This month we’re celebrating Soraya Agaoglu an incredible changemaker from Stockport and dear friend of Flourish. Soraya has progressed from our Time 2 Grow programme and is providing mindset coaching to other changemakers in our network.
Raised in Manchester, Soraya is a woman of many disciplines. Throughout her career she has been a TV producer, English teacher and is now a Freelance consultant in community storytelling. As well as being a dedicated mother and active volunteer, she uses her experience and drive to improve mental and physical wellbeing for minoritised communities.
Soraya was able to exercise her passion for cultural diversity during her time at Sector 3 as a Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead where she helped grassroots leaders establish cross-sector relationships in Stockport. Her relationships with Stockport council and various organisations have allowed her to host workshops and address charity CEO’s, public sector officials, the police and boards of trustees on issues relating to empowering minoritized communities and building community cohesion.
Wellbeing is another passion of Soraya’s, she is independent consultant for Tropics Skincare and has offered countless complimentary facials for women at our monthly Flourish Pop-up spa, not to mentioned she has recently completed our accredited facials course.
As the founder of We Uplift wellbeing the main goal is to use skincare and self-care techniques to help people reconnect with themselves. Especially those working with community organisations and dedicate their time looking after others. She is particularly looking forward to her mirror workshops; a combination of self reflection and identity to explore how we achieve self-love despite our racial and physical differences.
Her main focus currently is OVOE (Our Version Of Events) Storytelling – offering community courses and workshops to ensure people are supported to tell their story with the belief that everyone deserves to be seen, heard and understood. Using her background in TV and teaching, workshops are tailored to each group as they work collaboratively to develop the terminology, confidence and skills to share their story and be a voice for their community.
Here at Flourish we are proud of the path Soraya has carved out for herself and are excited see what the next few months have to offer.
You can find Soraya’s Wellbeing and Storytelling work here:
OVOE Storytelling – (1) Facebook
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