Mind Medicine Australia FREE Webinar: Navigating the Rollercoaster: Integrating Non-Ordinary States with IFS and Embodied Awareness with Licia Sky (USA) and Crystyl Mo (USA)

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Join our upcoming FREE Webinar with Licia Sky (USA) and Crystyl Mo (USA).

Topic: Navigating the Rollercoaster: Integrating Non-Ordinary States with IFS and Embodied Awareness

In this discussion, Crystyl and Licia will each introduce their approaches to integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness, and then have a conversation about their intersecting work.

When we are exposed to high levels of stress and danger, especially in a chronic way, we may develop habits of numbing and shutting down overwhelming sensations and feelings in order to survive and keep going in the highly stressful moments. But chronic numbing and shutdown leave us at a loss as to how to live fully in safety.

Psychedelics give us access to the vastness of our innermost feelings, memories, and associations. They can be liberating, exhilarating, terrifying, painful, joyous, and transformational.

Among therapists and medically oriented professionals, there has been a tendency to attribute the healing solely to the medicine ingested, but preparation, processing, and integration of these experiences are of vital importance for healing. Attunement, setting, intention setting, and the integration process create the powerful container that makes deep psychedelic work possible.

A grounded, attuned presence accompanying the journeyer can make for smooth transitions from state to state. Helping the person stay inward and not rush back to “normal” is crucial for recalling meaningful moments of the experience and integrating and understanding them.

Licia Sky guides practices that incorporate parts work with embodied awareness, voice, movement, and touch to enhance awareness in the present moment, to pay attention to our senses, to notice subtle inner shifts, and to recognize the habitual ways we ignore our physical responses and reactions.

Crystl Mo is an integration and Internal Family Systems specialist. Internal Family Systems is a powerful modality for psychedelic integration because it radically welcomes the difficult material that can arise in medicine journeys: parts of ourselves that we have buried because we may have seen them as too bad or too painful.

EVENT DETAILS

• DATE: 16th July 2025
• TIME: 11:55am (AEST) for 12:00pm start, finishing at 1:15pm
• DURATION: 75 minutes (incl Q&A)
• LOCATION: Online - a link will be emailed to you with the viewing details

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Licia Sky (USA)
Co-founder of the Trauma Research Foundation

Licia Sky is a co-founder of the Trauma Research Foundation with Dr Bessel van der Kolk.

She is a somatic educator, artist, singer-songwriter, and bodyworker who works with traumatized individuals and trains mental health professionals to explore parts work, mindful meditation, movement, theatre exercises, psychodrama, writing, psychedelic integration, and voice as tools for attunement, healing, and connection. For the past decade, she has been teaching expanded awareness in workshops to clinicians and lay people around the world.  She is a regular teacher for the Esalen Institute, Cape Cod Institute, Mind Medicine Australia and the Ketamine Training Centre.

Crystyl Mo (USA)
Somatic IFS Coach

Crystyl Mo is an informed practitioner of somatic Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients radically welcome their emotions and experiences, and integrate non-ordinary states of consciousness. She incorporates trauma-informed modalities including IFS, Hakomi, Compassionate Inquiry, and somatic experiencing.

Crystyl assists Bessel Van der Kolk and Licia Sky in their trauma education workshops, and sees clients in the US, Europe and China. Previously a journalist covering food, art and travel for 20 years based in China, she is currently an Academy Chair for the global dining awards, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Due to her experience and dual hometowns of Shanghai and Cambridge, she often coaches clients with Asian-American backgrounds and those in the F&B and creative industries.

Crystyl believes that an important foundation of the therapeutic alliance is that clients feel safe and welcomed to share authentically, and that they know their practitioner is committed to their own inner work, a companion on the path toward freedom and awareness. 

Crystyl tells people curious about healing through non-ordinary states that the medicine is the smallest, although very precious, key to progress. The real work is in the integration of the content that is accessed: putting the insights into practice in our daily lives and relationships. 

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MEDICINAL PSYCHEDELIC TREATMENTS

Psychedelic-assisted treatments 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.

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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Mind Medicine Australia does not encourage or facilitate illegal use of psychedelics or plant medicines. MMA focus is focused on clinical and legal use only supported by the emerging science and legislative processes. Mind Medicine Australia reserves the right to record and publish webinars on various social media platforms. You agree that you will not discuss any names, locations or specific details of illegal use of psychedelics both verbally or via any written forms of communication via Mind Medicine Australia social media platforms i.e. Facebook, Instagram or zoom private and public chat forms during the webinar. Breaches of these guidelines may result in not being able to participate in the event. We thank you for support and cooperation on these matters. Mind Medicine Australia is focused specifically on the clinical application of medicinal psilocybin and medicinal MDMA for certain mental illnesses.