Spring Lineup
Yogi Hendlin
Beyond Set and Setting: Ecodelic Attunement to Regulate Nervous Systems
Workshop, Dinner, Lecture & Music
Saturday April 5, 2025
1-10 PM
Psychedelics open hidden layers of perception, deepening our connection to ourselves, others, and the living world. Yet, this expanded awareness can also leave us in a liminal space—between old patterns and new possibilities. How do we navigate this transition with resilience and presence?
Join us at the Psychedelic Salon, where we explore these questions through an ecodelic lens, integrating psychedelics with nature-based practices for nervous system regulation. Reimagining set and setting as a continuous attunement to self and ecology, this Psychedelic Salon offers a space for deep practice, dialogue, and artistic exploration.
Yogi Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist. Hendlin is assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. Yogi’s interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects tackle major questions in philosophy of biology, environmental philosophy, and political philosophy. Yogi is a practitioner of multiple somatic and contemplative art forms and loves to talk to and about nature.
Patricia Pisters
Mind-Altering Cinema and Realms of the Human Unconscious
Interactive Lecture & Dinner
Sunday April 27, 2025
3-10 PM
In Realms of the Unconscious (1975) Stansilav Grof explores the deep layers of the unconscious mind, challenging conventional psychology by drawing upon his work with LSD. This edition of the Psychedelic Salon examines four different realms described by Grof: the abstract/aesthetic, the psychodynamic, the perinatal, and the transpersonal, and explores how cinema—especially horror, sci-fi, and experimental film—mirrors these psychedelic realms. As media culture increasingly resembles an expanded cinematic unconscious, we come together to ask what film and psychedelics can teach us about the mind, reality, and humanity in a world in flux and crisis.
Patricia Pisters is a professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, a board member of the OPEN Foundation, and the editor of Deleuze and Guattari and the Psychedelic Revival (2023). She is an artist in residence on Ruigoord, working on her new book on Grof’s work.
Philip Carr-Gomm
Ancestral Stories, Forest Wisdom: Druidry, Psychedelics and Psychotherapy
Workshop, Dinner & Fireside Dialogue
Saturday May 24, 2025
1.30 – 9.30 PM
This special edition of the Psychedelic Salon invites you into the world of Druidry—a nature-based, mystical tradition rooted in the Celtic lands of Europe. Guided by Philip Carr-Gomm, former Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids and an experienced psychologist, we’ll explore how ancient earth wisdom can inform and enrich psychedelic practice today.
In the afternoon workshop, Philip offers an experiential journey into Druidic teachings through storytelling, ritual, and reflective practices. You’ll explore themes such as trees as teachers, the turning of the seasons, and the sacredness of place—woven together with tools from Psychosynthesis and the ACER model (Accept, Connect, Embody, Restore) for psychedelic integration. Whether you’re supporting others or walking your own healing path, this session offers practical frameworks for working with expanded states of consciousness in deep connection with nature.
In the evening fireside dialogue, Philip shares insights from decades of walking the Druid path, in conversation with psychedelic guide Daan Keiman. Together, they’ll explore how myth, nature, and ritual can support us in times of personal and collective transformation.
Previous Events
The Psychedelic Salon presents Camille Sapara Barton
Workshop, Dinner & Community Panel on Tending Grief for Psychedelic Practitioners & Professionals
Saturday November 2, 2024
9.30 AM – 10.30 PM
Join us for an enlightening event with Camille Sapara Barton, author, artist, and somatic practitioner committed to fostering networks of care and sustainable futures.
Camille’s work intersects embodied social justice, grief, harm reduction, and psychedelic care, providing accessible and profound insights. At this event, Camille will draw from their acclaimed book, “Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community,” to guide participants through the intricate relationship between grief, psychedelics and community. During the workshop Camille will weave their experiences, practices and insights into the fabric of psychedelic care and explore how grief can show up for those embarking on a psychedelic journey, and how psychedelic practitioners can create containers that can hold grief ethically, and with grace and sensitivity. Camille introduces important perspectives for psychedelic care practitioners, advocating for harm reduction and cultural change. During the community panel, we will explore why tending to grief is necessary when thinking about introducing psychedelics into the mainstream, identifying gaps in the current infrastructure and imagining what a wholesome psychedelic future could actually look and feel like.
During the workshop you will learn:
- How grief impacts us outside of the context of bereavement.
- Why grief is taboo in the West.
- The Dagara approach to grief views it as a generative force.
- Why somatics can support tending grief and how to weave this in when working with clients.
- Strategies to support people with grief in preparation, during a psychedelic experience as well as in integration.
- How grief relates to harm reduction. Some strategies to reduce the harms that arise when people aim to bypass or numb their way through grief.
- Embodied tools and rituals to locate grief in the body and metabolise it.
- How grief relates to cultural humility and some strategies to work more compassionately with people from a range of backgrounds.
Through the workshop and a community panel, Camille will share practices and wisdom on ethically managing grief in psychedelic contexts, emphasizing the importance of community support. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to explore the transformative power of grief in a community of practitioners at the second edition of the Psychedelic Salon!
Learn more about Camille Sapara Barton and their new book: www.camillesaparabarton.com
Photography by Thomas Meijer.
The First Psychedelic Salon Edition with Dr. Rosalind Watts
Workshop, Dinner & Community Panel for Psychedelic Practitioners & Professionals
Tuesday June 25, 2024
9.30 AM – 10.30 PM
Dr. Watts is a clinical psychologist, a mother, and a nature lover. Her work as the Clinical Lead for Imperial College London’s psilocybin trial has made her one of the most prominent voices and minds in the field of psychedelic research. She builds tools and structures to foster connectedness after psychedelic experiences, finding inspiration for their design from nature. Through all her work, Rosalind’s main learning has been that safe and effective use of psychedelics requires substantial integration support. As a result, she co-founded the UK’s first psychedelic integration group, ACER (‘Accept, Connect, Embody, Restore’) Integration – a global online integration community where participants follow a 13-month process together to connect more deeply to the self, others, and nature.
During the event, Dr. Watts offered a workshop where she invited participants to explore the relationship between nature connection, psychedelics, and community care. As eco-anxiety plagues our generation and the world faces serious humanitarian and climate crises, psychedelics are sometimes positioned as an answer. But what can we realistically expect from psychedelic care? What kind of frameworks for offering psychedelic care actually foster nature connection and contribute to significant improvements in mental and communal health?
During this workshop, Dr. Watts invited participants on a journey from clinical practice to nature connection, from the clinic into the forest. She provided her insights from working with psychedelics in a range of settings, explored best practices, and shared some of the major pitfalls and challenges she encountered as she started to work with these powerful substances. We invited Dr. Watts to share her visions for the future of psychedelics in the West, offer prompts for ethical self-inquiry, and share practices and exercises that can support (aspiring) psychedelic practitioners to embody a new paradigm of offering psychedelic care.
Learn more about the ACER integration cycle: https://acerintegration.com/
Learn more about dr. Rosalind Watts: https://www.drrosalindwatts.com/
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