Activities

PART I: Building and Bridging Networks of Expertise

The first part of the project is about sharing information about psychedelic-assisted therapy. It is also about whakawhanaungatanga, connecting people and/or helping to connect the dots between existing community expertise around psychedelics.

Our aim is to spark or continue discussion in community groups or organisations about the opportunities, challenges, and risks faced in rolling out psychedelic-assisted therapy in Aotearoa. For example we could:

  • give tailored presentations/talks on psychedelic-assisted therapy relevant to communities’ own work/interests/concerns

  • facilitate discussions around psychedelic-assisted therapy, whether online or in-person, and as a one-off or over multiple sessions

  • review the existing literature and report back on specific questions communities have about psychedelic-assisted therapy

  • connect communities with groups and organisations outside of Aotearoa engaged in similar discussions

  • signpost communities to literature, references, and debates in the development of psychedelic-assisted therapy - both globally and in the research world

If you would like to hear more, or have other ideas for how we might be of use, please contact us!

Through this phase of the project, we hope to map out the opportunities, challenges, and risks voiced by different communities, when it comes to what psychedelic-assisted therapy could, and should, look like.

Project Survey

If you are familiar with psychedelic-assisted therapies, and have views on the opportunities, challenges, and risks involved in making them available in Aotearoa, please consider filling out our project survey.

PART II: Working Towards Specific Outputs

Through the project’s work in building and bridging community networks, we hope to develop:

  • Models of psychedelic-assisted therapy that centre stakeholder community interests

  • Best practice guidelines in the provision of psychedelic-assisted therapy

  • Recommendations for the policy and legal changes required for roadmaps to implementation

  • Designs for the onward, collaborative, real-world research and evaluation of psychedelic-assisted therapies

  • Resources and measures towards effective community-based psychedelic harm reduction

  • Guidance on the relationship between Rangatiratanga and Kawanatanga spheres of psychedelic therapy provision

29-30 March 2025 Gathering

We are hosting a 2-day gathering at Waipapa Taumata Rau / The University of Auckland, for stakeholder discussion around psychedelic-assisted therapies.

Registrations are closed as the venue is at capacity. To find out more information and join online, please click here.