Tue, Oct 30
|Naropa University Nalanda Campus
What is Medicine, and How Do We Know?
Navigating Psychedelics and Psychopharmaceuticals for Therapists and Professionals
Time & Location
Oct 30, 2018, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Naropa University Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO, Room 9235
About the event
If you would like to join this event remotely, here is a link to our live stream!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9clqNFXM7CQ
In this seminar and panel discussion, we aim to unpack the complicated terrain and shifting dynamics of clients’ medicine and drug use in the mental health field. We’ll offer frameworks and language to begin critically reflecting on questions, such as:
~ Are we sure that prescribed psychiatric drug use helps more than harms? Are we sure that recreational psychedelic use necessarily harms more than helps? How do we know?
~ How can therapists and non-medical professionals navigate conversations with clients about prescribed or recreational substance use in ways that value lived experience, self-determination, and professional ethics?
~ What drug-related biases and assumptions might you as a professional hold that unintentionally interfere with supporting clients in a trusted therapeutic relationship?