Sooze Harris
""I'm passionate about helping people and communities become more well through finding deeper connection and purpose. I love seeing people realise their unique contribution, recognising what brings them purpose and meaning, and developing the capacity to go beyond what they previously thought they were capable of.""
Connecting, facilitating and nurturing ...
Sooze comes from a background in health, working clinically as an Occupational Therapist for 12 years in Mental Health, and Neuro Rehabilitation. In her later years working in the health sector, she started to grapple with the dilemmas of sending clients back into ‘unwell’ families and communities. Through a range of experiences both here in New Zealand and overseas, she began shifting her focus of practice from the dysfunction of the individual to the wellbeing of individuals and of their communities. This led her into the arena of Community-Led Development where she practiced and later studied in this area, receiving a Master of Professional Practice in Community Led Development (CLD) in 2015. Sooze’s passion is supporting the wellbeing of communities through CLD practice, consulting with community groups to support best practices, strength coaching, and facilitating leadership development programmes for community leaders. Because of her background in health, she also loves to work in spaces where people want to expand their view of wellbeing or develop different ways of working in traditional health service provision – more recently this work has included contracting to the Ministry of Whaikaha supporting the leadership development of Tangata whaikaha, and to providing strength coaching based programmes for youth within Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu
Sooze works with individuals to reconnect with themselves – to plug back into what gives them life, what values they want to live by, and what strengths and gifts they bring to the world around them. She works with groups and organisations to help them reconnect with their ‘why’, their values, each other, and to work in a way that leans into the individual strengths and talents of each person in the group, organisation, or collective. Sooze’s practice is influenced by her eclectic professional background, and particularly and particularly draws on the areas of positive psychology and Clifton Strengths, Appreciative Inquiry, collective leadership, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and community-led-development (CLD).
Sooze has been working collectively with Leadership Lab colleagues, in the LinC space since 2014.
Events I'm involved in
Other current work
Shirley Community Trust
Shirley Village Project
Other Work and Interests
Some of our Leadership Lab team
It is a privelege being part of such a diverse team, we all benefit from such influence
Sooze Harris
""I'm passionate about helping people and communities become more well through finding deeper connection and purpose. I love seeing people realise their unique contribution, recognising what brings them purpose and meaning, and developing the capacity to go beyond what they previously thought they were capable of.""
Connecting, facilitating and nurturing ...
Sooze comes from a background in health, working clinically as an Occupational Therapist for 12 years in Mental Health, and Neuro Rehabilitation. In her later years working in the health sector, she started to grapple with the dilemmas of sending clients back into ‘unwell’ families and communities. Through a range of experiences both here in New Zealand and overseas, she began shifting her focus of practice from the dysfunction of the individual to the wellbeing of individuals and of their communities. This led her into the arena of Community-Led Development where she practiced and later studied in this area, receiving a Master of Professional Practice in Community Led Development (CLD) in 2015. Sooze’s passion is supporting the wellbeing of communities through CLD practice, consulting with community groups to support best practices, strength coaching, and facilitating leadership development programmes for community leaders. Because of her background in health, she also loves to work in spaces where people want to expand their view of wellbeing or develop different ways of working in traditional health service provision – more recently this work has included contracting to the Ministry of Whaikaha supporting the leadership development of Tangata whaikaha, and to providing strength coaching based programmes for youth within Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu
Sooze works with individuals to reconnect with themselves – to plug back into what gives them life, what values they want to live by, and what strengths and gifts they bring to the world around them. She works with groups and organisations to help them reconnect with their ‘why’, their values, each other, and to work in a way that leans into the individual strengths and talents of each person in the group, organisation, or collective. Sooze’s practice is influenced by her eclectic professional background, and particularly and particularly draws on the areas of positive psychology and Clifton Strengths, Appreciative Inquiry, collective leadership, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and community-led-development (CLD).
Sooze has been working collectively with Leadership Lab colleagues, in the LinC space since 2014.
Events I'm involved in
Other current work
Shirley Community Trust
Shirley Village Project
Other Work and Interests
Some of our Leadership Lab team
It is a privelege being part of such a diverse team, we all benefit from such influence