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SUMMARY:Course: Certificate in Ceremony\, Ethics & Reciprocity
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nPrice $950 \nThis certificate is a 6-month\, 80-hour journey designed for those already facilitating or assisting in ceremonies\, aiming to create a safer\, more equitable\, and informed space for plant medicine practices. It focuses on reducing risks\, strengthening community accountability\, and cultivating skills for ethical ceremonial leadership outside traditional Indigenous contexts. \n 
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/course-certificate-in-ceremony-ethics-reciprocity/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Course: Ayahuasca Healing\, Science and Indigenous Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nPrice $950 \nThis course will be taught by leading experts in the field of ayahuasca research and renowned Indigenous leaders. The goal of the course is to address the current challenges and new perspectives on the use of ayahuasca in a global context\, not only from an academic standpoint but also drawing from Indigenous voices and their experience with ayahuasca. Students will be introduced to current issues on the internationalization of ayahuasca and its impacts. The course will address Amazonian traditional healing modalities; ayahuasca and Western psychotherapy\, the commodification of ayahuasca;​​therapeutic and clinical research; conservation\, environmental legislation and the legal framework of ayahuasca worldwide. This course will also be dedicated to honor the voices and experiences of Brazilian Indigenous leaders\, addressing issues that are most dear to Indigenous communities that consecrate ayahuasca. Our Indigenous professors will explore the dilemmas posed by western civilization\, such as exploitative extractivism\, cultural appropriation\, and the discredit of ancestral knowledge. They will also talk about ayahuasca shamanism and its role for the political\, spiritual and cultural resistance of Indigenous Peoples. This innovative course will bridge the gap between academic and traditional knowledge\, connecting the ceremonial use of sacred plants and psychedelic science. Following Chacruna’s tradition\, this course will unite a community of kindred people to get together and exchange notes around the most complete and up-to-date debates on ayahuasca and its challenges in current times.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/course-ayahuasca-healing-science-and-indigenous-knowledge/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:What Does Mindful Consumption of Cannabis Look Like?
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to invite you to Chacruna’s upcoming Community Forum\, which will explore the evolving landscape of cannabis use in today’s society. This discussion will challenge outdated models of cannabis prohibition and treatment\, and instead foster nuanced\, safety-based conversations about mindful and moderate consumption. How can we approach cannabis more like exercise – acknowledging both its benefits and its risks? In what ways has prohibition-driven “all or nothing” thinking prevented realistic dialogues about cannabis use? With a growing array of products and easier access than ever before\, how can American adults find balance and moderation amidst the marketing and normalization of consumption? Furthermore\, how do new product forms like edibles and vape pens\, and the increasing prevalence of multiple daily use\, shape our relationships with cannabis? We will also discuss how traditional substance use treatment models often fall short for cannabis users\, and why new approaches – rooted in harm reduction and the recognition that cannabis can have real benefits – are essential for addressing Cannabis Use Disorder without erasing the positive aspects of cannabis use. Join us as we hear from Amanda Reiman\, a longtime researcher\, educator – holding a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of California\, Berkeley – and founder of Personal Plants\, an educational platform dedicated to cultivating healthy\, balanced relationships with cannabis. Also joining us is Owen Wheeler\, a Master’s student in Psychoactive Pharmaceutical Investigation at UW Madison and Chacruna’s Education Program Intern. Let’s come together to rethink the story of cannabis and uncover paths to mindful\, moderate use.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/what-does-mindful-consumption-of-cannabis-look-like/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Forum
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SUMMARY:Course: Roots of Psychedelic Therapy - Shamanism\, Ritual and Traditional Uses of Sacred Plants - Live/Online
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nPrice: $1\,100 \nThis course will be composed of a series of independent lectures taught by the Chacruna Institute’s team and affiliates. It will lay out the foundation of the use of sacred plants through historical\, cultural\, indigenous\, ‘traditional’ and contemporary lenses. We will explore topics such as shamanism in Amazonia\, peyote use among the Wixárika\, psilocybin use among the Mazatec\, iboga in Africa\, and many other cultural practices amongst other groups. We will discuss and analyze critical social issues such as globalization\, tourism\, cultural appropriation\, commodification\, patents\, reciprocity\, conservation\, legality\, ethics\, sexual abuse\, practitioner’s training and more. The course will create bridges between the worlds of ceremonies and psychedelic therapies. Students will learn how to incorporate this knowledge into their professional practices – either clinical or social science research\, work clients or ceremonial circles – as well as their personal lives. Through multiple perspectives and the rich histories and cultures of psychedelic plant medicines\, students will be able to deepen their understanding of the expanding future of psychedelic plant medicines in ways that are equitable\, safe\, and just\, and ways we can give back to and honor the cultures from which these practices stem. The course will be taught from an anthropological viewpoint that considers different cultures and peoples worthy of respect and considers their own perspective and values.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/course-roots-of-psychedelic-therapy-shamanism-ritual-and-traditional-uses-of-sacred-plants-live-online/
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SUMMARY:Cultural Heritage and Pharmacology of the Eleusinian Mysteries
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin us for a deep dive into the cultural\, spiritual\, and scientific legacy of the Eleusinian Mysteries\, one of the most enduring ritual traditions of the ancient world. This Community Forum will explore the intersection of mythology\, entheogenic pharmacology\, and Greek cultural heritage\, asking how modern research into the kykeon – the sacred psychoactive brew at the heart of the Mysteries – can inform contemporary understandings of altered states\, healing\, and epistemic justice. Together\, we’ll explore key questions such as: What can the Eleusinian Mysteries teach us about initiation\, secrecy\, and transformation? Can ancient psychospiritual frameworks help shape today’s psychedelic science and therapeutic practices? What are the ethical implications of reviving sacred rites in a modern Greek and global context? Speakers include Eleana Baskouta\, cultural strategist and Co-Founder of Elkeen\, the Hellenic Center for Entheogenic Research; Dr. Evangelos Dadiotis\, pharmacologist and researcher of ancient psychedelics; Nikos Katsaounis\, storyteller and systems thinker exploring myth and altered states; and Romanos Antonopoulos\, natural product chemist bridging ethnobotany and pharmacognosy.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/cultural-heritage-and-pharmacology-of-the-eleusinian-mysteries/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Forum
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SUMMARY:Students of Spiritual Science Symposium 3.0: The New Earth
DESCRIPTION:This event is a piece of sacred activism. The community of humans gathering will showcase how to restore balance within ourselves and society by celebrating work that challenges dominant\, extractive\, individualistic\, and hierarchical systems and fosters more holistic\, interconnected ways of being. \n 
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/students-of-spiritual-science-symposium-3-0-the-new-earth/
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:Course: Queering Psychedelics - Intersectionality\, Healing\, Spirituality and Liberation - Live/Online
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nPrice: $700 \nPsychedelics have encompassed a colorful history of the enchanted\, wayward\, and weird; this history also includes concrete ways queer folk have fundamentally shaped the substance\, style\, and spirituality of the psychedelic movement. At the same time\, some queer people have been harmed by psychedelic culture’s heteronormative assumptions. As the psychedelic renaissance reaches a pivotal moment of mainstream interest and regulatory legitimacy\, this course aims to foster accessibility and diversity in psychedelic science\, practice\, and discourses by addressing and dismantling sexist\, heteronormative\, transphobic\, and homophobic forms of oppression in the psychedelic movement. This course will cover topics such as the cruel effects of patriarchy\, practicing self-acceptance\, the dark sides of psychedelic research such as conversion therapy\, the move towards LGBTQ+ affirmative psychedelic-assisted therapies\, transpersonal queer spirituality\, sex positivity\, trans and BIPOC issues\, Indigenous perspectives in queer psychedelia\, and pleasure. The course also grapples with how modern psychedelic research might address the unique needs and traumas of sexual and gender minorities—populations that can suffer from challenging mental health conditions brought on by social exclusion\, pathologization\, criminalization\, and stigmatization. It is vital that queer spaces be established for exploring the unique needs\, gifts\, and strengths that LGBTQ+ communities bring to psychedelic medicine\, and how psychedelic medicine can help queer folks move towards healing and liberation.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/course-queering-psychedelics-intersectionality-healing-spirituality-and-liberation-live-online/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Black Psychedelics: A Weapon for the Revolution
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for an inspiring conversation at the intersection of psychedelics\, Black liberation\, and collective transformation. This Community Forum will explore how entheogens can support movements for racial justice\, community healing\, and radical imagination. Grounded in both lived experience and historical insight\, our speakers will examine how psychedelics might move beyond personal wellness to become tools of collective empowerment and spiritual revolution. Together\, we’ll explore urgent questions such as: How can the “Psychedelic Renaissance” serve the needs of Black and BIPOC communities? What obstacles stand in the way of mass participation and healing? Can entheogenic practices help us reclaim power beyond the political realm\, and even beyond the self? What models from history can guide us today? And what does liberation actually look like\, within and without? Speakers include Dr. Nicholas Powers\, author of Black Psychedelic Revolution and a longtime commentator on race\, politics\, and psychoanalysis; Sia Henry\, lawyer\, abolitionist\, and senior policy associate at MAPS working at the intersection of criminal justice reform and psychedelic equity; and Soi Kene Witan\, Shipibo-trained plant medicine practitioner and educator\, exploring Black identity and healing through Indigenous Amazonian traditions.
URL:https://chacruna.net/event/black-psychedelics-a-weapon-for-the-revolution/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Community Forum
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