Workshops

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WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1)
10:00 – 11:30    Ryan "Ghenigho" Rich
Getting Back to the Root - Iboga, Bwiti and the West

In this workshop, I will give a broad overview of Iboga and the Bwiti tradition. This will also include some direct and relatable Bwiti teachings/practices that can immediately be applied to one's life. Furthermore, we will discuss the modern status, future ethical concerns, and some professional and spiritual considerations, like sustainability, reciprocity, and the expansion of the Bwiti tradition beyond Gabon. It is common for people in these spaces to come up with ideas on their own without engaging with the community. I am excited to use this opportunity to engage and discuss these important topics with a group.

Break
12:00 – 13:30    Maria Papaspyrou
Constellating the Psychedelic Field - NOW FULL

Systemic constellations is a experiential practice that can support us in utilising our embodied knowing, to become better aware of the deeper layers and hidden dynamics of a given system, be it family, culture, organisation or any other frame of belonging. As the psychedelic field is undergoing deep change and encounters many of our already well established and often ailing systems, constellations can be a useful tool in entering these new relational fields with greater systemic understanding and preparedness. In the time we have we will do a brief opening of a theme that will be brought to us by someone from the Breaking Convention support team.

Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Adam Wilder
Wheel of Consent and Psychedelic Therapy

When we interact with a client, partner, co-worker or family member, are we doing what they want us to do, or what they allow us to do? What’s the difference and why does it matter? Our professional work is not immune from the power of our often unconscious desires, be they for the physical contact we may not have in our private lives, the validation we secretly seek or perhaps the need to be experienced as wise and powerful.

Whilst we can mitigate the impact of these desires with professional protocols and training, our current models of consent and touch dynamics are often limited because they lack a clear map for tracking the fundamental element: “who is this action for?” In this workshop, we will explore the Wheel of Consent model, practice some of the somatic exercises to embody it and explore the “shadows” – areas when we drift into taking action for our own benefit, outside of consent.

We will see how the model gives us insight into the desires we suppress in ourselves (and awareness of how to get them met consensually in our private lives), skills to support clients in choosing the contact they want during sessions, and a framework to develop our professional integrity. We will finish with a Q&A and discussion on how to apply this model to Psychedelic Therapy and training.

Break
17:00 – 18:30    Carl Hayden Smith and Kenneth Shinozuka
Museum of Consciousness

The Museum of Consciousness contains exhibits by a multitude of artists, mavericks and consciousness explorers who are keen to produce a reliable altered state of consciousness in a live audience, just with sound. There are over 100 artists in the Museum including Jon Hopkins, Lisa Lashes and Tom Middleton.

We are also interested in measuring the effects of the samples on subjective experience. Therefore, the Museum also includes an interactive component in which participants rate their experience of the sample along various phenomenological dimensions, such as their awareness of their body and the richness of their sensory perception.

Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1.5)
10:00, 12:00, 15:00 & 17:00    Catherine Andreu, Valerie Bonnelle & Stu Denison
Ripple Virtual Reality Numadelic Experience

The aim of this workshop is to allow participants to experience an immersive group-based VR scenario, named Ripple, developed by Dr. David Glowacki and his team. Ripple is inspired by a Tibetan Buddhist meditation (Tonglen, which means giving and receiving) to evoke a state of numadelic ego-dissolution and compassionate inter-connectedness. The term “numadelic”, coined by Glowacki et al., combines the Greek words pneuma, meaning ‘breath’, ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’, and delein, meaning ‘to reveal’ or ‘to manifest’; thus a numadelic experience may be thought of as ‘spirit-manifesting’. Ripple is an immersive journey for 4-6 participants who will be connected using Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets, and the complete experience will last around 45-60 minutes. There will be up to 4 facilitators present, to allow the workshop to be delivered multiple times during the conference. Go to the Reception desk in The Sanctuary to sign up.

Workshop is full.
Close

WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 2)
10:00 – 11:30    No workshop
Break
12:00 – 13:30    Karin Silenzi de Stagni
The Art of Connection, Tools for the Psychedelic Sitter

This workshop combines movement exercises and interactive activities to help participants develop their empathy muscle and connect with the emotional landscape of the psychedelic caregiver.

The intention is to empower sitters to provide better support to those in altered states of mind. The workshop is designed to challenge participants to interact and deepen their sense of relating to others, allowing them to feel more confident in their ability to provide care.

Suitable for both experienced caretakers and beginners, this workshop provides valuable insights and skills for anyone interested in becoming a psychedelic caregiver

Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Natasha Anand Boojihawon
Holistic Tools For Psychedelic Journeying & Integration - Discussion & Experiential

We shall explore the potential for integrative tools to support preparation for psychedelic journeying, navigation and integration and experience a guided, embodied “journey”. We shall explore the integrated technologies of full-spectrum yoga (pre-colonisation) - Kriya, Pranayama, Mantra, Chi practices and movement. As well as Internal Family Systems and other energy medicine tools.

The journey is an opportunity to experience a naturally induced "psychedelic" journey into the inner realms. You can experience a "beyond-trauma" informed practice and access states of healing and consciousness expansion. This is a unique, authentic experience. Bring a yoga mat and cushion if you can; we shall have spares.

Break
17:00 – 18:30    Duncan Still, Jamie Pike, Catherine Zollman
Co-creating a Psychedelic Practitioner Forum – exploring and responding to your needs

As facilitators ourselves, we have noticed there is not a great amount of supervision, collaboration or support in becoming the best we can possibly be. There is however, a lot of burn-out, some poor practice, undoubtedly many missed opportunities for growth and learning. We feel a co-created Peer-support and Peer Supervision Forum could go a long way to meeting the needs of Guides, Sitters, Facilitators and other Psychedelic Practitioners.

We invite you to join us in visioning what this Forum could be, what and who it might consist of and how it might run.

Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1)
10:00 – 11:30    Dave Lee
Introduction to Energy Magic

The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with a direct experience of sensed energy, using Connected Breathwork to generate an ASC in which we clearly sense flows of energy (chi, prana etc) in our bodies and immediate environment. Participants will learn how to entrain the energy sensations and project the energy from the hands to heal physical ailments. The workshop will involve: an introduction to Connected Breathing, together with health and safety considerations; Connected Breathwork practice; energy entrainment practice; energy healing practice.

Break
Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Seed SistAs
The Witches & Their Flying High Lubrication - a 21st Century production

Do you talk to plants? We certainly do and some of them literally will not shut up! Come and hang out with two super-stars of the plant world, the Solanacea SistAs.Meet the Hot and Sassy Carolina Reaper-Sol and the lunar temptress Davina Moonflower. Prepped to bend your ear about all manner of things, they are keen to tell tales of witches, shamans, medicine folk of the globe, their more ethereal practices and what it all means anyway.

These two have plenty to get off their chests when it comes to the current fashion of eliminating the nightshades from the diet – they are quite bemused!

Meet the fruity Queens of the Solanaceae and learn all about how an ancient maligned herbal preparation (the witch's flying ointment) has opened the doors to the reunification of cultivation, health and magic! Come and smell, observe and taste on your tongue some of the most infamous plants to grow on British soil in this entertaining and ever so zany performance workshop....

Break
17:00 – 18:30    Melissa Warner
Cyberdelics - Technology to Nurture the Psyche

The word cyberdelic is derived from "cybernetic" a self-navigating system and "psychedelic” to mind-manifest. True to the name, cyberdelics are contemplative experiences that support personal growth, supported by immersive digital imagery. Like cyberdelics, this workshop creates a potential space of exploration between fantasy and reality.

A space to learn, reflect and grow. This will also be an artful experience with bespoke guided imagery and sound to support our exploration. We will playfully explore scientific realms to enhance self-knowledge. Through guided contemplation, we will open a liminal space in which past, present, and future may more consciously emerge.

Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1.5)
10:00, 15:00 & 17:00    Catherine Andreu, Valerie Bonnelle & Stu Denison
Ripple Virtual Reality Numadelic Experience

The aim of this workshop is to allow participants to experience an immersive group-based VR scenario, named Ripple, developed by Dr. David Glowacki and his team. Ripple is inspired by a Tibetan Buddhist meditation (Tonglen, which means giving and receiving) to evoke a state of numadelic ego-dissolution and compassionate inter-connectedness. The term “numadelic”, coined by Glowacki et al., combines the Greek words pneuma, meaning ‘breath’, ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’, and delein, meaning ‘to reveal’ or ‘to manifest’; thus a numadelic experience may be thought of as ‘spirit-manifesting’. Ripple is an immersive journey for 4-6 participants who will be connected using Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets, and the complete experience will last around 45-60 minutes. There will be up to 4 facilitators present, to allow the workshop to be delivered multiple times during the conference. Go to the Reception desk in The Sanctuary to sign up.

Workshop is full.
Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 2)
10:00 – 11:30    Liz Lilley
Psychedelic Expansive Breathwork

Breathwork is commonly used in retreats and ceremonies as an opening to a psychedelic experience, in this introductory workshop we will be exploring expanding consciousness for growth and healing, through conscious, connected breathwork. Many ancient cultures see the breath as a connection to spirit, god or life energy, the breath is with us every moment of our lives, when we harness its power through intentional use it can have a powerful and profound effect.

You may experience deep rest, gentle release of trauma or blocks, improved immunity and cognitive flexibility, clarity and insights and mystical experiences.

Break
12:00 – 13:30    Stuart Verity
Movement and stillness, meditation and dancing within the Brazilian Ayahuasca lineages

1. What are the subtle effects on the body, mind and awareness when lying down, Sitting or Standing while in an Entheogenic meditative state?

2. How are the modalities of sitting, standing and coordinated line dancing used by the Brazilian Meistrei Irineu Ayahuasca/Daime lineages such as Santo Daime, Santo Alto?

3. How are the more freestyle, archetypal and spinning dances used during Santo Daime spirit incorporation works and Umbandaime Gira ceremonies?

4. How meditation in lying, sitting and standing, as well as moving meditations such as Tai Chi or Qi/Nei Gong movements can help as a daily practice for integrating higher Entheogenic insights and states into permanent traits.

Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Li Chun Marina, Lin
Chinese tea ceremony combining Japanese Butoh as a DMT experience

This workshop explores the intersection of traditional Chinese tea ceremony, shamanism, and Japanese Butoh, showcasing the connection between ritual, movement, sensory cultivation, and consciousness expansion. The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with an immersive experience, activating senses to experience what “The mind is exoteric, the body is esoteric” means through Butoh.

Participants will first participate in a traditional Chinese tea ceremony. Then engage in Butoh, a magnified dream state. Where one surrenders his or her ego and lets the body become like a husk, allowing the body to express the unknowable, to simulate a DMT experience.

Break
15:00 – 16:30    Susannah Darling Khan
A Moving Harvest

In this workshop, master embodiment teacher Susannah Darling Khan invites you to harvest and integrate what is most important to you from your personal journey with the conference. Through a playful dancing movement adventure (no dance experience necessary) attune to hear the whisper of your soul through your moving interoceptive body, your feeling heart and your wild mind.

We will complete the session with Susannah’s heart opening deep listening dojo. This workshop is designed to support the flourishing of both you as an individual and this evolving community.

Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1)
10:00 – 11:30    Ryan "Ghenigho" Rich
Getting Back to the Root - Iboga, Bwiti and the West

In this workshop, I will give a broad overview of Iboga and the Bwiti tradition. This will also include some direct and relatable Bwiti teachings/practices that can immediately be applied to one's life. Furthermore, we will discuss the modern status, future ethical concerns, and some professional and spiritual considerations, like sustainability, reciprocity, and the expansion of the Bwiti tradition beyond Gabon. It is common for people in these spaces to come up with ideas on their own without engaging with the community. I am excited to use this opportunity to engage and discuss these important topics with a group.

Break
12:00 – 13:30    Maria Papaspyrou
Systemic Constellation to open an enquiry that concerns the psychedelic field

To open an enquiry that concerns the psychedelic field, anything from ethics to mainstreaming, legalisation etc, as a way to explore systemic forces and hidden dynamics.

Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Adam Wilder
Wheel of Consent and Psychedelic Therapy

When we interact with a client, partner, co-worker or family member, are we doing what they want us to do, or what they allow us to do? What’s the difference and why does it matter? Our professional work is not immune from the power of our often unconscious desires, be they for the physical contact we may not have in our private lives, the validation we secretly seek or perhaps the need to be experienced as wise and powerful.

Whilst we can mitigate the impact of these desires with professional protocols and training, our current models of consent and touch dynamics are often limited because they lack a clear map for tracking the fundamental element: “who is this action for?” In this workshop, we will explore the Wheel of Consent model, practice some of the somatic exercises to embody it and explore the “shadows” – areas when we drift into taking action for our own benefit, outside of consent.

We will see how the model gives us insight into the desires we suppress in ourselves (and awareness of how to get them met consensually in our private lives), skills to support clients in choosing the contact they want during sessions, and a framework to develop our professional integrity. We will finish with a Q&A and discussion on how to apply this model to Psychedelic Therapy and training.

Break
17:00 – 18:30    Carl Hayden Smith and Kenneth Shinozuka
Museum of Consciousness

The Museum of Consciousness contains exhibits by a multitude of artists, mavericks and consciousness explorers who are keen to produce a reliable altered state of consciousness in a live audience, just with sound. There are over 100 artists in the Museum including Jon Hopkins, Lisa Lashes and Tom Middleton.

We are also interested in measuring the effects of the samples on subjective experience. Therefore, the Museum also includes an interactive component in which participants rate their experience of the sample along various phenomenological dimensions, such as their awareness of their body and the richness of their sensory perception.

Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1.5)
10:00, 12:00, 15:00 & 17:00    Catherine Andreu, Valerie Bonnelle & Stu Denison
Ripple Virtual Reality Numadelic Experience

The aim of this workshop is to allow participants to experience an immersive group-based VR scenario, named Ripple, developed by Dr. David Glowacki and his team. Ripple is inspired by a Tibetan Buddhist meditation (Tonglen, which means giving and receiving) to evoke a state of numadelic ego-dissolution and compassionate inter-connectedness. The term “numadelic”, coined by Glowacki et al., combines the Greek words pneuma, meaning ‘breath’, ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’, and delein, meaning ‘to reveal’ or ‘to manifest’; thus a numadelic experience may be thought of as ‘spirit-manifesting’. Ripple is an immersive journey for 4-6 participants who will be connected using Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets, and the complete experience will last around 45-60 minutes. There will be up to 4 facilitators present, to allow the workshop to be delivered multiple times during the conference. Go to the Reception desk in The Sanctuary to sign up.

Workshop is full.
Close

WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 2)
10:00 – 11:30    No workshop
Break
12:00 – 13:30    Karin Silenzi de Stagni
The Art of Connection, Tools for the Psychedelic Sitter

This workshop combines movement exercises and interactive activities to help participants develop their empathy muscle and connect with the emotional landscape of the psychedelic caregiver.

The intention is to empower sitters to provide better support to those in altered states of mind. The workshop is designed to challenge participants to interact and deepen their sense of relating to others, allowing them to feel more confident in their ability to provide care.

Suitable for both experienced caretakers and beginners, this workshop provides valuable insights and skills for anyone interested in becoming a psychedelic caregiver

Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Natasha Anand Boojihawon
Holistic Tools For Psychedelic Journeying & Integration - Discussion & Experiential

We shall explore the potential for integrative tools to support preparation for psychedelic journeying, navigation and integration and experience a guided, embodied “journey”. We shall explore the integrated technologies of full-spectrum yoga (pre-colonisation) - Kriya, Pranayama, Mantra, Chi practices and movement. As well as Internal Family Systems and other energy medicine tools.

The journey is an opportunity to experience a naturally induced "psychedelic" journey into the inner realms. You can experience a "beyond-trauma" informed practice and access states of healing and consciousness expansion. This is a unique, authentic experience. Bring a yoga mat and cushion if you can; we shall have spares.

Break
17:00 – 18:30    Duncan Still, Jamie Pike, Catherine Zollman
Co-creating a Psychedelic Practitioner Forum – exploring and responding to your needs

As facilitators ourselves, we have noticed there is not a great amount of supervision, collaboration or support in becoming the best we can possibly be. There is however, a lot of burn-out, some poor practice, undoubtedly many missed opportunities for growth and learning. We feel a co-created Peer-support and Peer Supervision Forum could go a long way to meeting the needs of Guides, Sitters, Facilitators and other Psychedelic Practitioners.

We invite you to join us in visioning what this Forum could be, what and who it might consist of and how it might run.

Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1)
10:00 – 11:30    Dave Lee
Introduction to Energy Magic

The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with a direct experience of sensed energy, using Connected Breathwork to generate an ASC in which we clearly sense flows of energy (chi, prana etc) in our bodies and immediate environment. Participants will learn how to entrain the energy sensations and project the energy from the hands to heal physical ailments. The workshop will involve: an introduction to Connected Breathing, together with health and safety considerations; Connected Breathwork practice; energy entrainment practice; energy healing practice.

Break
12:00 – 13:30    Ahnjili ZhuParris
Do-It-Yourself N-of-1 trials

The current gold-standard design in clinical research is the randomized group clinical trial. However, the majority of patients are ineligible for or unable to access such trials. As these clinical experiments generate only average treatment effects, these findings may not be applicable to individual patients. Many patients want to know: which treatment is likely to work better for me? N-of-1 trials, also known as single subject trials, refers to a trial in which an individual person serves as the research subject.

These trials provide the most direct route to estimating the effect of a treatment on that individual. The combination of today’s public interest in personalized treatments and the increased availability of reliable measurement technologies has reduced the barriers to conducting N-of-1 trials. This workshop will focus on how to design, conduct, and analyze Do-It-Yourself N-of-1 trials.

Participants will learn what type of smartphone apps, wearables, and questionnaires can be used to monitor one’s physical and mental health. Further, they will learn what type of software would enable them to process, visualize, and analyze their data. %p{:id => 'oneTabDesc'} Finally, the workshop will include a discussion on how to assess the quality of their datasets and the insights generated from their analysis.

The workshop will be interactive so the content can be tailored to the needs of the participants.

Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Seed SistAs
The Witches & Their Flying High Lubrication - a 21st Century production

Do you talk to plants? We certainly do and some of them literally will not shut up! Come and hang out with two super-stars of the plant world, the Solanacea SistAs.Meet the Hot and Sassy Carolina Reaper-Sol and the lunar temptress Davina Moonflower. Prepped to bend your ear about all manner of things, they are keen to tell tales of witches, shamans, medicine folk of the globe, their more ethereal practices and what it all means anyway.

These two have plenty to get off their chests when it comes to the current fashion of eliminating the nightshades from the diet – they are quite bemused!

Meet the fruity Queens of the Solanaceae and learn all about how an ancient maligned herbal preparation (the witch's flying ointment) has opened the doors to the reunification of cultivation, health and magic! Come and smell, observe and taste on your tongue some of the most infamous plants to grow on British soil in this entertaining and ever so zany performance workshop....

Break
17:00 – 18:30    Melissa Warner
Cyberdelics - Technology to Nurture the Psyche

The word cyberdelic is derived from "cybernetic" a self-navigating system and "psychedelic” to mind-manifest. True to the name, cyberdelics are contemplative experiences that support personal growth, supported by immersive digital imagery. Like cyberdelics, this workshop creates a potential space of exploration between fantasy and reality.

A space to learn, reflect and grow. This will also be an artful experience with bespoke guided imagery and sound to support our exploration. We will playfully explore scientific realms to enhance self-knowledge. Through guided contemplation, we will open a liminal space in which past, present, and future may more consciously emerge.

Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 1.5)
10:00, 15:00 & 17:00    Catherine Andreu, Valerie Bonnelle & Stu Denison
Ripple Virtual Reality Numadelic Experience

The aim of this workshop is to allow participants to experience an immersive group-based VR scenario, named Ripple, developed by Dr. David Glowacki and his team. Ripple is inspired by a Tibetan Buddhist meditation (Tonglen, which means giving and receiving) to evoke a state of numadelic ego-dissolution and compassionate inter-connectedness. The term “numadelic”, coined by Glowacki et al., combines the Greek words pneuma, meaning ‘breath’, ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’, and delein, meaning ‘to reveal’ or ‘to manifest’; thus a numadelic experience may be thought of as ‘spirit-manifesting’. Ripple is an immersive journey for 4-6 participants who will be connected using Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets, and the complete experience will last around 45-60 minutes. There will be up to 4 facilitators present, to allow the workshop to be delivered multiple times during the conference. Go to the Reception desk in The Sanctuary to sign up.

Workshop is full.
Close
WASSON WORKSHOPS (WASSON 2)
10:00 – 11:30    Liz Lilley
Psychedelic Expansive Breathwork

Breathwork is commonly used in retreats and ceremonies as an opening to a psychedelic experience, in this introductory workshop we will be exploring expanding consciousness for growth and healing, through conscious, connected breathwork. Many ancient cultures see the breath as a connection to spirit, god or life energy, the breath is with us every moment of our lives, when we harness its power through intentional use it can have a powerful and profound effect.

You may experience deep rest, gentle release of trauma or blocks, improved immunity and cognitive flexibility, clarity and insights and mystical experiences.

Break
12:00 – 13:30    Stuart Verity
Movement and stillness, meditation and dancing within the Brazilian Ayahuasca lineages

1. What are the subtle effects on the body, mind and awareness when lying down, Sitting or Standing while in an Entheogenic meditative state?

2. How are the modalities of sitting, standing and coordinated line dancing used by the Brazilian Meistrei Irineu Ayahuasca/Daime lineages such as Santo Daime, Santo Alto?

3. How are the more freestyle, archetypal and spinning dances used during Santo Daime spirit incorporation works and Umbandaime Gira ceremonies?

4. How meditation in lying, sitting and standing, as well as moving meditations such as Tai Chi or Qi/Nei Gong movements can help as a daily practice for integrating higher Entheogenic insights and states into permanent traits.

Lunch
15:00 – 16:30    Li Chun Marina, Lin
Chinese tea ceremony combining Japanese Butoh as a DMT experience

This workshop explores the intersection of traditional Chinese tea ceremony, shamanism, and Japanese Butoh, showcasing the connection between ritual, movement, sensory cultivation, and consciousness expansion. The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with an immersive experience, activating senses to experience what “The mind is exoteric, the body is esoteric” means through Butoh.

Participants will first participate in a traditional Chinese tea ceremony. Then engage in Butoh, a magnified dream state. Where one surrenders his or her ego and lets the body become like a husk, allowing the body to express the unknowable, to simulate a DMT experience.

Break
15:00 – 16:30    Susannah Darling Khan
A Moving Harvest

In this workshop, master embodiment teacher Susannah Darling Khan invites you to harvest and integrate what is most important to you from your personal journey with the conference. Through a playful dancing movement adventure (no dance experience necessary) attune to hear the whisper of your soul through your moving interoceptive body, your feeling heart and your wild mind.

We will complete the session with Susannah’s heart opening deep listening dojo. This workshop is designed to support the flourishing of both you as an individual and this evolving community.

Close