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Transforming Organisations Hub

Many organisations recognise the major role they play in moving society towards a more sustainable future, while, at the same time, striving to overcome challenges to their own viability. It is increasingly recognised that traditional ways of teaching and training do not adequately equip people and organisations to bring about the required transitions. Holistic inner development is now needed, to bring about more equitable, caring and sustainable ways of being and doing. Bringing the potential of inner development to the challenges organisations now face is the purpose of the Transforming Organisations Hub. 

Inner development works with our individual and collective interior conditions. It seeks to inquire into and develop our psychological capacities, multiple intelligences, values, beliefs, and worldviews. As our interior conditions determine how we perceive, experience, understand, and relate to the world, they shape the quality of our presence, relationships and impact. If we want to generate better ways of being and doing, we need to gain deeper insights into and develop our interior conditions. 

At the Hub, we apply our thought leadership in transpersonal psychology, harnessing the insights generated by research conducted at the Alef Trust, to support leaders and HR professionals to transform their organisations, drawing on the power of inner development. We are a community of practice made up of people who recognise the growing need to create sustainable and ethical organisational development, social and ecological harmony and opportunities for individual growth.

Consultancy

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Monthly Webinars

Our monthly interactive webinars are an opportunity for the community of researchers and practitioners to explore and practise inner development from a transpersonal perspective and hear about the latest thought leadership. Each webinar starts with a talk to introduce the key concepts behind the practice. The community then engages in an activity. The talk and activity then seed a discussion exploring people’s experiences. Each webinar is delivered free of charge and facilitated by researchers and practitioners who are passionate about their work. 

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26th May, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (BST)

Spirit at Work: ecosystemic thinking for leading deeper change
with Hetty Einzig

In this session you will receive an introduction to ecosystemic thinking, create your own ecosystems map, share discussion and work challenges with peers, and learn how an ecosystemic mindset enables leading for greater meaning and purpose in our work and in our lives.

About Webinar

Recent and current global events – extreme weather events, climate crises, polarised politics and wars – remind us ever more acutely that we are all interconnected – that what happens the other side of the world affects us too. But the converse is also true: our decisions and actions have consequences for others and on places often far from where we lead our daily lives. And the rise of AI is calling into question what it means to be human today.

Living in a globally networked, media saturated, 24/7 world we cannot remain unaware of this interdependence. Yet we continue to follow models of coaching and leadership that are linear and binary: focused on individuals, and simple chains of cause and effect. But individuals constantly interact with, and are impacted by, their contexts and environments – as well as their pasts and their futures. Professional challenges have hidden psychodynamic undercurrents, problems have multiple enmeshed causes and solutions often cause further problems. This is complexity.

Today, more than ever, if we wish to lead change meaningfully and purposefully we must engage with complexity. Issues around awareness, responsibility, vision and ethics press upon us, as leaders, coaches and citizens. Cultivating an ecosystemic mindset, develops our awareness of the links, patterns, influences and dynamics within complex organisations, communities, nations – and ourselves. Understanding that people and organisations are ecosystems embedded within ecosystems enables coaches and leaders to understand the dynamics of networked relationships and actions, and therefore to work better with complexity and make more informed, considered and hopefully – wiser decisions.

About Hetty Einzig

Hetty Einzig is a leadership coach, author and thought-leader working globally; she has designed and delivered leadership/culture-change programmes for thirty years. She is Director of Publications Strategy at the Association for Coaching and Executive Editor of the influential Coaching Perspectives magazine. She is on the associate faculty of the Irish Management Institute, Henley Centre for Coaching at Henley Business School, and  the Eco-Leadership Institute.  

Hetty maintains a strong focus in her work on women in leadership and environmental leaders, fed by her roots in transpersonal psychology, a holistic and values-based ontology that views the cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual and contextual as an ecosystemic whole. She integrates into her practice psychoanalytic concepts and somatic bodywork. 

Hetty has a degree in languages from Cambridge University, a Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute and a Masters in Organisational Consulting, psychoanalytic and systemic approaches from the Tavistock Centre.
www.hettyeinzig.co.uk 

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Previous Sessions & Recordings

Recording
26th May, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (BST)

Spirit at Work: ecosystemic thinking for leading deeper change
with Hetty Einzig

In this session you will receive an introduction to ecosystemic thinking, create your own ecosystems map, share discussion and work challenges with peers, and learn how an ecosystemic mindset enables leading for greater meaning and purpose in our work and in our lives.

About Webinar

Recent and current global events – extreme weather events, climate crises, polarised politics and wars – remind us ever more acutely that we are all interconnected – that what happens the other side of the world affects us too. But the converse is also true: our decisions and actions have consequences for others and on places often far from where we lead our daily lives. And the rise of AI is calling into question what it means to be human today.

Living in a globally networked, media saturated, 24/7 world we cannot remain unaware of this interdependence. Yet we continue to follow models of coaching and leadership that are linear and binary: focused on individuals, and simple chains of cause and effect. But individuals constantly interact with, and are impacted by, their contexts and environments – as well as their pasts and their futures. Professional challenges have hidden psychodynamic undercurrents, problems have multiple enmeshed causes and solutions often cause further problems. This is complexity.

Today, more than ever, if we wish to lead change meaningfully and purposefully we must engage with complexity. Issues around awareness, responsibility, vision and ethics press upon us, as leaders, coaches and citizens. Cultivating an ecosystemic mindset, develops our awareness of the links, patterns, influences and dynamics within complex organisations, communities, nations – and ourselves. Understanding that people and organisations are ecosystems embedded within ecosystems enables coaches and leaders to understand the dynamics of networked relationships and actions, and therefore to work better with complexity and make more informed, considered and hopefully – wiser decisions.

About Hetty Einzig

Hetty Einzig is a leadership coach, author and thought-leader working globally; she has designed and delivered leadership/culture-change programmes for thirty years. She is Director of Publications Strategy at the Association for Coaching and Executive Editor of the influential Coaching Perspectives magazine. She is on the associate faculty of the Irish Management Institute, Henley Centre for Coaching at Henley Business School, and  the Eco-Leadership Institute.  

Hetty maintains a strong focus in her work on women in leadership and environmental leaders, fed by her roots in transpersonal psychology, a holistic and values-based ontology that views the cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual and contextual as an ecosystemic whole. She integrates into her practice psychoanalytic concepts and somatic bodywork. 

Hetty has a degree in languages from Cambridge University, a Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute and a Masters in Organisational Consulting, psychoanalytic and systemic approaches from the Tavistock Centre.
www.hettyeinzig.co.uk 

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7th April, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (BST)

Inner Development Goals: Why human development matters for organizational transformation
with Rafaela Rolim

This interactive session invites participants to pause and explore how inner development, such as self-awareness, empathy, courage, and collaborative capacity, strengthens our collective ability to navigate change. Rather than focusing on individual performance, the IDG narrative highlights interdependence: the understanding that meaningful impact emerges when inner growth is placed in service of the whole.

About Webinar

The Inner Development Goals (IDG) is a global movement that supports inner development as an essential dimension of sustainability and systems change. While much attention is placed on external targets, strategies, and technologies, the IDG reminds us that long-term, sustainable transformation depends equally on how we think, relate, decide, and act together.

This interactive session invites participants to pause and explore how inner development, such as self-awareness, empathy, courage, and collaborative capacity, strengthens our collective ability to navigate change. Rather than focusing on individual performance, the IDG narrative highlights interdependence: the understanding that meaningful impact emerges when inner growth is placed in service of the whole.

This will not be a traditional webinar. The session is designed as a participatory learning space, with moments of reflection, dialogue, and shared sense-making. The format reflects the essence of inner development itself: learning through relationship, presence, and lived experience.

Together, we will explore how cultivating inner capacities can support wiser decisions, healthier collaboration, and more resilient responses to the challenges we face, from the inside out.

About Rafaela Rolim

Rafaela Rolim works with leaders and organizations navigating complexity by strengthening the inner capacities that enable sustainable impact. A global citizen at heart, she believes that meaningful change in the world begins from the inside out and grows through collective intelligence. With over 20 years of experience in human development, she currently serves as Co-lead of the IDG of Hubs and Networks and is one of the designers and facilitators of the IDG Ambassador Programme.  

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17th February, 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM (GMT)

The Purpose-Led Roadmap: The New Rules Of The Quest For Creating A New Future
with Louise Le Gat

In this workshop, we will explore new approaches to purpose-led work and leadership to create the new future we actually want to see – both personally and collectively.  This is for those who want to step up within themselves, their work and their leadership to meet the times we are in.

About Webinar

We are at a pivotal time when the future is being shaped like never before. And we, as leaders, all stand at a fork in the road.  A point of choice, creativity and courage, where we either allow ourselves to be shaped by what is happening – or we decide to be the ones who shape what comes next.

For this, traditional approaches are now outdated. As they were developed to simply sustain business as usual, with incremental innovation – and to perform within the frame of the existing status quo we were in.  Not to be the guides, bridge-builders and stewards of the quantum leap that lies in front of us.

Together we will focus on how to evolve as leaders beyond being just prisoners of the past or hostages to the present – into becoming the creators of the new future we need now.   Specifically, how to find inner stability, ignite new possibility and craft new opportunity, even in the midst of the current chaos by:

  1. Evolving our purpose for the uncertain times of systemic transition we are in.
  2. Shifting from being good soldiers of the status quo to becoming brave builders of the new future.
  3. Offering a new compass, map and navigation system to chart our own course through the unknown.
About Louise Le Gat

Louise Le Gat is the Founder of A Purpose-Led World, a movement igniting leaders to rise for a new future by being purpose-led at this pivotal time on the planet.  She is a strategic partner to purpose-driven leaders and organisations in navigating the current collective pivotal transition and shaping our future. As a former lawyer and a pioneering voice in new approaches to purpose-led careers and leadership, she has 25 years of experience at the intersection of change-making, systemic transformation, and human development. To dig deeper into her approach and philosophy, you can find her on Substack here. https://open.substack.com/pub/thepurposeledadventure

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11th November, 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM (BST)

In the Flow: Leading as optimal experience
Sarah Rozenthuler

Discover a new leadership approach that prioritises presence and inner clarity over control and prediction by leveraging principles from optimal experience psychology and wisdom traditions.

About Webinar
In a world obsessed with certainty, leadership has become synonymous with control. We seek data to forecast the future, strategies to minimise risk, and plans to protect us from the unknown. Yet despite our best efforts, complexity keeps outpacing our predictions. Control becomes contraction and we find ourselves caught up in cycles of stress, stagnation and stuckness. We’re left feeling overworked and under-inspired, and managing people who are equally disengaged.
This webinar offers another path. ‘In the Flow’ is an invitation to let go of being ‘in the know’ and step into the river of real change—not by knowing more or doing more, but by being more. It’s about learning to lead from presence rather than pressure, from inner clarity rather than external noise. It’s about creating teams and organisations where positive energy flows freely, creativity flourishes, and people feel more alive.
Drawing on the psychology of optimal experience, wisdom traditions, and real-life stories of business transformation, this webinar will explore how to move from stuckness to flow through a being-centred approach to leadership. Flow isn’t just a personal high—it’s a systemic force that, when cultivated, can transform the way we work, lead and live.
About Sarah Rozenthuler
Sarah Rozenthuler is a chartered psychologist, international keynote speaker, and award-winning author. With 20 years’ experience coaching senior leaders, she specialises in executive coaching, team coaching, and leadership development. Sarah founded Bridgework Consulting in 2007 to help leaders and teams thrive. She is a LinkedIn Learning and Udemy instructor and teaches at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, on their flagship leadership programmes, and delivers masterclasses for the British Psychological Society. Her books include Now We’re Talking (2024), Powered by Purpose (2020), and How to Have Meaningful Conversations (2012).
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14th October, 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM (GMT)

Organisations Vertical Development
Xavier Bronlet

The intricate relationships between personal, team and organisational change, an integral perspective.
 
About Webinar

This webinar presents the key findings of a doctoral research, focusing on the nature of transformation across intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal dimensions. Drawing upon transpersonal psychology, systems thinking, developmental theory, and organizational science, the research proposes a multidimensional framework for exploring how individuals, teams, and organizations evolve in response to increasing complexity and systemic challenges. The research method include quantitative and qualitative approaches, together with longitudinal analysis of Systemic Agility and archetypal mapping of transpersonal emergence. The findings suggest how individual experiences influences ego development, how organizations transmute tension into adaptive capacity, how symbolic structures evolve within collective consciousness, and finally how the intra, inter and transpersonal dimensions integrate one with each other.

About Xavier Bronlet
Managing Partner at AccelerationLab SA, he works as a OD consultant, researcher and coach, helping companies to adapt to the postmodern era. He is professor at the MSc SUPSI BA for “Organisational & Leadership” modules. He collaborates with the research department of the Integral Transpersonal Institute in Milan. He holds degrees in mathematics, pedagogy, finance, and more recently a Ph.D. in Integral Transpersonal.
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16th September 2025, 7:30 PM TO 9:00 PM (BST)

Reconnecting Body, Nature and Purpose in the Workplace
Dr Valentina Canessa-Pollard

How an ecotherapy-informed approach to coaching can support meaningful work, sustainable leadership, and regenerative change. 

About Webinar
In a time of increasing disconnection, burnout, and uncertainty, many individuals in the workplace are questioning the meaning of their work and seeking more aligned, values-led ways of living and leading. This webinar explores how reconnecting with the body and the natural world can support profound personal and professional transformation.
Building on the concept of fourth-generation coaching, I will introduce an ecotherapy-informed approach that supports individuals and leaders to regulate emotions, tap into embodied intuition, and rediscover purpose in their careers. Drawing from transpersonal psychology, regenerative leadership, and eco-somatic practices, we will explore how the natural world can be a powerful facilitator for inner change and sustainable decision-making.
Participants will be invited into experiential reflection and offered practical insights from coaching in organisational contexts, career transitions, and leadership development. Whether you’re a coach, leader, or simply someone navigating the complexity of work in the 21st century, this session offers a grounding and expansive perspective.
About Dr Valentina Canessa-Pollard

Dr Valentina Canessa-Pollard is Programme Lead for the MSc in Coaching Psychology at the University of Chichester, and runs her coaching psychology practice, VCPollard Coaching (www.vcpollardcoaching.com). A coaching psychologist, ecotherapy practitioner and educator, her work bridges the psychological, ecological and organisational. She delivers leadership development, coaching and CPD training to individuals and organisations, with a particular focus on sustainability  and values-led work. Valentina’s research explores regenerative leadership, eco-somatic coaching, and the role of nature and embodiment in professional growth and change. She is co-author of the concept of fourth-generation coaching and leads a number of applied projects exploring coaching for pro-environmental behaviour.

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3rd June 2025, 6.30 PM TO 8.00 PM (BST)

Organisations as Living Systems at the Edge of Chaos
Robin de Carteret

Help your organisation navigate uncertainty by skilling up in Systems Literacy.

About Webinar
Robin will use interactive activities to explore emergence, self-organisation, feedback loops, resilience and tipping points. Traditional, linear approaches struggle to make sense of today’s swirling organisational, social and climate-system challenges. To navigate real-world complexity we need a different lens—one that mirrors the interconnected, dynamic, and adaptive ways in which nature operates.
 
This webinar will provide participants with an engaging, hands-on approach to understanding complexity. Through interactive modelling activities and insights drawn from the natural world, participants will experience and explore key principles of living systems, including self-organisation, emergence, balancing and reinforcing feedback loops, and tipping points. Throughout the session, we will connect these dynamic experiences to real-world applications in organisational change, economics, social change, and the climate system. 
 
By the end of the session, participants will be better equipped to:
  • Respond to disruptions or unexpected challenges with greater calm and resilience.
  • Identify leverage points within the systems they are navigating.
  • Have more confidence to go through the chaos to allow for innovation and emergent order.
 
Please bring to this session: 
  • A Piece of Newspaper or A3 sheet or larger
  • Rubber Band or Sticky Tape
About Robin de Carteret

Founder of Systems Games, Robin de Carteret is an educator, facilitator and consultant in Complexity Science and Sustainability with a knack for bringing his scientific knowledge to groups in innovative and fresh ways. Using simulation activities and experiential techniques from performance improvisation, he introduces thought-provoking concepts from complexity science, biomimicry and systems thinking. His work centres around shifting perspectives from a linear and mechanistic lens to recognising the world as a highly interconnected network of living systems.
Robin has a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Holistic Science from Schumacher College, and has led workshops in systems thinking for organisations, universities, conferences and events both nationally and internationally over the past 17 years.

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6TH MAY 2025, 6.30 PM TO 8.00 PM (BST)​

Breaking the Toxic Cycle: Transforming Workplace Cultures for a Healthier Future
Dagmar Suissa

Dagmar will explore the barriers that stand in the way of true organisational transformation and how we can work with them to build better workplaces.

About Webinar

It is no secret that organisations worldwide are grappling with toxic work cultures, marked by low employee engagement, poor mental health, and ongoing challenges around diversity, inclusion, and equity. Common explanations often point to bad leadership, hostile environments, poor communication, high workloads, or employees struggling to manage stress and work-life balance.

These explanations may hold some truth. But are we seeing the whole picture? Or, perhaps more precisely, are we seeing enough for us to start breaking through the toxic cycle?

The webinar is an invitation for us to come together and explore the hidden dimensions of what keeps us collectively trapped in toxic cultures. Instead of just focusing on what could “drive” change, we’ll look at the barriers that stand in the way of true transformation and how we can work with them to build better workplaces.

Through a blend of insights, experiential exercises, and group dialogue, the webinar will offer opportunities to:

  • Broaden your understanding of how toxicity emerges and how, often unknowingly, we all contribute to it.
  • Uncover how organisational systems, by design, shape and sustain our responses, reinforcing toxic patterns and making it hard for us to break the toxic cycle.
  • Explore what can help us start to shift the toxic cycle and open the door to a more human, connected, and thriving work environment.
About Dagmar Suissa

Dagmar Suissa is a founder of Bee Balanced, a platform that supports leaders and changemakers in creating more connected, human, and balanced workplaces. She is also the author of Culture Detox: How to Break the Toxic Cycle, Build a Better Workplace, and Start the Change. Dagmar worked for over 20 years in the corporate world, including many years as Chief People Officer and as a member of executive teams and boards. She has also taught master’s-level programmes in adult education, HR management, and psychology at Charles University in Prague. Dagmar holds an MA in psychology from Université Paris Cité, an MSc in transpersonal psychology from Alef Trust, and multiple organisational development and coaching certifications.

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8TH APRIL 2025, 7.30 PM TO 9.00 PM (BST)​​

Systems-led Leadership
Daniela Papi-Thornton

Daniela will explore how systems-led leadership creates a bridge between inner development and outer change.

About Webinar

Systems-led leaders make decisions about their personal or organisational social-impact strategies based on understanding the systems within which they work. This webinar will look at how systems understanding and systems-led leadership can contribute to both inner and outer development goals and why this essential skill set of engaging with complexity is necessary for our times. We will then explore the potential for what it might take to use the “call to systems” as a bridge to connect a variety of global transformation modalities towards collective change.

About Daniela Papi-Thornton

Daniela Papi-Thornton’s work bridges systems education, leadership, and personal development work. She typically works with universities, foundations, non-profits, and corporations as they explore the possibilities of contributing to shifting systems towards more equitable results. She is a Lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has also served on the teaching team at a variety of global institutions including the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and Yale’s School of Management.

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11th March 2025, 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm (GMT)​

Transforming Workplaces: How HR Can Lead with IDGs and Transpersonal Psychology
Zoë Walters

Zoë will explore how the Human Resources profession can lead the way in embedding the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) into workplace practices, fostering sustainable transformation through the application of transpersonal psychology.

About Webinar

This webinar will equip HR professionals, L&D specialists, and business leaders with actionable tools and strategies to inspire individual and collective growth, aligning employee potential with organisational success. It will explore how the application of transpersonal psychology can bring the IDGs to life in the workplace through:

  • Being: Cultivating self-awareness and resilience using mindfulness and reflective practices rooted in transpersonal psychology.
  • Thinking: Fostering innovative problem-solving by integrating deep observation and reflective processes like those in Scharmer’s Theory U.
  • Relating: Building empathy and trust through participatory approaches that nurture authentic connections within teams.
  • Collaborating: Encouraging co-creation and shared purpose to align personal aspirations with organisational goals, promoting collective resilience.
  • Acting: Translating insights into measurable action by creating HR frameworks demonstrating the return on investment in employee engagement and well-being.
About Zoë Walters

Zoë Walters is a global Transformational Human Resource Executive who empowers individuals and businesses to thrive. Her career has spanned many business leadership roles, including Chief People Officer at leading media giant Condé Nast International, leading a $2B global digital transformation project and Global HR Executive at renowned sports leader Adidas, leading a $4B Digital Brand Commerce people strategy. She has also consulted for many Fortune 500 companies. Zoë has created, advised, and transformed businesses and led and coached several teams to high-performance success.

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11th February 2025, 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm (GMT)​

Conscious Leadership: The Science of Human Flourishing
Sophie Maclaren

Sophie explores the science of human flourishing through the lenses of neuroscience, leadership studies, and related disciplines in the context of our working life.

About Webinar

The science of ‘Human Flourishing’ is multi-disciplinary approach to peak performance, feeling our best, and a life well lived. Many of us will spend the majority of our waking hours, and our best years at work—this is our life, let’s understand how to flourish within it. This webinar will explore and apply the emerging field of human flourishing. It will share wisdom and practices that enable humans to live and work their best lives and to be in harmony with the people and world around them. We will look at the intersection of how human flourishing drives organisational flourishing, and how conscious leaders can create human flourishing organisations. 

About Sophie Maclaren

Sophie Maclaren is a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and a Partner at the consultancy Transcend Space.  Her work explores how the practice of ‘human flourishing’, when applied to leadership, can lead to ‘organisational flourishing’, where the organisation meets its objectives and the workforce is purposeful, enriched and energised by their work. Having engaged in deep training with Tibetan lamas of the Shambhala, Kagyu and Nyingma traditions since childhood, Sophie now specialises in combining modern science with the ancient Himalayan philosophical traditions of enlightened leadership in her academic and corporate work. Previously she co-founded the UK’s leading mindfulness in business consultancy, and has two decades of experience consulting, facilitating retreats, and researching human flourishing.

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14th January 2025, 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm (GMT)​

Consciousness Development and the IDGs
Terence Sexton.

Terence explores how consciousness development is a necessary part of the journey in implementing the Inner Development Goals.

About Webinar

Research shows that our internal dimensions (values, beliefs, worldviews/ paradigms and associated internal capacities) are deep leverage points for organisational and societal change. While it has no agreed definition, consciousness can be considered to encompass all our internal dimensions. However, there currently appears to be a focus on developing our internal dimensions through expanding ‘conscious awareness’. Informed by his recent research using Co-operative Inquiry to explore how changemakers experience consciousness development in relation to their leadership performance, Terence Sexton will propose that consciousness also needs to be developed in other ways. These include developing the contents of consciousness (such as values, beliefs, and worldviews), which are associated with pro-environmental behaviours and gaining greater cognitive, emotional and behavioural agility by developing to the higher (post-conventional) stages of consciousness. He will conclude by arguing that it is through the combination of all three aspects of consciousness development that the Inner Development Goals gain their power to create organisational and societal change. Following this talk, there will be an interactive activity and a discussion.

About Terence Sexton

Terence Sexton has over 25 years of experience working as a Leadership Psychologist and has a keen interest in exploring and developing consciousness. His work mainly involves Executive Profiling, Executive Coaching and Leadership Development and, in recent years, his focus has been on sustainable leadership, enabling leaders to co-create a better future for us all. Terence is currently studying for a PhD in Applied Transpersonal Psychology with the Alef Trust. His research is a Co-operative Inquiry into how changemakers can develop their consciousness, so they gain the greater capability to work with the complexity of the metacrisis now facing society.

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10th December 2024, 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm (GMT)​

Inner Development Through Transpersonal Coaching
Jevon Dängeli

Jevon explores the key principles of transpersonal coaching and how they can be leveraged to support inner development within organisations.

About Webinar

Leaders have long relied on coaching to help them solve problems and improve their organisation’s performance. This coaching is not provided in a moral vacuum and the work of a coach may sometimes contribute to the interconnected eco-social crises society is now facing. It is now increasingly argued that the purpose of coaching should also include contributing to solving problems for people and the planet. Transpersonal Coaching can be described as the theory and practice of coaching that takes a holistic and integrative approach to support the healing and growth of the leader, their organisation and society. When applied to inner development within organisations it supports leaders to develop a more expansive and interconnected sense of self and access and employ their multiple intelligences (physical, cognitive, emotional, social, psychological, and spiritual). This enables the leader to realise their full potential, increase their performance and become more aware of the impact their work has on people and the planet. In this experiential online session, Jevon Dängeli will introduce the key principles of Transpersonal Coaching and explore how they can foster inner development to enable outer change in their organisation and wider society. The session will include a somatic practice, reflective discussion, and Q&A.

About Jevon Dängeli

Jevon Dängeli completed the MSc programme in transpersonal psychology at Alef Trust, where he is the  Transpersonal Coaching Psychology course leader. He has several coach certifications and has been coaching professionally since 2002, as well as providing training, mentoring and supervision for coaches since 2004. He is the author of nine training manuals related to transpersonal coaching, Editor of the  Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, developer of the  “jumi” (judo mind) practice and co-founder of the  Live Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to create opportunities for positive change by providing free education and empowering resources to those who contribute their time and energy to humanitarian aid or environmental sustainability.  Jevon’s website.

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Jessica Bockler
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5th November 2024, 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm (GMT)

Inner Development from a Transpersonal Perspective
Dr Jessica Bockler

Jessica views the Inner Development Goals framework through the lens of transpersonal psychology to reveal how it can be used to foster our interconnectedness with nature, each other and our spiritual self to enable organisational transformation. 

About Webinar

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global call for action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Most corporate organisations are taking action to help achieve the SDGs that are relevant to their operations. Despite all this action, it is increasingly recognised that insufficient progress is being made globally. Research suggests that the shortfall in progress is due to our lack of inner capacities to deal with our increasingly complex world and the challenges it presents. In 2021 the Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework was co-created by 1000+ scientists, experts and HR and sustainability professionals to support the development of our inner capacities. In this webinar, Dr Jessica Bockler will apply transpersonal psychology to the IDG Framework. Transpersonal psychology is a whole-person psychology that brings together multiple intelligences (such as emotional, relational and somatic alongside rational intelligence) and that helps people grow beyond their ego-identifications. Jessica will guide the group to consider how the integrative development of the whole person relates to the 5 dimensions of the IDG framework. The webinar will also help to deepen understanding of human beings as embedded in nature, exploring how we can think and act as nature, adopting more biophilic orientations in organisational development. Jessica will conclude by arguing that transpersonal psychology is ideally placed to enable leaders within organisations to deal with the complex challenges inherent in the SDGs they are seeking to achieve. The webinar will include experiential activities and opportunities for discussion and questions.

About Dr Jessica Bockler

Dr Jessica Bockler is an applied artist, transpersonal psychologist and co-founder director of the Alef Trust. She serves as Deputy CEO and works across Alef Trust’s academic and applied portfolios. Jessica specialises in integral theory, creativity, transpersonal research methods, and the application of transpersonal psychology in service of global regeneration and flourishing. Trained in applied and physical theatre, Jessica has extensive experience of expressive arts facilitation, as well as experimental movement and voice work. She specialises in embodied approaches to accessing creativity and imagination. 

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Change & Sustainability Leadership Programme

We are creating an online leadership development programme to enable practitioners to develop the capability needed to lead inner development within an organisation from a transpersonal perspective. If you are interested in participating in this programme, please contact us and we will invite you to participate once the programme is launched.

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Alef Trust

Curriculum: year One

20 credits each
Approaches to Consciousness

Offers you a broad introduction to consciousness studies, cognitive neuroscience of consciousness, consciousness and spiritual traditions.

Find our more: Approaches to consciousness

Learning Through Integrative Practice

An 8-month experiential immersion in a personal programme of integrative practice, with the aim to foster whole-person development.

Individual needs and aspirations are considered in the development of the practice plan, and critical engagement with the practices is encouraged through regular webinars and reflective sessions.

Find out more: Learning Through Integrative Practice

Spiritual Psychology

Module leader: Dr. Ellis Linders

This module explores the changing meaning of spirituality in contemporary secular culture. Moreover, it identifies and examines the relationship between psychology and spirituality as a change in psycho-spiritual paradigm. The module is titled ‘spiritual psychology’ to reflect this relationship. Although there are many correspondences, spiritual psychology differs from transpersonal psychology in that it specifically draws on spiritual traditions and new or ‘neo’ spiritual expressions. 

As a student, you will choose two specialist options (see SPECIALIST OPTIONS tab for all courses) to explore which each reflect an expression of contemporary spiritual engagement. They also exemplify approaches in which spiritual traditions and their practices are viewed through the lens of contemporary psychology. The psychological lens allows issues of definition, measurement, and frameworks concerning spiritual experience to be critically evaluated according to scientific principles.

Specialist options for the Spiritual Psychology module - Select two
Embodied Presence

Tutor: Dr. Tamara Russell

This module option provides an exploration of embodied presence and what it means to live our human experience in a body. In an increasingly disconnected and disembodied world, true embodied presence is becoming a scarcity. Even in the transpersonal world, a fixation with “up and out” (out of body, psychedelics and a move away from the material) means that the wisdom and grounding of the body is easily lost, and the possibility of spiritual bypass is very real. In most spiritual traditions, a deep connection with, and examination of, the body (in stillness and movement) is fundamental to the spiritual path.

Find out more: Embodied Presence

Entheogens and Psychedelics

Tutor: Pascal Michael, PhD

Taking a cross-disciplinary and multi-cultural approach, this module option explores transpersonal and transformative qualities of the psychedelic experience, illuminating its meanings and implications for individuals and communities.

Find out more: Entheogens and Psychedelics

Feminine Spiritualities

Tutor: Dr. Kendra Ford

Feminine Spiritualities refers to a spectrum of perspectives, practices, histories, and cultures that balance on the fine edges of feminism, contemporary spirituality, psychological theory, and mystical traditions. This option is an embodied and critical exploration of the feminine principle within psychological, religious and spiritual contexts.

Find out more: Feminine Spiritualities

Shamanistic Psychology

Tutor: Dr. Steven Schmitz

Shamanism is the oldest spiritual tradition known to humankind and continues to be relevant in our contemporary world. For tens of thousands of years shamans have developed and used their technologies (knowledge, tools, skills) for shifting consciousness and for accessing the spirit realms for guidance, healing, and transformation.

Find out more: Shamanistic Psychology

Spirituality and the Imaginal

Tutor: Dr. Lila Moore

This module option explores the imaginal as an evolving phenomenon that has shaped the human spiritual experience: from Paleolithic cave art, altered states, and mythic rituals to the intersection of modern esoteric and spiritual movements, the creative arts and healing arts.

Find out more: Spirituality and the Imaginal

Transpersonal Dreaming

Tutor Dr. Tadas Stumbrys

In this module option, we study transpersonal dimensions of dreaming, drawing on scientific research and historical/spiritual traditions. We will explore the world of lucid dreaming and its potentials for growth and transformation.

Find out more: Transpersonal Dreaming

Curriculum: year two

20 credits each
Transpersonal Psychology

Transpersonal psychology (TP) studies phenomena beyond the ego and their transformative and healing potential. Adopting the perspective that the human being is intimately interconnected to the cosmos in many ways, TP acknowledges the relevance and value of spiritual, mystical, and other exceptional human experiences.

The course covers the major theoretical orientations within TP, and the models they propose to understand these experiences and situate them in the larger context of human transformation and spiritual development.

The course also covers other complementary topics which reflect the growing edges of TP as a vibrant and multifaceted field.

Find out more: Transpersonal Psychology

Research Design

Our Research Design module provides a grounding in qualitative research methods.

Students venture into transpersonal approaches to research, offering you an introduction to methods which embrace embodied, intuitive and creative ways of expanding the human knowledge base.

Research Design allows students to work with these methods in a research project, tackling the philosophical and ethical issues surrounding transpersonal psychology methods.

Such as:

  • The centrality of transformation for both researcher and participants
  • Issues that arise when participants’ most meaningful experiences may be scrutinised
  • Issues where practices may be evaluated for efficacy, and ideas concerning changing paradigms in psychological science

Find out more: Research Design

Applied Transformative Psychology

Module leader: Dr. Jessica Bockler

Applied transformative psychology focuses on the ways in which transpersonal, integrative, and spiritual perspectives can be applied in practice, considering personal and professional pathways and ethics of transformation. The concept of inner development is examined in the context of evolving ideas and theories exploring personal and systemic/collective change; and questions of ethical engagement in contemporary contexts are considered in the light of the evolving meta-crises of our times. 

Students are encouraged to explore their own professional practice in relation to two of the specialist options (see SPECIALIST OPTIONS tab for all courses).

Specialist options for the Applied transformative psychology module — Select two
Creativity and Transformation

Tutor: Dr. Jessica Bockler

In this option we explore the nature of creativity and its relationship to human development and growth, as well as its relevance for social change. The evolving crises of our time call for inner and outer changes in our ways of being and doing. In Together, we consider how we can draw on our creativity to enable and support generative change processes in ourselves and in those we work with.

Find out more: Creativity and Transformation

Integrative Medicine

Tutor: Dr. Hennie Geldenhuys

This option explores the mind-body-spirit paradigm and its implications for an integrative and holistic approach to wellness and healthcare. Health, disease, healing and the psychosomatic are viewed through a transpersonal but pragmatic lens.

Find out more: Integrative Medicine

Multidimensional Trauma & Transformation

Tutor: Dr. Regina U. Hess

We will explore multidimensional applications for the transformation of individual, transgenerational, and ecological trauma drawing on clinical, transpersonal, indigenous, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy approaches and research. The goal is to support the person’s innate capacity to restore the mind-body-spirit-balance and eventually wholeness, including such dimensions as interpersonal relationships and relationships with nature, the cosmos, culture, and the community.

Find out more: Multidimensional Trauma & Transformation

Transpersonal Coaching Psychology

Tutor: Jevon Dängeli

Transpersonal Coaching Psychology (TCP) can be described as the theory and practice of coaching that takes a holistic and integrative approach to support client growth and transformation. In this option we explore the basis and value of a transpersonal approach to coaching.

Find out more: Transpersonal Coaching Psychology

Transpersonal Ecopsychology

Tutor: Paul Maiteny

We are living in extremely destabilised times. We humans are undermining life-support ecosystems essential to life itself, ecological, social and personal. It is a tragic irony that we have been doing so with the aim of making our lives better. We have now reached the threshold point where the destructive results of our priorities and action is confronting us full-on. Yet, we are continuing to seek technological ‘solutions and fixes’ using the same motivations and types of thinking as have caused the devastation in the first place. 

Transpersonal Ecopsychology provides a new way of thinking about and understanding human meaning and purpose as embedded participants in the ecosystem, rather than in the binary way of thinking of ourselves as ‘other’ to ‘nature’ and ‘the environment’. 

Find our more: Transpersonal Ecopsychology: Knowing your role in a conscious Earth

Transpersonal Counselling and Psychotherapy

Tutor: Dr. Gabriel Fernandez Borsot

Transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy situate the process of psychological healing and maturation in the wider context of spiritual development. This option explores the main features of these approaches, and their associated techniques and models.

Find out more: Transpersonal Counselling and Psychotherapy

Curriculum: year THREE

60 credits

The curriculum in the first two years of study provides students with the necessary skills to conduct a research project in their third year of study. Under the supervision of a faculty member, students choose an area of interest to explore in depth through an original study.

Research projects often adopt experiential and introspective approaches as well as traditional scientific approaches while exploring topics that emphasise the interrelationships between the somatic, psychological, social and spiritual levels of explanation.

Goods and Services Tax (GST)

We at Alef Trust believe that education is a fundamental human right, which should accordingly not be subject to taxation. Moreover, education is key to building communities, societies, and cultures, which we also believe places it in a category for which taxation is counterproductive. Unfortunately, the legislative powers in many countries do not agree with our perspective.

Recent changes in rules governing taxation, especially in the EU, have meant that students on our online programmes resident in some countries will have to pay GST on top of the programme fee. The UK, which is the jurisdiction in which Alef Trust is located, does not impose GST (known as VAT in the UK) on educational fees. However, legislative changes mean that the determining factor for GST is no longer the country in which education is delivered but the country in which the “consumer”—in our case, the student studying on an Alef Trust programme—resides. Consequently, students who are resident in countries which impose GST on educational fees will be charged the GST by Alef Trust since Alef Trust is responsible for paying the tax in their country of residence.

The treatment of GST on distance learning is an evolving situation in many countries, if tax is deemed to be chargeable part way through your course this could be added to your future course fees. We will not apply GST to invoices that have previously been issued. Alef Trust will not levy any charge on top of the tax liability; any administrative cost will be covered by Alef Trust

At the time of writing, the table below indicates some of the countries charging GST on educational fees and the tax rate. The situation remains fluid and there may be changes to this table in the future. We will update the information as soon as we are able to determine the current situation. You are strongly advised to check the current situation in your country. Some countries allow exemptions for certain kinds of online educational programmes. Our MSc and PhD programmes, for example, may be exempt for GST purposes in your country. You must check—a local tax office should be able to advise you. Alef Trust will not levy any charge on top of the tax liability; any administrative cost will be covered by Alef Trust.

WEBINAR SCHEDULE

A main feature of our online teaching environment is that required webinars are taught live and also recorded, which allows for synchronous involvement in content and lively discussions during the question-and-answer portions of webinars for those in attendance.

Webinars are generally scheduled well in advance, and are held on a varied schedule between 9:00-21:00 UK time.

Although we cannot commit to accommodate all time zones for all webinars, we hope for students in our global community to have the opportunity for synchronous participation throughout the programme. When live attendance is not possible, recordings of webinars are available almost immediately and can be viewed at a convenient time, making the programme accessible regardless of location in the world. 

One-to-one and group meetings with personal tutors are scheduled at mutually convenient times.

Please note that whilst we do our utmost to give you advance notice, some flexibility in accommodating schedule changes and additional dates may be needed as and when they become available. This programme weaves a complex tapestry of asynchronous and live events befitting Master’s level study with a wide range of teachers. We therefore advise you that some flexibility will be needed on your part to join this programme and make the most of what it has to offer.

LEARNING APPROACHES

Our students enjoy a rich and interactive learning experience. Transformative learning methods are utilised in all our modules, which support a deep level of self-inquiry while fostering connection with experiential learning of programme content, research skills, and academic, professional and personal growth. 

INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES

 

  • Live teaching webinars
  • Live sessions involving experiential practices
  • Student presentations

A SHARED LEARNING JOURNEY 

 

  • Reflective group meetings
  • Peer group work
  • Individual and group supervision

STUDY AT YOUR OWN PACE

 

  • Written discussion forums
  • Study of course materials
  • Personal practice and projects

WHOLE-PERSON SUPPORT

 

  • Personal tutor support
  • Academic skills support
  • Wellbeing support

CONTENT DELIVERY
The programme is 100% online and presented via synchronous and asynchronous webinars where students engage with faculty and each other. All coursework is taught on our learning management system, Canvas.

ONBOARDING
To support students in gaining foundational skills for MSc study, the Alef trust offers an introductory online course in APA referencing and academic writing skills, which incoming students are invited to take prior to the start of term. This enables those who are unfamiliar with APA formatting, as well as those who have been out of education for some time, to feel more prepared for embarking on their MSc.

ASSESSMENT

Course assessments are mainly in the form of written essays and reports. Several assignments encourage use of creative media to express the learning journeys, and students can choose to do this in ways that meet their creative skills and interests. Examples include visual art, music, creative writing, and videos. A number of modules include asynchronous forum participation. Some modules also include group project assessments which involve live presentations and attendance at presentations by peers.

Your schedule will require some flexibility to accommodate these in all three years of the programme.

In the final year, you conduct your own research project under supervision. Assessment of this final-year module involves a research dissertation, online presentation, and a blog-style post.

Depending on the nature and weighting of the assignment, these are either 2,000, 3,000 or 4,500 words in required length, and the final dissertation is 10,000-12,000 words, depending on the methodology used.

LIBRARY ACCESS

As a student enrolled on a collaborative programme with Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) you have access to a range of LJMU’s electronic library resources.

This includes an extensive selection of relevant books and journals, as well as academic learning resources oriented towards the ongoing development of skills such as scholarly writing.

Visual Map of the MSc PROGRAMME

Year 1
Orientation
7503ALEFTP Learning Through Integrative Practice (20 Credits)
7501ALEFTP Approaches to Consciousness (20 Credits)
7502ALEFTP Spiritual Psychology (20 Credits)
Year 2
7504ALEFTP Transpersonal psychology (20 Credits)
7506ALEFTP Research Design (20 Credits)
7505ALEFTP Applied Transformative Psychology (20 Credits)
Year 3
7503ALEFTP Learning Through Integrative Practice (20 Credits)
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Visual Map of the MSc PROGRAMME

Year One
Orientation
7503ALEFTP Learning Through Integrative Practice (20 Credits)
7501ALEFTP Approaches to Consciousness (20 Credits)
7502ALEFTP Spiritual Psychology (20 Credits)
+ Two Specialist Options
Year Two
7504ALEFTP Transpersonal psychology (20 Credits)
7506ALEFTP Research Design (20 Credits)
7505ALEFTP Applied Transformative Psychology (20 Credits) + Two Specialist Options
Year Three
7500ALEFTP Research Dissertation (60 Credits)

Alternative track: 1-year Postgraduate Certificate

Students wishing to gain a Postgraduate Certificate can enrol on the MSc route and complete their studies after gaining 60 credits in year 1.

Alternative track: 2-year Postgraduate Diploma

Students wishing to gain a Postgraduate Diploma can enrol on the MSc route and complete their studies after gaining 120 credits by the end of year 2.

Alternative track: 2-year MSc

The Alef Trust MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology is validated by Liverpool John Moores University in two programme formats. Students normally take the three-year part-time programme, although a two-year part-time programme is also available. Obviously, the primary difference between these programmes concerns the duration of study. However, there are additional considerations that applicants must take into account when deciding on their preferred programme of study:

Your qualifications: In order to be considered for the two-year programme, you must have a degree in psychology or a cognate science discipline, with a minimum grade of 2:1 (UK university system) or equivalent (non-UK universities).

Time availability: In order to be considered for the two-year programme, you must clearly demonstrate that you are able to commit to studying for approximately 25-35 hours per week.

Maturity: Our MSc is not simply an exercise in academic learning. The ethos underpinning the programme – confirmed by reflections from graduates – is one of students embarking on a developmental journey that entails deep maturation of their aspirations, relationships, and inner quests. In the experience of both staff and graduates this journey is most effective when taken over three years. In evaluating applications for the two-year programme, the admissions team will explore with the applicant their readiness to achieve the programme goals in only two years.

Shared experience: The journey is one in which forming bonds with those in your cohort can be highly beneficial. A student on the two-year pathway will straddle two cohorts, which may make this aspect of the experience more difficult. Again, the applicant’s resilience in this regard will be considered by the admissions team. Structurally, the arrangement of modules is broadly similar across the two pathways in years 1 and 2. The critical difference for those on the two-year pathway is that the Research Design module comes in year 1, and the Research Dissertation in Year 2.

Readiness to undertake research: The deeply reflective experiential, whole-person, learning which is at the core of this programme takes time to gestate during the first two years for most students, and culminates with the research dissertation in the third year. Applicants for the two-year programme will be expected to demonstrate to the admissions team that they have a preliminary plan about their potential research. If you wish to be considered for the two-year pathway, please indicate this in the application form. Our admissions team will contact you to arrange an interview to discuss whether this could be a suitable option for you.

If you wish to be considered for the two-year pathway, please indicate this in the application form. Our admissions team will contact you to arrange an interview to discuss whether this could be an appropriate option for you.