Behind the vision
Introducing the team for Fields of Change
Learn and contribute alongside a diverse group of professionals dedicated to guiding our shared journey of holistic transformation and meaningful impact.
Introducing the core team
Dr. Jessica Bockler
Jessica is a transpersonal psychologist and co-founding director of Alef Trust, specialising in embodied approaches to creativity and transformation. Her work integrates inner growth with holistic social change, focusing on collective consciousness and humanity's relationship with nature. She contributes to the Inner Development Goals initiative and the UN’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance.
Francesca Hector
Francesca coordinates Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative, supporting holistic transformation and social change. She works with nature-based and trauma-informed approaches to personal and social transformation, through participatory research and embodied practices.
Karen Liebenguth
Karen is a leadership coach, mindfulness trainer and restorative facilitator for conflict resolution. She specialises in coaching clients in and with nature and delivering mindfulness and compassion programmes to foster resilience. Founder of Parcival, Karen brings a mindful, creative and highly personable approach to her work with corporate, public and charitable businesses.
Dan McTiernan
Dan is a coach working at the intersection of transpersonal psychology, embodiment and Nature. Combining deep ecology literacy, permaculture practice and training as a certified transpersonal coach and breathwork teacher, he offers a holistic framework to help clients reconnect with their vitality, true nature, and relationship with all of life.
Nargis Raza
Nargis is a transpersonal psychologist, counsellor, and healthcare entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience. She integrates transpersonal principles into her Dubai-based Integrative Healthcare Clinic, blending conventional and holistic healing. Holding MSc and MBA degrees, she facilitates workshops and guides individuals toward conscious living and self-realization.
Guest speakers
Steffi Bednarek
Steffi is a psychotherapist and a consultant in climate psychology. She is founder and director of the Centre for Climate, Psychology, an organisation that explores the intersection between climate change, complexity thinking and the human Psyche and aims to bring Soul back into life, work and relationships. Steffi supports organisations, teams and individuals to adapt to the mental-health impact that climate change has on people. She encourages us to attend to the deep wounding and moral injury of living in a wounded world and to foster psychologically mature responses in times of upheaval. Her book 'Climate, Psychology and Change" was published in 2024.
Milan Bijelic
Milan Bijelic is a Processwork psychotherapist and supervisor, and he works in private practice as well as with students of Processwork. Milan has developed a passion for community / social development since 1997 when he got involved in the post war development projects in Croatia. Facilitating dialogue and supporting those who are committed to facilitation is his contribution in the area where he lives now - Sheffield and its surrounding region.
Viveka Chen
Viveka (she|they) has worked for social, racial, gender, environmental, economic and healing justice for 30 years. They are a certified somatic and leadership coach and trainer, facilitator and organizational transformation consultant. A Buddhist teacher, Viveka is rooted in exploring liberation with a compassionate approach. The child of Chinese immigrants, her home is San Francisco.
Kira Cooper
Dr. Kira Cooper is a research associate with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) and the Research Director at the Algoma University Bridge Lab where she explores the relationship between inner transformations and systemic change amidst the metacrisis. Kira is a sessional instructor at the University of Waterloo, Technische Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt, and Algoma University and co-president of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada.
Liza Horan
Liza is a journalist and strategic communications consultant specialising in holistic wellbeing, spirituality, and consciousness. Based in Edinburgh, she edits Mindstream.world, hosts the Express Yourself with #Authenticity podcast, and leads Mindstream Ventures. Liza also chairs the Frontier Journalists’ Network and holds degrees from Columbia University and Mount Saint Mary’s University.
Alan Heeks
Alan Heeks is a project pioneer, facilitator and author, who for many years has explored how to bring the spiritual dimension into practical embodiment. He has created two Nature-based learning centres, including Hazel Hill Wood, and his latest book, <a href="https://naturalhappiness.net/" target="_blank"Natural Happiness, shows how organic growth principles can nourish human wellbeing. Alan sees the climate crisis as a spiritual crisis at root, and his current project explores this: the Soul Resilience Network.
Wakanyi Hoffman
Wakanyi Hoffman is an author, public speaker, scholar, and folklorist renowned for her ability to weave the ancestral threads of African indigenous wisdom into the algorithmic codes of modern technological knowledge. Her pioneering work is at the forefront of integrating the African Ubuntu philosophy into AI systems. As a researcher at the Inclusive AI Lab within the Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Wakanyi is leading the charge in responsible and sustainable AI design. Her work in this area emphasizes the profound insights that Ubuntu wisdom can offer in awakening AI's potential to unite humanity along shared moral values.
Renée Lertzman
Dr. Renée Lertzman is a researcher, advisor and strategist who translates relational psychological insights to change our approach to our planetary crisis. Applying her graduate training as a psychosocial researcher specializing in deep human insights, she designs frameworks and methods, grounded in public health, clinical psychology and neurosciences, that guide people to take action and create impact on climate and sustainability issues. For twenty years, she’s partnered with leaders, founders, teams, start-ups, innovators, companies and organizations across public and private sectors, looking to strengthen climate and sustainability initiatives, and harness the creativity and innovation needed to address our most complex and intractable problems. You can find out more about Renée and her work here the reneelertzman.com and projectinsideout.net.
Lorenz & Natasha Sell
Lorenz and Natasha are the co-founders of Sutra, a platform designed around group learning experiences that invite meaningful connection and conversation online. To date, Sutra has supported over 60,000 people participating in programs from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, the World Health Organization, the Presencing Institute, and many other organizations and individuals.
Manda Scott
Born in Scotland at 318ppm CO2, Manda is an award-winning novelist, veterinary surgeon, host of the Accidental Gods podcast, and co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass. Known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, her latest novel, Any Human Power, explores a contemporary Thrutopian future, encouraging us to embrace our potential and create a legacy we can be proud of.
Phoebe Tickell
Phoebe Tickell is the founder of Moral Imaginations, and a pioneer in the field of transformative imagination for systems change. Moral Imaginations tackles the polycrisis through the deepest drivers of change: mindsets, values and worldviews and has worked with over 50 organisations and trained over 1000 people in their methodology since 2021. Phoebe created the Moral Imagination approach, adopted by organisations like Camden Council, IKEA, and London Marathon. She is a Scientific Advisor to the Inner Development Goals, and holds a degree in Biological Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.