Annalisa Burello is a writer and theorist–convener working on art as a spiritual technology, with a focus on psychic transformation, ritual, and contemporary forms of the sacred in post-religious societies. Her work brings together neuropsychology, anthropology of religion, and art-based research, with particular attention to affect regulation, embodied experience, and right-hemisphere processes in aesthetic and spiritual life.

She holds a Master’s degree in Financial and Monetary Economics from Bocconi University and, after a fifteen-year career in finance, retrained in the arts, completing a BA (Hons) in Photography at the University of Westminster. She later completed a Master’s degree in Anthropology of Religion at the London School of Economics, focusing on spirituality in contemporary secular contexts.

Annalisa has published peer-reviewed articles and has presented her work at academic and interdisciplinary conferences, including the Art-Based Research Conference (2025), the McGilchrist - Beyond the Senses Retreat (2021), and the International Network for the Study of Spirituality (INSS) Conference (2025). She also convenes and participates in ongoing research conversations at the intersection of art and spirituality within academic and cultural settings.

Her thinking is grounded in her own artistic practice. She is a photographer, and her degree project, The Seeker’s Project, was accepted into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2022, with the triptych Impermanence. This practice informs her work not as a professional artistic career, but as an embodied site of inquiry into perception, meaning, and transformation.

Alongside her intellectual work, Annalisa actively supports artists, exhibitions, and cultural institutions whose practices align with the view that the arts are not a cultural luxury but an essential condition for individual and societal flourishing. Her approach is artivist in orientation, seeking coherence between intellectual inquiry, ethical values, and material support for culture.

The Rev Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE FRSA FHEA is an international performer, composer, workshop leader and keynote speaker.  She is an Emerita Professor of Applied Music at Winchester University and an Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa.  She lectures internationally and is concerned with wellbeing, spirituality and radical musical inclusion culturally and personally. She is editing the series on Music and Spirituality for the publisher Peter Lang which includes her book, Experiencing Music-Restoring the Spiritual; Music as Wellbeing, the edited collection Queering Freedom: Music, Identity and Spirituality: Perspectives from Ten Countries and her autobiography Freedom Song: Faith, Abuse, Music and Spirituality: A Lived Experience.. She founded MSW – Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing – an international network sharing expertise and experience in this area. www.mswinternational.org

She is a hymn writer with a collection published by Stainer and Bell of inclusive language and ecological hymns – A Rainbow to Heaven.   These are used internationally. She is an Anglican priest serving All Saints Church, Tooting.

https://www.impulse-music.co.uk/juneboyce-tillman/

Dr Lila Moore, PhD is a lecturer, theorist, film-maker and mixed reality artist with expertise in the fields of screen-dance and Technoetic Arts. She holds a practice-based PhD from Middlesex University (2001) in the interdisciplinary context of Screen Dance, experimental film, modern art, performance, myth, ritual and expressive therapies. She also holds an MA in Independent Film and Video and MPhil on the evolution of performative and screen-based art forms from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, and a B.Ed. degree in Fine Art & Art History.

Lila lectures and writes on the arts, film, and new media in the context of modern and contemporary spirituality, mysticism, gender, cultural theories, and technoetics. She is a lecturer and thesis supervisor for the Alef Trust MSc Programme in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, and leading the course: Psyche, Cosmos and the Imaginal. Additionally, she has been a lecturer at the Department for the Study of Mysticism and Spirituality at Zefat Academic College in the ancient Kabbalistic town of Safed (2013-2022), teaching BA courses on spiritual cinema and the intersection of spirituality, mysticism and the arts. Her postdoc at the Planetary Collegium of Plymouth University (2015) entitled The Cybernetic Futures Institute is a networked platform, exploring technoetic arts with an emphasis on the spiritual-mystical and occult in art, film, screen-dance, and networked-digital-interactive forms of performance and narrative.

Lila regularly presents research papers in academic conferences, and her articles were published in academic journals. She is a member of the editorial board of Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology journal and the S/He International Journal of Goddess Studies. Lila participates in juried exhibitions and festivals and her digital artworks, films and theoretical writings are archived by Bloomsbury Digital, ACM SIGGRAPH and ADA - Archive of Digital Art.

https://www.aleftrust.org/about/team/lila-moore/