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15/06/2026

🕊️Caux Inner Development Goals Forum 2026: The Alchemy of Forgiveness 🕊️

Leave what is past in the past, and what is future for the future.

As part of the Caux IDG Forum: The Alchemy of Forgiveness, Alef Trust student, David Kletter, will guide an experiential outdoor workshop exploring how the harmony inherent in Nature reflects the harmony within ourselves, others, and all of life.

Through a Flow Learning progression, inspired by Joseph Cornell’s Sharing Nature activities, participants will be invited to move beyond the busyness of being a “human doing” and return to the deeper presence of being a “human being.”

Leaving the four palace walls behind, the workshop will journey into the living landscape, where trees, lakes and mountains become mirrors for reflection, connection and inner renewal.

Learn more about Joseph Cornell, Sharing Nature and the Flow Learning approach at www.sharingnature.com

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¨With laughter, joy and embodied experience, David will explore how forgiveness begins quietly within our own hearts, and how forgiveness-for-self can become the foundation for forgiveness-for-other.¨

🌍 https://fieldsofchange.org/schedule/caux-idg-forum-2026-the-alchemy-of-forgiveness/

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15/06/2026

🎶🌈 Is science finally unlocking the healing power of sound and colour?

Join Penny Hayward for an illuminating online talk exploring the therapeutic potential of sound and colour frequencies, and the growing research behind their role in wellbeing, stress reduction, emotional balance and healing.

Long before modern medicine, mystics and healers understood that sound and colour are not simply things we perceive. They are forces that move through us, affect us, and may help bring us back into harmony.

In this session, Penny will explore ancient wisdom, emerging scientific studies, chromotherapy, sound frequencies such as 528Hz, and the deeper relationship between vibration, consciousness and healing. This Scientific and Medical Network talk will be followed by a live Q&A with Penny Hayward.

📅 Wednesday 17 June 2026 | 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (BST)

🌍 https://scientificandmedical.net/events/penny-hayward-exploring-healing-through-sound-and-colour-frequencies/?occurrence=2026-06-17

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14/06/2026

Here, we share the latest issue of the Presencing Institute´s Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, dedicated to Presencing the Futures of Democracy and Governance.

This edition is particuarly meaningful to Alef Trust as it marks the appointment of Dr Jessica Bockler, who joins the journal’s core editorial team as a contributing editor, bringing her depth of experience in transpersonal psychology, transformative education, consciousness studies, and systems change.

This issue explores practices of care, repair, coherence, participation, and relational governance at a time when familiar democratic and institutional arrangements are under increasing strain. Across the collection, their contributors ask how the relational conditions for democracy and governance can be cultivated, sustained, and renewed amid the rupture, uncertainty, and change within today´s world.

🌍 https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/issue/view/804

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13/06/2026

🌿 Share Your Work: Notes from the Field 🌿

Join us on Monday 15 June, from 15:00 to 16:30 (BST), for this month’s Fields of Change - Share Your Work session; a reflective space for slowing down, listening deeply, and witnessing the living projects, inquiries, and experiments emerging across the Fields of Change community.

This bi-monthly gathering invites members to share work-in-progress in a spirit of presence, resonance, and generative questioning. Rather than offering advice or quick solutions, we come together to co-create insight, support, and connection.

This month, we will hear from:

🌱 Fionnuala Herder-Wynne, who will share her emerging exploration into how we can consciously co-create “fields” of aliveness and possibility within groups and systems.

🌱 Nadiya Aamer, who will share the community she has lovingly built for therapists in Pakistan, weaving somatic practices, breathwork, supervision, and cross-cultural therapeutic dialogue.

Whether you are developing a community initiative, educational programme, group process, embodied practice, or inquiry into holistic change, this is a space to listen, reflect, and be inspired by what is unfolding across our wider community.

📅 Monday 15 June ❘ 15:00–16:30 (BST)

🌍 https://fieldsofchange.org/schedule/share-your-work-notes-from-the-field-4/

Jessica Bockler Karen Liebenguth Francesca Hector Charles Daniel McDonald Dan McTiernan Nargis Kizalbash Hennie Geldenhuys

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This bi-monthly session is an invitation to share stories that help us to see the rich tapestry of work, inquiry, and transformation unfolding across our community. Through listening and resonance, […]

12/06/2026

🕊️Caux Inner Development Goals Forum 2026: The Alchemy of Forgiveness 🕊️

This July, Nargis Kizalbash will be facilitating a workshop at Caux Palace in Switzerland as part of the conference The Alchemy of Forgiveness, with a workshop entitled: The Body Remembers, The Body Releases: A Somatic Pathway to Forgiveness.

When we think of forgiveness, we often approach it as a mental or moral act. We try to forgive through understanding, reason, or willpower. Yet many of us discover that despite our best intentions, something within us continues to hold on.

The body remembers.

It remembers loss, betrayal, disappointment, fear, and hurt. These experiences are not only held in memory, but can also be carried in our muscles, posture, breathing patterns, and nervous system.

In this experiential workshop, participants will explore how the body can become a doorway to healing and forgiveness. Through somatic awareness, reflection, and gentle practices, they will learn how to recognise what is being held and create the conditions for release.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jobzSAfHTO8

¨Forgiveness is not about forgetting, excusing, or condoning. It is about freeing ourselves from the burden of carrying what no longer serves life.¨

🌍 https://fieldsofchange.org/schedule/caux-idg-forum-2026-the-alchemy-of-forgiveness/

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12/06/2026

📖 We are delighted to share that Elizabeth Carrio´s forthcoming book, Awakening the Spiritual Mind: A Guide to Meaning, Purpose, and Transformation in Modern Times, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

In a world of constant noise, speed and uncertainty, more and more people are experiencing anxiety, exhaustion, loss of meaning and a deeper questioning of the frameworks they once relied on.

✨ Drawing on more than two decades of international consulting work across Europe, the United States and the United Nations system, Elisabeth explores what happens when the structures we have built our lives around no longer hold.

Grounded in transpersonal psychology, spirituality and lived experience, Awakening the Spiritual Mind is a practical and deeply human guide for navigating crisis, inner transition and the search for meaning in modern life.

The book will be released by Collective Ink on 8 December 2026 and is now available for pre-order.

🌍 Pre-order here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Awakening-Spiritual-Mind-Meaning-Transformation/dp/1806950022

For those working in change management, organisational transitions, leadership development, coaching, consulting, psychology and transformation, this book will offer thoughtful companionship and timely insight.

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In a world of constant noise, speed, and uncertainty, more and more people feel an inner cracking: anxiety, exhaustion, loss of meaning. Is it a breakdown or the beginning of a spiritual awakening? Awakening the Spiritual Mind is a practical, heart-centered guide for those who sense that somethin...

11/06/2026

🦋 Deep Dive Masterclass with Staci Haines: Embodied Transformation: Shaping Social Change 🦋

In this experiential online session, we will explore what it means to engage in personal and social transformation at the same time, recognising that our hopes, fears, struggles and longings are deeply shaped by the social conditions in which we live.

Together, we will reflect on safety, belonging and dignity, while examining how survival strategies can sometimes stand in the way of the change we seek. This is a powerful opportunity to explore embodied transformation, social change and the practice of holding complexity as a resource for our times.

Staci Haines brings more than 30 years of experience at the intersection of trauma healing, embodied leadership, transformative justice and politicised somatics. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice and Healing S*x, and is widely recognised for her work in supporting social and climate justice leaders and movements.

📅 25 June ❘ 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm (BST)

🌍 https://fieldsofchange.org/schedule/embodied-transformation-shaping-social-change-with-staci-haines/

Jessica Bockler Francesca Hector Karen Liebenguth Dan McTiernan Nargis Kizalbash Charles Daniel McDonald

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10/06/2026

🕊️ Caux Inner Development Goals Forum 2026: The Alchemy of Forgiveness 🕊️

This July, Alef Trust faculty will join the Caux Inner Development Goals Forum in Switzerland for a five-day gathering exploring forgiveness, inner transformation, collective healing and renewed connection.

As part of the programme, Dr Bethany Butzer, and Dr Laurel Waterman will co-host a candlelight conversation exploring a powerful question: can the study of consciousness deepen our capacity for compassion, empathy and forgiveness?

This conversation will invite participants into shared dialogue around whether transformations of consciousness can support forgiveness, repair and reconciliation in a world that urgently needs all three.

“I’ve noticed something interesting that tends to happen when students take university-level courses on consciousness. In many cases, students report an inner transformation, where they start to feel more interconnected with other humans, animals, plants, and even the universe itself.” - Dr Bethany Butzer

📺 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yTDoCJXvmCI

Join us at the Caux Inner Development Goals Forum 2026: The Alchemy of Forgiveness, taking place in Caux Palace, Montreux, Switzerland from 13 to 17 July 2026.

🌍 https://fieldsofchange.org/schedule/caux-idg-forum-2026-the-alchemy-of-forgiveness/

Jessica Bockler Francesca Hector Tina Clifton Bihi-Zenou Ulrike Ott Chanu Roweida Saleh Rafaela Rolim Marinho Charles Daniel McDonald

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10/06/2026

🎓 Join our Alef Trust MSc 2026 Open House Session Today - General MSc & Applications of the Degree 🎓

Are you considering taking a deeper dive into Alef Trust’s MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology? This course interweaves academic, personal, and professional development for people who wish to align with a renewed sense of what it is to be human in an interconnected and global context.

🧠 Our MSc programme is 100% online, and validated by Liverpool John Moores University (UK).

The curriculum is both rigorous and creative, preparing students to develop Masters level proficiency in the fields of Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology - while also cultivating multiple ways ot knowing and incorporating insights from the programme into your own life journeys.

🫂 Students regularly join their cohort for participatory reflective dialogues, and are accompanied by pastoral and academic learning support. Guest webinars enrich the curriculum, and graduates are welcomed into our international alumni network.

Step into the final year of your MSc journey. Join our faculty and alumni to see how our curriculum acts as a catalyst for deep self-discovery, blending academic inquiry with immersive, integrative practice, and research skills. Register here for our MSc Open House with faculty and alumni for an introduction to the course, with a spotlight on the applications of the degree.

📅 Wednesday 10th June from 16:00-17:00 (BST)

🌍 https://www.aleftrust.org/academic-learning/open-houses/ -houses

You are also welcome to schedule a conversation with our Programme Manager, Nicholas Theo, who will provide further details, and the application for September 2026.

We look forward to hearing from you,
The Alef Trust MSc team

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09/06/2026

Consciousness and Education: Why Consciousness Matters for the Future of Education

What if consciousness is not simply produced by the brain, but is fundamental to reality itself? And what might this mean for the future of education?

This two-day conference invites educators, researchers, practitioners and change-makers to explore how emerging post-materialist perspectives are reshaping our understanding of mind, reality and what it means to be human. As debates in science and philosophy increasingly question reductive assumptions about consciousness, the implications for educational theory and practice are both profound and urgent.

Drawing on insights from across science, philosophy and the humanities, the programme will examine how a deeper understanding of consciousness can transform our approaches to knowledge, learning, agency and meaning. Participants will be encouraged to reflect critically on prevailing models of education and to consider new possibilities grounded in a more expansive view of human potential.

The conference features talks and workshops led by distinguished Alef Trust faculty members, including:

Joan Walton
Jessica Bockler
Laurel Waterman

Hosted at York St John University, this gathering offers a rich opportunity for dialogue, collaboration and intellectual renewal at a time when education systems worldwide are under pressure to evolve.

If you are concerned with the deeper foundations of learning and the role of consciousness in shaping the future of society, this conference will provide both rigorous inquiry and practical reflection.

📅 16–17 June 2026 | 9:30 am–4:30 pm (BST)
📍 York St John University
🎟️ https://aleffield.org/event/consciousness-and-education-why-consciousness-matters-for-the-future-of-education/

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This two-day conference will explore how emerging post-materialist perspectives are reshaping our understanding of mind, reality, and what it means to be human. Challenging the assumption that consciousness is generated […]