Read more about the book launch and why you should participate.
Join us 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 June 3rd 16.00-18.00. Event will include light refreshments.
Wedensday, 3 June 2026
16:00 to 18:00 CET (Malmö)
Media Evolution City Malmö AB
Stora Varvsgatan 6a
211 19 Malmö
Participation in this event is free of charge.
TBA
Sarah Freiesleben helps leaders and teams design and execute transformational initiatives more successfully in complex contexts by helping them identify, navigate, and exploit emergent patterns.
With an advanced degree in linguistics and 18 years leading multi-national, cross-functional enterprise projects in a wide variety of industries, she believes we can (and must) solve better problems, better, by paying attention to relevant collective perspectives that are often overlooked.
Sarah joined Mannaz Consulting and Learning in February and works with all levels of leadership to develop the capabilities to use their agency, improve relational dynamics, and understand systemic patterns and constraints that could affect their ability to make decisions and execute strategy coherently.
Do your strategic transformations feel paralysed even though their ambition is noble? Are you not fully convinced that people being against change is the reason?
Are your complex projects drowning in competing perspectives, misaligned expectations, or “noise” that makes it hard to move forward with confidence?
At this event, we will explore how complex change requires developing situational awareness, how engaging with so called “noise” is energy consuming but necessary in certain contexts, and how to more effectively channel collective energy towards shared intentions, so your strategies, projects,
and innovations can finally move in the envisioned direction while being fully connected to a potentially ever changing reality.
If you have any further questions about the event, please feel free to contact one of us.
