Wisdom Webinar: Pella Thiel

Small Giants Academy is excited to host 'Conversations with Extraordinary People'
A webinar series with the worlds most extraordinary and leading thinkers.
Together, we will explore the question “How might we reimagine our world to create the conditions for shared thriving for all of humanity and all living things?” 

In this conversation, Small Giants Academy co-founder Berry Liberman will be chatting with Swedish ecologist, activist and systems thinker, Pella Thiel.

Guided by the lens of ecological jurisprudence - a field that reimagines legal systems as embedded within, and accountable to, living ecological systems - Pella draws parallels between this emerging legal paradigm and the revolutionary leap from Newtonian to quantum physics. Referencing the work of Alessandro Pelizzon, she suggests that ecological jurisprudence offers a transformative worldview shift that we’ve yet to fully culturally absorb.

Berry will also speak with Pella about her work with the international movement to criminalise ecocide, highlighting the potential for small island states to lead the global effort and the critical opportunity for Australia to engage. What unfolds is an intimate, intellectually rigorous, and deeply hopeful discussion about reimagining institutions—not as rigid fortresses of the past, but as living systems capable of evolving with integrity, purpose, and renewed trust in service of both people and the planet.

Meet Pella Thiel:

Pella Thiel is a maverick ecologist, part-time farmer, full-time activist and teacher in ecopsychology. She is the co-founder of Swedish hubs of international networks like Swedish Transition Network and End Ecocide Sweden and a knowledge expert in the UN Harmony with Nature programme. Pella works with relational, systemic leadership for a society in harmony with nature at all levels, from local resilience to international legal frameworks, and serves as one of the knowledge experts in the UN Harmony with Nature programmes. Pella was awarded the Swedish Martin Luther King Award in 2023 and the Environmental Hero of the year 2019.

You can learn more about Pella here, and listen more about the Ecocide and Rights of Nature Movements in Pella’s conversation with Nate Hagens here.

Meet Berry Liberman:

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.

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