deepest thinkers, philosophers, business leaders and change-makers. Her insights are profound.
Berry’s work has been recognised through several awards including B Lab’s Hal Taussig Award and the United Nations’ Shared Values Award.