About Speaker

Jessica Bockler, PhD is an applied performance artist, a transpersonal psychologist and a co-founding 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 paradigm change and global regeneration. Jessica is the lead of Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative and the Nurturing the Fields of Change programme, which supports an international community of change facilitators in their projects for social transformation. She is an academic advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative which aims to promote inner work to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. She is also a member of the UN’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance and an active researcher in the network of the Presencing Institute exploring awareness-based systems change. She is on the editorial board for the International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching, and she acts as a reviewer for the Journal of Awareness-based Systems Change.