The Psychedelic Society is turning 10!

In 2014, we first began this organisation to create a space where people could explore the healing power of conscious practices in community (and this back when psychedelics were pretty far from the public consciousness). Over the last ten years, we've run hundreds of events and retreats, welcomed thousands of people to come grow, heal, connect and experienced the most profound deepening of this community.

So… we want to celebrate with you!

Join us for a day of workshops, talks, and taster sessions with some of our long-standing facilitators, partners, and friends and stay on until evening for an epic dance party, group singing, and sound healing.
 

What to expect

We're splitting this celebration into two parts. Join us for a diverse lineup of fascinating talks and panels covering all things psychedelic, from science & mental health to community-building.

DAYTIME MINI-FESTIVAL (11am-7pm)

THE HIVE

Opening ceremony 11am-12.30pm

Psychedelic Speed-Friending 12.30pm-1.30pm

Taking inspiration from the 36 Questions to Intimacy, this platonic friend ‘dating’ offers a menu of profound, intriguing, and spicy questions designed to inspire authenticity and deepen your connection with those around you.

BREAK

Keynote - The Bigger Picture of Psychedelics with Alexander Beiner 2.30pm-3.30pm

Individual and collective trauma has led us to the brink of catastrophic breakdown of societal and eco/bio-systems. Can psychedelics play a part in humanity’s response to this global crisis? Drawing on his acclaimed recent book, The Bigger Picture, Alexander Beiner will set the scene for the role of psychedelics in our future.

Panel - Bridging Worlds: Psychedelic Science and Indigenous Wisdom 3.30pm-4.30pm

A discussion and Q&A on the intersection between modern psychedelic science and the traditional use of psychedelics in healing and ritual. We’ll explore ethical tensions, appropriation, and opportunities for bridging these two worlds. This panel will feature researchers from Heroic Hearts UK and Onaya Science, two leading psychedelic research organizations that collaborate closely with indigenous ayahuasca-using communities in the Amazon.

PsyCare Workshop 5pm-6pm

An interactive workshop designed to help people understand potential physical and psychological risks associated with psychedelics and how to support someone who is going through a challenging psychedelic experience.

BREAK

THE SHALA

Layers of Consciousness with Shamil Chandaria and Amir Giles 12.30pm-1.30pm

Whether your ways to go beyond are through psychedelics or sound, meditation, or movement, you can expect to further understand altered states and how to integrate the deepest layers of consciousness with everyday reality. Shamil will discuss his model of consciousness with Amir and how it integrates the leading theories of consciousness and perception. This is followed by a practical session in which a series of thought experiments, guided meditations, and perception games will give you a taste of the many wonders your mind has to offer:

Mind Games for Modern Mystics with Shamil Chandaria and Amir Giles 1.30pm-2.30pm

A series of thought experiments, guided meditations, and perception games will give you a taste of the many wonders your mind has to offer. Based on the Layers of Consciousness talk.

Wild Play Lab with Dani Tonks 2.30pm-3.30pm

This workshop uses play, creative meditation, and improvisation to bring awareness to our unconscious behavioral patterns and consciously dismantle our limiting habits in a fun, accessible, and safe environment. This is a deep and powerful practice of getting ‘out of our heads’ and trusting the wisdom of our bodies.

Altered States Breathwork with Jez Grattan Kane 3.30pm-4.30pm

A journey of conscious-connected breathwork, where you’ll be guided through circular breathing and breath-holds to induce shifts in your conscious state. The effects of this breathwork can be anything from soothing and gentle through to a full-body emotional release and psychedelic potential. 

Sensorium with Dia 4.30pm-6pm

Our senses are the portals to our human experience. This is a space to relax, and surrender to sensations of play and pleasure. Let yourself be taken on a sacred journey through your senses. In pairs, you will take turns being blindfolded and exploring taste, touch, smell, and energy with one another.

Earth Rhythms with Alana Bloom 6pm-7pm

Attune to the world’s cyclical patterns and discover the map of the wheel of the year as a portal for deep connection with the land, your community and your inner world. During this hour long experiential workshop we will explore the seasonal qualities we find prevalent in the northern hemisphere, especially within the British Isles, co- creating an altar that honours and celebrates the different qualities that exist in each point.

An array of stalls from partner organizations and vendors All day

We’ll be selling psychedelic art from visionary artists like Harry Pack and different herbal medicines to bring about energy, relaxation, or an overall health kick. There will also be information stalls from psychedelic research and advocacy groups, so you can chat to and learn directly from those in the industry. 

EVENING PARTY (7pm-1am)

THE HIVE

Cacao activation with Cacao Amor 7pm-8pm

Our most loving plant ally, supporting us in the imperative journey from the head to the heart! Cacao wants to experience themselves through you, inspiring us to live from the heart, with curiosity, playful innocence and connection. Originating in Ecuador and Peru, Cacao was revered as a sacred tree more than 5000 years ago in the lands of Abya Yala. For our event, Dia CacaoAmor brings this consecrated beverage, for us to collaborate with, and dance into the night. 

Ecstatic ritual rave with Gaia Harvey-Jackson 8pm-10pm

Bridging the worlds of the sacred and the absurd, Gaia's dances facilitate brave spaces for you to totally lose your shit, break free of the box, and express yourself with wild abandon.

Euphoric rave with DJ Jane Latham 10pm-1am

Using a blend of music genres from ethereal, organic, afro and deep house through to techno, Jane weaves emotive melodies with surging rhythms to help you shake off any physical and emotional tensions and completely let go into the magic of dancing with total freedom of movement and expression. She will ensure that you end the night on a high!

THE SHALA

Accessing deeper states of Love with Laura Reeves 7.30pm-8.30pm

Working with somatic tools for depending on our connection with our bodies, releasing what no longer serves us, and accessing inner acceptance, be taken on a journey to learn how to rewire our inner state of being and bring awareness to the Love that's already within.

Singing circles and open mic jam with George Montagu 8.30pm-10.30pm

George will open the session with a ‘choir workshop’ teaching through call and response from a collection of stunning numbers old & new (from folk & medicine music to modern pop), each chosen for their capacity to tap into deep nourishment, joy & healing. Then we'll transition into a round-the-fire style jam & an open mic. An opportunity to share as much or as little as you want in a space dedicated to supporting & nurturing authentic, heartfelt & courageous expression.   

Museum of Consciousness with Carl Smith 10.30pm-12pm

This intimate and cutting-edge exhibition includes sound transmissions produced by audio wizards, with the aim to alter one's state of consciousness with sound alone.

Immersive Breath and 360° Sound Immersion 12am-1am

As we close Psychedelic Society’s 10th anniversary, We The Conscious® and Sound Mirror invite you to a deeply immersive experience that celebrates the power
of gratitude. This special session combines breathwork, traditional sound bath and 360° soundscape to honour the community, the milestone of this gathering, and the shared journey that connects us all.

Location

We're thrilled to be hosting this celebration at the exquisite new Southall&Soul space in Southall, London. 

How to get there 

Our special location, Southall&Soul is located conveniently on The Elizabeth Line. The location is located only 27 minutes from Liverpool Street and 16 minutes from Paddington. 

SPEAKERS & FACILITATORS 

Alexander Beiner 

Alexander is an author, journalist, and facilitator focused on bringing new ways of seeing and being from the margins of culture into the mainstream. He does this through writing and by creating transformative experiences that invite us to find ways to evolve and thrive in the chaotic times we live in. He is the author of The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of the world and writes a popular Substack, The Bigger Picture. He is also an executive director of Breaking Convention, Europe's longest-running conference on psychedelic medicine and culture, and was also one of the founders of Rebel Wisdom, a popular alternative media platform. 

Dr Simon Ruffell 

Dr Simon Ruffell is a psychiatrist, ayahuasca researcher, and student of curanderismo. He is also a co-founder of Onaya Science and now works for the Psychae Institute as Senior Research Fellow. Since 2015, Dr Ruffell has been working closely with Indigenous communities in the Amazon basin, exploring the effects of the traditional psychedelic brew ayahuasca and the role of ceremony and spirit in healing. He is committed to working alongside the Shipibo-Konibo people to translate knowledge of Amazonian plant medicines, where possible, into scientific data and terminology while ensuring traditions are respected.

Wai-Fung Tsang

WaiFung is a Clinical Psychologist with years of clinical experience, primarily in the field of addiction, neurodevelopment, and trauma, exhibiting a keen interest in psychedelic research. He has been working as a core member of the Onaya Science team as a researcher, statistician, and psychologist for a number of years. With a particular focus on Indigenous Amazonian traditions, he has supported projects exploring ceremonial use of Ayahuasca in the rainforest for mental health as funded by the British Medical Research Council, as well as working alongside Heroic Hearts, an organisation using psychedelic treatments supporting veterans with PTSD.

Dr Grace Blest-Hopley

Dr Grace Blest-Hopley, Founder and CEO of Hystelica, is a neuroscientist with ten years of experience researching cannabis, cannabinoids, and psychedelics. Grace completed her PhD in Neuroscience at King’s College London and serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at NWPharma Tech. She is the Research Director of the Heroic Hearts Project, a charity that supports combat veterans with mental health challenges resulting from trauma and is also the founder of Hystelica, a community focused on understanding women’s biology for safe and effective psychedelic use.

Nige Netzband

Nige is a BPS accredited psychologist with experience in psychopharmacology and experimental design. Since 2016, Nige has been striving to help translate Shipibo traditions into scientific data. His calling is to help develop our understanding of the overlaps, parallels, and differences between Western and traditional Amazonian medicine, believing each paradigm has the capacity to complement each other as they continue to merge. He has also trained in integrative counseling, with the goal of working with clients using aspects from a range of modalities. In his spare time, Nige volunteers for harm reduction charities, PsyCare UK and Zendo Project.

Dani Tonks

Dani is an accredited trauma-informed Somatic Coach, trained actor, self-taught dancer, pleasure activist, and workshop facilitator. With over 12 years of experience within somatic and embodiment work, she has developed a playful and sensitive approach, combining a range of disciplines. Dani has worked as an international performer, director, and workshop facilitator for over 12 years. She has worked extensively in film, theatre, radio, and TV and has toured internationally with self-devised shows.

Laura Reeves 

Laura has facilitated with Psychedelic Society since 2017. After a decade of working with shamanic plant medicine, she offers transformational spaces designed to explore the darker parts of our psyche in order to experience deeper love, expansion and liberation. Currently she is studying to be a doctor of the Amazonian Master Plants and lives part time in the Amazon Rainforest with an indigenous maestro. She holds workshops, ceremonies, retreats and 1-1 sessions designed to connect people to their deeper essence guided by her experience and years of training in healing modalities. 

Shamil Chandaria

Dr. Shamil Chandaria  is a philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and academic with multidisciplinary research interests spanning  psychedelics, meditation and computational neuroscience, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the philosophy and science of human wellbeing.   In 2019 he was a founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research in the department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London, a neuroscience research institute investigating psychedelic therapies for a number of conditions including treatment resistant depression. His PhD from the London School of Economics was in mathematical modeling of financial and economic systems using stochastic differential equations and optimal control theory. He also has an MA in Philosophy from University College London, where he developed an interest in the philosophy of science and philosophical issues in biology and neuroscience. He has also funded research on the neuroscience of meditation at Harvard, and at the University of California in Berkeley. Shamil was previously a visiting academic at the Future of Humanities Institute at Oxford and is a Strategic Advisor at DeepMind. 

Jez Grattan-Kane

Jez Grattan-Kane is a Yogi and Breathwork Facilitator with a love of ecology and curiosity about the embodied and relational nature of human experience. He has completed 600 hours of yoga teacher training and trained as a Breathwork Mentor and Group Facilitator alongside studies in Integrative Transpersonal Psychology. As a facilitator, Jez holds space for the curiosity of the interplay between your Mind, Body, and Breath, inviting care as you raise your awareness of the living ecology of one's being. 
 

Pete “the Temp” Bearder

Pete is a poet, comic, and author whose mission is to incite a spirit of carnival, wonderment, and riotous love. He is currently touring an absurdist, psychedelic poetry stage show with an orchestral harpist, synth player, and loop station. Their new album, Pete the Temp and the Vibe Mechanics is available on all streaming platforms. 

Jane Latham

Known for her Dancing Freedom ecstatic dance events in the Hackney Wick woodlands, Jane combines her lifelong passion for dance with many years of training in spiritual movement practices to create a deeply transformative experience. Using a range of music genres, she intuitively weaves powerful rhythms and harmonies to help you journey through your emotions, shake off physical and emotional tensions and move towards a rich sense of wholeness, of connection with yourself and others.

Amanda Guzinska 

Amanda Guzinska is a trustee and member of the senior management team of the welfare and harm reduction charity PsyCare UK. Amanda has been involved in PsyCare for over a decade and has a wealth of first-hand experience supporting people through challenging psychedelic and other drug experiences. She has coordinated trip-sitting provisions at dozens of UK festivals and has years of experience managing the charity’s response to a wide range of difficult presentations. Amanda has given a number of talks, workshops, and presentations on behalf of PsyCare, where she has trained festival attendees, students, volunteers, and many more on how to support people through challenging drug experiences.

Deya (CacoaAmor) 

Deya is a wildly loving Cacao Sorceress, wisdom sharer & Nature lover. Tao Tantrika, weaver of ceremonies, delights & explorations. She grew up in Ecuador drinking Cacao and has been sharing Cacao for over a decade. Founder of CacaoAmor, she exports ceremonial Cacao from her homeland, collaborating with a local cooperative taking care of biodiversity and expanding the nurturing Medicine of Cacao to the Seven Directions.

George Montagu

George Montagu is a seasoned musician, activist and founder of Full Joy Ltd, a community-centred music events organisation that runs regular jam nights and choir workshops in London. He has also lead the All Change Please choir since 2014, barbershop quartet 'Queensgate Quartet' since 2015 and conducts and sings in London-based award-winning choir 'Southern Spirit Singers'. He is an active member of the Natural Voices Network and graduated from university with a Bachelors in Music. He also acted in hit American TV show 'Ted Lasso' in a past life and currently works at Brunswick Art Gallery in Bloomsbury as curator and events manager.

Carl Smith

Carl Hayden Smith is co-founder of the Cyberdelics Society and Founder of the Museum of Consciousness. His research concentrates on the relationship between technology and the human condition. He is a participant of the nnDMT research at Imperial College London for the last six years and was also the first person in the world to sustain the full 5 doses of DMTx during the pilot phase of the study. Carl has worked on numerous large-scale Leonardo LifeLong Learning, Erasmus+, FP7, Horizon 2020 projects and the XPRIZE. He has given over 300 invited public lectures, conference presentations and keynotes in 40 countries and published more than 100 academic papers. His research interests also include Contextology (Context Engineering), Embodied Cognition, Spatial Literacy, Umwelt Hacking and Sensory Augmentation.

Liza Al Sady

Liza Al Sady is the founder of @wetheconscious, a lifestyle brand dedicated to conscious living and transformative healing. As a qualified Breathwork Coach
specialising in Conscious Connected Breathwork and trained in Neo-Emotional Release, Liza is passionate about blending somatic healing, breathwork, and
multisensory modalities to deepen the connection with the subconscious. By weaving ancient wisdom with modern techniques, she creates fully immersive
experiences that guide people back to balance. Her vision for @wetheconscious is to become the leading catalyst for conscious living worldwide, inspiring people to breathe consciously, live vibrantly, and unapologetically embody their truth.
We The Conscious®
Website
Instagram

Angela ((SOUND MIRROR))

Angela ((SOUND MIRROR)) is a composer and sound therapist who blends electronic soundscapes with traditional acoustic instruments to create liminal worlds that bridge dream states and conscious meditation. Her sessions integrate bowl-to-body sound techniques, vagus nerve release, and a fusion of Eastern holistic approaches with Western psychoacoustic research to promote physical and emotional harmony. With expertise in spatial audio design, synthesis, and field recordings, Angela expands the possibilities of sound therapy beyond traditional instruments, offering 1:1 sessions, couples (re)connection, and recovery support focused on healing from dependencies. She also composes for film, installations, and immersive experiences, enriching her therapeutic work with emotionally resonant audio environments.

Sound Mirror
Website
Instagram

Amir Giles

Amir runs several popular events exploring the nature of reality, perception, and consciousness, drawing from the non-dual to the non-sequitur. He regularly facilitates meditation sessions and is an avid practitioner of inquiry techniques inspired by non-dual and wisdom traditions from around the globe, as well as scientific studies that give validity to these experiences. He was a facilitator on The Finders Course, trained as a practitioner of Internal Family Systems Therapy, and in Vortex Healing. He has a background as a performer, movement coach, and facilitator in work spanning cinema, TV, stage, and festivals.

Gaia Harvey Jackson

Gaia Harvey Jackson is a workshop facilitator and artist who creates spaces for deep transformation and specialises in women's empowerment. She runs courses, retreats, and training programs for women. Gaia is passionate about the revival of ritual and works with communities to co-create ceremonies around the world, helping people to mark significant moments, move through challenges, and celebrate life. Her work combines elements of theatre games, voice work, meditation, dance, and ritual, creating safe and playful environments where people can authentically connect and release.

Callum Browne

Callum is an event coordinator for The Psychedelic Society and a lifelong learner in the exploration of consciousness. He completed an MSc in Medical Anthropology at University College London, where he specialised in research on the phenomenology of consciousness, psychedelics, and the therapeutic and healing arts in mystical traditions around the world. Callum regularly delivers talks and workshops on mental health, meditation, and the breath to companies, groups, and festivals across the UK. He is an advocate of transformative and psychedelic experiences that are grounded in transpersonal and somatic philosophy and psychology.

Carly Birch

Carly is a facilitator, event curator and co-director of the Psychedelic Society. She holds a reverence for the transformative potential of immersive retreats, and crafts events designed to cultivate a deeper connection with ourselves, each other and the natural world. Carly is also a certified kuala tantra yoga teacher and works with Heroic Hearts Project UK, supporting ayahuasca retreats for veterans and law enforcement workers. Pre pandemic, she was living and working at a plant medicine retreat center in Ecuador, managing the retreats and center, and assisting in ceremonies.

Martha Allitt

Martha is a co-owner of the UK Psychedelic Society, running regular community events in Bristol, and a writer whose work specializes in psychedelic science and mental health. With a background in neuroscience, she's interested in the intersection between psychedelics, conscious experience, and different models of healing, particularly bridging together modern biology with more ancient practices. Martha is also a yoga teacher, science tutor and volunteer for PsyCare UK. 

Lauren Katalinich

Lauren is co-director and communications lead at The Psychedelic Society and explorer of the natural, sensual, and mystical realms. A profound experience with ayahuasca four years ago awakened her to the wisdom of the body and dance. She regularly performs and organises immersive dance events to help people reconnect with themselves and one another. A lifelong outdoor soul, she's particularly drawn to studying the wisdom of plants and experiencing the sensuality of nature.

Carlotta Artuso

Carlotta is an Event Coordinator at The Psychedelic Society, with a deep passion for nature, personal and collective growth, mystical experiences and food (Italian roots play a big role here!). Psychedelics have profoundly transformed her life, opening her mind to new perspectives and deeper self-awareness, allowing her to break free from the 9-5 grind and to launch her own PR and Events company -  Carlotta PR. She believes in their potential to heal and transform, and she's passionate about advocating for their safe, intentional use to inspire positive change and open new pathways of consciousness.

Alana Bloom

Alana Bloom is an artist, facilitator and nature connection guide stewarding eco-centric and animist ways of being that bring us back into connection with the natural world, each other and our deepest nature. Her work is focused on regeneration and cultural change through personal and collective healing, centred in our relationship with the earth. Co-founder of True Nature, she has been guiding transformational experiences for people to explore unleashing their true wild self for nearly a decade, working with hundreds of people and a variety of organisations on the frontiers of personal and planetary healing.

JOINING ORGANIZATIONS

PsyCare UK

PsyCare UK is a welfare and harm reduction charity, founded in 2008, who specialise in supporting people through difficult drug experiences at music festivals, especially those who have taken psychedelic drugs. Since our creation, we have supported thousands of people through challenging altered states, and last summer alone we guided 250 people through psychedelic experiences, and another 1000 people who had taken other drugs, such as MDMA and ketamine.
We are a member of the international nightlife harm reduction group NEWNET, contributed to the MAPS Manual of Psychedelic Support, and have delivered training and presentations to conferences and organisations such as Breaking Convention, HIT Hot Topics, Maudsley Psychedelic Society, Imperial College, Kent University and others. 

We are one of the most trusted names in the psychedelic harm reduction field and many of our volunteers have gone on to work, or conduct research, in psychedelic therapy. Our management team has decades of experience supporting people through the most intense psychedelic experiences, and this training will share our collective expertise with you.

REFUNDS POLICY: Please note, we do not arrange refunds or exchanges. When possible we encourage reselling on Ticketswap.

ACCESS:  We do our best to include everyone in our events, regardless of health circumstances. If you have access requirements please email the event organiser directly to discuss. Many facilitators are able to offer reduced ticket prices for those truly unable to afford the ticket price. If this applies to you, do please get in touch with the event organiser.

For PSYCHEDELIC KNOWLEDGE AND RESOURCES please check out the Psychedelic Society website. 

Our facilitators have agreed to our code of conduct. Learn about our procedure for raising concerns

MEMBERS of the Psychedelic Society get a discount off almost all of our events.
Join from £5 a month and become part of this amazing community with invites to special events and more.