Rosalind Watts, PhD
Founder, ACER Integration
ACER Integration
n/a
London, England
This presentation will discuss the construct of ‘connectedness to self, others and world’, why it is so crucial at this time, and consider how psychedelic therapy can boost it. However, in order for a sense of connectedness to last, we need to nurture the social and environmental container that participants come from and return to after a session. It is not enough to hope that psychedelic medicines will transform our toxic culture, because if we don’t start to build a more compassionate infrastructure, psychedelics could just amplify rather than heal the problems at our collective roots. Psychedelic therapists can play a role in supporting the development of community connectedness: not only is this important for optimizing and safeguarding psychedelic therapy, it will also make it cheaper, and more scalable, sustainable, and regenerative.