Ruth De Souza

Empowering Change Through Facilitation, Coaching, and Conversation

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Ruth De Souza offers facilitation, consulting, mentoring, and speaking services that inspire meaningful change.

With expertise in fostering collaboration, guiding leaders, and addressing complex issues, Ruth creates spaces for creativity, connection, and action. Her authenticity and commitment to social justice resonate with diverse audiences across health, arts, and cultural sectors.

Supporting environments of liberation, creativity, and inquiry.

Building connections, and generating collective energy and skills

Bringing clarity, motivation and inspiration

Leaving a lasting impact on diverse audiences

Facilitation

Supporting environments of liberation, creativity, and inquiry

Ruth brings decades of experience as an educator, group therapist, facilitator, and consultant, supporting environments of liberation, creativity, and inquiry. Ruth uses methods that support inventive and unique conversations and collective decision-making. She helps people through discomfort by connecting to their dignity and humanity, and using the knowledge and feelings in the room to help activate pathways to action.

Ruth is a trained therapist, skilled at communication, building connections, and generating collective energy and skills that enable respectful collaboration and navigation through conflict.

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Ruth is a natural facilitator and conversation-maker who uses her warmth, wit and empathy to create spaces where people feel safe to learn, develop and explore sensitive and difficult topics in a nuanced and respectful way.

Ruth guided our attendees through challenging topics with energy and humility, maintaining a positive learning environment.
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Carolyn Mogharbel
1800 My Options
With a notable background in the fields of nursing, academia and research, Ruth has been a valued member of DARTS' equity and inclusion-driven Fair Play program steering committee and as one of our key trainers/educators in cultural safety. As one of Australia's leading thinkers, writers and educators on this topic, Ruth has consistently generated positive feedback from our session participants. I strongly recommend Ruth as a trainer, collaborator, and consultant.
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Lena Nahlous
Diversity Arts Australia

Building connections, and generating collective energy and skills

Ruth brings decades of experience as an educator, group therapist, facilitator, and consultant, supporting environments of liberation, creativity, and inquiry. Ruth uses methods that support inventive and unique conversations and collective decision-making. She helps people through discomfort by connecting to their dignity and humanity, and using the knowledge and feelings in the room to help to activate pathways to action.

Ruth is a trained therapist, skilled at communication, building connections, and generating collective energy and skills that enable respectful collaboration and navigation through conflict.

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Consulting

Thank you for your FABULOUS moderation of our webinar on reproductive justice! You really held the space for our speakers and organising team, going above and beyond to help us think through the structure and content before, during and after the session.
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Rosi Aryal Lees
Multicultural Centre for Women's Health (MCWH)
Ruth was wonderful to work with – responsive, highly experienced, and understood our organisational context very well. Her workshop was very engaging and appropriately challenging.
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Tseen Khoo
La Trobe University, Melbourne

Mentoring and Coaching

Bringing clarity, motivation and inspiration

Ruth is deeply embedded in contemporary leadership practices and is an experienced coach and mentor, both in one-to-one settings and as part of mentoring programs.

Ruth helps leaders and emerging leaders to connect to their sense of purpose and find authentic pathways to navigate complex issues and problems, bringing clarity, motivation and inspiration.

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The team absolutely loved Ruth’s work and ability to engage with all disciplines and different knowledge levels.
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Chiedza Malunga
Monash Health
Ruth has cracked the code to caring for community and culturally safe healthcare for all in many ways.
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Saari Collective team
South Asian Australians Representing Ideas

Leaving a lasting impact on diverse audiences

Ruth’s work as a public speaker, educator and podcaster enables her to make complex issues understandable and relevant to diverse communities. Ruth brings authenticity, presence, and warmth to the room, combining her passion for social justice and inclusion with wide-ranging expertise. Ruth’s talks inspire and motivate audiences and leave a genuine and lasting impact.

With her broad experience, Ruth can connect to specialist audiences across the health, arts, and cultural fields as well as the general public.

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Keynote Speaker and MC

Courage begins with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

It’s about creating space for transformative conversations that honor dignity and humanity.

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