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.