Mind Medicine Australia Geelong Chapter Opening & Trivia Night

Sadly, with the announcement that Victoria's snap lockdown has been extended we are pivoting Thursday night’s Geelong Chapter Opening & Trivia Night to an online event.

Virtual doors open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start.

Please BYO food, drinks etc! :)

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Mind Medicine Australia is thrilled to announce our Geelong Chapter Opening Night at 6:30pm on Thursday July 22nd at Bells Beach Brewing Shed 2/22 Baines Cres, Torquay VIC 3228.

This event is an important opportunity to engage in a discussion about psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies for mental illness broadly, and what Mind Medicine Australia and other local organisations are doing here in Australia.

The event will open with a presentation and introduction to Mind Medicine Australia from Dr Jossy Antony, Dr Alana Roy and Geelong Chapter Leader Tommy Moore.

Following the presentation, enjoy an entertaining trivia game with prizes from our sponsors!

Trivia will conclude at 8.30pm with final winners announced, and an opportunity to ask questions and network with fellow chapter members and Mind Medicine Australia staff.

This event is free of charge. However, bookings are essential. MMA is a charity organisation, and we welcome your generous donations to ensure we can achieve our critical mission of making these treatments available and accessible to all Australians in need.

Please click here to make a tax-deductible donation.

Event Details:

Venue: Bells Beach Brewing - Shed 2/22 Baines Cres, Torquay VIC 3228
Date: Thursday 22nd of July 2021
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Tickets: FREE - Food and beverage will be available for purchase at the venue.

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More about Mind Medicine Australia

Mind Medicine Australia is Australia’s leading not-for-profit organisation working towards the use of medicinal psilocybin and MDMA-assisted therapies to treat a range of mental illnesses. Mind Medicine Australia exists to help alleviate the suffering caused by our accelerating mental illness epidemic, through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients.

Psychedelic-assisted therapies offer enormous potential in providing a meaningful alternative to current treatments for mental illness. PTSD is a debilitating condition that affects tens of millions of people worldwide, with many more trauma victims diagnosed with comorbid conditions such as depression, anxiety and eating disorders. In recent clinical trials, MDMA has been shown to produce outstanding remission rates, restoring patient safety and self-agency even for individuals who have suffered with PTSD for many years, and for whom many treatments have failed.

Results from Phase 2 clinical trials over the past decade have been so compelling that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States recently designated MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a ‘Breakthrough Therapy’. This designation highlights the FDA’s anticipation that these therapies may offer substantial advantage over current treatments. If forthcoming Phase 3 results confirm these treatments are effective, MDMA-assisted treatment of PTSD may become a prescription medicine as early as 2022 in some jurisdictions.

The wave of clinical psychedelic research and regulatory support is rapidly building, with psychedelic-assisted treatments also becoming available through Special Access Schemes around the world.

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More about the presenters:

Dr Jossy Antony
FRANZCP MBBS

Jossy Antony is a General Adult Psychiatrist who works full time and runs a private Mental health clinic called Reflect Health in Geelong. He completed Membership from UK and Fellowship from Australia in Psychiatry. He started his clinic last year with the intention to provide a holistic nurturing space for mental health assessment and treatment. He is passionate about his own inner journey. He has a special interest in ADHD but wants to expand into trauma as well after he was inspired by Bessel Van der Kolk and Gabor mate. He also has an interest in Nutritional Psychiatry. He is currently doing a Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy through Mind Medicine Australia.

Dr Alana Roy
Ph. D Psychology, B. A Social Work (MHSW)
Practice Manager

Dr Alana Roy is the Practice Manager of Mind Medicine Australia, a Psychologist and a Social Worker. She is also a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and teaches and supervises students across multiple universities.

Alana has also worked in frontline sexual assault services for 13 years providing therapy to children, women and men working with victims, police and forensic doctors. She is passionate about emotion focused therapy, EMDR and trauma informed practices. Although these therapies are effective for a range of trauma survivors many victims continue to live with unbearable pain.

The reality is that there is an epidemic of sexual abuse in our world and we require radical treatments to tackle this global issue. Alana's own experiences of trauma and burnout lead her to seek out legal psychedelic assisted treatment overseas. It truly was 10 years of psychotherapy (insights) in one night. However, it wasn't 10 years of change in one night. Alana came back to Australia and was unable to locate a professional to help integrate these experiences. She realised that Australia needed a skilled mental health sector to help support victims who use psychedelics to overcome their trauma to process and integrate these transformative and healing experiences. Australia is falling behind in the global psychedelic renaissance.

Since this treatment, Alana has dedicated her life to researching and developing clinical services in the field of psychedelic and plant medicines. Mind Medicine Australia is a ground-breaking NGO advocating for the responsible use of psychedelic-assisted therapies.

Alana hopes to help make history in supporting legislative and policy change so that victims and all people with mental health issues have access to these medicines.

Tommy Moore
Geelong Chapter Leader

Exercise Scientist specializing in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology

Educator at BioLAB - Bioscience Education Centre, Podcast Host at Mind Medicine Australia and Mind Body Plants.

Passionate mental health advocate and educator on a quest to investigate optimal human and planetary health through science and philosophy.

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About Medicinal MDMA

Psychedelic-assisted therapies offer enormous potential in providing a meaningful alternative to current treatments for mental illness. PTSD is a debilitating condition that affects tens of millions of people worldwide, with many more trauma victims diagnosed with comorbid conditions such as depression, anxiety and eating disorders. In recent clinical trials, MDMA has been shown to produce reliable clinical improvements, restoring patient safety and self-agency even for individuals who have suffered with PTSD for many years, and for whom many treatments have failed.

Results from Phase 2 clinical trials over the past decade have been so compelling that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States recently designated MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a ‘Breakthrough Therapy’. This designation highlights the FDA’s anticipation that these therapies may offer substantial advantage over current treatments. If forthcoming Phase 3 results confirm these treatments are effective, MDMA-assisted treatment of PTSD may become a prescription medicine as early as 2021 in some jurisdictions.

The wave of clinical psychedelic research and regulatory support is rapidly building, with experts forecasting the availability of psychedelic-assisted treatments in the US and EU within the next 2 to 5 years, subject to positive clinical outcomes in large trials that are currently underway.

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Many thanks to Mind Medicine Australia's Geelong Chapter for facilitating this event. Click here for more details or to join the Chapter!

Please support psychedelic research and therapy development by donating to Mind Medicine Australia. The recent pandemic has exacerbated Australia’s mental health epidemic and these treatments have the potential to cure millions of people who are suffering.

We are a small organisation doing big things – we need your support.

Please click here to make a tax-deductible donation.