DENVER, COLORADO
Denver Convention Center
October 10-12, 2024
October 10-12, 2024
Psycon Psychedelic Convention
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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 ketamine 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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Jessica is a teacher with a background in hearing and educational design. She also has a love for the plant and fungi kingdom and recognizes them as powerful teachers. Today she will be sharing a teaching on embodied learning and the development of advocacy skills for everyday life.
Jessica keeps busy running a music school, teaching, being out in nature, sound healing, creating art, developing maps and so much more. Her life is an adventure.
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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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Justin Botillier is the CEO of Calyx CPA LLC in Southern Oregon. Justin has almost twenty years of experience working with small business owners. Prior to its recreational legalization, he was among the first accounting professionals to advocate for the cannabis industry, actively and publicly. In 2016, Justin sold his general practice to work in cannabis full-time. He now works with the psychedelic community to prepare business owners for the tax impact of 280E on businesses in the psilocybin industry.
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Integration is the journey after the journey and is an amazing opportunity to foster the relationship with plants once they’ve entered into our system. Integration is part of the human life cycle and is where all growth happens. This in-between place is where we allow our new selves to emerge. When we consciously integrate, the personal evolution we seek is quicker and more natural.
Join Sherry Platt, MA, and Certified Spiritual Advisor, as she provides her five-step process for integrating your plant medicine experiences. This session is tailored for facilitators, participants, and the plant medicine curious.
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Sherry is a Life Transitions Counselor, Certified Spiritual Advisor, Public Speaker, Social Entrepreneur, and published author. For over 20 years Sherry has been counseling people from all walks and phases of life, such as executives, athletes, first responders, new parents, recent grads, mid-life and wisdom-years, minorities, LGBTQ+, recovering addicts, and felons helping them to integrate their former lives with their new evolving life.
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This class will provide the tools and strategies necessary to maintain physical, mental, and emotional well-being while engaging in healing work. People’s mental health is at an all-time low. More and more young people and adults are suffering from anxiety, depression and mental confusion. In this informative class, you will learn strategies and practices to foster relaxation, develop better focus, support your mental health with nutritional excellence and recover from burnout and trauma.
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John Pierre has captivated and entertained audiences around the world. With a fascinating blend of science, humor, and practicality John Pierre offers life-changing strategies in an easy to understand method. A pioneer in the brain-building field for the elderly, John Pierre created the first brain-building programs utilizing a plant-based diet and nutraceuticals over 25 years ago. With more than 35 years of experience in the nutrition and fitness field, John Pierre has developed cutting-edge programs with a blend of science and ancient modalities. John has authored two books, along with cooking DVDs, exercise videos, and numerous online programs. His heart of service is a nonprofit called Living With Harmony that works to heal, inspire, and transform the lives of people, animals, and the planet, through the education of “PLANET-Based Living.”
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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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We are witnessing a paradigm shift in drug policy reform. Psychedelics, once a mainstay of the underground, are emerging into pop culture and mainstream society. This panel will discuss the trajectory of psychedelics, from plant medicines used by indigenous cultures for millennia, to the war on drugs, to the future of mental health.
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Matt’s practice involves the law, business, policy, and (sometimes even) politics of drugs. Specifically, he focuses on psychedelics, cannabis, and other controlled substances, both in the context of healthcare/wellness as well as drug policy reform.
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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.
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Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of 14 books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 200 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. Mr. Robinson has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN, as well as other national TV talk shows. He is the author of “Ecstasy as Medicine,” and teaches how to do MDMA facilitation. His websites are XTCasMedicine.com and MDMAtraining.net
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Gary Laderman is Goodrich C. White Professor of American Religious History and Cultures in the Department of Religion at Emory University. He has written books on death in America, religion and popular culture, and a memoir. Laderman is currently writing a book on religion and drugs, and teaches a course at Emory called “Sacred Drugs” which enrolls over 400 students. He has appeared and been interviewed in many media settings, including newspapers, documentaries, and as a guest on Joe Rogan.
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Dr. Dana Lerman received her M.D. at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York. She completed Internal Medicine residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital and fellowship in Infectious Disease at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Lerman is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. She has worked as an infectious disease consultant all over the United States for over ten years. Dr. Lerman was the founder of The COVID Consultants, a national COVID-19 consulting and testing firm. During the pandemic she identified herself as a wounded healer and began her own mental wellness journey which led her to an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica. Since this time Dr. Lerman’s passions have shifted focus and she has since received training and certification in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Lerman is in MAPS training via IPI. She has received further training in trauma via PESI, Internal Family Systems via the IFS Institute, and Ecotherapy with the Earth Body Institute. She volunteers with Zendo Project trip sitting at Burning Man. Her prior personal history of psychedelic use, including work with ketamine, psilocybin, LSD, 5-MeO-DMT, Ayahuasca and DMT affords her the unique ability to know first hand what clients may be experiencing. Dr. Lerman treats patients at the Skylight Journey Center in Evergreen, CO.
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Board-certified in Psychiatry, Dr. Pullara is a pioneer in psychedelic medicine, specializing in IV ketamine therapy. He contributes to psychedelic research and co-founded an international psychiatry journal in residency.
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Lab testing, data, cultivation, lifecycle and breeding
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Doma is on a mission to explore the wonders of mushrooms and share his research discoveries with the world. Doma survived a life-threatening motorcycle accident in 1998 that left him addicted to opiates and in chronic pain. In 2016 Doma found hope and relief in the magic of fungi, which healed his body and mind, and sparked his curiosity and creativity
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Dr. Marlon Thomas is a Researcher, Biomedical Engineering Professor, and CEO of Psy Rxn TN. Psy Rxn is a small biotechnology company based in Tennessee with a research facility and a small resort/clinic on the island of Jamaica that develops psilocybin/psilocin drugs and drug delivery modalities for treating mental health disorders
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Doma is on a mission to explore the wonders of mushrooms and share his research discoveries with the world. Doma survived a life-threatening motorcycle accident in 1998 that left him addicted to opiates and in chronic pain. In 2016 Doma found hope and relief in the magic of fungi, which healed his body and mind, and sparked his curiosity and creativity
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This talk aims to tie together the chemistry that we experience in natural products, such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms, with the genetics that encode the biosynthesis of those compounds. It will aim to highlight some insights gained from data collected by our testing laboratory, as well as my work with non-profits such as the Entheome Project, Center for MycoAnalytics, PsiloSafe, and the Psychedelic Standards Organization.
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As one of the leaders and co-founders of Tryptomics, Christopher Pauli’s past accomplishments in molecular biology speak for themselves. With a wealth of experience in genomic and transcriptomic analyses, as well as assay development for numerous psychoactive plants and fungi, Christopher has long been recognized as a trailblazer in the industry. One of his most notable contributions has been his groundbreaking work in developing marker-assisted breeding systems, which have enabled breeders to create custom chemical profiles to produce desired medicinal and recreational effects in Cannabis sativa.
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This seminar offers an insightful exploration into the intersection of veteran health and the therapeutic potential of psilocybin. Delving into the challenges faced by veterans, including PTSD and depression, illuminating the emerging research supporting psilocybin therapy as a novel approach to addressing these mental health issues. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of psilocybin’s mechanism of action, safety considerations, and its potential to offer relief where conventional treatments fall short. Join us for a transformative discussion on how psilocybin therapy can positively impact the well-being of our veterans and the importance of destigmatizing mental health within the veteran community.
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Former Marine and military contractor turned veteran health enthusiast. Has been working in the psychedelic community to improve veterans health as they battle ptsd and TBIs.
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Amber Helgeson, a shamanic practitioner since ’08. Graduated in sports therapy in ’07, she delved into energy therapy, shamanism, coaching in ’08. Studying Tepezcohuite with Rex Lewis in ’17, she’s featured in Medicines with the Medal, showcased in Bold Journey and L&E Magazine. Currently researching Tepezcohuite’s benefits.
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