As a part of our Foresight and Futures series we invite you to delve into The Opposite of Noise: Engaging with Variety for Positive Change with author Sarah Freiesleben.

Sarah’s work takes us on an interdisciplinary journey exploring the nature of dynamic systems and how this understanding, combined with using varieties of sensemaking inherent to our humanity, are essential to delivering successful projects, reshaping systems from within, making meaningful change, and living purposefully.

The book serves as an invitation for innovators, changemakers and leaders who sense that traditional problem solving approaches do not meet the complexity they face to reframe what many dismiss as “noise” as “useful variety”, essential raw material for insight, innovation, and ethical action.

On this afternoon we will hear from Sarah about why she believes working with (instead of against) complexity is useful both for improving the ways that we work together and for connecting unusual possibilities to solve better problems and design more expansive solutions.

Her work is a call to reclaim our human capacity for nuanced, relational, context-sensitive sensemaking so we can meet complexity with wisdom rather than reductionism and create conditions for meaningful, ethical, transformational change.

At the event, we will not just hear Sarah talk about relational awareness but will work together to create it. The event will include a “warm data lab” (concept by Nora Bateson), where participants will co-create and tune into their own beautiful complexity together.

Please join us to imagine better possibilities.