About Soulgen
Soulgen is a boutique consultancy working alongside young people, communities and organisations to discover strengths, build connections and turn ideas into shared action.
We bring together youth and community development, creative facilitation, capacity building and resource creation. Our approach is relational, strengths-based and participatory, shaped around the people and places involved.
What guides us
Empathy
Listen deeply and create spaces where people feel seen, heard and valued. Start with curiosity, care, respect and lived experience.
Co-creation
Bring people together to imagine, design, experiment and act. Make space for different perspectives and shared ownership.
Sustainability
Strengthen relationships, local leadership and capability so people can continue creating change after our involvement ends.
Four connected areas
Youth & Change
Youth development, engagement and leadership
Create the conditions for young people to be heard, contribute, lead and shape what happens next.
People & Place
Community development and place-based work
Connect local strengths, people and places to grow participation, belonging and community-led action.
Practice & Possibility
Professional development, facilitation and capacity building
Practical, experiential learning for people whose work is working with young people and communities.
Learning & Media
Learning resources, digital storytelling and educational content
Bring ideas, knowledge and lived experience to life through accessible resources, games and creative media.
Meet Dimitrios Papalexis
Founded by Dimitrios Papalexis, Soulgen has grown through more than a decade of work alongside young people, communities and organisations in Australia and internationally.
Dimitrios is a facilitator, community builder, counsellor and certified psychodrama practitioner. His life and work across Greece, Brazil and Australia inform his interest in connection, creativity and what people can make possible together.
Soulgen collaborates with local and state governments, community organisations, universities, foundations, peak bodies and purpose-driven organisations.
Dimitrios’ counselling, psychodrama, personal growth groups and organisational wellbeing work lives on his personal website.
Some of our collaborators
Let’s explore what’s possible together
Tell us about your people, place and purpose.