Psychedelic Preparation and Integration: exploring multiplicity, existential realms, and harm reduction. @ The Sporulation Art Show in the Gong

"To fathom hell and to soar angelic, take a pinch of psychedelic" Humphry Osmond 

Join Dr Lani Roy and Mark Baxter for an evening of psychedelic preparation and integration. Lani and Mark will take a deep dive into psychedelics informed by their wisdom of transpersonal psychology, internal family systems, attachment and trauma informed theories. Together we will explore the realms of psychedelics and how the multiplicity of self can  manifest in the medicine. We will dive deeply into the pearls and perils of ego death and the dissolution of identity. We will explore ways in which one can engage with mystery and  peak experiences which can lead to relational transformations the stabilisation of insight. 

We will explore specific questions, risks and factors when assessing a psychedelic facilitator and seek to empower participants to be informed and aware of where to get ethical advice and support.

We will share specific metacognitive skills which can  support participants to reduce harm and increase their capacity to navigate altered states of consciousness. Creative, visionary and ritual process will  be explored; demonstrating how we can navigate symbolic, existential and psychedelics realms and integrate these experiences into embodied wisdom.

Dr. Lani Roy

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, PSYCHOLOGIST, SOCIAL WORKER, ADVOCATE

Dr Alana (Lani) Roy is the Founder of The Signs of Life Psychology, Associate Research Fellow at Swinburne University, and The Community Outreach Member of Australian Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Practitioners. She is a psychologist, social worker, and therapist and has spent the last 15 years working in mental health, suicide prevention, trauma, sexual abuse, family violence, and the disability sector.

Lani has worked with borderline personality and dissociative identity disorder in various roles in the community, such as rape crisis centres with victims of ritual abuse; childhood and adult sexual assault; supporting women in the sex industry; and survivors of human trafficking. She specialises in complex trauma, disabilities, and dual diagnosis, and working with the Deaf community by providing therapy in Auslan sign language. Lani also specialises in preparation and integration in the field of psychedelic and sexual abuse survivors, particularly with Ayahuasca and the vegetelista dieta process.

For more information about her personal journey towards healing and psychedelics please click here.

Lani provides a range of educational and group-based psychedelic programs. She is a board-approved psychology supervisor and provides psychology, social work, and biomedical student placements and supervision across Deakin, Monash, Victoria University, Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM), Entheogenesis Australia (EGA) and the Mental Health Foundation. Lani coordinates the psychedelic and plant medicine Mental Health Professional Network (MHPN). Lani has taught as an Australian teacher on Psychedelics Today Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and other Australian Psychedelic programs.

Lani is currently apprenticing under Saj Ravi from The Psychedelic Somatic Institute of Psychotherapy in America for cannabis and ketamine assisted psychotherapy.

Lani has begun providing Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP) for clients accessing ketamine treatment in Australia with partnering clinical organisations. She is currently working on a range of research trials focusing on psilocybin and Ayahuasca.

Mark is a psychologist and the Director of The Psychology Spot - a group private practice in Wollongong, NSW. After many roles within human service organisations over two decades, Mark is now most passionate about psychotherapy for people recovering from trauma and adverse childhood experiences.

Mark engages with people in a collaborative, accepting, compassionate and non-judging spirit. This is combined with his skills in trauma-specific, attachment focussed, somatic and mindfulness based approaches. This include ongoing training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR), and a history of teaching in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

Mark has also had training in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT). Although this therapy isn’t yet legally accessible in Australia outside a clinical research setting, many people are still pursuing this method of healing in community settings for their own mental health. Mark can provide harm minimisation support to people needing to integrate such experiences; or, a space to think carefully about suitability, safety and preparation.

Mark is a board-approved clinical supervisor and finds supporting other psychologists on their journey one of the most enjoyable parts of his work.

As a Director on the board of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi), Mark gets to volunteer with a team dedicated to improving the psychology profession for the benefit of its practitioners and the community that needs them.