Psycon Psychedelic Convention
Denver Convention Center
October 12-14, 2024
Presentation Abstract:
We will discuss creating an environment that moves beyond judgment, expectations, conclusions and allows for the space of ease and awareness within psychedelic medicine and facilitation. If psychedelics were not an answer for a problem to be solved and are tools for awakening our inner awareness, how can we use this to tap into our knowing, perceiving and receiving? With psychedelic therapies there is great emphasis on integration, would you be willing to move out of the limitations of what that looks like and find what works for you?
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Shannon is a Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, one of the most experienced and expert Ketamine Psychotherapy Practitioner in the world, and Founder of Floresta, a psychedelic therapy and consciousness-based retreat entity. She invites a unique blend of western practices with her background in meditation, yoga, indigenous practices, functional medicine, and energy work. Shannon invites others to acknowledge their unique capacities and inspires choice, possibility and transformation.
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Aniko holds an MSW from Columbia School of Social Work. She is the Founder of Sound Ceremony and has been facilitating sound ceremonies for over 5 years and has worked with hundreds of clients. She specializes in holding space for clients working in non-ordinary states and creates a safe set and setting through the use of over-tone rich instruments, the natural harmonic scale, breathwork and sound. She has trained with Polaris Insight Center for Ketamine-Assisted Therapy. Her background also includes fieldwork at MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies) and she works with Horizons PBC.
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Jane will present step-by-step techniques for using low-dose psychedelic medicines safely to awaken the infinite Self. Combining an array of psycho-spiritual tools, she will show how we can amplify our genius capacities, self-confidence, and competence, making the perceived impossible a reality.
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Jane Latimer, MA, is a Trauma therapist, Ceremonial Alchemist, and Founder of PsyAlchemy Visionary Academy, a community-based organization which empowers individuals to use psychedelics consciously. Her mission is to help individuals wake up out of the trance of consumerism, patriarchal values, and limited beliefs. She knows first-hand what it takes to make the impossible possible.
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Amber Kerby is a licensed marriage and family therapist, working primarily with adults and couples, utilizing Internal Family Systems and other strengths-based approaches.
Amber is certified to offer Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, and psychedelic integration in therapy.
She is the first LMFT in Iowa to provide KAP in a private practice setting, offering an accessible way to engage in the healing potential of this treatment.
She also provides education, consultation, and training around ketamine/psychedelic preparation and integration in a therapeutic context.
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Sam Wagner is owner and “myco-social worker” of Shroomsquatch Myco-Ventures. He specializes in teaching and providing simple and cost-effective ways to grow all kinds of mushrooms and integrate them into permaculture systems within their physical, emotional, and spiritual environments. He uses a community driven social work mindset to host fungal cultivation classes that empower individuals to engage, grow, and discover fungi’s role in their environments and lives while exploring or “squatchin” the intersections of science and spirit.