Psychedelic Symposium: A Trip Into Your Experience
Soft Open/Rental Event
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Welcome to the first Minneapolis psychedelic conference where we join voices from throughout the psychedelic community to share, reflect, and integrate our experiences.
Collective progress is supported by the many ways of knowing. We nurture this sentiment by cultivating access to, and representations of, the cultural, environmental, scientific, spiritual, and communal explorations of psychedelics. We want to center everyday people in the plant medicine community as valid explorers with the agency to experience, reflect, heal, and contribute.
Our goal with this conference is to confront some very real issues within the psychedelic community: Psychedelics launching into the mainstream with hopes of becoming a billion dollar industry. And the culture shifts. Capitalism infiltrates, and not only the medicine, but healers and intention become exploited for personal gain. Racial and academic hierarchy also permeate the community. We see White academics, investors, and pharmaceutical companies reaching for domination and ownership while Black and Brown voices fall victim to criminalization, academic skepticism, exclusion in professional spaces, and medicinal disregard. This colonizing trend will not be taken lightly and we plan to address it. Let’s lead by example. This is an opportunity for the collective to consciously connect, listen, be heard, comprehend, heal, and empathize.
Presenters include: Korey Matlock, Bet Williams, William Padilla-Brown, Mailae Halstead, Jessica Nielson, Christine Diindilsi McCleave, Day Host, Ranji Varghese, Manoj Doss, Miel Arredondo, Abdul “Duli” Wilkins, Mama Ayanna Iyi, Courtney Osborn, Shireen June Ghanatabadi, Kayla Felten, Catherine Griffith, Poe Yoni, Hector Arredondo, David Paurus and Lindsey Madla.
A schedule and list of speakers and workshop hosts, along with their bios, can be found at bigpsychmpls.com.
Questions? bigpsychmpls@gmail.com or 612.227.9845