photo credit : E Briccolani. jacket: Tamay & Me
Sophie curates earth-loving approaches at the intersections of social justice, transformative change and trauma-informed community healing. Her work seeks to respond sensitively and relationally to emergent life within communities, places and people. She has influenced and advocated for systems change at place-based levels.
She is a facilitator of collective care, see offerings here. These include organising and innovative leadership, inclusive creative community programmes, and access to nature and wellbeing for all.
She has written a short collection of poetry. She collaborates internationally and co-founded an arts collective. Projects have been featured by ITV News, the Guardian (UK), BBC Radio Bristol, The Emotional Wellbeing Podcast, and Calgary’s LiveWire Magazine.
She loves horses and mountains, and has been known to play her violin to sheep.
At this time she wonders, how might a breaking down also become a breaking open, a space for not-yet-imagined and remembered worlds? With Love, Joy and Soul at the root.
"Do something to make the world more beautiful" - The Lupin Lady
reciprocity (n.) "state or condition of free interchange, mutual responsiveness," 1766, from French réciprocité (18c.), reciprocare "rise and fall, move back and forth" reciproque, similarly means "the natural return”
“a real narrative is a web of alternating possibilities. the imagination is capable of kindness that the mind often lacks because it works naturally from the world of Between; it does not engage things in a cold, clear-cut way, it always searches for the hidden worlds that wait at the edges of things” – Paolo Freire
Sophie has a First Class Arts degree (Bristol University), and has certified trainings in:
Eco-Psychology (Centre of Human Ecology); Permaculture (Shift, Bristol) Holistic Leadership (Onyett); Community Development + Facilitation (City Guild Level 4); Trauma-informed Care (Calgary); Wilderness questing / Rites of Passage Guiding (Canada); Indigenous Relations (University of Calgary, Canada); Counselling (CPCAB, UK).