The First Psychedelic Salon Edition with Dr. Rosalind Watts

Workshop, Dinner & Community Panel for Psychedelic Practitioners & Professionals

Tuesday, June 25, 2024
9.30 AM – 10.30 PM

Dr. Watts is a clinical psychologist, a mother, and a nature lover. Her work as the Clinical Lead for Imperial College London’s psilocybin trial has made her one of the most prominent voices and minds in the field of psychedelic research. She builds tools and structures to foster connectedness after psychedelic experiences, finding inspiration for their design from nature. Through all her work, Rosalind’s main learning has been that safe and effective use of psychedelics requires substantial integration support. As a result, she co-founded the UK’s first psychedelic integration group, ACER (‘Accept, Connect, Embody, Restore’) Integration – a global online integration community where participants follow a 13-month process together to connect more deeply to the self, others, and nature.

During the event, Dr. Watts offered a workshop where she invited participants to explore the relationship between nature connection, psychedelics, and community care. As eco-anxiety plagues our generation and the world faces serious humanitarian and climate crises, psychedelics are sometimes positioned as an answer. But what can we realistically expect from psychedelic care? What kind of frameworks for offering psychedelic care actually foster nature connection and contribute to significant improvements in mental and communal health?

During this workshop, Dr. Watts invited participants on a journey from clinical practice to nature connection, from the clinic into the forest. She provided her insights from working with psychedelics in a range of settings, explored best practices, and shared some of the major pitfalls and challenges she encountered as she started to work with these powerful substances. We invited Dr. Watts to share her visions for the future of psychedelics in the West, offer prompts for ethical self-inquiry, and share practices and exercises that can support (aspiring) psychedelic practitioners to embody a new paradigm of offering psychedelic care.

Learn more about the ACER integration cycle: https://acerintegration.com/

Learn more about Dr. Rosalind Watts: https://www.drrosalindwatts.com/