Psychedelic Program Series

Panel 3

 Addressing Violence in the Psychedelic World Part 2: Healing from Community Harm 

The video recording is now available!

Moderated by: Leia Friedman M.S.

Panelists: Camille Barton, Britta Love, Kufikiri Imara, Andy Izenson

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As a follow up to Panel 1, this panel discussed the ways that our psychedelic community can deal with, and heal from, abusive dynamics. Many are under the illusion that a community built upon healing is exempt from these patterns, which is a dangerous assumption. How can we bring awareness in acknowledging the realities of the community? How then can we support a compassionate process to address this harm? It’s easy to treat the perpetrators of abuse with the same violent methods of punishment that their behavior was born out of. How can we hold people accountable in a compassionate way?

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Our Moderator

Leia Friedman, M.S., loves to connect the dots as a teacher, writer, coach and permaculturist. Her work focuses on phenomena related to the human experience of consciousness through the lens of social and environmental justice.

Leia is the host of “The Psychedologist: Consciousness Positive Radio,” cofounder of Boston Entheogenic Network, a facilitator of integration work, and an embodiment advocate. Her belief in humanity's inherent need for communication and connection has led Leia to train in mediation and restorative justice approaches for addressing harm in the community. While she loves working with people, Leia's relationship with nature has been a moving force in her personal and professional journey. Her long-range intention is to support a center that integrates regenerative land management with holistic and visionary healing modalities.

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Our Panelists

Britta Love is a writer, activist and healer currently completing a research-based memoir about healing and awakening through conscious sexual practice and psychedelic ritual, based on her Consciousness Studies thesis completed at Goddard College. She became an advocate for sex worker’s rights as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in 2007 and has been a writer and activist pushing for the decriminalization of drugs and sex work ever since. Britta has been certified as a somatic sex educator at the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education, has trained with Betty Martin’s School of Consent and recently became a certified circle keeper with the Planning Change Restorative Justice Certification Program under the tutelage of Kay Pranis.Britta has spoken at the Psymposia Conference at Amherst College, Breaking Convention at the University of Greenwich, and Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics as well as presented or facilitated workshops at the New School, the Assemblage, Caveat, Tarot Society, the Gratitude Festival, Catland Books and the Alchemist’s Kitchen in New York City. Her writing has been featured on Medium, Alternet, The Raw Story, Reality Sandwich, and Chacruna and she has been interviewed for WGDR as well as podcasts like Psychedelics Today. 

Website: www.BrittaLoved.com

Facebook, Instagram or Twitter: @brittaloved

Kufikiri Hiari Imara - Born and raised in (Huichin territory of the Ohlone people) currently known as Oakland, California. Both his parents growing up were active in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements of San Francisco of the 1960’s & 70’s. He grew up in a home and a community environment that strongly emphasized social awareness and social responsibility. He is one of the early members of the Entheogen Integration Circle, a support group in NYC with a focus on marginalized communities within the psychedelic community. He works with Sacred Garden Community in Oakland, aiding him in deepening his craft as a facilitator working with ethnically diverse communities. As the former head of the DNO committee on Outreach, Education, Access, & Integration, he worked to encourage broad access to education and the opportunities to profoundly change one’s life for the better.  Paying special attention to Oakland’s ethnically diverse and marginalized communities, he is actively working with individuals and organizations doing the work in these communities for a better tomorrow.

Camille Barton is an artist, writer and somatic educator, working on the intersections of wellness, drug policy and transformative justice. Camille is the director of the Collective Liberation Project, and the creator of a trauma informed approach to diversity and decolonisation work that centres the body and lived experience. 

Camille is an advisor for MAPS, ensuring that MDMA psychotherapy will be accessible to communities of colour, most harmed by the war on drugs. They work closely with Release in the UK on drug policy reform and in 2018, co-produced RE:GENERATE an arts festival on drug policy, racial justice and liberation. Camille has written for Vice, Talking Drugs, the MAPS Bulletin and Double Blind on drug policy & racial justice; they have presented on these issues at conferences including Psychedelic Science (2007), DPA (2017 & 2019) and Harm Reduction International (2019).

Website: https://www.camillebarton.co.uk/

Instagram: @afrooankali

Andy Izenson is a passionate advocate and educator around alternative family law and family creation, gender and sexuality, and restorative and transformative justice. This advocacy extends both to education work, including cultural competency trainings for legal professionals, consent and communication workshops at high schools and colleges, and extensive alternative justice system education across the country, as well as to direct services work as an attorney, mediator, consultant, and practitioner of restorative and transformative justice. In Andy’s legal work, they are most passionate about supporting family creation and communication by aiding clients with family agreements, assisted reproduction technology work, and estate planning and advance directives. Andy is also a mediator and practitioner of collaborative divorce and separation, and assists families in restructuring peacefully and compassionately. Andy handles the firm’s sliding scale and pro bono docket, and can serve French- or German-speaking clients as well. 

Andy is a dedicated member of the LGBTQI Family Professionals of New York, working with New York families to resolve conflict without state intervention, the NYC chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, serving as Vice President, Executive Committee member, and protest support, the selective Family Law Institute of the National LGBT Bar Association, and the Family and Matrimonial Law Committee of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater NewYork. 

Website: https://dianaadamslaw.net/andy-izenson%2C-associate

Twitter: @andyeyeballs