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26/08/2026

⏳ The Final Countdown | Join the Global Conscious Food Systems Summit

In just under a week, the Global Conscious Food Systems Summit in Bhutan begins. From 1–4 September 2026, people around the world will come together to explore how consciousness, values, relationships and ways of knowing can help transform the systems through which we produce, distribute and experience food.

And wherever you are in the world, you can be part of the conversation.

Alef Trust and the Conscious Food Systems Alliance are convening daily online regional gatherings across five regions, connecting the Summit in Bhutan with communities around the globe.

🌍 Africa │ 18:00–19:15 (UTC+2)
🌏 Asia │ 16:00–17:15 (UTC+6)
🌍 Europe │ 16:00–17:15 (UTC+2)
🌎 Latin America │ 18:00–19:15 (UTC-4)
🌎 North America │ 16:00–17:15 (UTC-4)

Each gathering will offer space to reflect on the day’s Summit themes, exchange perspectives, participate in facilitated dialogue and contribute insights from your own region.

Conversations will be held in English and Spanish for Latin America, while subtitles for Summit broadcasts will be available in multiple languages. Participants can watch the livestreams or recordings before joining their regional conversations.

🌱 Your contribution matters. The experiences and insights gathered across all five regions will feed into the wider Summit process, bringing local realities and diverse perspectives into this global inquiry.

🌍 Register now and find your regional gathering:
https://www.aleftrust.org/global-conscious-food-systems-summit-in-bhutan/

🚨Please note that you will need to subscribe to the CoFSA newsletter in order to follow the livestreams of the summit, and access recordings of the sessions.

🌍 https://mailchi.mp/c25451cccd29/conscious-food-systems-alliance

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25/08/2026

🌍 Systems Wayfinding: IFS for Social Transformation

How do we navigate complex times without becoming overwhelmed by the systems we are trying to understand, influence or change?

Systems Wayfinding is a ten-week online learning journey bringing Internal Family Systems (IFS) into the field of systems change and social transformation.

Developed by Steffi Bednarek, Founder of the Centre for Climate Psychology, the programme brings together an exceptional faculty including Dr Richard Schwartz, creator of Internal Family Systems; Nora Bateson; Prof Vanessa Andreotti; Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti; and David Kitchings.

Through practical frameworks, experiential learning and shared inquiry, participants will explore how to recognise systemic patterns, work more effectively with uncertainty, understand where they have influence, and make more conscious choices about how and where to act.

✨ Curious to experience the approach first?

A FREE Systems Wayfinding Masterclass will take place online on 8 September 2026, featuring Dr Richard Schwartz, Steffi Bednarek and David Kitchings.

🗓 8 September 2026.
⏰ 3:00–4:30pm BST | 4:00–5:30pm CET.
💻 Online via Zoom.
🎥 All registrants will also receive access to the recording.

The Masterclass offers an opportunity to experience the framework first-hand, explore the role of IFS in social transformation and systems change, meet the faculty and discover whether the full programme might be the right next step.

🌍 Discover the full Systems Wayfinding programme and enrol:
https://courses.climatepsychologycentre.org/systems-wayfinding-1

🌍 Register for the FREE Masterclass:
https://courses.climatepsychologycentre.org/masterclass

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Join us for this free Masterclass with Dick Schwartz, Steffi Bednarek and David Kitchings. If you have ever wondered why sound strategy, unequivocal data, and good intentions so rarely deliver the change that is needed, this programme is for you.

24/08/2026

🌿 THE NEXT POLITICAL GENERATION | 3–8 SEPTEMBER 2026

What does it mean to be political today, beyond parties, elections and traditional institutions?

This September, The Raft is bringing together people aged 18–35 for five days at Furnace Brook, near Hailsham, creating a space for restoration, brave inquiry, community and collective imagination.

Set within 80 acres of farmland, lakes and meadows, the gathering will explore some of the defining questions of our time, including:

🌍 What politics means in its deepest sense.
📚 The relationship between education and democracy.
✨ The political necessity of beauty.
🧭 How we rediscover collective agency and imagine different futures.
💭 The personal challenge of living with integrity in a society shaped by individualism and the pursuit of capital.

Alongside dialogue and reflection, participants will experience ecstatic dance, camping, cooking, gardening and communal living, reconnecting with nature, one another and what it means to belong.

The programme will also include a National Emergency Briefing community screening and discussion on Friday, 4 September, exploring the social, environmental and human challenges facing us today.

📍 Furnace Brook | 3–8 September 2026

🌍 https://www.the-raft.uk/political-generation

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A five day gathering to cultivate our political nature in the deepest possible sense; on a regenerative land project near Hailsham.

23/08/2026

🎨 Explore the MSc student artwork gallery from Alef Trust

Created as part of the Learning Through Integrative Practice module, led by Dr. Ellis Linders, these pieces offer a window into the personal, reflective and creative dimensions of the MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology.

The assignment invites students to develop and engage with an ongoing integrative practice over time, exploring how learning is lived through the body, imagination, relationships, inner life and everyday experience. Creative work is not assessed for artistic technique. Instead, it provides a meaningful way for students to express insight, notice transformation and bring aspects of their learning into form.

The gallery reflects the individuality, care and depth that students bring to this process, with each work holding its own story of inquiry, discovery and integration.

🖼️ Charlotte Catterall
🖼️ Rebecca Pinder

🌍 https://www.aleftrust.org/academic-learning/masters-degree/

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22/08/2026

🌱 Have you experienced a conflict situation where you got completely swept off your feet with emotion, the situation escalated and regretful things were said? Did you wish you could have been more grounded to handle it all better?

Embodied grounding is a holistic process that grounds you physiologically, psychologically and spiritually, giving you a safe and stable stance to meet life’s challenges in a way that allows you to respond rather than react.

When fully embodied, we can sense our bodymind as continuous with the Earth’s body and feel grounded in its vast, dependable steadiness, trusting being held by Life itself.

This doesn’t just change how we are in conflict situations, it changes how we are with ourselves, how we relate to the world.

We created Finding Your Ground in Turbulent Times because in our experience people long to feel grounded. And because the world needs us to be grounded, to act grounded.

If you feel that calling from your deep ground, join the self-paced course and online live community here:

🌍 https://www.aleftrust.org/finding-your-ground-in-turbulent-times

Watch our introductory video:

📺 https://youtube.com/shorts/yEGuZeKaNXE?feature=share

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21/08/2026

🧠 Consciousness as the Fulcrum of Human Existence

What does consciousness tell us about freedom, meaning, mortality and the nature of human experience?

Join the Scientific and Medical Network alongside renowned existential therapist, counselling psychologist and philosopher Prof Emmy Van Deurzen for a fascinating exploration of the meeting point between existential thought and panpsychism.

Drawing on thinkers from Sartre, Heidegger and William James to contemporary voices including David Chalmers and Philip Goff, Emmy will consider how ideas about consciousness can take existential thinking into a deeper metaphysical dimension.

Prof Van Deurzenwill also share how these perspectives inform her clinical practice and her new book, Beginning to Live: The Art of Existential Freedom (Allen Lane, 2026).

📅 Monday, 14 September 2026 | 7.30–9.30 pm (BST)

🌍 https://scientificandmedical.net/events/prof-emmy-van-deurzen-consciousness-as-the-fulcrum-of-human-existence-from-existential-ideas-to-panpsychism/?occurrence=2026-09-14


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20/08/2026

📍 MSc APPLICATIONS CLOSE 31 AUGUST 2026 📍

Are you considering taking the next step in your academic, professional and personal development?

Applications for the Alef Trust MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology, validated by Liverpool John Moores University, close on 31 August 2026.

🌍 100% online.
✨ Rigorous, creative and transformative learning.
💠 An international learning community.
🎓 Academic and pastoral support throughout the programme.

Please do not leave your application until the last minute. The admissions process can take up to 14 days and includes two reference letters, academic transcripts, a personal statement and an essay.

You can also watch our recorded MSc Open House, Impact and Professional Paths, to hear from staff, students and alumni and learn more about the programme and application process.

📅 Final application deadline: 31 August 2026

If the MSc feels like the next chapter in your journey, now is the time to begin your application. You can also contact our admissions manager, Nick Theo, directly for more information.

🌍 https://www.aleftrust.org/academic-learning/masters-degree/

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19/08/2026

🌱 CoFSA × Alef Trust | Transforming Food Systems from the Inside Out

Alef Trust is honoured to partner with the Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA) for the Global Conscious Food Systems Summit in Bhutan.

Our shared approach recognises that lasting food systems transformation requires more than policy, technology and practical solutions. It also depends on how we listen, lead, collaborate and relate to one another and the living world.

Together, CoFSA and Alef Trust are creating spaces where consciousness, care, lived experience and diverse ways of knowing can inform meaningful action.

As part of this partnership, Alef Trust will convene regional online gatherings across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, connecting global Summit themes with local realities, cultures and communities.

The insights shared will contribute to the wider Summit conversation and support continued dialogue, research and collaborative learning.

Because transforming food systems is not just about changing what we produce and consume. It is essentially about transforming the relationships, values and ways of thinking that shape those systems.

🌍 https://www.aleftrust.org/global-conscious-food-systems-summit-in-bhutan/

🚨Please note that you will need to subscribe to the CoFSA newsletter in order to follow the livestreams of the summit, and access recordings of the sessions.

📖 https://mailchi.mp/c25451.../conscious-food-systems-alliance

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Join Alef Trust and the Conscious Food Systems Alliance in regional online gatherings accompanying the first Global Conscious Food Systems Summit in Bhutan.

18/08/2026

💭 What might our earliest dreams be trying to tell us?

Here, process-oriented psychologist and psychotherapist Mark O’Connell explores childhood dreams, generational dreaming, attachment, grief and our profound relationship with the natural world.

Drawing on an international research inquiry spanning six generations and participants from across the world, Mark reflects on an intriguing pattern: for many people, their earliest sense of belonging was not necessarily associated with a person or place, but with nature itself. A tree, a river, a forest, a mountain or the soil beneath their feet.

At the heart of the article is the story of Mark’s late wife, Marina, and a recurring childhood dream of a Yeti that continued to carry meaning throughout her life, ultimately becoming intertwined with her work in ecology, regenerative agriculture and her final days.

Mark’s research is still ongoing, and you are warmly invited to contribute. If you have memories of childhood dreams, early experiences of attachment, generational patterns, or a meaningful relationship with the land and natural world, please consider completing the short Research Questionnaire on Attachment, Development and the Unfolding Child.

🌍 https://aleffield.org/yeti-childhood-dreams-generational-dreaming-and-the-mythical-seeds-of-a-life/

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17/08/2026

🕊️ A month on from the Caux IDG Forum 2026, the afterglow of our time together at Caux Palace continues to resonate.

From 12–17 July, members of the Alef Trust community gathered above Lake Geneva for The Alchemy of Forgiveness, a five-day exploration of forgiveness as inner practice, relational repair, collective healing and a pathway towards renewed belonging.

Through powerful plenaries, workshops, embodied practice, nature-based inquiry, Candlelight Conversations and moments of deep connection, the Forum created space for grief and gratitude, truth and compassion, reflection and possibility to sit alongside one another.

For Alef Trust, it was a privilege to contribute through the work of our faculty, students and wider community, while also launching our new Centre for the Ecology of Human Transformation, extending the inquiry into how transformation can unfold across inner life, relationships, communities, institutions, culture and the living Earth.

Weeks later, we are still carrying something of Caux with us: the conversations, the encounters, the courage to remain present with complexity, and the reminder that forgiveness is not an easy answer, but a living and deeply human practice.

🌍 https://aleffield.org/gathering-at-caux-for-the-alchemy-of-forgiveness/

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