Events/Activities

• It's helpful for your members to be able to rely on at least one recurring event each month.

• Create guidelines around acceptable behavior for each type of event for your members

Event Ideas:

Educational Events

• Introduction to psychedelics

• History of psychedelics

• Bringing various leaders in to do a workshop

• Bringing a known researcher to give a talk

• Have someone share a particular story or journey

• Harm reduction education events

  • Set and setting

  • Dose

  • Testing your drugs

  • Best practices, do’s and don’t’s

  • Fireside project (623-473-7433); 3pm-3am free psychedelic peer support. Includes an affinity program for callers to be able to choose a volunteer that comes from a similar background

  • Zendo resources

  • Dancesafe

  • Drug interactions; spirit pharmacist

  • Mindmedicine Australia

  • Sussex Partnership

  • Drug testing kits

  • Narcan certification with local fire department

  • CPR certifications

  • Handing our Narcan/nalaxone

  • How to get your friends out of a bad trip

  • Manual of psychedelic support

Academic Events

• Creating opportunities for dialogue with academics

Integration Circles - How to run your own

• Arguably the bread and butter of psychedelic societies

• Can create different circles for different needs

  • BIPOC circles

  • Women circles

  • Queer cirlces

  • Mens circles

  • Therapeutic Use circles

  • Substance use recovery circles

  • Tam integration - accessible course on creating and hosting an integration circle

  • Zendo and MAPS resources

  • Katherine MacLean training program on how to lead an integration circle

Other circles that are psychedelically informed

• Mens and womens circles

• BIPOC circles

• Trans and nonbinary circles

• Spontaneous non ordinary states - manic episodes, psychotic breaks, kundalini experiences

Fundraising Events

• Reaching out to bars to have an event with drink specials

• Psychedelics tend to attract artists, you can put on an open mic or art event and have all proceeds going to the society

• Swag/merch - make tshirts, beanies with your logo

• Give Butter - like a go fund me for 501c3s and other official organization

• Grant writing

Journey Events

• Cannabis Ceremonies

  • Part of the journey cohort, preparation, experience, integration

• Ecstatic Dance

• Cacao Ceremonies

Regular meet and greet

• Potlucks / Picnics

Community Service Events

• Great way to demonstrate to the general public what a psychedelic society is. Also a good way to get out of our echo chamber

  • Cleaning up trash in a park together

  • Preparing meals that get shipped to people in need - good way to build community

  • Building git bags for houseless, or children in the foster care system

Book Clubs

Documentary Screenings

Conferences

• Multiple days

• Requires funding

• Requires a large space

• Yoga events

  • Requires a teacher

  • An excellent healing tool to pair with psychedelics

Other Events

• Table at other non-psychedelic events to expand the circle

• Lots of societies offer their members to host and lead an event that inspires them.

  • Create the tools for our volunteers to run an event.

  • Empower them to run with it

  • Have a team to support them

  • Have an events committee for people to run events by them

• Members of societies just want to hang sometimes with no agenda too.

• Regular town halls

  • To hear people's concerns and needs

  • Specifically helpful for organizations working on political campaigns

• Creative workshops

  • People are regularly creating together on a project, sometimes one individual project and sometimes a group project.

  • This helps create community and communication amongst members

• Community members may also feel inspired to create their own events through your society, and your society can act as a platform for them to express themselves and create subcommunities.

• Its valuable to have a set of agreements for how these events occur so that all leadership is on the same page.