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17/10/2026

✨ Discover Your Perfect Inner Companion: A Journey into Self-Compassion

What if you could meet life's challenges with greater compassion, wisdom and inner strength?

Join Philip Carr-Gomm, psychologist, author and former Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, for a FREE online event exploring the powerful connection between psychology and spirituality.

Through a guided Perfect Inner Companion visualisation, discover how ancient wisdom, transpersonal psychology and self-awareness can help us navigate emotional challenges, recognise limiting patterns and cultivate a deeper sense of inner peace.

✨ Explore the relationship between psychological healing and spiritual growth.
✨ Discover practical approaches to self-compassion and emotional resilience.
✨ Experience a guided meditation designed to reconnect you with your inner wisdom.

📅 28 October 2026 │ 1:30am (CEST)

🌍 https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/icscBL/a27356/

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What if you could meet the difficult moments of your life with an inner source of compassion, wisdom, and support — instead of falling back into the same patterns of self-doubt, reactivity, or self-criticism?

16/10/2026

🌱 World Food Day | 16 October 🌱

Sustainable food systems are essential to nourishing communities, protecting biodiversity and securing a healthy future for generations to come.

Transforming these systems also means nurturing the values, relationships and awareness that shape how we grow, share and consume food.

Through our collaboration with the UNDP-convened Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), Alef Trust supports dialogue exploring how inner development can inspire collective action. This work connects with our Centre for the Ecology of Human Transformation (CEHT), which explores how meaningful, life-affirming change takes root in communities and organisations.

This World Food Day, let us recognise food as a connection between people, culture and the living Earth, and work towards systems that enable all three to flourish.

🌍 https://www.aleftrust.org/centre-for-the-ecology-of-human-transformation/

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15/10/2026

Although intellectually we know we’re one with all of life or even when we’ve had spiritual experiences of oneness, in our everyday existence we may still feel a subtle sense of separation, like a thin membrane between us and the rest of life.

Through embodied grounding, our insights become lived experience within the body that already knows and enacts the reality of interbeing moment by moment. In a sense, our experience and understanding catch up and align with the lived truth of our body.

Deeply grounded, we experience ourselves as an expression of Life and can release the tight fist-like grip on ourselves. Realising we are not in control can support us to allow ourselves to be held by the flow of Life.

We created Finding Your Ground in Turbulent Times because we believe people crave to feel grounded. And because the world needs us to be grounded, to act grounded.

If you are called to 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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14/10/2026

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | INSS CONFERENCE 2027

Are you exploring spirituality through research, professional practice or lived experience?

The International Network for the Study of Spirituality (INSS) invites researchers, academics and practitioners to share their work at its 2027 conference.

✨ Submissions are welcomed in three formats:

🔹 Research presentations.
🔹 Symposia.
🔹 Experiential workshops.

This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful conversations, exchange perspectives and connect with an international community dedicated to advancing the study and understanding of spirituality.

📅 Abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2026.

🎟️ Reduced conference fees are available for INSS members.

🌍 Conference information, registration and abstract submissions:
https://spiritualitystudiesnetwork.org/conference-2027

🌍 Become an INSS member:
https://spiritualitystudiesnetwork.org/join-inss-application-form

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13/10/2026

The Questions That Found Me: The Story Behind The Participatory Way

What is consciousness? How do we heal, grow and flourish as human beings? Internationally recognised scholar, psychologist and author Dr Jorge N. Ferrer reflects on the personal experiences and profound questions that have shaped more than three decades of pioneering research into consciousness, spirituality and human transformation.

Marking the publication of his latest book, The Participatory Way: Reimagining Consciousness, Psychedelics, Embodiment, and Culture, Jorge explores the relationship between scientific inquiry, embodied spirituality, psychedelic experiences and the transformative potential of participatory ways of knowing.

Drawing together a lifetime of scholarship and personal discovery, his reflections invite us to approach life’s deepest mysteries with intellectual curiosity, humility and openness.

🌍 https://aleffield.org/the-questions-that-found-me-the-story-behind-the-participatory-way/

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My new book, The Participatory Way: Reimagining Consciousness, Psychedelics, Embodiment, and Culture, has just been released. Although it draws on decades of scholarship, the questions that run through it did […]

12/10/2026

🌍 Join us Today for The Waters We Swim In | Culture, Power & Collective Transformation

How do the systems we inhabit shape the way we think, feel and act? And what happens when attempts at meaningful change are repeatedly constrained by institutional cultures, social norms and inherited narratives?

Join Nurturing the Fields of Change, Alef Trust’s community of practice, for an exploration of the often-invisible forces shaping our collective lives.

Together, we will examine how systems cultivate silence, compliance and exhaustion, why transformative visions become diluted, and how we can reclaim imagination, agency and relational integrity without falling into cynicism or burnout.

📅 12 October 2026 | 15:00–16:15 (BST) & 16:30–17:30 (BST)

🌍 https://fieldsofchange.org/schedule/the-waters-we-swim-in-culture-power-and-the-social-fields-shaping-our-collective-life/

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Institutional cultures, inherited narratives, economic pressures, social norms, trauma histories, and emotional climates all shape what we feel able to perceive, say, or do. In times of instability these forces […]

11/10/2026

In an interview on RTL TV’s ´Europe Connected´ business programme, Alef Trust co-founders, Professor Les Lancaster and Dr Jessica Bockler, reflect on their distinctive educational approach - emphasising rigorous scholarship, relational learning, and the value of a global online community that feels genuinely connected.

Alef Trust works at the meeting point of inner development and real-world application. Its programmes in psychology, consciousness, and human development combine academic depth with reflective practice; supporting students to bring greater clarity, presence, and responsibility into their professional, creative, and community lives. In this highlight, Les & Jessica offer an insight into their work and the educational perspective that underpins it.

🌍 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n_3P3YdQGA&t=2s

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10/10/2026

🎨 World Mental Health Day | 10 October 2026

This World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization’s theme, “Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change”, reminds us to place people’s experiences at the heart of mental health support.

At Alef Trust, this message resonates with the work of Creative Alternatives, our award-winning arts and wellbeing service supporting adults experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, depression and stress in St Helens and Newton-le-Willows.

Through creative activities, mindfulness and a welcoming, non-judgemental group environment, the programme offers opportunities for self-expression and connection. Its free creative experiences provide space to explore feelings, share ideas and enjoy being together.

🌎 www.creativealternatives.org.uk

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09/10/2026

🧠 Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Consciousness

What if our understanding of consciousness extends beyond the conventional boundaries of science, space and time?

We are delighted to highlight the participation of Alef Trust´s Dr Lila Moore, at Science and Consciousness: Wyrd Psi 2026, taking place from 26–30 October 2026 at Broughton Sanctuary in Yorkshire, UK.

Bringing together leading scientists, academics, researchers and practitioners, this thought-provoking gathering explores the fascinating relationship between consciousness, human potential and the mysteries of our interconnected world.

¨Through pioneering research, experiential workshops, discussions and interactive experiments, participants will investigate extraordinary dimensions of consciousness, including extrasensory perception, psychokinesis and the possibility of connections beyond conventional understandings of space and time.¨

Dr Lila Moore will present her Interactive Divination Rites, combining participatory visual experiences, introspection and self-knowledge, alongside her work exploring the relationship between consciousness, the moving image and artificial intelligence.

📍 Broughton Sanctuary, Yorkshire, UK │ 26–30 October 2026

🌍 https://broughtonsanctuary.co.uk/retreat/science-and-consciousness-2026-wyrd-psi/

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Since its inaugural event in 2021, the annual Science and Consciousness conference at Broughton Sanctuary, Yorkshire, UK has devoted itself to bridging the gap between scientific research and consciousness experiences that can’t be explained by mainstream theories. We’re excited to announce a pa...

08/10/2026

🌍 SAFEGUARDING THE SOUL: LOVE, LONGING AND SELF-LEADERSHIP

How can we protect our emotional boundaries while remaining open to love, connection and personal transformation?

In her thought-provoking article, Safeguarding the Soul: Love, Longing and Self Leadership, Dr Jo Nash explores the relationship between emotional vulnerability, inner awareness and the transformative potential of transpersonal coaching.

Published in the 2026 edition of the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, the case study follows a deeply personal journey from uncertainty and self-protection towards greater self-trust, authenticity and spiritual reconnection.

Drawing upon Internal Family Systems (IFS), active imagination, somatic grounding and open awareness, the article examines how compassionate self-leadership can help us navigate relationships, establish healthy boundaries and reconnect with our deeper sense of Self.

At its heart lies a powerful insight: safeguarding the soul is not simply about protecting ourselves from vulnerability, but cultivating the inner confidence and awareness to embrace meaningful connection. This contribution highlights the value of transpersonal coaching in supporting psychological integration, emotional growth and the exploration of human consciousness.

🌍 https://iactm.org/tcpj/

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The Transpersonal Coaching Psychology (TCP) Journal is an open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes coaching case studies by graduates of the 1-year TCP Certificate Programme at Alef Trust. TCP is the theory and practice of coaching that takes a trauma-informed, holistic and integrative appro...