“Psychedelic Culture 2025” is scheduled for March 29-30 at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco.
When the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines convenes “Psychedelic Culture 2025“ next March, the two-day conference “will continue Chacruna’s tradition of exploring cutting-edge themes that are largely absent from the mainstream psychedelic conversation.”
Overlapping with Chacruna’s main initiatives, the themes will include indigenous reciprocity and decolonial dialogues; psychedelic justice; protection of sacred plants and cultural traditions; and voices from the Global South.
The conference is scheduled for March 29-30 at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. The theater is a co-op led by women in the traditional Latin neighborhood of San Francisco.
Psychedelic Culture 2025 will feature three simultaneous tracks, offering a wide range of panels and experiential opportunities. Topics will include:
- Indigenous voices
- Indigenous reciprocity
- Biocultural conservation
- Religion and psychedelics
- Holding mindful ceremony
- Legislation reform, law and policy
- Racial equity and access
- Queering psychedelics
- Women in psychedelics
- Veteran leaders in psychedelics
- Disabled populations and psychedelics
- Perspectives from the Global South
- Critical reflections on psychedelic science, including psychedelic-assisted therapy, sexual abuse, touch and ethics
- Dialogues between neuroscience and shamanism
Chacruna also will offer a space for participation in music, dance, art circles, rapé (tobacco) ceremonies and affinity meet-up groups.
“Chacruna’s interdisciplinary conferences are well-known for bringing diverse voices together, combining intellectual vision and rigor, community, activism, heart and soul,” the institute says. “In the midst of the so-called psychedelic renaissance, it is more important than ever to promote dialogues between scientists and communities who have been truly involved with these medicines, to have knowledge about the proper ways to use and steward them.”
Chacruna started producing large-scale conferences in Mexico in 2015, and then yearly spring conferences on the West Coast since 2018.