2023 Event Schedule

Saturday, April 22

19 West 4th Street
New York University


1:00pm
Doors open


1:30-1:40pm
Opening Remarks


1:45-2:05pm
>> Keynote: Sex, Power, and Healing in Society: A Psychedelic Perspective
Clinical psychologist Dr. Flux examines the nature of consent and the power dynamic inherent in the therapeutic relationship.


2:10-2:30pm
>> Keynote: High on Power: Breaking Cycles of Harm in Psychedelic Spaces
Somatic sex educator Britta Love breaks down the issues of power, consent, and harm and presents a vision for shifting these dynamics in our psychedelic healing spaces.


2:40-3:30pm
>> Panel: Power, Sex, and Accountability in Therapy
Conversations on consent and psychedelic therapist-client power dynamics . How do we keep things from going wrong and what is our response when they do?

  • Courtney Watson, LMFT

  • Cassandra Biron, LCSW

  • Jorge Arias, PhD candidate

  • Victoria Wikler, Buddhist educator


3:30-4:00pm
Intermission
Coffee and pastries


4:05-4:50pm
>> Panel: Prohibition, Policy, and Law: Albany and Beyond
A "state of the union" discussion by activists and policy makers on the current strategies being deployed to decriminalize psychedelics in the halls of power. Join authors of the bill currently before the New York State legislature to decriminalize psychedelic plant medicines.

  • Victoria Litman, M.Div, J.D, LL.M

  • Taylor Masterson, AAHS, CHCC, CPSS

  • Courtney Barnes, Esq

  • Aaron Genuth, Policy Advocate


5:00-5:25pm
>> Keynote: Psychedelic Extractivism: Distilling Indigeneity into Exchange Value
The Alma Institute’s Juliette Mohr traces the lineage of colonial logics and extractive practices that continue to impact Indigenous plant medicine stewards and influence the mainstream psychedelic landscape.


5:30-6:20pm
>> Panel: Reparations, Reciprocity and Revolution
What does it mean to have an anti-oppressive therapy practice? How about a business? In an industry predicated upon the extraction of resources and knowledge from indigenous communities how do we propose to practice healing while operating within a capitalist model?

  • Soma, Shamanic Practitioner, Doula

  • Pammy Jackson, the Psychedelic Sisterhood

  • Jeanie Lee, the Psychedelic Access Fund

  • Zack Rieck, LCSW, Psychedelic Clinical Director


6:20-6:30pm
Closing Remarks