Community, Culture & Collective Action
Facilitation and co-design for communities, councils, arts organisations and social impact teams. We create the conditions for people to think clearly, work through differences and agree on practical ways forward.
Community and place · Arts and social impact · Government and partnerships
Sometimes the challenge is agreeing on priorities. Sometimes it is how people communicate, make decisions or share responsibility. We design a process around what your group needs to work through.
Four services
Help people shape the initiatives, spaces and decisions that affect their communities.
Help organisations and networks build shared purpose, clarify contributions and work together beyond individual projects.
Give boards and teams the space and structure to explore choices, test priorities and agree on direction.
Your leaders bring the organisational and strategic expertise. We design and facilitate the process so they can participate fully.
Help leaders and staff agree on what they stand for and how that shows up in daily work.
Emeli’s Rotuman, Fijian and Australian lived experience informs her attention to power, belonging and whose knowledge gets heard. Her approach combines skilled facilitation, humour and practical experience with an intersectional understanding of participation.
We consider who helps shape the agenda, how people contribute, whose perspectives influence decisions and what support is needed afterwards.
Human Ecosystem Design considers the people, relationships, places and systems that shape how we live and work together. It informs how we design each engagement.
Ways to work together
A defined question or challenge, thoughtful preparation, facilitated discussion and a concise outcomes summary.
Discovery, participant input, tailored sessions and agreed outputs such as priorities, behaviour agreements or a documented plan.
A staged engagement over three to six months, combining listening, facilitated co-design, practical tools and review.
Each proposal sets out preparation, delivery, documentation and follow-up, with specialist collaborators included where needed.
Relevant experience
Facilitation across government, service providers and community partners, including conversations about collaboration and the future of a Community of Practice beyond program funding.
Board planning facilitation that supported participation, strategic discussion and the refinement of organisational priorities.
Co-created learning and practical resources supporting conversations about integrating lived experience into public housing workplaces.
Business and workplace
We also work with small businesses, hospitality teams and leadership groups on shared direction, culture and accountability. Recent examples include work with Cobb Lane and Keystone.
Emeli is a facilitator and Human Ecosystem Designer who helps people think clearly, connect honestly and work through complicated questions together. She brings warmth, humour and an ability to notice what is happening between people, then designs a process that helps the group move forward.
Where a project needs specialist expertise, SoCo brings in collaborators for learning design, intersectional practice, research, writing or visual communication.
More about EmeliTell us about your group, the challenge and what you want to be different. We’ll help shape a process that fits.
Capabilities
These groupings describe what Emeli can carry inside a partnership. Scope, sequence and format are decided with the community or organisation, not selected in advance.