Upcoming Events

Ketamine occupies a unique position in contemporary health spaces. Once known as an anesthetic and later as a drug of misuse and abuse, it has more recently emerged as a powerful therapeutic tool in psychiatry, pain medicine, and trauma care. Yet its rapid expansion into clinical, quasi-clinical, and wellness settings has also exposed significant medical, psychological, ethical, and societal risks.This event explores ketamine in its full clinical reality as a medication with genuine healing potential, as a substance with addictive and dissociative risks, and as an intervention that exists in a wide and often poorly defined grey zone between treatment and harm.

Key discussion themes will include:

• The "Blurred Line" of Use: How the medicalization of ketamine has led some users to justify heavy recreational use as "therapeutic self-medication," often ignoring signs of addiction.
• Physical Risks: Specific physical dangers of frequent use, such as ketamine-induced cystitis (bladder damage).
• Prescriber Responsibility: The role of medical providers in inadvertently fostering dependencies through over-prescription or lack of follow-up.

This panel includes clinicians Howard Kornfeld, MD, and Will Barone, PsyD, and will be moderated by psychedelic journalist Annie Oak.

There will be a short tour of the Shulgin Farm following the panel discussion.

Join us at the Shulgin Farm to welcome spring and align your heart, body, and spirit with the season of renewal.

As we stand at the threshold between dark and light, winter and spring, this ceremony invites you to shed the heaviness you've been carrying - the tension, the fears, the weight of winter. Together, Tamara Edwards will create space to release what no longer serves and plant seeds for what you want to grow.

What do you want to cultivate in your heart this season? What needs tending? What wants to emerge?

Through cacao, easy breathwork, and healing sound, we'll soften into our hearts and remember our capacity to grow, change, and bloom. The cacao opens us, the breath moves what's ready to release, and the sound guides us home to ourselves, to our hearts.

This is a time of balance: honoring both the darkness we're leaving behind and the light we're growing toward. Come as you are. Bring your voice, your grief, your joy, your dreams for this season. All are welcomed here.

We invite you to bring a snack to share. This event includes a short farm tour at the end of the event for those that want to join!

In today's psychedelic climate, ceremonial use is most often associated with plant medicines that have their roots in ancient indigenous rituals and cultures. As we see the modern use of psychedelic medicines expanding to a larger population it’s vital that we apply ceremonial intentionality and frameworks to all the psychedelic compounds, even those of the synthetic variety. Just because compounds like MDMA and 2CB don’t have hundreds of years human connection behind them doesn’t mean that we can’t use them with the same sense of mystery and wonder as we do our ancient predecessors.

Zach will take us through a three part online workshop in which he will break down the following three topics. The Shulgins influence on not just the creation of synthetic compounds but also on their most profound uses creates the framework for so much of this discussion.

• Part 1: The history of synthetics: how they made their way to the world stage, their origin stories and how drug war propaganda fueled mass stigmatization and disinformation around their use.
• Part 2: Course correction: through science and research, endless amounts of personal transformations and sound education, we have started to see a shift in how these compounds are talked about. No longer are they reckless party drugs, rather they are powerful tools to aid in transformation and healing. This segment of the workshop will talk about the changing narrative and how it applies to today.
• Part 3: Into action: how can the synthetic compounds be infused into a meaningful parts of one's healing journey? The third and final part of the workshop will talk about how one can use synthetic compounds in a ceremonial way that is full of intention, ritual and respect. Whether you are a facilitator or a psychonaut this section will be full of practicality, methodology and reflections from the front lines of transformational psychedelic healing.

Come join Rebecca Wilkinson (LPC, LCPAT, ATR-BC, LCPAT) and Alyssa B. Gursky (LPC) as they teach an Art-Based Workshop for Practitioners.

Visiting Psychedelic Art Therapists Rebecca and Alyssa will be leading this hands-on workshop and share how to use concrete art techniques during different phases of the psychedelic process. Through interactive teaching, experiential exercises, and guided conversations with peers, you'll learn how to facilitate creative practices and talk about imagery in ways that help people find their own meaning in what they’ve made (rather than us projecting our interpretations onto their work). We'll pay special attention to a "process over product" approach. No creative or artistic background needed. In order to receive CECs for this workshop, you must be present for the entire event.

This workshop is designed for psychedelic and non-psychedelic therapists, guides, integration specialists, and mental health practitioners who want to bring art-therapy informed practices into their work. Valuable for art therapists looking for specialized applications and non-art therapists who wants to feel confident safely and ethically incorporating creative tools within their scope of practice.

“The inner language of the psychonaut is visual and spatial. It knows through seeing, through watching the dance of forms and the play of colors.” - Ann Shulgin

Walk Away With:

• A clear sense of how to use the creative process throughout psychedelic healing work.
• Progressive exercises to designed for different stages of psychedelic work.
• Skills for talking about imagery and respectfully helping amplify what it means to the person who made it.
• Opportunities to engage in the creative process yourself and to explore your own imagery.
• Useful handouts with specific strategies for implenting creative practices in your work with clients.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will differentiate among psychedelic preparation, psychedelic administration and psychedelic integration in psychedelic therapy.
• Attendees will list 3 clinical applications for working with clients using psychedelics.
• Attendees will list 3 ways that art and art therapy have played a role in the world of psychedelics.
• Attendees will list two art/expressive therapies interventions for the preparation and integration phases of psychedelic works.

Note: There are very limited parking spaces on the farm. We encourage carpooling or taking Lyft/Uber to the farm (you can park at Bart). If you drive, you'll need to purchase a parking pass before arriving (under "Add-ons").