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      Ayahuasca: Salvation or Destruction? New talk.
A 20-minute talk exploring the promise and peril of ayahuasca — drawing on personal experience and research with participants in Peru. What happens when healing meets uncertainty in psychedelic practice?
 
      
      Joining Regent’s University London as a Member of Staff
After a couple of years as a visiting lecturer, I’ve joined Regent’s University London as staff. A step toward deeper roots in a place that’s become home to my teaching and thinking.
 
      
       
      
      Training weekend: queering 🏳️🌈 relationships
I joined the first residential weekend of Rainbow Relationships’ Open & Polyamorous Relationships CPD—a powerful, practical training for therapists. It was rich, real, and deeply connecting.
 
      
      Hosting the SEA Symposium on Psychedelics
I co-facilitated June’s SEA Symposium on Altered States & Open Doors—an evening of existential inquiry into psychedelics and psychotherapy. The discussion was wide-ranging, grounded, and very much alive.
 
      
      ReSPCT Guidelines published today in Nature article
I contributed an existential perspective to the ReSPCT guidelines, published today, drawing from my PhD research on ayahuasca and years of psychedelic integration work.
 
      
      Researching ayahuasca experiences: a phenomenal challenge
Here’s a 30 minute talk about my ayahuasca research to the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College, London.
 
      
      Presentation: ayahuasca experiences and neuroscience
A recent talk about my ayahuasca research for the MERLiN lab at Birkbeck, University of London.
 
      
      Interview: LGBT Humanists history
Humanists UK interviewed myself and Richard Unwin about memories of our work with LGBT Humanists around 2008–2015.
 
      
      Ethics lecture: psychedelics at the University of Exeter
I recorded a contribution to the PG Cert in “Psychedelics, philosophy and culture” (online) at the University of Exeter, the UK's first academically certified programme in psychedelics studies.
