Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Risks, Rewards and a Roadmap for Hope

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Join this FREE, 75-minute online webinar to gain access to insights and learn about the future of psychedelic-assisted therapy in Australia.

Psychedelics-assisted Therapy: Risks, Rewards and a Roadmap for Hope

With Peter Hunt AM, Nigel Denning and Dr. Tra-ill Dowie

This session will offer address the following key points:

• A system at breaking point due to fundamental constraints
  
• Changing Public and Professional Attitudes towards psychedelics 
• Psychedelics in Psychiatry - Going full circle 
• Rewards for patients and clinicians in embracing these tools
• The model we are proposing / A roadmap for sensible, ethical and cautiously optimistic progress
• Key Risks and how to carefully manage 
• The cost of inaction
• How to join and lead the movement (CPAT)

WEBINAR SESSION

Date: Monday 2nd May 2022
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm (incl Q&A) (AEST)

The presentation WILL BEGIN AT 6:00pm.

Location: Online. A link will be emailed to you with the viewing details.

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More about the presenters

Peter Hunt AM
B.Com, LL.B
Founder & Chair of Mind Medicine Australia

Peter Hunt AM is the chair of Mind Medicine Australia, and one of the nation's leading experts on integrating psychedelic therapies into the medical system for the treatment of mental health. 

He co-founded Mind Medicine Australia with his wife Tania De Jong AM and for the last three years they have helped develop the ecosystem in Australia, to safely and ethically re-introduce psychedelic therapies for the treatment of mental illness. 

Peter's philanthropic foundation contributes significantly to advancing this cause on behalf of all Australians through supporting Mind Medicine Australia.

Nigel Denning
MA, MPsych
Head of Faculty and Managing Director, Mind Medicine Institute

Nigel Denning is a Counselling Psychologist with 30 years of experience in the mental health sector.  He is the Managing Director and co-founder of Integrative Psychology and the Mind Medicine Institute.

Nigel’s expertise covers developmental trauma, institutional abuse, family violence, attachment disorder, relationship therapy and advanced concentration meditation.  He works with individuals, couples, families, groups and organisations.  Nigel has been involved in therapy and court reporting on several hundred cases from the Royal Commission into Childhood Institutional Sexual Abuse.  Nigel is a former Family Violence Coordinator for Relationships Australia. He has conducted research at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, under the supervision of Professor Kelsey Hegarty on male perpetrator typologies. For over 10 years Nigel facilitated group psychotherapy for male perpetrators of family violence.  Nigel is an expert in trauma. 

Nigel has a passion for group psychotherapy having taught Irvin Yalom’s existential humanistic group psychotherapy.  Nigel has conducted many thousands of hours of group therapy across a range of formats including couple’s repair groups, mindfulness groups, trauma recovery groups and transpersonal groups.

Nigel has a life-long curiosity about the deep structure of the human psyche viewed from multiple different disciplines.  He gained a master’s degree in English Literature from Monash University pursuing his curiosity about how the human mind was expressed historically through literary form.  In his late teens and early twenties, Nigel’s passion for poetry and the novel, led him to perform live poetry.  In the formative stage of his professional life, Nigel studied Divinity at the Melbourne Theological College, at the University of Melbourne.

Nigel has extensive experience with psychedelic work internationally.  He began working with altered states of consciousness 35 years ago when he was introduced to Holotropic Breathwork through the guidance of Alf and Muriel Foote.  Twenty-five years ago, Nigel began to work with Dr Stanislav Grof, one of the leading pioneers in the clinical application of psychedelics.  Nigel co-founded the world’s first Spiritual Emergency Centre based on Grof’s work, in partnership with Tav Sparks, Director of Grof Transpersonal Training in North Carolina.  He was also lucky to meet Dr Albert Hoffman at a workshop organised by Grof at HR Geiger’s Museum/Gallery in Gruyere Switzerland. Nigel has also trained with the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and successfully completed their clinician qualification. Nigel is passionate about educating clinicians into the potential of non-ordinary state work when done ethically and skillfully.

Nigel has studied with some of the world’s leading clinicians including Dr Daniel P. Brown, Dr Daniel Siegel, Dr John and Julie Gottman, Dr Sue Johnson, Michael White, Professor Pieter Rossouw and more recently Professor Anthony Bateman from the Anna Freud Centre in London.  Nigel has always sought to learn from the experts in their field with his interest moving most recently to metacognitive therapies and mentalizing practice.  In recent years, he has also developed an interest in cult exiting and has worked with Dr Steven Hassan on approaches to therapeutic recovery from mind control.  

Nigel has presented at numerous conferences and events around the world and presents lectures at tertiary institutions.  He is a former National Treasurer of the College of Counselling Psychologists and, as a Victorian state committee member, spent 10 years presenting professional development seminars for his peers. Nigel has also been inducted into the Buddhist Kagyu and Nyingma lineages by Tulku Rahob Rinpoche and into the Bon lineage by Geshe Sonam of Menri Monastery. He has an established meditation practice in the Bon rDzogs Chen tradition.

Dr Tra-ill Dowie

Dr Tra-ill Dowie is the Head of the Faculty of Psychotherapy at Ikon Institute Australia. Dr Dowie is the Chair of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) Panel for Trauma Standards & Practice. Dr Dowie is a practising psychotherapist, supervisor and public speaker.

Dr Dowie’s academic life and public lectures cover a broad range of interdisciplinary topics that relate to the human condition: psychiatry, psychotherapy, trauma, continental philosophy, philosophy of mind, anthropology, health and wellbeing, and human optimisation.

He holds dual PhDs, receiving a PhD in Psychiatry from Monash University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

Dr Tra-ill Dowie
PhD
Psychotherapist and Head of the Faculty of Psychotherapy at Ikon Institute Australia

Dr Tra-ill Dowie is the Head of the Faculty of Psychotherapy at Ikon Institute Australia. Dr Dowie is the Chair of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) Panel for Trauma Standards & Practice. Dr Dowie is a practising psychotherapist, supervisor and public speaker. Dr Dowie’s academic life and public lectures cover a broad range of interdisciplinary topics that relate to the human condition: psychiatry, psychotherapy, trauma, continental philosophy, philosophy of mind, anthropology, health and wellbeing, and human optimisation. He holds dual PhDs, receiving a PhD in Psychiatry from Monash University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne.

More about Mind Medicine Australia and medicinal psychedelic-assisted therapy:

Mind Medicine Australia is Australia’s leading not-for-profit organisation working on 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 in Australia, through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients.

Unlike current treatments such as anti-depressants, which only manage the illness and can have nasty side effects, psilocybin and MDMA assisted therapies have been scientifically proven to be a safe and effective cure for anxiety, depression, end-of-life stress, addictions and PTSD after just a short treatment program. These medicines are also currently being researched for dementia, eating disorders, OCD and a number of other conditions. Both medicines have been granted Breakthrough Therapy Status by the FDA in the USA to fast-track their approval. This designation is only given to medicines which may prove to be vastly superior to existing treatments.

At Mind Medicine Australia we are dedicated to helping the now global movement to spread this awareness and ensure these medicines are available via the medical system. Please watch and share our 2 minute animation to find out why psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy needs to be available to those who are suffering.

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Disclaimer

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 (for example facebook, instagram and 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.