Sophy Banks

Sophy has worked as a therapist, family constellator and workshop leader.

Her understanding of the importance of grief work started through attending workshops of Joanna Macy and Sobonfu Some and has continued through more recent work with Maeve Gavin. In 2006 as Transition Town Totnes was coming into being Sophy co-founded the “Heart and Soul” group, addressing the inner aspects of re-imagining and rebuilding resilient, local ways of living.

As the global Transition movement came into life she taught people and groups around the world about this positive, holistic model for creating a vibrant future for everyone. Sophy is passionate about creating healthy human culture at all levels of scale, and sees that shared practices to express and hear our grief is a fundamental part of what brings us to right relationship to ourselves and those around us.

Originally trained as an engineer and a keen footballer, in 2005 Sophy left the football pitches of Hackney Marshes and moved to Devon, where she grows vegetables and can still just about get up the hills on her bike.