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SUMMARY:Workshop: Psychedelic Churches: From Legal Protections\, to Ethics and Reciprocity (2025)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nAs the use of psychedelic plant medicines becomes increasingly visible within spiritual communities\, this workshop offers a critical and timely exploration of both legal protections and ethical responsibilities for churches and communities that incorporate plant medicines into their ceremonial practices. It will help participants better understand the rights\, limitations\, and legal pathways available to psychedelic churches. Participants will gain insight into foundational legal concepts\, such as “sincere religious belief\,” sacramental protections\, religious exemptions under RFRA\, and key legal precedents including the UDV\, Santo Daime\, and the more recent cases\, such as the Church of the Eagle and the Condor\, the Church of the Celestial Heart\, and the Church of Gaia. \nGoing beyond legal frameworks\, this workshop emphasizes the ethical and relational dimensions of practicing with sacred plants. Through a critical analysis of the power imbalances and extractive dynamics within the global psychedelic landscape\, it invites participants to consider what meaningful reciprocity\, cultural respect\, and community accountability might look like in practice. Grounded in over three decades of experience with ayahuasca\, mushrooms\, and fieldwork across Latin America\, this session will challenge attendees to seriously engage with Indigenous claims to plant medicines\, and to reimagine their roles as allies rather than consumers. \nParticipants will be encouraged to reflect on the implications of the psychedelic renaissance for Indigenous communities\, explore how to build ethical relationships rooted in humility and horizontal exchange\, and examine the true potential of intercultural dialogue and decolonization within the psychedelic ecosystem. This workshop is an invitation to integrate legality with integrity and to align spiritual practice with justice\, reciprocity\, and respect for the traditions that have long held these medicines sacred.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/workshop-psychedelic-churches-from-legal-protections-to-ethics-and-reciprocity-2025/
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThe past two decades have seen a proliferation of research on psychedelic medicines for the treatment of depression\, anxiety\, and post-traumatic stress disorder\, among other conditions. Slowly but surely\, researchers are also beginning to look at how psychedelics medicines can support sexual flourishing\, enhance sexual satisfaction\, and support greater sexual self-acceptance. This workshop will explore not only the current research on psychedelics and sexuality\, but go far beyond that to ask questions about how prohibiting pleasure has molded our current drug laws\, why pleasure is omitted from the narrative about psychedelic healing\, and how psychedelics can help us to embrace our erotic power for optimal sexual experiences and sexual self-actualization. \nThis interactive workshop is based on the book\, Embrace Pleasure: How Psychedelics Can Heal Our Sexuality. The workshop will aim to foster dialogue about psychedelics and sexuality\, explore a “psychedelic” philosophy of sex and pleasure\, and provide concrete strategies for psychedelic preparation and integration practices helpful to sexual trauma survivors\, couples\, and individuals interested in exploring and enhancing their sexuality. Power\, desire\, ethics\, and the dangers and pitfalls that can occur in mixing sex and psychedelics will also be discussed. Undergirding our exploration will be a critique of the neo-liberal and capitalist structures that exist in our society and in psychedelic science that prevent us from embracing pleasure\, creating community\, and engaging in meaningful erotic connection while centering on the uplifting message that pleasure (and psychedelics medicines) have the power to heal us. \nThis workshop is suitable for therapists\, psychedelic facilitators and guides\, sex educators and coaches\, as well as those interested in how psychedelics can enhance and heal our sexuality.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/workshop-embrace-pleasure-how-psychedelics-can-heal-our-sexuality/
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Ecology\, Spirituality and Psychedelics
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nSpiritually-integrated and ecologically conscious psychedelic care supports social justice. Through valuing reciprocity\, planetary healing\, Indigenous wisdom\, & the honoring of ecological grief\, justice-based psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) views ecosystems as relational networks rather than resources\, and extends healing benefits beyond individuals to communities and the global environment. Earth-based rituals\, nature-focused treatments for PTSD\, and practices that support nature connectedness expand PAT beyond a clinical\, biomedical model of care. Attendees will: \n– Describe eco-chaplaincy as an emerging specialization within professional chaplaincy and training and certification pathways for professional eco-chaplains\n– Discuss the importance of planetary health and the well-being of the more than human world to an conception of human health and well-being\n– Describe the mechanism by which increasing nature connectedness and the appropriate use of psychedelic medicine improve mental health\, and how their synergistic use may further enhance therapeutic outcomes \nThis workshop is for professional spiritual health practitioners\, eco-chaplains\, psychedelic therapists\, scholars and anyone interested in the intersection of spirituality\, ecological consciousness\, and psychedelic care.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/workshop-ecology-spirituality-and-psychedelics-3/
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