Weekly Psychedelic Speaker Series at Meraki Kava

Hi all,

There is a psychedelic educational series this year at - thank you so much Trace Zen Yoga for letting us use her space at the Kava bar for this series. Thanks, Troy Madsen for providing extra help in organizing this series & all of the speakers for being willing to do this! The first event will be on Monday, Feb. 27th from 7-8:30PM and it will go on each Monday night for several months.

Event is open and can be attended by purchasing a drink during the talk, donations and tips for the club and the speakers are graciously accepted. Come to learn, drink (sober), mingle and have fun.

Here's the scheduled events and info thus far:

2/27 Tony Piazza: Changa & healing from suicidal ideation

3/6 Aya Allison: Microdosing

3/13 Hugh Alkemi: Shrooms & Human Co-evolution

3/20 Sabina Malinalli: Ritual and Ceremony

3/27 Nathan Kohlerman: Veterans Access to Psychedelics

4/3 Turner Shiew: Kambó

4/10 Carolina Pilara: Ayahuasca & working with the Shipibo in Peru

4/17 Jenna Gully: Cannabis

4/24 Stuart Preston: Psychedelics & Grief

5/1 Kate McCabe: Healing Addiction with Ibogaine & Bufo

5/8 Nekita Reyna, Troy Madesen, & Alisa Dickenson: Psychedelic Integration

5/15 Chanda Gonzales: Harm Reduction

5/22 Dr. Breya Rico: Ketamine Therapy

5/29 Erin Doumert: Healing Religious Trauma W/ Psychedelics

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For those of you who are interested in learning a little more about the speakers, we have found some of their interviews on YouTube and added them to a YT playlist created for this series. You can use these interviews for example to come up with some questions for them prior to their talk.

Hear the Meraki Kava Bar '23 Speakers YT Playlist:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuIj8QSCTWI7xR1llYV890q64o0lUPui1

You can also view their ABOUT pages at the links below:

ABOUT Troy Madsen

ABOUT Stuart Preston

ABOUT Rev. Nathan Kohlerman

ABOUT Nekita Reyna

ABOUT Jenna Gully

ABOUT Gary Smith

ABOUT Chanda Gonzales

ABOUT Carolina Pilara

ABOUT Breya Kesa Rico

ABOUT Aya Allison

ABOUT Andrea Twitchell

ABOUT Alisa Dickinson

ABOUT Hugh Alkemi

ABOUT Sabina Malinalli

Next, if any of you generally are interested in getting plugged into the local psychedelic community, then here are some things you can join to become more involved:

Check out the following local psychedelic meetup groups:

(1) Phoenix Psychedelics

(2) Arizona Psychedelic Society

(3) Integrative Confluence of Arizona (ICAZ)

(4) Phoenix Psychedelic Society

Next, check out the following local Facebook groups/pages:

(1) Phoenix Psychedelic Society FB group

(2) Pychedelic Club of Phoenix FB group

(3) Phoenix Psychedelic Society FB page

Host or Publisher The Phoenix Psychedelics Society