Australia

Exploring Ancient Wisdom and Hopeful Futures

Join us in the antipodes at the edge of the world, the home to the oldest living culture on earth.

Dates
Mar 23, 2025
-
Apr 1, 2025
Duration
10 Days
Cost:
$10,950 AUD + GST
Pillars
Nature & Environment
Self & Belonging
Systems & Cities
Business & Economics

Impact Safari Australia: Ancient Wisdom & Hopeful Futures

Join us at edge of the world. Where ancient forest meets tustled coast, with a red heart and home to some of the worlds most livable cities.

From this ancient land we will learn about the local wisdom traditions of Indigenous culture, hike through a 100million year old temperate rainforest and meet some of Australia’s leading wisdom keepers.

Over 10 days, under the close guidance Small Giants Academy, travel through Central Australia to Melbourne, exploring the cultural-heart of the island on edge of the world, followed by a journey south to the pristine wilderness of lutruwita/Tasmania, experiencing the rich biodiversity and sacred cultural significance of takayna/ Tarkine and Preminghana, while engaging in deep conversation with those at the forefront of caring, protecting and living with these remarkable wild places.

Who is this program for?

Impact Safari Australia is for anyone interested in creating shifts in personal, organisational or cultural identities.

Whether you’re a public speaker, executive, community or organisational leader, artist, politician, activist, or marketing professional - engage in Impact Safari day to day life to influence behaviour and inspire change.

We have been fortunate enough to travel the globe exploring hopeful futures & impact, now it's time to invite you to our home to show you our Home of Impact.

Details

Key Questions we will explore:

  • How can beacon cities create pathways for other places to follow and how can systems thinking chart a new course?
  • What is the role of cities during the significant economic, social and ecological transition that we are going through?
  • What is 'The Good Society?'
  • What are the challenges facing First Nations communities and sustainability of land and culture?
  • How do we integrate and put at the Forefront, First Nations perspectives toward a joint vision for a Hopeful Future?
  • How do we activate wisdom & action toward a Hopeful Future?
Dates:
March 23, 2025
-
April 1, 2025
Duration:
10 Days
Location:
Australia

Itinerary

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Your Guides

Danny Almagor

Danny Almagor is co-founder (with his wife Berry) and the Executive Chair of Small Giants, the founder and former CEO of Engineers Without Borders Australia and is the co-founder and Chair of the Beyond Family Office as well as the Impact Investment Group, and more recently created Sentient Impact Group. He has mentored dozens of individuals and families through their impact investing journey and through his leadership of various impact funds and advisories, overseen over $5 billion towards impact directly, and supported well over $20b to move into the sector through his support of other’s journeys, particularly through the Journey to Impact Program. Danny has been passionate about building the impact ecosystem by creating (with the Small Giants team) over a dozen for profit and non-profit organisations including Giant Leap Venture Fund, B Labs Australia and New Zealand, The Sociable Weaver, The Impact Club, The Community Well, The School of Life Australia and Beyond Creative. He has also served on the boards or advisories of numerous other organisations such as The Cape ecovillage, Pacific Biotechnologies, the Jewish Museum of Australia, Stand Up, Smiling Mind, The Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan and Toniic.

Kaj Löfgren

Kaj (pronounced Kai) is the CEO of Regen Melbourne, an engine for ambitious collaboration, in service of Melbourne. Powered by an alliance of more than 200 organisations,  Regen Melbourne is the host of bold projects that are moving Melbourne towards a regenerative future.

Kaj is also the Director of Action Labs at Small Giants Academy where he leads the creation of new initiatives and collaborates on the Academy’s education and storytelling programs.

Berry Liberman

Berry Liberman is a podcaster and writer who focuses on themes of leadership, storytelling, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolutio and connection.

Berry, whose family office Small Giants has a 100% impact portfolio, is a pioneer in the impact investing landscape globally, across media, the built environment, venture capital, regenerative agriculture, financial services, nature-based climate solutions, biodiversity, and energy systems.

Berry is the Creative Director of Small Giants Academy, a not-for-profit accelerator, education and media initiative with a focus on leadership fora hopeful future. Berry was the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Dumbo Feather Magazine — now The Wisdom & Action Podcast — with an abundant audience of conscious leaders from all sectors.

As a mother to three beautiful children, her work is in service to them and generations to come.

Producer

Anna Yelland

Anna is the Head of Impact Safari at Small Giants Academy. She joined the Small Giants team following her death-walker training with DumboFeather Alumni, Zenith Virago. With a yearning to better understand human nature, behavioural change and the cyclical rhythm of our lives.

Her work is informed by her study and practice in the fine arts. She feels grateful to deliver these transformational programs, supporting the guides and the cohorts wellbeing before, throughout and after the Safari. She has now produced Impact Safari through, Israel/Palestine, lurtuwita/Tasmania, Bhutan and Scandinavia. In her downtime you can catch her writing, wandering galleries and creating spaces for humans to rewild.

“I would take away the memory of being under the flight path of a powerful wedgetail eagle, of sleeping below the canopy home of the recently discovered Masked Owl that has been found nesting in these majestic ancient trees still, bafflingly, under threat. I would remember navigating the mossy carpet that clings to the fallen myrtles, the shock of the emerald green of the wings of the Macleay’s Swallowtail butterfly and of taking a break in the rain under the protection a towering centuries old tree fern. ” — Jo Yeldham, 2023 Impact Safari Participant
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Join us to experience this deep and rich connection to Country.

This 10-day Impact Safari will cost $10,950AUD + GST.

This is an all-inclusive cost for the duration of the program, including accomodation, in-country travel, meals, intimate workshops with on-ground partners and an immersive leadership experience delivered by the faculty at Small Giants Academy.

This cost is exclusive of return flights from your origin to the program start.

Cancellation policy

Impact Safari is an initiative of Small Giants Academy, which is a registered not-for-profit charity. Our cancellation policy is intended to provide you with maximum flexibility while ensuring our team can make preparations to deliver the incredible experience you’re expecting.

Please notify us of a cancellation by email so we can provide you with a refund minus the following cancellation fees:

  • Up to 8 weeks prior to the trip: Deposit and any balance received are refundable minus AUD$1200 cancellation admin fee
  • Within 8 weeks of the trip (unless an approved replacement is provided:) All funds received are non-refundable and can not be used as a credit.

I'm in! What's next?

Smart move. To secure your place or ask any questions, please email Impact Safari Producer, Anna here:

Frequently asked

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