Psychedelic Assisted Therapy at the End of Life
Learn more about the emerging evidence based practice of psychedelic assisted therapy for the dying.
Participants will discuss legal efforts to open up rights for the dying to safely receive psychedelic assisted therapy, learn more about the research supporting these efforts, and meet with a leading death doula trainer who organizes conferences on this topic.
All are welcome!
*Image from New Johns Hopkins Study Explores Relationship Between Psychedelics and Consciousness published by Johns Hopkins Medicine.
*Access to this class is free for those who are subscribed to the Institute Circle Community. All are welcome to join today and benefit from weekly support circles, meditations, writing circles, and access to all Institute courses/workshops.
Description
All are welcome to join Amy Wright Glenn, Kathryn Tucker, and Reverend Bodhi Be in an exploration of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy at the End of Life.
We gather online on the following three Thursdays 7-9pm EST.
April 9
April 23
May 7
Psychedelic assisted therapy for the dying is an evidence based practice gaining momentum in death doula circles and beyond. Legal advocates work to open doors for the dying who choose to benefit from this form of palliative care which can reduce existential distress in the face of death.
Death doulas, and all who work with the dying, can better serve their communities when they are more clearly informed with regard to the implications this research and advocacy.
This is a 6-hour online course centered upon the following:
*Four hours of in-depth teaching/discussion with Institute founder/director Amy Wright Glenn of Michael Pollan’s NYTimes #1 bestselling book How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
*Hour-long interview with Kathryn Tucker, a leading legal expert in the field of expanding the legal rights of the dying to include the palliative use of psychedelic support
*Hour-long interview with the Reverend Bodhi Be, a well known death doula trainer and spiritual guide who recently hosted a conference in Maui on the topic of psychedelics and dying.
All participants will need to read How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
Modules are recorded. One need not join live to complete this course.
Join us in this pioneering study as we exploring an emerging evidence based practice to support the dying.
Kathryn L. Tucker (KT) ~ (she/her) ~ is recognized as a national leader in spearheading creative and effective efforts to promote improved care for seriously ill and dying patients. She has served as Director of Advocacy at a variety of nonprofit organizations including the National Psychedelics Association, the Completed Life Initiative, the End of Life Liberty Project, the Disability Rights Legal Center, Compassion & Choices, and Compassion in Dying. Tucker served as a founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Litigation and Advocacy Committee. She is a Founding Member of the Initiative on Psychedelics and Healing of the Global Wellness Institute. Learn more about her legal practice. Kathryn has been practicing yoga for more than 25 years. She received extensive training with Katerina Wen (8 Limbs/Seattle), Jivamukti (New York), Yoga Tree (San Francisco), the Pearl and the Bhakti Shop (Portland). She took her teacher training at the White Lotus Retreat Center near Santa Barbara, CA, in 2009. Learn more about her yoga background.
Reverend Bodhi Be ~ (he/him) ~ is an ordained interfaith Sufi minister and teacher. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving, and has been offering community educational programs and trainings since 2006 in the fields of awakened living and dying and the care of the dying. Doorway Into Light operates Hawaii’s only nonprofit certified green funeral home and a storefront on Maui, ‘The Death Store’, an educational resource center and store providing education, support and counsel on a donation basis.
Bodhi is a funeral director, an end-of-life and bereavement counselor and educator; a hospice volunteer; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; a speaker and workshop leader. He has trained hundreds of doctors, nurses, hospice staff, social workers, ministers, chaplains, therapists, artists and lay people in the spiritual, psychological, emotional and logistical care of the dying and care of the dead, and for four years has taken dozens through a certification program for death doulas. For many years Bodhi collaborated with Ram Dass, a neighbor, mentor and friend, who served on Doorway Into Light’s Board of Directors. Bodhi is continuing the work Ram Dass helped birth in the fields of conscious dying in America. Learn more.