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A Family Legacy: From a Mother to her Sons
Cosmo Fielding Mellen
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Rock Feilding-Mellen
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Amanda Feilding
Doblin
Mind-Body Skills Groups as a Potential Ideal Setting for Psychedelic Exploration
James Gordon
Doblin
What Psychedelics Can Teach Us About Love
Namae Ntumae
Doblin
The Opportunities and Challenges for New Psychedelic Researchers to Receive NIH Funding — Heffter Research Institute and International Society for Research on Psychedelics
Katrin H. Preller
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Steven Grant
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George Greer
Doblin
Sex, Money, Death and Psychedelics
Sylvia Benito
Doblin
The Risks and Benefits of Experiential Training of Psychedelic Therapists
Daniel Rosenbaum
,
Emma Hapke
Doblin
The Legacy of Stanislav Grof
Jay Dufrechou
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Neil Hannon
,
Javier Charme
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Diane Haug
,
Stanislav Grof
,
Brigitte Grof
Doblin
A Conversation with Stanislav Grof, Brigitte Grof, and Rick Doblin
Speakers
Doblin
Phase 2 Multicenter Randomized Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Study to Assess Safety/Efficacy of Inhaled Cannabis in Veterans for PTSD
Shane Pennington
,
Sue Sisley
Doblin
Transformational synergies: Experiential-relational psychotherapeutic interventions can accelerate the healing of attachment trauma
Kari Gleiser
Doblin
Embodying the Seat of the Psychedelic Guide
Valeria McCarroll
Doblin
Psychedelics and raising families
Speakers
Doblin
Messages From the Underground and Other Elephants in the Room
Adele Getty
Doblin
A conversation with Norma Lotsof
Lucy Walker
,
Norma Lotsof
Doblin
Being a Psychedelic Therapist
Norma Stevens
Doblin
Healing Population-Wide Trauma: The Potential Role of Psychedelics
Sergey Vardanyan
Doblin
Cat's Outta the Bag: How LSD Escaped into the General Public
Charleen Justice
,
Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia
Doblin
Confessions of the Psychedelic Elders
Richard Louis Miller
Doblin
A conversation with Amanda Feilding and Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
Speakers
Doblin
Microdosing: Remarkable results, surprising implications
James Fadiman
Doblin
A Life of Science and Dreams: The Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Speakers
Doblin
Cosmo Fielding Mellen
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Rock Feilding-Mellen
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Amanda Feilding
A Family Legacy: From a Mother to her Sons
Rick Doblin talks to Amanda, Rock, and Cosmo about: what it was like growing up with the “queen of psychedelics”; how Rock and Cosmo each found their own ways to this work; the joys (and struggles!) of working with family; and their shared hopes and vision for the future of the psychedelic renaissance.
Doblin
James Gordon
Mind-Body Skills Groups as a Potential Ideal Setting for Psychedelic Exploration
James S. Gordon, MD is a psychiatrist and the author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing who has had 55 years' experience with psychedelics--at the Haight-Ashbury free clinic and at Woodstock, in informal use, and in the context of indigenous ceremonies in North and South America. As the Founder and CEO of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), he has developed a small group model, Mind-Body Skills Groups (MBSGs) that are grounded in a wide variety of meditative and imaginative practices, as well as self expression in words, drawings, and movement. These groups have repeatedly been demonstrated, in published studies, to decrease the numbers of people qualifying for the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder by 80% or more. He will discuss how the groups unfold, and share some of the meditative techniques in which they are grounded, and explain how a wide variety of psychedelic experiences, including the training of trainers, might be integrated into these groups.
Doblin
Namae Ntumae
What Psychedelics Can Teach Us About Love
What can psychedelics teach us about love - why is it so important in non-ordinary states of consciousness? The reasons why it is taboo to speak about love in scientific research, in healing and psychedelic spaces. What is love? Maps of the landscapes of Love and ‘Not-love’ based on Taoist and Tantric philosophies, definitions of masculine and feminine forces in Nature; How these landscapes impact our inner ecology as psychedelic guides. The wounded feminine and our species wide life-death struggle is reflected in the climate crisis. How can psychedelic use bring us back into right relationship with our only life support system, the Earth? By honoring the core tenement of indigenous traditions that used psychedelics, we can learn how to love and support all of life. Guiding with love - creating the conditions necessary for psychedelics to become permanent transformative experiences. Presenting a guided experience of presence, choice and love.
Doblin
Katrin H. Preller
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Steven Grant
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George Greer
The Opportunities and Challenges for New Psychedelic Researchers to Receive NIH Funding — Heffter Research Institute and International Society for Research on Psychedelics
The Heffter Research Institute was established in 1993 to fund research on classic psychedelic drugs. As psychedelic science has grown there is an urgent need to expand sources of funding. This panel will discuss the advocacy for increased funding for psychedelic research by the new bipartisan Congressional Psychedelics Advancing Clinical Treatments “PACT” Caucus in the House, the research experience that investigators need to compete for NIHand other grants, the importance of support for new psychedelic researchers, and the need for ongoing research to make new discoveries about psychedelics.
Doblin
Sylvia Benito
Sex, Money, Death and Psychedelics
Why are psychedelics such powerful allies? Sharing personal stories spanning three decades of facilitation, this session examines the common thread underneath three seemingly unrelated aspects of life - sex, money and death - and the role psychedelics play in their transformation. These represent aspects of human consciousness where we hold some of our deepest fears and traumas. For those of us who are working intimately inside the psychedelic renaissance, an understanding of why and how psychedelics contain such power to heal them is critical.
Doblin
Daniel Rosenbaum
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Emma Hapke
The Risks and Benefits of Experiential Training of Psychedelic Therapists
As psychedelic therapy becomes mainstream there is a pressing need for well-trained therapists to deliver high-quality treatments. Does having first-hand experience with psychedelics as part of their training better prepare therapists to guide patients in non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC)? To date, the role of experiential training in psychedelic therapy has been debated. This talk will begin by reviewing the risks and benefits of experiential training for therapists in an academic health sciences environment. Drawing on literature from psychoanalysis, mindfulness, experiential psychotherapies and bioethics, we will explore potential benefits including therapeutic, modeling, empathic, persuasive and theoretical functions (Sandell, 2006). We will then examine risks including dual relationships, confidentiality, equity/diversity/inclusion issues, physical and psychological risks, undue pressure, admission biases and resource intensiveness. To bring this theoretical discussion to life, we will share results from a mixed-methods study that we conducted at the Nikean Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research Centre (NPPRC), Canada’s first non-profit academic research centre focusing on psychedelic therapy. This study explored the acceptability and feasibility of using breathwork to induce a NOSC in a psychedelic therapist training program. We will conclude by sharing a proposed study to provide psilocybin therapy to graduates of the NPPRC’s training program.
Doblin
Jay Dufrechou
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Neil Hannon
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Javier Charme
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Diane Haug
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Stanislav Grof
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Brigitte Grof
The Legacy of Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof has been a leading advocate for psychedelic research for well over half a century. His pioneering clinical work and research into the landscape of the psyche and the value of non-ordinary states of consciousness remains the bulwark of psychedelic science. During this session Stan and Brigitte Grof will be presenting their new international Grof® Legacy Training for working with ‘holotropic’ states of consciousness - with a special emphasis on the psychedelic experience. They will be joined on the panel by several Grof® Legacy colleagues involved psychedelic training programs including Javier Charme (Chile / Spain), Neil Hanon (Canada), and Diane Haug (USA).
Doblin
Speakers
A Conversation with Stanislav Grof, Brigitte Grof, and Rick Doblin
Doblin
Shane Pennington
,
Sue Sisley
Phase 2 Multicenter Randomized Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Study to Assess Safety/Efficacy of Inhaled Cannabis in Veterans for PTSD
Several preliminary studies suggest that cannabis may treat PTSD symptoms. Building off of our previous MJP1 study, this current study aims to re-examine use of inhaled cannabis for treatment of PTSD using a larger sample size, a parallel design, and methods to mitigate placebo response. This Phase 2 multicenter randomized placebo-controlled, double-blind study will assess the safety and efficacy of inhaled cannabis (high THC) versus placebo to manage PTSD symptoms and pain among approximately 360 veterans in an outpatient setting. The study will be conducted in Michigan and three other sites in the U.S.
Doblin
Kari Gleiser
Transformational synergies: Experiential-relational psychotherapeutic interventions can accelerate the healing of attachment trauma
MDMA creates optimal brain chemistry to enhance the felt experience of safety, openness, compassion, relatedness, and receptivity. Adding to this non-ordinary state of consciousness a psychotherapy model that works explicitly and experientially with such states can capitalize on amplified neuroplasticity, thereby accelerating the trajectory of healing attachment trauma. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) features relational interventions that can optimize the qualities of MDMA: deep therapeutic presence and engagement, undoing states of traumatic aloneness, entrained states of resonance, tracking moment-to-moment relational experience between client and therapist, as well as interventions tailored to specific attachment styles. AEDP’s relational interventions co-create safety and trust, restructure attachment, build enhanced tolerance for intimacy and relational presence, providing clients with corrective attachment experiences. This presentation showcases AEDP’s relational- experiential interventions in videotaped therapy sessions of a client with a complex trauma history. I explore how well-documented effects of MDMA — fear reduction, trust and intimacy- building, empathy and compassion-enhancing, and avoidance-reducing qualities — would enhance AEDP treatment, as well as how AEDP treatment could amplify and broaden the healing effects of MDMA.
Doblin
Valeria McCarroll
Embodying the Seat of the Psychedelic Guide
Today, the demand for and interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy is at an all-time high. Training programs that scaffold their curriculum around a psychotherapeutic approach are popping up right and left. Yet a psychotherapeutic approach fails to fully encompass the role of the psychedelic guide. In the same way that the field of psychedelic medicine itself is still nascent in its rebirth, so is the role of the guide. What does it mean to be a psychedelic guide? What qualities are essential to cultivate within a person so that they might hold ethically-informed, justice-oriented, effective and transformative space for others? This presentation illuminates how being a “psychedelic guide” is up for definition. It addresses the historical influences on the role of space-holder: the shaman, the guru, the wounded healer. It takes a broad view of the field of psychedelic work today, looking at the intersection occurring that includes therapy, medicine, and spiritual experience. By considering the need for psychedelic medicine to include insights from social justice, trauma-informed care, and mystical experience, it argues that a psychedelic guide is not a recapitulation of the traditional role of the healer, but a reimagining and revisioning of it.
Doblin
Speakers
Psychedelics and raising families
Lauren Taus is a psychedelic assisted therapist, trained to work with both psychoactive compounds and plant medicines. Lauren leads Inbodied Life, a group therapy practice that also offers immersive educational programs for clinicians to learn psychedelic assisted therapy and integration in contexts that hold personal healing as essential to effective facilitation. In this conversation, through unflinching honesty and vulnerability, Lauren presents a new way to talk about drugs, family and the potential for healing in that intersection.
Doblin
Adele Getty
Messages From the Underground and Other Elephants in the Room
When psychedelics were made illegal, an underground emerged that included, academics, students, doctors, chemists and other enthusiasts. In 1961 Dr. Leo Zeff experimented with LSD and its role in the following decades is a crucial part of psychedelic history. As the Secret Chief, Leo’s pioneering influence as a guide cannot be ignored. Fifty years later at the MAPS 2010 conference in San Jose, James Fadiman acknowledged the underground guides expertise around psychedelics as the elephant in the room. His talk gave birth to the Guild of Guides. Six years later the Guild came to an end when it was outed in a RollingStone article. Permission has now been given to talk publicly about these gatherings. The GOG was rich in best practices and the tradition of modern peoples use of these medicines for the last 60 years.The hope is to be able to bring these experts in from cold.
Doblin
Lucy Walker
,
Norma Lotsof
A conversation with Norma Lotsof
Norma Lotsof is a trailblazing advocate and practitioner of ibogaine treatment. Norma was born in the Bronx in 1937 and came of age in the 1960s in New York City with her husband Howard Lotsof, a fellow pioneer in psychonautic exploration and NYU film school graduate. In 1962 Howard discovered the medicine’s unique ability to interrupt opiate addiction, sparking a decades-long quest by the couple to bring the healing potential of ibogaine to the attention of governments and scientific researchers with the goal of it becoming a legal and safe prescribed medicine. Their work took them around the world to numerous countries including to Gabon, where iboga has been long used traditionally by the Bwiti. Today, Norma lives in New York City where she remains an advocate for ibogaine treatment and advisor to the next generation of researchers and practitioners building on her and Howard’s work.
Doblin
Norma Stevens
Being a Psychedelic Therapist
This session will explore important underlying assumptions of psychedelic assisted therapy and how they affect the role of the therapist. We will also discuss BEING a psychedelic therapist--how one enters the space with presence to facilitate the healing in another. The speaker will use her own experiences in psychedelic assisted therapy with research volunteers using MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine to illustrate key concepts.
Doblin
Sergey Vardanyan
Healing Population-Wide Trauma: The Potential Role of Psychedelics
Doblin
Charleen Justice
,
Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia
Cat's Outta the Bag: How LSD Escaped into the General Public
Stories from the Acid test times
Doblin
Richard Louis Miller
Confessions of the Psychedelic Elders
I will talk about my 57 years of mostly sub rosa self experimentation with psychedelics and will then talk about the 1500 years of stories of prominent elders experimenting with psychedelics as described in detail in my recent book, Psychedelic Wisdom.
Doblin
Speakers
A conversation with Amanda Feilding and Rick Doblin, Ph.D.
Amanda Feilding is the Founder and Executive Director of the Beckley Foundation, and is widely recognised as a leading force behind the current Psychedelic Renaissance. By establishing key Research Programmes at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions (including Imperial College London, UCL, Maastricht University), she has propelled the field forward over the last 24 years, conducting landmark studies, such as the world’s first psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression study, the world’s first LSD, MDMA and DMT brain imaging studies, plus the initiation and collaboration with Johns Hopkins on the first study using psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to overcome nicotine addiction. She has also co-authored over 80 research papers.
Doblin
James Fadiman
Microdosing: Remarkable results, surprising implications