Events

Free Live Conversation with Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD

Join Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, live with Pedram Dara for a free, exclusive pre-summit conversation exploring questions shaping psychedelic research beyond the protocol. 

Register now and you’ll receive:

✓ Live access to the conversation with Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD
✓ The full recording afterward + most-watched content from 2025 summit
✓ Early access to additional pre-summit content and updates

Live October 27 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 17:00 CET

Register free to join live and receive the recording afterward.

Lived Experience as Quality and Safety Infrastructure in Psychedelic Care

Lived experience is often treated as anecdote or advocacy. What if it functioned as quality and safety infrastructure? This live workshop introduces core terminology, a simple framework for different lived experience types, common failure modes, and practical ways to integrate lived expertise into research, training, protocols, and post-treatment care. 

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Ethics and Safety in Psychedelic Therapy: Risks and Accountability

Psychedelics can heal, but they can also harm. Join Devon Christie, MD, Matthew Johnson, PhD, Sara Reed, MS, Bill Brennan, PhD, and Pedram Dara for a candid discussion on the ethical blind spots, safety risks, and accountability gaps emerging as the field expands. Discover what it will take to make psychedelic therapy safer, more transparent, and truly patient-centered.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Inside Psychedelic Trials: What Participants Want You to Know

Behind every clinical result is a human story. Leonie Schneider, Ian Roullier, Maryam Jabir, Kerrilee Barrett, and Pedram Dara share firsthand what it’s really like to participate in psychedelic clinical trials using DMT, psilocybin, MDMA, and other psychoactive substances for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Learn what researchers miss, what participants need, and what it truly feels like to live the science.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Centering Lived Experience in Psychedelic Research and Training

What happens when lived experience becomes evidence? Join Michael Mithoefer, MD, Janis Phelps, PhD, Joost Breeksema, PhD, Rich Tyo, RP, and Pedram Dara as they explore how patient and participant voices can reshape the way we research, train, and deliver psychedelic therapy. This conversation explores key topics for the future of psychedelic education and care.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

MDMA-assisted Therapy for PTSD: Lived Lessons and Blind Spots

The promise of MDMA therapy is real but so are its limits. Hear from Becca Kacanda, Brad Gagnon, Sehrish Sayani, Ron Bowman, and Pedram Dara who’ve undergone MDMA treatment through global clinical trials (including placebo and active arms) and Canada’s Special Access Program. This honest, in-depth conversation goes beyond the manuals to uncover breakthroughs, blind spots, and lessons learned from the inside out.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Healing Trauma and Restoring Belonging Through Psychedelics

Trauma severs connection. Healing restores it. Join Rosalind Watts, PhD, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Becca Kacanda, M.S., Shoshana Ward, RTC, and Pedram Dara to explore how psychedelic experiences may help trauma survivors rebuild safety, trust, and belonging and the challenges of sustaining that healing over time.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Psychedelics and Serious Illnesses: Fear, Meaning, and Mortality

A serious diagnosis can shake every part of life, identity, purpose, and hope. Join Anthony Back, MD, Emma Hapke, MD, Anne Hamilton, and Florence Moureaux for an intimate discussion on how psychedelics are being used to help people living with cancer and other serious illnesses navigate fear, reconnect with meaning, and find emotional and spiritual healing in the midst of existential distress.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Beyond Treatment: Integration, Aftercare, and Lasting Effects

Healing doesn’t end with the session, it begins there. Join Marcela Ot’alora, MFA, Bruce Poulter, RN, MPH, Kim Fluxgold, Julia King Olivier, MD, and Corine de Boer, MD, PhD, to explore the long road of integration and recovery. From unexpected symptoms to the ongoing need for support, this panel exposes where our current systems fall short and how to do better.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

What Really Heals in Psychedelic Therapy: Drug, Placebo, or Care?

Is healing driven by the medicine, the meaning, or the mystery? Join Craig Heacock, MD, Berra Yazar-Klosinski, PhD, Elizabeth Lamphere, and Kathy Neustadt for a fascinating look at what could be the mechanisms of change. Explore how chemistry, connection, and care intertwine to create lasting change.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Lived Experience as Expertise: Redefining Psychedelic Healthcare

What if those who’ve been through treatment helped design and deliver it? Join Tehseen Noorani, PhD, Jon Nelson, Katie Bourque, and Pedram Dara as they introduce a new model of lived-experience-led education and certification. Meet the passionate voices shaking up psychedelic and mental healthcare from the inside.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Measuring the Ineffable: Can Science Capture Lived Experience?

Join Manesh Girn, PhD, Chloé Pronovost-Morgan, MD, and James W. Sanders, BSc exploring the intersection of science and lived experience. Join us live for the premiere of Psychedelic Science Hour.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Psychedelic Integration through Storytelling, Coaching, and Creativity

Join Mareesa Stertz, Daniel Shankin, Ona Praderas, and Jimmy Nguyen exploring best practices for psychedelic integration that go beyond therapy. Join us live for another episode of Psychedelic Story Hour.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.

Jason Silva, Brad Necyk, PhD, and the Psychedelic Puppet Show

Step into a psychedelic-inspired exploration of consciousness, where visionary storytelling collides with wild imagination. Join us live for the premiere of Psychedelic Story Hour.

Recording available with a 2026 summit access pass.