Human Ecosystems
design
Reconnect with each other.
Resource our ideas and work.
Redesign how we work together.
Redistribute opportunity.
Independent brilliance.
Shared infrastructure.
Collective power.
We bring people, expertise and resources together to create stronger communities and better ways of working.
SoCo is a collective of underrepresented consultants, creators and community leaders. We co-design and deliver projects for organisations, build shared support and paid opportunities for practitioners, and bring people together through The Table.
What we build together
Human Ecosystem Design is the practice of designing the relationships, conditions and shared infrastructure that enable diverse people, communities and institutions to belong, collaborate and create change together.
What makes it different
Service design improves a service. Event design creates an experience. Systems design examines structures. Human Ecosystem Design connects all three, with particular attention to power, culture, trust, access and human relationships.
Together, we’re building shared support, creating paid projects and developing community programs and public activations.
SoCo Offering
Categorised by Reconnection Ripple. Change that moves from body to system.
Self-regulation
Breathe. Notice. Return.
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An intimate workshop that blends somatic regulation, story-work, and ancestral inquiry to help people reclaim their heritage. No code-switching required.
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An always-on guide that nudges daily body-wise rituals and tracks patterns. Gentle prompts, real change.
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Co-regulation
Bodies tune to bodies.
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Trauma-aware coaching and power accountability that swap adrenaline leadership for co-regulation. Boundaries over burnout.
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Immersive, sensory-safe gatherings that turn regulation into a shared experience. Belonging you can feel.
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A staff-led sprint that maps the values to behaviour, the gap to where you want to be and co-creates living rituals that rebuild trust. Culture you can feel.
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Monthly embeds and coaching that keep new rituals alive with rhythm data and refreshers. Change that sticks.
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A mirror of brand vs. lived experience with a 90-day alignment roadmap. Live it, don’t sell it.
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Collective Culture
Policies, spaces, rhythms redesign.
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A deep dive on policies, pay, and power with a phased plan to protect equity. Shift the system.
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A build-and-launch sprint translating the audit into story, design, and practice. From insight to implementation.
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Human Ecosystem Design is the practice of designing the relationships, conditions and shared infrastructure that enable diverse people, communities and institutions to belong, collaborate and create change together.
It asks:
Who is in the ecosystem?
Who is missing or unheard?
Where do power, trust and resources sit?
What prevents people from participating?
What relationships and structures need to change?
How do we turn participation into coordinated action?
Systemic Shift
Norms change; futures widen.
Reconnection is our original state.
When we return to it, culture heals itself.
SoCo Practice
The SoCo Practice is rooted in body-wise practice, collective learning, and place-honouring knowledge (what some organisations call “trauma-informed design” and “cultural intelligence”). We combine nervous-system wisdom, shared creation, and truth-telling storywork to change how people relate to themselves, each other, and Country.
Impact lives in relationships, not transactions.
Meet the SoCo Hatafu
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Emeli Paulo | she/her | Executive Producer + Experience Design + Master Facilitator
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Missy Gilbert - I am Offerings | First Nations Artist & Experience Design
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Judith (Juju) Marie Ortiz | she/her | Decolonised Branding
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Dan Brophy | He/Him | Leadership & Mens Health
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Beth Garzouzie | she/her | Organisational Development
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Emeli, Miyo, Esin & Beth | Delivery & Content
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Tegan Kop | they/them | Universal Design & Data
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Doug Cronin | he/him | Ethical Storytelling
