Healing the Collective: The Role of Psychedelics in Global Evolution

Healing the Collective: The Role of Psychedelics in Global Evolution

A Panel Discussion. 29 November, 2024 - 19.00-21.00pm.

(In person & live-streamed. Friends MeetingHouse, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF. Doors open at 18.30pm for a prompt start.)

Our world is at a tipping point. 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? 

We ask: What is the interface between psychedelic experiences and embodied, energetic awakenings and how might this relate to an evolutionary development in consciousness? Is there a link between people’s individual journeys and collective healing? Can we develop a more helpful, collective perspective than our current, individualistic one? What would a more evolved world look like? 

After the panel discussion there will be time for questions from the audience. Come help us explore these points. 

PANELISTS

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 write a popular Substack, The Bigger Picture.

Alexander is an executive director of Breaking Convention, Europe's longest-running conference on psychedelic medicine and culture. H was also one of the founders of Rebel Wisdom, a popular alternative media platform that ran from 2017-2022 and explored the cutting-edge of systems change and cultural sensemaking. 

Maria Papaspyrou 

Maria Papaspyrou is a senior accredited psychotherapist, supervisor and systemic facilitator based in Brighton UK (Towards Wholeness). Her clinical practice focuses on psychedelic integration and working as a supervisor for individuals and organisations in this field. She has co-edited “Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine” with Chiara Baldini and David Luke and “Psychedelics & Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Expanded States” with Dr Tim Read. Together with Tim Read they have cofounded and codirect the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy and curated and teach a two-year professional training in psychedelic assisted therapy, based on their model of Depth Relational Process.
 

Sameer Patel 

Sameer is a filmmaker and co-founder of the Kundalini Collective, an organisation established in 2018 to support individuals experiencing spiritual awakenings. His own awakening in 2006 profoundly changed his life, leading him to explore spiritual and shamanic cultures worldwide. Prior to this, Sameer worked in film finance but inspired by his transformation, he pursued a creative path, and his films have been acquired by Sony and Sky Arts. As a producer, he recently completed a British-Iranian feature adaptation of a Rainer Fassbinder film titled 'The Bitter Tears of Zahra Zand'. He is currently developing a documentary on ‘Non-Ordinary Transformative Experiences’ and their implications.

Marianne Murray 

An experiential practitioner in the field of transformative learning, Marianne holds master’s degrees in transpersonal psychology and mindfulness-based psychotherapy and a doctoral degree in transformative learning and change in human systems. Integral to her work has been her training with Stanislav Grof – she completed the Grof Transpersonal Training in 2001, is a certified Grof® Breathwork facilitator, and has facilitated holotropic breathwork in the US, UK and Europe, Kenya, and India. In addition, she has trained and certified as a facilitator of Bert Hellinger’s systemic constellation work and as a massage therapist. She is a member of the faculty at the Academy for the Love of Learning where, for the past 22 years she has been intimately involved with the development of the core curriculum, helping to establish the Academy’s pedagogy. Marianne is senior faculty for Grof® Legacy Training USA, serves on the Board of Directors for Grof® Legacy Project, is a Mind and Life Fellow, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 

MODERATOR

Greg Donaldson 

Greg Donaldson is a UKCP psychosynthesis psychotherapist and supervisor based in Brighton. Greg has an interest in integrating peak experiences and has worked as a psychedelic guide for the phase 2 trials at Imperial College for patients with treatment resistant depression. He then went on to co-facilitate the first London psychedelic integration group, and then became a co-founder of the Brighton psychedelics integration group. He also worked the Synthesis institute throughout 2019/20 offering an online integration space that followed a nature-based programme. In 2023 Greg headed up a team to develop an integration protocol for Hammersmith Medicines Research Centre, where patients were being administered Ibogaine within clinical trials. Greg is the founder of https://www.psychedeliccpdevents.com and hosts the Emergingpurpose Podast https://www.emergingpurpose.net

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