Creative Alternatives puts people and purpose before any clinical labels. It helps us all to recognise and grow our innate creativity, so we can better handle the challenges life puts in our path. In dark times we all need affirmation and care. Creative Alternatives offers that, playfully and joyfully. It brings light, so we can find our way again.
I dance, write, meditate, go for walks in the woods, sing, doodle and jump into ice cold water now and then!
Dancing, writing and acting!
Jessica started Creative Alternatives all the way back in 2006 in the Borough of Sefton. She is an artist and a psychologist who now co-leads the Alef Trust, the social enterprise that hosts Creative Alternatives. She believes in play and creative self-exploration and self-expression as pathways to greater health and wellbeing. She now works on seeding more initiatives for a better world around the world, supporting the people who steward social change. You can find out more here: Transformative Education in Transpersonal Psychology – Alef Trust and here: Fields of Change | Fields of Change
Jessica Bockler is an applied artist, transpersonal psychologist and Co-founding Director of the Alef Trust. Jessica specialises in integral theory, creativity, transpersonal research methods, and the application of transpersonal psychology in service of global regeneration and flourishing. Trained in applied and physical theatre, Jessica has extensive experience of expressive arts facilitation, as well as experimental movement and voice work.
She is deeply interested in the intersection of creative and embodied practice and social change, considering how the cultivation of inner capacities and skills may benefit human and planetary thriving. Jessica is an academic advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative which aims to promote inner work to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
She is also a member of the UN’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance which promotes consciousness-based practices for the evolution of regenerative agriculture and food production. Jessica is also an active member of the research network and community of the Presencing Institute which works in the field of awareness-based systems change.
