Alef Trust in the Media
Discover our recent broadcast and press features for 2025-26
Alef Trust’s educational vision comes to life in our recent media features, each offering a different yet complementary window into its work. In the RTL TV Europe Connected interview, Professor Les Lancaster and Dr Jessica Bockler speak warmly about their approach which combines academic depth with relational learning and a genuinely connected global online community. Alongside this, a short film created by Tommy Gärd at the Creative Bridges EUROTAS gathering in Oxford invites a more contemplative reflection on what it means to be human in a time of global uncertainty. Together, these broadcasts reveal a shared thread running through Alef Trust’s work: a commitment to integrating inner development with real-world responsibility, scholarship with lived experience, and consciousness with meaningful service.
“Education, at its best, is not simply the transmission of knowledge. It is a transformative encounter that deepens self-understanding, strengthens relationship, and invites us to bring greater clarity, responsibility and humanity into the way we live and serve in the world.”
RTL TV´S EUROPE CONNECTED BUSINESS SHOW
In this recent interview on RTL TV’s ´Europe Connected´ business programme, Alef Trust co-founders, Professor Les Lancaster and Dr Jessica Bockler, reflect on their distinctive educational approach - emphasising rigorous scholarship, relational learning, and the value of a global online community that feels genuinely connected.
Alef Trust works at the meeting point of inner development and real-world application. Its programmes in psychology, consciousness, and human development combine academic depth with reflective practice; supporting students to bring greater clarity, presence, and responsibility into their professional, creative, and community lives. In this highlight, Les & Jessica offer an insight into their work and the educational perspective that underpins it.
VISIONARY FILMS STOCKHOLM FOR CREATIVE BRIDGES
What does it mean to be human in an age of global complexity? This short film by Tommy Gärd of Visionary Films Stockholm brings together reflections from the Creative Bridges EUROTAS gathering in Oxford to explore that question.
Through insights from leading voices in transpersonal psychology, the video explores how becoming more fully human begins with inner attention, embodiment, and relationship. Transpersonal psychology is presented not as an abstract pursuit, but as a whole-person approach that builds bridges between ancient wisdom traditions and contemporary research, grounding consciousness in lived experience, ecology, and place.
Speakers reflect on the metacrisis shaping our world and the sense of disorientation it can bring. Rather than dispersing ourselves across every global problem, the invitation is to return home to ourselves, to recognise our specific role, and to serve from where we are rooted. Silence, inward listening, and embodied awareness emerge as foundations for authenticity, responsibility, and values-led action.
As echoed throughout the conference, what distinguishes this work is not only the study of consciousness, but a deep commitment to values. The question is not simply what we know, but how we live, and what kind of world we are shaping for future generations. The film reflects both the spirit of the gathering and the wider work of Alef Trust: connecting inner transformation with collective responsibility, and insight with service.
You can keep up to date with other press features and interviews by visiting our Alef Field online magazine, here.
Warm regards,
The Alef Trust communications team
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