Events

Upcoming events in English
(please note that the dates and times for upcoming webinars are tentative and subject to change)

 

Webinar | Tuesday September 9th 2025, 9AM UTC+3
Hannah Douglass
(please note the unusual time of the day!)

 

Webinar | Tuesday October 7th 2025, 6PM UTC+3
Mendel Kaelen: A Journey with a Thousand Faces – The Role of Music in Psychedelic Therapy

 

Webinar | Tuesday October 21th 2025, 6PM UTC+3
Mike Jay: Mescaline – A Global History of the First Psychedelic

 

 

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The 2nd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics in November - Psykedeelit 2023 The 2nd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics What is (a) psychedelic? November 23–24, 2023 Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland In collaboration with Åbo Akademi University and the Emerging Technologies Lab of Tampere University, we are organizing Psykedeelit 2023 – The 2nd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics, in Turku, Finland, on November 23–24, 2023.… Read more
Webinar June 12th 2023. Erika Dyck – Psychedelic Psychiatry: What can we learn from the past? - In 1956, psychiatrist Humphry Osmond first used the word ‘psychedelic’ to describe the feelings and sensations associated with LSD. The term, conceived during his correspondence with the literary genius Aldous Huxley, was soon added to the English lexicon. In spite of the popular connotations now connected to the word, Osmond developed the term out of… Read more
Webinar May 25th 2023. Jeffrey Guss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Psychedelic Therapy - What do psychedelics have to offer for dealing with existential crises? What are the correspondences between psychotherapy and shamanic healing? How can psychoanalytic perspectives enrich our understanding of psychedelics, and vice versa? We’ll be spending time with these questions on Thursday, May 25th at 6PM UTC+3 in a Zoom presentation by psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher and… Read more
Psykedeelit 2023 Psykedeelit 2023 – The 2nd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics - Psykedeelit 2023 The 2nd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics What is (a) psychedelic? November 23–24, 2023 Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland In collaboration with Åbo Akademi University, we are organizing Psykedeelit 2023 – The 2nd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics, in Turku, Finland, on November 23–24, 2023. This year’s conference focuses on the specific theme… Read more
Webinar February 28th 2023. David B. Yaden: Psychometric Perspectives on Psychedelic Research - What is a psychedelic experience like? That is, what does it feel like and what other kinds of experiences are similar? And how can such a subjective event be measured? These are some of the questions studied by David B. Yaden, PhD, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine working in The Center… Read more
Webinar July 4th. Simon Ruffell – Ayahuasca: from the jungle to the lab - -> Buy ticket from our web store! <- Ayahuasca is a psychoactive plant concoction that’s traditionally been used in Amazonian tribal rituals. Recently, research on its possible positive impacts on mental health has been gaining increasing attention. Use of the brew has been studied in both laboratory and traditional settings. Psychiatrist Simon Ruffell is one of the… Read more
Webinar March 10th 2022. Ido Hartogsohn: The set and setting complex: Understanding the role of context in psychedelic research, therapy, and beyond - -> Buy ticket from our web shop! <- The set and setting principle, which states that context shapes experiences with psychotropics, is the most central, recurring concept in psychedelic science and therapy. It is considered crucial to interpreting the results of psychedelic science, and to optimizing the outcomes of psychedelic therapy. How does set and setting… Read more
Webinar Nov 11th 2021. Peter Gasser: Lessons learned from doing therapy with LSD and MDMA - Legal psychedelic therapy is mostly available in research contexts. Switzerland is an exception to this rule: In addition to research projects, the country grants individual treatment permissions for psychedelic therapy. Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Peter Gasser has extensive experience with these forms of therapy: At the turn of the 90s, he had special permission from the… Read more
Zoom webinar Sept 25th 2021. David E. Nichols: Overview of Medicinal Chemistry Research on Psychedelics - When psychedelics were criminalized at the turn of the 1970s, most research on them also came to a halt. Yet, some avenues of study still remained open. Veteran of psychedelic research, pharmacologist and chemist David E. Nichols, PhD, has been researching psychedelics since 1969 – over the course of seven decades. On Saturday, September 25th,… Read more
Zoom webinar Aug 30th 2021. MDMA therapy for the treatment of trauma: A clinical trial therapist’s perspective - MDMA-assisted psychotherapy has received a lot of attention in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but what exactly happens in an MDMA therapy session? Why is working with PTSD challenging, and how might MDMA help? What is the “inner-directed” approach utilized in clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy? On Monday, August 30th 6PM UTC+3, the… Read more