Discovery Sessions

04/20/2025

Happy Bicycle Day from the Discovery Sessions Team! 🚲 and a heartfelt thank you to everyone in our incredible community. Your support means the world to us! ✨

05/05/2024

We can’t believe it’s been 2 weeks since 🍄✨ First round of photos are up on our page! 📸 (link in bio)

05/05/2024

04/18/2024

Day 1 is here!! 🌞😎 It’s a gorgeous 70 degrees at in San Francisco and folks are already beginning to trickle in. Attendees make sure to check out the venue map at www.discoverysessions.org/faq so you know where to be. See you on the inside! 🗺️🍄

04/17/2024

Last chance for tier 2 tickets! Prices increase tomorrow to $225 for two-day and $125 for single day. Don’t wait! See you tomorrow bright and early. 🌞🍄🌿🚲🧠

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04/17/2024

Step into the MushWomb 🍄🫖: our on-site tea lounge, hosted by and .maroney. The lounge will offer a zen space for attendees to ground, experience deeper connections, take a break from the hustle and bustle of the event, sip tea, experience breathwork, and more unique wellness offerings from 12-5pm each day of the conference. Swipe to see some incredible offerings!

To kick things off on Thursday, join Mikaela in a nine cup mushroom tea drinking ceremony with amanita mushroom, a facilitated 45 minute experience, accompanied by music and entheogenic plants and fungi.

On Friday at noon, learn what makes the difference between a clinical visit and a life changing experience with Xochitl Bernadette Moreno and AshEL Seasunz Eldridge of .amplified. Throughout human history people have created ways to ceremonialize key moments of life. Working with Entheogens aka psychedelics on their own can bring about deep transformation, however with a ceremonial intention and collaboration with the natural elements coupled with a connection to the spirit of the medicine, participants can have experiences that take them deeper, have more lasting effect and integrate more fully into their lives, how to relate to “Ancestral Medicine” if not BIPOC and more.

At 2pm Friday join us for a breath and sound experience facilitated by renowned sound healer and somatic practitioner, Eliza Maroney. This 30-minute workshop will offer participants a way to reset their nervous systems while remaining on site in the MushWomb Lounge.

Learn more and get your tickets at www.discoverysessions.org!!

04/17/2024

Introducing another Bay Area local, integrative therapist . Gwen has been learning and working in the mental health field for twenty years, exposed to the world of neurodivergence and innovative healing approaches at a young age. Growing up amongst the diversity within the Bay and gathering influential experiences and training from UCLA, NYU and various mental health settings, Gwen has honed her expertise in the specialty of Integrated Health.

Learn more about Gwen and find her on stage Thursday at 12pm, moderating the panel, Point of Entry: Clinicians and Guides 101 - Getting Started in Psychedelics Treatment.

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04/16/2024

Two more days! 🎉 While our programming schedule is stacked with a wide range of conversations, make sure to take a break and check out our outside vendor village on the patio and roof deck! 🌞

We’ve got dozens of incredible brands on-site serving up mushroom beverages, various psychedelic education, glass art, trip kits, assorted legal plant medicines, and more! Thank you to all of our vendors for sharing your gifts with our community! 🍄🌿

04/15/2024

Alleged to have produced “90% of the world’s LSD,” William Leonard Pickard is a former drug policy fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and deputy director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA. With two life sentences without parole, he served 20 years in maximum security federal prisons, and was released in 2020.

His book “The Rose of Paracelsus” - written in pencil while imprisoned - is published by Synergetic Press (Santa Fe/ London), and in Italian translation by Mondadori (Milan) His 1996 prediction of the fentanyl epidemic, and recommendations for prevention, were confirmed by the RAND Corporation in its seminal volume “The Future of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids.”

Currently he is a senior advisor for JLS Fund II LP and the Fireside Project. He is a research affiliate with Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center on Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Program on Law and Regulation.

Leonard has been denied a travel permit (again) so we are inviting him to sit with Mark McCloud and share a few stories of the crazy days gone by. An incredible fireside chat happening Thursday, April 18 at 1pm.

04/15/2024

Announcing another incredible session 🤩 Building Resilient Psychedelic Culture: An Exploration of Best Practices, Adverse Outcomes, and Harm Reduction in the Psychedelic Community

📅 Thursday, April 18, 10am

Annie Oak, co-founder of and the brings together a thoughtful panel about what makes a psychedelic community resilient. Designing social systems for sustainability requires planning for effective management, conflict resolution, harm reduction, participant engagement and succession. This panel will explore why these strategies are important and how they have been put into action by different communities.

Featuring Ariel Vegosen (), Karina Bashir, , and .

View our full schedule at www.discoverysessions.org/sessions, and get your ticket today!