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Sonia Houria is a French-Tunisian nervous system and emotional intelligence coach, keynote speaker, breathwork facilitator, Survival Apnea Ambassador, and founder of Women Make Waves. She is the creator of The Houria Method, a framework at the crossroads of modern science and ancestral wisdom, using Nature as the ultimate blueprint for thriving systems. Her work helps individuals and organisations build emotional resilience, belonging, and sustainable performance so they can create lasting positive change around them.

A former international commercial lawyer, she worked as a solicitor and legal counsel across multiple countries before leaving the profession to pursue the work she does today. She has guided hundreds of women and men through inner work since founding Women Make Waves in 2020, and co-created IAMPOWER, the largest women's mental health and wellbeing summit in the Illawarra region to date.

She is currently writing her first book, Safety is the Strategy: The Human Blueprint for Resilience, Belonging & Sustainable Performance, and developing The Sahara Project, a research and storytelling expedition retracing ancestral trade and nomadic routes across the Sahara, a land shared by Amazigh and Bedouin peoples, and a return to her own Amazigh lineage.