Jessica Bockler, PhD, is a psychologist, theatre practitioner, as well as the co-founder of the Alef Trust, an organization working in transpersonal and integrative education. Jessica has extensive experience of expressive arts facilitation, including physical and participatory theatre, and experimental movement and voice work. Jessica’s vision and research interests centre on holistic and creative approaches to social change, bridging embodied ritual and imaginal practices with activism and social change initiatives. She is on the academic advisory board of the Inner Development Goals initiative, and she is also a member of the UN’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance. Jessica serves as Programme Leader for Alef Trust’s Master’s programme in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. She teaches across a range of modules in integral psychology, creativity & transformation, research design, and applied transformative psychology, relating spiritual perspectives to activism and social change.

Annalisa is an Italian contemporary artistand macrobiotic chef based in Ibiza. Her work is the result of many years of multidisciplinary study in art education and therapy as well as Easter philosophy. She works with various natural media such as Chinese ink, sand, soil, and clay. Seeking to translate presence and silence into art, Annalisa empowers others to pay attention to the beauty of the perfect imperfections of life. She views her own body as an instrument of expression, and the brush as an extension of the mind and heart.

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Olga Lidia Kozłowska is a licensed psychologist, singer, and voice coach. She is certified in Core Energetics Body Psychotherapist, Process training (A&A Mindell), and holds an MA in education. Drawing inspiration from Alexander Technique and Polyvagal Theory, Olga approaches voice work in a holistic and embodied way. She specializes in traditional Slavic and Georgian singing, choral music, and improvisation. Her teachers include Franke Kane, Natalia Polovynka, Emma Bonnici, Amit Carmeli, Kristin Linklater, and Lane Aryne. She is the founder of Authentic Voice and has been leading workshops since 2011.

Joanna Hruby is a visual artist, performance maker, writer and cultural activist based on Ibiza, Spain. She is the founder of the company Theatre of the Ancients, whose aim is to harness the myths, folklore, and ancestral culture of Ibiza through puppetry, mask theatre, and symbolic visual performance. The company has developed experimental work based on participatory, immersive, and ritual theatre, often in site-specific locations and in alignment with the seasons. Joanna graduated from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2011 with a first class BA(hons) in Theatre Practice – Puppetry. She has since undertaken an internship with the Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont, USA, and studied myth and storytelling with the British mythologist Martin Shaw. Joanna produces a podcast called The Wells of Tanit which is recorded beside Ibiza’s ancient wells, and her writings have been published by the Dark Mountain Project and the independent publishers Hedgespoken Press. She sees the multi-disciplinary branches of her Ibiza-based work in myth, story and folklore as strivings towards a global movement of regenerative, localized culture in times of societal and climate collapse.

Adriana Medina is a clown artist. She is co-founder and co-director of the clown company Yo SoY Semilla as well as the founder and artistic director of the interdisciplinary clown project Bee Infinite. Adriana has been performing as a clown and leading workshops for over 20 years, inviting people to laugh,cry, and play to cultivate joy and curiosity. To her, the art of clowning is a way of opening our hearts and of allowing creativity to spring forth through presence, simplicity, and awe. She draws inspiration from her training in voice work, yoga, Qigong, and reiki, as well as on her work as a visual artist. Since 2018 she has been organizing networks of creatives composed not only of professional artists but of diverse local communities. Adriana has taught workshops, exhibited, and performed in different cities of Mexico, as well as in the USA, Cuba, Italy, Japan, Costa Rica, and China.

Swan Frayne-Dao, PhD, is a theatre maker and psychotherapist as well as the founder and director of the Institute of Devotional Arts. After studying philosophy and theology in Melbourne, Oxford, and Chicago, Swan worked as a supervisor at the University of Cambridge where wrote their thesis on individual and social transformation. They trained at the Jacques Lecoq school of physical theatre and explored various forms of alternative theatre such as applied theatre, paratheatre, psychomagic, and drama therapy as well as numerous artistic disciplines ranging from ballet and contact improvisation to butoh and polyphonic chants. Swan also holds certificates in tantra yoga, breathwork, and hypnotherapy. They guide individuals and groups and curate seminars, retreats, art residencies in Europe and North America.