Elizabeth C. Halliday, MSc, is an Independent Researcher and transpersonal psychotherapist in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2024, she completed an MSc with Distinction in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology with the Alef Trust and Liverpool John Moores University. In addition to her private therapeutic practice, she volunteers with the Spiritual Crisis Network UK to provide support for those in the midst of challenging transformative experiences. Her research interests constellate around the sequelae of life-changing experiences and the process of facilitating transformation through the integration of profound personal change. [https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5856-8587]

Jessica Bockler is an applied artist, transpersonal psychologist, and Co-founding Director of the Alef Trust. She serves as Deputy CEO and works across Alef Trust’s academic and applied portfolios. Jessica specializes in integral theory, creativity, transpersonal research methods, and the application of transpersonal psychology in service of global regeneration and flourishing. Jessica is the research lead of Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative, which supports an international community of change facilitators in their projects for social transformation. Jessica is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society and the special interest sections in Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness and Experiential Psychology. She is also a member of the Royal Society for Public Health, UK, and she is a fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, one of the UK’s oldest organizations championing social innovation.