The Wyrd Team

Broughton Sanctuary has been Roger Tempest’s family home for 32 generations. With over 900 years of history resting on his shoulders he has one main mission in life: to secure its future.

In the late 1980s, aged 25, Roger unexpectedly took on the role of custodian, ending his blossoming career on Fleet Street. Working to make a success of the Estate, Roger created a plan that blended conservation, enterprise and innovation to regenerate not just Broughton Hall but the community around it.

His appointments range from executive chairman of a national infrastructure development project in Libya, on a board of an international homeless charity to being a joint founder of Wyrd Experience and running a group of companies within Rural Concepts Group specialising in rural regeneration.

Dr Wolfhardt Janu is Chief Scientific Wyrdo and Co-Founder. ​​He holds a PhD in chemistry and worked for 10 years in academic research. He then moved to be a freelancer in software and hardware development for customized laboratory solutions.

Together with his colleagues and friends he developed a new method to scan the output of two random number event generators (REG’s) for correlations, which enables one to detect with high precision changes in a non-local field, mainly known as the field of consciousness.

He has practised Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for 19 years, discovered African Shamanism (Sangoma) and (co-)led several private scientific teams investigating the “paranormal” in theory and practice. In 2007 he got to know the work of Ken Wilber and since then he and his team(s) have been using the Integral map as the main tool to navigate and communicate on the margins of the so-called “unknown”.

He has co-founded a number of organizations including Wyrd Experience, Wyrd Technologies, Science and Consciousness conferences, Ubiquity University, the Center for Human Emergence (Netherlands), and Engage!. He trains and supports government ministers and CEOs in transformative leadership.

He has facilitated integral change processes in multinational corporations, government ministries, and in multi-stakeholder initiatives with global players. He has been an environmental activist and spent many years in the non-profit sector including leading international youth training programs for the Council of Europe.

He is a recognized expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. He has published four books: Evolutionary Leadership, Why Work?, Leading from the Field, and Volution. He has a PhD from Ubiquity University’s Wisdom School in Volution Theory, and a MSc from the University of Edinburgh in Human Ecology. See petermerry.org.

He is the software lead for the Wyrdoscope and part of the research team, looking into psi phenomena and consciousness in general. He is a senior specialist for mission control systems and satellite test systems and has worked in various aerospace companies for several missions from ESA (European Space Agency) and DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt). He holds a MSc in computer science and is a member of the British Computing Society.

He holds a teacher degree (Shidoshi) in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu (japanese martial arts), which he trains in since 2001, and in the associated medicine Amatsu Ryoho. He has qualifications in western therapies (massage, NLP master practitioner) and has worked with psycho-kinesiology, EMDR, systemic therapies and several shamans.

He came into contact with Integral Metatheory in 2007, which is now an important backbone and framework for living, research, teaching, treatment and work. He gave several workshops and talks about Integral Metatheory and together with a friend created the Amatsu Tatara Shinden system, which combines the Integral with the japanese martial arts and medicine knowledge and which is the basis for the Science & Consciousness of the Self course on Ubiquity University, where he is a core faculty member.His mission is to be a part of healing the fractures in today’s methodologies, from science to holistic wisdom, from technology to consciousness, from splintered, fragmented knowledge to fully integral (w)holism.

Adam J. Malone is the Creative Director of The Tarot Experience and a co-founder of Wyrd Interactive, a new branch of Wyrd Experience. With a diverse background in music, immersive arts, and shamanic practice, Adam specializes in merging myth, magic, and technology to craft transformative and interactive storytelling experiences. Holding two MAs – one in Myth, Cosmology & The Sacred and the other in Immersive Storytelling – Adam’s work explores the profound impact that narrative experiences have on shaping our perception of reality.

This journey led him to combine innovative technologies like True Random Number Generators (TRNG) and Virtual Reality (VR), creating interactive Tarot experiences that blend divination with immersive digital interaction. With a wealth of experience as an Immersive Event Producer, Adam has helped design and build visionary experiences for artists, researchers, and festival-goers worldwide. His work was nominated for Experience of the Year at the 2023 VR Awards, highlighting his dedication to transformational storytelling in the digital age.

He is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of IT experience, specializing in AI integration and scalable web solutions. As Chief Web Wyrdo, he oversees the web ecosystem of Wyrd, managing all web-based integrations, device data synchronization, community platforms, e-commerce systems, and cloud infrastructure that powers Wyrd’s applications.

With extensive experience in cloud architecture and distributed systems, Richard brings deep expertise in building high-performance, scalable solutions that can grow seamlessly with user demands. His approach combines Lean methodologies with practical problem-solving, ensuring robust and efficient systems that deliver exceptional user experiences while maintaining technical excellence.

His mission at Wyrd is to create a powerful, interconnected web ecosystem that seamlessly unites users, devices, and data. Richard designs and implements cloud-native architectures that enable real-time data processing, secure device integration, and scalable community platforms, supporting Wyrd’s expanding global community and growing suite of innovative tools.

Troy brings a unique blend of engineering expertise and product design to the Wyrd team. Based in the stunning Yorkshire Dales, he specialises in product prototyping, problem-solving and manufacturing, combining technical precision with creativity to craft innovative solutions.Having designed and manufactured both the Wyrdoscope and Wyrd Lights he has, a passion for designing, building and refining products with a strong emphasis on both simplicity and sustainability. He is dedicated to driving Wyrd’s ideas forward using his skills to address complex challenges.

She is a PhD psychology candidate and consciousness researcher focused on psi phenomena. Developing our formal research proposals and cultivating our community of citizen scientists, Kirsty is on a mission to explore and promote the innate ‘magic’ of Wyrdos such as those with high empathy, creativity and highly sensitive people. She blends cutting-edge research in psychology and parapsychology with esoteric wisdom. Kirsty actively researches with both children and adults exploring psi phenomena (psychic) experiences, in relation to states of consciousness, individual differences and wellbeing.

Her mission is to help establish reliable and accessible practices for a range of applications supporting healing, transpersonal understanding and ethical decision-making. She is also a certified professional coach to highly sensitive people, psychological wellbeing professional, has published a self-help book (IF) and is the founding member of The IF Crowd.

Annette Grathoff PhD, is convinced it is possible to come to a positive motivation for conserving biodiversity by gaining a thorough understanding of how stability develops and is lost in evolution. She leads a literature review project to achieve this goal. A universal and sound model for estimating what threatens as well as what perpetuates or even benefits life is needed.

Her project “The Evolution of Information Processing Systems“ comprises the evaluation of a body of literature from different disciplines; including theoretical as well as applied scientific work. As her profession is Biology, Chemical Ecology, she is mainly tracking insights in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry; insights into how stability and selection principles can evolve in abiotic or prebiotic contexts and which mathematical models of description have successfully prevailed in science and engineering so far. It is obvious that there is already much know-how and experience but distributed over (at least) thousands of brains which need to be “motivated to approach each other”. The yield is worth the effort!

Annette is a member of the oREGano community of researchers who are debating and addressing experimentally topics on the leading edge of knowledge – strictly following the principles which have proven themselves time and again as the scientific method.Annette works closely with the Wyrd team in the development of the Wyrdoscope and related research.

Do we co-create the visual world? Are we the eyes that make the light? And what does interconnectedness look like?

A magical path led me to consciousness research working with great artistic souls, gifting me a deep curiosity in how the visual world is created by intention, optics, light and the act of making.Co-creating many visual works, led to a realisation we are never-ending into something else, swimming in something so profound while being inside the process of re-discovering what we’ve always known. What a beautiful conundrum…

At Wyrd I work in the visual sciences lab, finding ways to co-communicate the data, research and product design developed by the group.To communicate the ineffable, help shift the collective is the best work I can do at Wyrd.

Jericca Cleland is an independent writer-director, cinematographer, and CCO of award-winning Danish animation studio Nørlum Entertainment and Canadian IP development studio Oridian Entertainment. She began her film career at Pixar, where she designed camera and staging for Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo. She left to pursue writing and directing her own projects, which has led her to work in a wide range of media and formats including computer animation, 2D animation, live action, mixed media, documentary, short film, series, and feature. She also contributed to the Oscar-nominated films Wolfwalkers and The Breadwinner.

Known internationally as a narrative alchemist and story-driven filmmaker, Jericca’s primary intention is to create rich worlds and entertaining stories that touch the heart and shift our relationship to nature and to each other. She joins Wyrd to contribute to all things story and lore related, weaving in some magic and delight into the experiences.

Synne Røil is a builder and dreamer based in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. With over a decade of experience co-running tech and climate-focused companies, she works at the intersection of innovation and meaning.

She loves shaping the stories that matter—which is exactly what led her to Wyrd. Synne is supporting operations at Wyrd in a fractional role.