Talk to Oxford Psychedelic Society
My twenty-minute talk + Q&A for the Oxford Psychedelic Society this week covers aspects of:
Ayahuasca’s therapeutic potential
Working in therapy with those struggling to integrate or make sense of psychedelic experiences
Research findings so far
Update on my current research
Researching the intersection of plant medicine and people as experience, via the scientific method of phenomenology
My talk starts around 1:33:41.
Speaking during the lockdown
More information
The first virtual Oxford Psychedelic Society event of Trinity Term focusing on ayahuasca, a shamanic plant-medicine brew from the Upper Amazon.
Speakers
✨Kerry Rowberry (Shamanism in the UK) - 18:45 Kerry has been researching curandeirism (a traditional healing system from Latin America) in the UK, part-time since October 2011. Her research provides insight into various ayahuasca rituals, and accompanying treatments, and how they have found their way into the UK. She uses post-colonial principles, while exploring the phenomenon in terms of Deleuze and Guattari's principles of the rhizome. She founded the Psychedelic Society of Birmingham where she hosted monthly talks and random events until the end of 2018.
✨Sam Gandy (the psychedelic-ecophilic connection) - 1:02:48 Sam has a PhD in ecological science from the University of Aberdeen and an MRes in entomology from Imperial College London. He is a writer, speaker, amateur mycologist and has a lifelong love of nature and wildlife. He also has experience of working in the psychedelic field, as a past scientific assistant to the director of the Beckley Foundation, and currently as a collaborator with the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. His research is focused on the capacity of psychedelics to (re)connect our increasingly disconnected species to nature, for the potential betterment of humanity and the biosphere at large.
✨Adam Knowles (Ayahuasca and Psychotherapy) - 1:33:45 Adam is an existential psychotherapist researching the Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca and its potential to help those in the UK with insight and well-being. Undertaking a PhD on the phenomenology of ayahuasca experience at Birkbeck, Adam works with biomedical experts at King’s College London (Institute of Psychiatry), and embedded indigenous experts from the Ayahuasca Foundation in Peru.
