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Tuesday, May 14th from 9am to 12:00pm PST
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Price: $100
Cost: $80 for CE credits
This event is a partnership between Chacruna, Chaplaincy Innovation Lab, and RiverStyx.
Professional spiritual health practitioners hold expertise in psychology, spirituality, religion, metaphysics, theology, existential care, and meaning-making. They represent diverse religious, spiritual and humanist traditions. Ecologically-based spiritual care affirms a view of spirituality that includes reciprocity, planetary healing, adaptation to climate change, indigenous reciprocity, and ecological grief.
An ecologically-integrated approach to psychedelic therapies includes:
- Support for climate anxiety and grief.
- Earth-based rituals and ceremonies for life transitions.
- Nature-based psychedelic care for PTSD, end-of-life anxiety, and other mental health challenges.
- Crisis care for climate change disasters and support for eco-justice initiatives and indigenous communities.
- Exploration of ecological identity as a core psychological factor in well-being.
- Spiritual support that emphasizes nature connection.
- Stewarding and caring for plants, animals, land, and every aspect of the eco-system as a network of relations rather than resources to be exploited.
This 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
Jamie Beachy, MDiv, PhD, is field scholar for Emory University’s Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality. She is a spiritual health educator, ethics consultant, and psychedelic therapy practitioner and was a sub-investigator for MAPS Phase III clinical trials in Boulder, Colorado, researching the safety and efficacy of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD. Dr. Beachy now serves as an Associate Supervisor, offering consultation for practitioners training in MDMA-Assisted therapy. Dr. Beachy developed graduate level course offerings and curricula related to psychedelic therapies as Director of Education and Faculty Co-founder of Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies. An advocate for the integration of spiritual health and psychedelic care, she co-founded the Psychedelic Care Research Network through the Transforming Chaplaincy initiative and has spoken broadly on the role of professional spiritual care in psychedelic therapy. Dr. Beachy offers preparation and integration support in collaboration with her husband, Dr. Wael Garas, an integrative medicine practitioner and MDMA research physician, in Boulder, Colorado. Additionally, she sits on the Board of Directors of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines.
Lauren Van Ham is an ordained interfaith minister. Spiritual growth, art and Earth’s teachings infuse her focus in eco-ministry and sacred activism. For 9 years, she served as a hospital chaplain, then served with a consulting firm where she custom-designed employee engagement programs for companies committed to sustainability and culture change. For more than a decade, Lauren was Dean at The Chaplaincy Institute. A spiritual director, guest faculty for several schools and guest writer for “Progressing Spirit,” and co-author of A Joyful Path (Year 3), an interfaith Earth-centered, spiritual formation curriculum for ages 9-13. Lauren serves as Climate Action Coordinator for the United Religions Initiative, a global grassroots interfaith organization. She holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and Naropa University.
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist based in San Francisco. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, religion, and social justice. She is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines and serves as Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is also Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Additionally, she is Advisor for the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition and the Soltara Healing Center. Dr. Labate is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil and editor of its site. She is author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-eight books, two special-edition journals, and several peer-reviewed articles (https://bialabate.net).
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