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Agenda for Public Forum Day



October 1 (Saturday)

8:15 AM – 5:10 PM

* 6 Hours of Continuing Education *

8:15

Registration Opens

8:50

Welcome 

PPF

9:00

Opening / Blessing

Geraldine Manson

9:10

The other pandemic and a call to action: New awareness and new tools for responding to the worsening mental health and substance use crisis.

Dr. Crosbie Watler

9:30

Psychedelic Association of Canada: Updates of psychedelic ecosystem in Canada

Dr. Pamela Kryskow

9:45

MAPS Canada: Research, Education, and Visioning

Dr. Rielle Capler

10:00

Patient Care and Access:
Physician-Nurse-Therapist Teams, and Navigating Health Canada

Dr. Valorie Masuda

10:15

Roots to Thrive: Overview, Community of Practice, Snuneymuxw Nation

Emmy Manson
Todd Haspect

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

Redefining “Medicine”: Bringing psychedelics into the mainstream for real healing

Dr. Devon Christie*
Dr. Jean Paul Lim

11:30

Drumming My Way Home: Indigenous knowledges on the Path to Transformation

Dr. Georgina Martin

11:50

Psilocybin and Neurogenesis: A Narrative for the Entourage Effect with Microdosing

Paul Stamets

12:30

Community Lunch

1:30

Chacruna Canada

Dr. Erika Dyck*

1:45

Accessing Legal Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy in Canada: The Past, Present and Future

Yasmeen Sadain

2:00

Patients’ Voices: Stories of Healing (Preparation and integration, set and setting, therapy and community)

4 – 6 Patients
Moderator: Tarzie McLean

3:00

Coffee Break

3:20

Psychedelics and Schizophrenia – The Untold Story

Mark Haden

3:30

Reducing Harm With Use of Psychedelics

Bryce Koch

3:45

Fireside Project:
Providing Real-Time Support When Time Doesn’t Seem Real

Joshua White*

3:55

Psychedelic Ethics & Safety:
Moving forward at the highest integrity

Tarzie McLean
Dr. Pamela Kryskow

4:15

Maximizing Psychedelic Learning Systems:
Honoring multiple ways of knowing through standardized education programs in Canada

Dr. Shannon Dames

4:30

Resources and Pledges

Dr. Pam Kryskow

4:50

Closing Blessing

Geraldine Manson

5:00

Closing Remark

PPF

5:10

End