The Psychedelic Salon presents Camille Sapara Barton
Workshop, Dinner & Community Panel on Tending Grief for Psychedelic Practitioners & Professionals
Saturday November 2, 2024
9.30 AM – 10.30 PM
Join us for an enlightening event with Camille Sapara Barton, author, artist, and somatic practitioner committed to fostering networks of care and sustainable futures.
Camille’s work intersects embodied social justice, grief, harm reduction, and psychedelic care, providing accessible and profound insights. At this event, Camille will draw from their acclaimed book, “Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community,” to guide participants through the intricate relationship between grief, psychedelics and community. During the workshop Camille will weave their experiences, practices and insights into the fabric of psychedelic care and explore how grief can show up for those embarking on a psychedelic journey, and how psychedelic practitioners can create containers that can hold grief ethically, and with grace and sensitivity. Camille introduces important perspectives for psychedelic care practitioners, advocating for harm reduction and cultural change. During the community panel, we will explore why tending to grief is necessary when thinking about introducing psychedelics into the mainstream, identifying gaps in the current infrastructure and imagining what a wholesome psychedelic future could actually look and feel like.
During the workshop you will learn:
- How grief impacts us outside of the context of bereavement.
- Why grief is taboo in the West.
- The Dagara approach to grief views it as a generative force.
- Why somatics can support tending grief and how to weave this in when working with clients.
- Strategies to support people with grief in preparation, during a psychedelic experience as well as in integration.
- How grief relates to harm reduction. Some strategies to reduce the harms that arise when people aim to bypass or numb their way through grief.
- Embodied tools and rituals to locate grief in the body and metabolise it.
- How grief relates to cultural humility and some strategies to work more compassionately with people from a range of backgrounds.
Through the workshop and a community panel, Camille will share practices and wisdom on ethically managing grief in psychedelic contexts, emphasizing the importance of community support. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to explore the transformative power of grief in a community of practitioners at the second edition of the Psychedelic Salon!
Learn more about Camille Sapara Barton and their new book: www.camillesaparabarton.com
Photography by Thomas Meijer.
