Edlin Somorin is a writer, lecturer, speaker and founder of Edlin Wayfinder. Her work brings together philosophy, spirituality and psychology to explore identity and creation: who we are, what calls us and who we become through what we create. She lectures in research methods, entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity, holds an MSc in Psychology, and draws on experience in business, teaching, writing, music, theatre and performance.
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Edlin Somorin is a writer, lecturer, speaker and founder of Edlin Wayfinder. Her work brings together philosophy, spirituality and psychology to explore identity and creation: who we are, what calls us and who we become through what we create. She lectures in research methods, entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity, holds an MSc in Psychology, and draws on experience in business, teaching, writing, music, theatre and performance.
Through Edlin Wayfinder, she helps people discover, express and become who they are through what they create. Her explorations centre on soul, destiny and becoming, alongside the practical work of giving talents, experience and meaningful ideas expression through books, art, programmes and business.
Her psychology-informed mentoring brings intuition and self-discovery together with structure, honest feedback and accountability. Alongside teaching and mentoring, she shares her questions and ideas through writing and conversation. Her creative background includes singing, theatre and performance, and she is developing Speak Anyway, a forthcoming book about speaking with confidence and connection.
02 / CONVERSATION TOPICS
Questions I keep coming back to.
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Identity & becoming
Who we are beneath inherited roles and expectations, and how we discover and express more of ourselves.
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Creation as transformation
Books, art, businesses and projects as places where we discover who we are and who we might become.
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Purpose & calling
The ideas that keep returning, the talents looking for expression and the work we feel drawn to create.
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Philosophy, spirituality & psychology
Questions of soul, destiny, self-discovery and what it means to become who we are.
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Courageous self-expression
Giving an inward idea, conviction or new direction a place in the world, even before we feel ready.
03 / FOR HOSTS & INTERVIEWERS
Start a conversation.
A few possible starting points. There is room to follow the question wherever it leads.
What do you mean when you say we can discover, express and become who we are through what we create?
How do we begin to distinguish our own direction from the roles and expectations we have inherited?
What interests you about the ideas and questions that keep returning to us?
Where do philosophy, spirituality and psychology meet in your exploration of identity?
Can creating a book, a piece of art or a business change our understanding of ourselves?
What might a first practical step look like when someone feels called towards something but does not yet feel ready?
04 / PHOTOGRAPHY
Meet Edlin.
Download the available portraits below. For larger print files or image-credit details, please email Edlin.