Kathleen Harrison

In the Big Picture, the fungi came first, and then the plants evolved, with their magnificent chemistry. Much later, we humans wove ourselves into their story. First tribal, then regional, and now global. We can look at this very long flow from distant past to far future, and consider where are we now.

This presenter’s talk will be delivered remotely via live stream or pre-recording.

Kathleen Harrison

This tender herb, known only from the mountains of southern Mexico, has a long-held persona and relationship to ritual. There, the Mazatec people of knowledge think of her as a being – tender, complex, and sometimes utterly confounding. One must learn to tend the plant, and the relationship to these powerful leaves. They can suddenly transport us beyond the beyond, or zoom in close to examine, with intimate clarity, one’s own origin.

This presenter’s talk will be delivered remotely via live stream or pre-recording.

Kayla Greenstien

Current psychedelic training and practice in Australia are shaped by transpersonal and spiritual frameworks that carry long-standing ethical concerns. This talk takes a critical feminist approach to understanding how these frameworks became uncritically embedded in clinical practice, and why this is a problem.