Rosa Abidi is an Algerian-born creativity coach, hypnotherapist and self-trust specialist, who has been involved in the arts and education over the past three decades.

She has coordinated numerous events and festivals, including at the BFI Southbank, the London Film Festival and Africa at the Pictures. An African film expert, she has curated films for the Barbican centre, the French Institute, the British Museum, including the first full retrospective of African filmmakers in the UK (Gaston Kaboré and Idrissa Ouédraogo, BFI Southbank), as well as the first retrospective of contemporary Algerian cinema, “Algerian Cinema: A New Wave”, which screened at the Picturehouse cinemas, the RichMix and London’s French Institute. As programmer for the Royal Africa’s Society’s Film Africa festival, she championed films directed by women as well as the work of emerging filmmakers, and introduced African short films and African storytelling to primary school children in London. She worked in film production as assistant to award-winning producer Sally Hibbin, on the post-production of Blind Flight (John Furse, 2003) and on the pre-production and production of Yasmin (Kenny Glenaan, 2004). Rosa is a contributor to the Africa volume of the Directory of World Cinema, edited by Sheila Petty and Blandine Stephanson, and published by IntellectBooks (Bristol, UK, 2015). For a number of years, Rosa run a film club that presented films from the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisian and Morocco) to London audiences, as well as the London Maghreb Culture Meetup, a social network that attended and reflected on artistic events taking place in the English capital.

Harvesting her own personal inner journey and bringing together her background in film, education, her pedagogical training as a teacher and her long-standing interest in the psyche’s workings, she guides creatives, intuitives and visionaries on a transpersonal evolutionary journey, one that integrates all aspects of their creative being, towards their unique brilliance and their unique impact.