Sophia Wise One
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Speaker · Teacher · Medicine Caller

Every room teaches the people in it who they are allowed to be.

Whether we're aware of it or not, every meeting, classroom, retreat, conference, boardroom, and conversation is shaping the people inside it.

Some rooms leave people smaller than they arrived. Others leave them more available — to themselves, to one another, and to what this moment is asking of them.

I've spent my life understanding what allows people to become available to change. This is the kind of room I know how to create.

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Sophia singing, backlit by a cathedral's stained-glass window, the cat in her wrap

You change the room

Sophia small inside a soaring Gothic cathedral, a wall of gongs behind her and people resting in the nave

Every room is already teaching. Not because of what's being said — because of what becomes possible inside it.

Some rooms teach people to compete.

Some teach people to hide.

Some teach them their ideas aren't welcome.

Others quietly remind people they belong.

That their voice matters.

That wisdom can be shared.

That disagreement doesn't have to become division.

That complexity doesn't have to become confusion.

That courage can be practiced.

I've spent my life understanding what allows people to become available to change. Not through performance. Not through inspiration alone. Through creating the conditions where people can recognize something true inside themselves — and trust it enough to act.

Because when the room changes, what becomes possible inside the room changes too.

“You really landed with this work. I just want to reiterate how grounded I experienced you — how clear, how loving, how present and steadfast. You're so clear about who you are and what you're here for, and that clarity allowed everyone to step into what they needed on their own path.”

A'magine Goddard · Author, Filmmaker & Host of Fire Woman & Midlife Magic

What happens in the room

The question people carry home is rarely the one they expected.

It isn't another productivity strategy. Or another communication framework. Or another inspirational story. It's a different relationship with the moment they're living.

Together we explore one deceptively simple question:

What is this moment asking for?

Not what yesterday demanded.

Not what fear predicts.

Not what habit repeats.

This moment. Because every meaningful decision begins there.

The sweeping cathedral nave — the whole container of the room
Sophia visibly leading the room from the cathedral stage
Sophia leading a sound circle in a packed outdoor park

As the conversation unfolds, people begin to hear differently.
They relate differently. They lead differently.
The room becomes more honest. More creative. More courageous.

People stop trying to force change. They become available to it.

Long after the event is over, they tell me they still hear the question — in board meetings, in conflict, during grief, while making difficult decisions, in conversations with people they love. Not because they remembered a presentation. Because they experienced a different way of being together.

Doorways

Two entrances. Neither is better — simply different.

Sophia presenting to a seated room of adults

For the room you're leading

Architecture for Titans

Leadership that doesn't cost you yourself.

Some people are entrusted with more than success. They are entrusted with people — and their choices shape the conditions in which others think, relate, create, belong, and become. This keynote explores what becomes possible when leadership grows beyond expertise into stewardship.

Participants leave with greater clarity, deeper trust in their own perception, and practical ways to build cultures where wisdom, creativity, accountability, and humanity strengthen one another rather than compete.

Ideal for

  • Executive teams
  • Leadership retreats
  • Founder summits
  • Mission-driven organizations
  • Communities shaping change
Sophia speaking before a wall of gongs in the cathedral

For gathered rooms

Soul Unification

A live teaching for gathered rooms.

Some understanding belongs in the body. Soul Unification combines teaching, guided practice, story, voice, and live sound to create an experience audiences don't simply hear — they inhabit.

Available as a keynote, workshop, retreat experience, or immersive collaboration with Harmony Works, this offering invites participants into greater coherence, presence, creativity, and trust in themselves. Especially suited for gatherings where people have come to learn — and to become.

Ideal for

  • Retreats
  • Conferences
  • Festivals
  • Faith communities
  • Healing gatherings
  • Universities
  • Whole-human wellbeing

Taught · Spoken · Transmitted

25+
years teaching this work
15+
years faculty with Omega Institute
177
countries listening through podcasts
3
international podcasts

Sonic Bloom Awards Finalist Creator of the Four Seeds Wisdom Path Vagina Talks · Medicine Caller · Temple Erotica

Past rooms

Where this work has been welcomed.

  • Omega Institute — 15+ years
  • Midlife Magic — 2026
  • Montague Retreat Center — 2026 (twice)
  • Helping Up Mission — ongoing since 2025
  • Harmony Works Soundbaths — ongoing
  • Podfest — 2020 · 2021 · 2022
  • Fire Woman Retreats — 2019 · 2020 · 2021
  • She Podcasts Live — 2019 · 2021
  • & others

What people remember

Not the presentation. The way of being together.

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Sophia is a powerful and clear-seeing presence, and a fountain of love and truth in this world.

Leigh Seeleman · Massage Therapist & Ceremonialist

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In Sophia's work you “come as you are” and leave closer to who you really are.

Michal · Yoga Teacher & Musician

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There was a depth to the space that went beyond any single tradition or framework. I've been buzzing for days — I feel inspired and changed.

Ally Johannsen

A booking is a conversation

Every gathering is different.

Tell us about your people.

Your hopes. Your questions.

The kind of room you're hoping to create.

We'll explore together whether Sophia is the right fit — and if so, design an experience that serves your community well.

Step inside the room you're hoping to create.

The full cathedral nave — rose window, soaring arches, and people gathered in light