SoCo began at the edge of breakdown—personal and collective—when a handful of facilitators, creatives, and cultural workers saw that mainstream leadership and self-help spoke of “resilience” yet ignored the body that must carry it. The gap was humanity itself.

In late-night circles and early-morning voice notes, we asked a simple, radical question:

What if nervous-system care, lived experience, and cultural healing were the first design constraints—never the afterthought?

Six founding practitioners pooled their tools, stories, and unfinished questions. They agreed on three vows that still guide us:

1. Body before output – regulate first, create from safety.

2. Truth before polish – lived experience outranks theory.

3. Kinship before transaction – relationships are the real KPI.
   

The experiment took root. Today SoCo is a living movement—an ecosystem where people remember who they are, together.