Public Education on Psychedelics

Psychedelics and Identity

Over the past year, SoundMind has begun to put together a diverse team of individuals who have benefited enormously from psychedelics to shape their sexuality or gender identity and want to lead the charge in this regard.

What does this look like? It can look like going into a medicine journey and realizing you identify as gay. Maybe going through a journey and realizing you’re questioning your gender identity. Or perhaps it is realizing you’re interested in a different form of relationship structure than you are in currently.

When this happens, having a supportive environment around you to exit and emerge from the journey is of utmost importance.

SoundMind is designing retreat protocols to be used in groups to help explore these aspects of personal identity and training facilitators looking to specialize in this area. This includes learning how to support others in gender transitions, relationship changes, or other ways to move forward in their lives that are different than their current life. We are also creating educational materials for clinicians to support these transitions or explorations.

If you are interested in supporting education or the care of LGBTQIA individuals at SoundMind, please consider donating to us.

Solidarity Series

The Solidarity Series is an initiative launched by us here at SoundMind Project, aimed at providing access to wellness information and therapy to marginalized groups in Philadelphia and beyond.

This free monthly speaker lineups took place from June 2020 – June 2021, with a particular focus on mental and cognitive health, alternative medicine, and psychedelics. All donations related to this series went towards providing educational material and psychotherapy to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and COVID-19 essential workers in need. Additionally, SoundMind has ongoing scholarships available to BIPOC for educational courses (SoundMind Learning Series) and sliding scale for psychedelic psychotherapy.