Conscious Community Initiative Holding Space with Vulnerability: Ayesha Iftikhar on Tending to the Body and Soul As part of the Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative, Tending to the Body and Soul is a pioneering project led by Lahore- based psychologist and facilitator Ayesha Iftikhar. Her work […] Ayesha Iftikhar and Charles Daniel McDonald September 20, 2025September 22, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Initiative Building Safe Spaces for Transformative Learning in India Manjusha Nair speaks to Charles Daniel McDonald about her work with Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative, Participatory Media Images of Change, exploring how transpersonal approaches can reshape education and nurture […] Manjusha Nair Joseph and Charles Daniel McDonald September 9, 2025September 9, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Initiative The Body as Transceiver – The power of sending and receiving signals of safety in a culture of noise You are a tuning fork. We work with that metaphor all the time within the framework of Being Earthbound and it was a central theme of the 18-month Embodied Permaculture […] Dan McTiernan August 4, 2025August 20, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Initiative A Place for Us – A Conscious Community Project in Rural India In this feature interview, Charles Daniel McDonald speaks with Adi Vickers, founder of A Place for Us, one of Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative projects. This grassroots NGO, operating in […] Charles Daniel McDonald and Adi Asana April 15, 2025May 29, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Community Conscious Community Initiative Embodied Permaculture: Being-centric ecological systems design and leadership People come to permaculture to facilitate positive change in their own lives, their communities and their landscapes, as permaculture offers a systems design methodology based on natural principles and patterns. […] Dan McTiernan and Johanna McTiernan April 28, 2023October 14, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Initiative Introducing the Conscious Community Initiative projects 2023-25 Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative (CCI) is grateful to have received continued funding to support four new holistic change facilitation projects for 2023-25, led by members of the Alef community. […] Francesca Hector April 20, 2023May 9, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked