Discovery Sessions

05/05/2024

We can’t believe it’s been 2 weeks since 🍄✨ First round of photos are up on our page! 📸 (link in bio)

05/05/2024

04/18/2024

Day 1 is here!! 🌞😎 It’s a gorgeous 70 degrees at in San Francisco and folks are already beginning to trickle in. Attendees make sure to check out the venue map at www.discoverysessions.org/faq so you know where to be. See you on the inside! 🗺️🍄

04/17/2024

Last chance for tier 2 tickets! Prices increase tomorrow to $225 for two-day and $125 for single day. Don’t wait! See you tomorrow bright and early. 🌞🍄🌿🚲🧠

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04/17/2024

Step into the MushWomb 🍄🫖: our on-site tea lounge, hosted by and .maroney. The lounge will offer a zen space for attendees to ground, experience deeper connections, take a break from the hustle and bustle of the event, sip tea, experience breathwork, and more unique wellness offerings from 12-5pm each day of the conference. Swipe to see some incredible offerings!

To kick things off on Thursday, join Mikaela in a nine cup mushroom tea drinking ceremony with amanita mushroom, a facilitated 45 minute experience, accompanied by music and entheogenic plants and fungi.

On Friday at noon, learn what makes the difference between a clinical visit and a life changing experience with Xochitl Bernadette Moreno and AshEL Seasunz Eldridge of .amplified. Throughout human history people have created ways to ceremonialize key moments of life. Working with Entheogens aka psychedelics on their own can bring about deep transformation, however with a ceremonial intention and collaboration with the natural elements coupled with a connection to the spirit of the medicine, participants can have experiences that take them deeper, have more lasting effect and integrate more fully into their lives, how to relate to “Ancestral Medicine” if not BIPOC and more.

At 2pm Friday join us for a breath and sound experience facilitated by renowned sound healer and somatic practitioner, Eliza Maroney. This 30-minute workshop will offer participants a way to reset their nervous systems while remaining on site in the MushWomb Lounge.

Learn more and get your tickets at www.discoverysessions.org!!

04/17/2024

Introducing another Bay Area local, integrative therapist . Gwen has been learning and working in the mental health field for twenty years, exposed to the world of neurodivergence and innovative healing approaches at a young age. Growing up amongst the diversity within the Bay and gathering influential experiences and training from UCLA, NYU and various mental health settings, Gwen has honed her expertise in the specialty of Integrated Health.

Learn more about Gwen and find her on stage Thursday at 12pm, moderating the panel, Point of Entry: Clinicians and Guides 101 - Getting Started in Psychedelics Treatment.

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04/16/2024

Two more days! 🎉 While our programming schedule is stacked with a wide range of conversations, make sure to take a break and check out our outside vendor village on the patio and roof deck! 🌞

We’ve got dozens of incredible brands on-site serving up mushroom beverages, various psychedelic education, glass art, trip kits, assorted legal plant medicines, and more! Thank you to all of our vendors for sharing your gifts with our community! 🍄🌿

04/15/2024

Alleged to have produced “90% of the world’s LSD,” William Leonard Pickard is a former drug policy fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and deputy director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA. With two life sentences without parole, he served 20 years in maximum security federal prisons, and was released in 2020.

His book “The Rose of Paracelsus” - written in pencil while imprisoned - is published by Synergetic Press (Santa Fe/ London), and in Italian translation by Mondadori (Milan) His 1996 prediction of the fentanyl epidemic, and recommendations for prevention, were confirmed by the RAND Corporation in its seminal volume “The Future of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids.”

Currently he is a senior advisor for JLS Fund II LP and the Fireside Project. He is a research affiliate with Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center on Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Program on Law and Regulation.

Leonard has been denied a travel permit (again) so we are inviting him to sit with Mark McCloud and share a few stories of the crazy days gone by. An incredible fireside chat happening Thursday, April 18 at 1pm.

04/15/2024

Announcing another incredible session 🤩 Building Resilient Psychedelic Culture: An Exploration of Best Practices, Adverse Outcomes, and Harm Reduction in the Psychedelic Community

📅 Thursday, April 18, 10am

Annie Oak, co-founder of and the brings together a thoughtful panel about what makes a psychedelic community resilient. Designing social systems for sustainability requires planning for effective management, conflict resolution, harm reduction, participant engagement and succession. This panel will explore why these strategies are important and how they have been put into action by different communities.

Featuring Ariel Vegosen (), Karina Bashir, , and .

View our full schedule at www.discoverysessions.org/sessions, and get your ticket today!

04/15/2024

is the Founder of Divine Master Alchemy LLC and Divine Master University, a school for Entheogenic Cultural Literacy and Applied Naturopathic Medicine Research. She is a student of Baba Kilindi Iyi, and a disciple of Lama Mike Crowley. She is currently focused on writing several textbooks for her students including the Divine Master Alchemy Researchers Guide as well as assisting in the effort to study and preserve indigenous varieties of the psilocybin zapotecorum mushroom in the town of San Jose Del Pacifico, where her school physically is being built and descendants of the Zapotec people are still consuming the Psilocybin mushrooms at high dose.

📆 Friday at 10am Acacea will be presenting Entheogenic Mental Martial Arts: Two types of psychedelic mushrooms for a technological catalyst for internal spiritual alchemy and self-actualization.

This talk will capture the power of first hand experience inside of the strategy we build for surrendering to the psyche. Entheogens have a long history of being paired with specific martial arts, from African Martial arts to Aikedo and even have a reputation spiritually in the modalities of Aztec, Buddhist, Daoist and Vedic spiritual thought. However, the bridge between western psychedelic science and spirituality is just now being forged by a group of brave explorers on either side, uniting our western medical/psychological understanding with the experiences of ancient ritual, indigenous traditions and footsteps of our ancestors.

Acacea Lewis will uncover the hidden history of the internal, “subtle” Daoist martial arts of penetrating the “heart mind”, through poetic experience and mapping the link between our awareness and our ability to navigate the vast ocean of the infinite itself… regardless of what “dose” of mushrooms we take, to meet the great unknown. Acacea will discuss what process we undergo of becoming the “medicine” and utilizing two types of psychedelic mushrooms as a technological catalyst for internal spiritual alchemy and self-actualization.

Visit www.discoverysessions.org for more info!

04/14/2024

Guides Without Maps (Friday, April 19, 2pm) explores the lives and work of three West Coast medicine workers. Dayna West moderates this thoughtful look at the challenges and joys of this important work in psychedelic healing featuring Niko Summers (, ), Kat Kurner (), and Paul Ryder. Learn more at www.discoverysessions.org!

04/12/2024

Join us on Thursday, April 18 at 4pm for Bridging The Generational Divide: Wisdom-Keeping and Continuity Between the Generations.

Peter Vitale of leads a multi-generational investigation of what it means to be a wisdom keeper, exploring the transmission of lore to a new generation of psychedelic luminaries. Mikaela de la Myco (), Ismail Ali (, ) and Vince Kadlubek ( ), join this inspiring session.

View all sessions and get tickets today at www.discoverysessions.org!

04/11/2024

Another incredible female entrepreneur is joining us at DS! .maroney / is a multi-faceted healer, coach, and entrepreneur, guiding her clients into their most abundant chapters with passion and vigor. Known for her seamless weaving of multiple modalities, she integrates the wisdom of ta**ra, yoga, and science to lead workshops on integrative wellness from a poignant perspective. From breath work to sound baths, yoga, meditation, and beyond, Maroney has been known to grace stages at retreats, festivals, and conferences with her insights on the intersection of somatic awareness & human potential.

Not only will Eliza be moderating the Friday panel, Legally Tripping: Navigating Non-Psychedelic Gateways to Altered Consciousness, but she will be a hostess of our MushWomb Lounge alongside where she will be offering sound healing and breath work sessions for attendees to take a break from the busy-ness of the conference. Make sure to visit the MushWomb Lounge from 12-5pm on both Thursday and Friday for tea and reconnection! 🫖🧘🏽‍♀️🍄 Tickets available at www.discoverysessions.org.

04/11/2024

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Two day and single day tickets available at www.discoverysessions.org 🧠🍄

04/10/2024

We are super excited to announce this exclusive session happening one week from tomorrow!

🎙️Live Podcast with featuring Clandestine Chemist Steve Gill: The Debt Has Been Paid

📆 Thursday, April 18, 4-530pm

Join us for this incredible Discovery Sessions special presentation. Hamilton Morris has invited Steve Gill (A Clandestine Chemist’s Tale, Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia) to a unique live appearance to discuss his life story as a clandestine chemist. Steve is an unsung hero of the psychedelic underground with a harrowing tale of experimentation, production, and injustice. This will be a 90 minute LIVE RECORDING for Hamilton’s Podcast — **audience members will need to buy a ticket upgrade to access this session.** 100% of ticket upgrades will raise money for Steve and cover production costs.

There is limited capacity for this session so make sure to purchase your ticket ASAP! This will sell out.

04/09/2024

🌟 Featured Panel: The Looming Cost of Psychedelic Healthcare:
Challenges on the Frontiers of Psychedelic Medicine

📆 Thursday, April 18, 2pm

🎤 Speakers: , Arsalan Shah, , Elliot Marseille

💲 What will the future look like for equity and access on the frontier of psychedelic therapy? How can we ensure that marginalized communities will have access to the latest advances in treatment for addiction and depression? And who’s going to pay for it all?

Learn more about the speakers and check out all our sessions at www.discoverysessions.org/sessions !