Unraveling Complexity: Improving our perception for a better world with Nora Bateson
How can we improve our perception of the complexity we live within to improve our interaction with the world around us?
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In this conversation, Small Giants Academy co-founder Berry Liberman will be chatting with creator of the Warm Data theory, Nora Bateson. Together, they'll be exploring our relationship with complexity, and how we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within to improve our interaction with the world.
Turn this wisdom into action
Turn this wisdom into action
- Head to the The Bateson Institute website to find our more about Nora’s work or read her books, Combining or Small Arcs of larger cities
- Register your EOI for our upcoming May Masterclass with Nora.
- You can read the ‘Sacred Communication’ document here.
- Looking to lead more naturally and intergratively? Register for the 'Interconnected Leader' program commencing 14 March.
- Join our team & Nora for the upcoming Impact Safari Scandinavia 'The Future of cities and the meta crisis’ in May.
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Meet Nora
Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, educator, international lecturer, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. She is the creator of the Warm Data theory and practices. Nora’s work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems.
She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father Gregory Bateson.
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 second 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.
She was the recipient of the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity in 2019.
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Meet Berry
Berry Liberman is a pioneering impact investor, businesswoman, philanthropist, storyteller and filmmaker. As co-founder of Australia’s first B-Corporation, the Small Giants Family Office, Berry and her husband Danny Almagor create and support media, investment, and education initiatives with the purpose of moving towards a Next Economy model: supporting human flourishing within our collective natural limits.
Berry was the editor in chief and publisher of Dumbo Feather for 12 years and is the creative director of Small Giants Academy, an educational initiative providing courses in progressive business, investing, and leadership.
She is an accomplished speaker, interviewer and thought leader on the Next Economy. Berry’s radical curiosity and intelligence are as expansive as her big-hearted love for people and planet alike. With warmth, humour and deep relatability, Berry urges leaders from all sectors to face a changing economy before it’s too late to have that choice.
