Sophie is committed to exploring how she can walk herself and the communities and systems she participates in out of separation, polarisation and violence into connection, liberation and interdependence.  Passionate about working with conflict as a driver for change she works with groups, communities and organisations facilitating dialogue and supporting individual and systemic transformation. 

She has a degree in Politics and Economics and a Postgraduate diploma in Law but most of her learning came from meditation, and wide and wild experiments in living, being in community, collaborating and organising in economic, social and environmental justice campaigns and movements. Sophie’s approach is underpinned by Nonviolent Communication and Restorative Practice which she has been working with since 2012. She is a Restorative Justice practitioner and a Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication and brings a systemic lens to these approaches using them personally and professionally to engage with presenting issues.

Sophie facilitates, consults and runs courses offering conceptual framing, system building and individual skill and capacity building.  Her work focuses on transforming internal and external domination systems and experiencing ourselves as essential to life, and as part of a complex adaptive living system. .  Sophie’s approach includes relational neuroscience, transactional analysis, meditation, multiple conflict engagement modalities and a deep exploration into the dynamics of personal and structural power, privilege, violence and its impacts.