What we’re about
Psychedelic Professionals Meet is a meetup-style group for professionals, healers, researchers, activists, and explorers on the leading edge of work with psychedelic medicines. Learn, share, network, and connect with the Colorado community of psychedelic professionals who are leading the way forward in transforming our relationships with drugs and medicines. Or, come as an interested community member to learn more about and discuss some really interesting topics!
Our community is based on values of openness and inclusivity, authentic empowerment, right relationship with medicines and drugs, and showing up for the people and causes important to our lives. Each meetup starts with an informative presentation on new or interesting happenings in psychedelic research, practice, or activism, with plenty of time for discussion and networking. Let's keep Colorado on the leading edge of psychedelic medicine work!
This meetup group is hosted by The Nowak Society -- a Colorado non-profit that aims to educate and support people in building safe, informed, and empowering relationships with self, others, and the drugs and medicines we interact with.
Relationship with self is the most important, primary relationship in our lives. We focus first and foremost on opening up to ourselves, finding our source of creative power, passion, inspiration, and enjoyment. In our experience, relationship to self is most supported when in community with others who are also desiring authenticity and connection. That's essentially what brought us together and what Nowak Society is about! From our work original work in festival harm reduction and in mental health, we found that so many people have confused and disempowered relationships with drugs and medicines --- from antidepressants, stimulants and other drugs taken under the umbrella of psychiatry, to alcohol, marijuana, MDMA, LSD, and other drugs taken under the umbrella of recreation. We aim to re-frame how and why we use drugs and medicines of all kinds, and support people and communities in re-claiming what "medicine" is for them. How can we relate to any of these substances in ways that open us up to expand and empower our relationship with self, rather than in ways that shut us down or represses pieces of ourselves?
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Psychedelic Professionals Social Hour: Fort CollinsPour Brothers Community Tavern, Fort Collins, CO
Psychedelic Professionals Social Hour, now happening monthly in Fort Collins. Join us on the second Monday of each month, 6pm, at Pour Brothers Community Tavern in Old Town. This is a casual, friendly space where we can network and meet other like-minded practitioners and activists in the psychedelic space. Come for appetizers, drinks, and socializing. We have no formal presentations planned for our Social Hour events. Just conversations, hugs, and connecting in community.
Please also be aware of our Community Guidelines for Nowak Society events. To protect the community, we ask that no one try to solicit illegal substances or services from anyone attending the event. Be kind, be respectful, and keep it legal.
If you have a flyer, brochure, business card or other material to announce or share with the community, please bring it! We just ask that anything shared or promoted is legal in the state of Colorado.
We can't WAIT to see you there, Fort Collins!
For more information and to RSVP, go to Events | Nowak Society | Colorado - Psychedelic Professionals Meet: BoulderJunkyard Social Club, Boulder, CO
Psychedelic Professionals Meetup Groups are in Boulder, Denver, and Fort Collins! Let's keep Colorado on the leading edge of psychedelic medicine work by coming together in community to learn, share, and grow. Each Psychedelic Professionals Meetup Group starts with an informative topic relevant to research, practice, policy, or activism around psychedelic medicines, followed by open discussion and an opportunity to connect with like-minded others.
For May in Boulder, we ask: What wants to happen here? Awakening to the dreaming of earth.
In a world of unprecedented times and so much uncertainty, how do we develop choices that grow toward empathy and inclusion, drawing from intelligences that reside beyond the individual self and into the unseen worlds? How do we break out of the systems of thought and behavior that keep our imaginations limited so that we might be delivered into a new future of promise? Mary Kin presents one possible step beyond psychedelics…Play Attention.Mary Kin is an improv artist, clown, poet, and changemaker devoted to what she calls awakening to the Dreaming of Earth. She is the creator of Play Attention—a self-developed discovery process and living curriculum that invites students to radicalize through authenticity by exploring impulse, expression, and impact. In doing so, empathy is not taught but naturally awakened.
With over 15 years of experience developing and teaching Play Attention, Mary’s work is deeply informed by her psychedelic travels and a lifelong inquiry into the question: What wants to happen?Suggested donation of $10, payable at the door. Door fee goes toward paying for the rented venue and supporting the non-profit work of The Nowak Society. If you have ideas for topics or presentations for these meetup groups or would like to be more involved, please contact us!
Finally, if you have a brochure, flyer or business card you want to display, please bring them! We kindly request that anything advertised is legal and aboveboard, but otherwise we're happy to make space for you to share your offerings with the larger community.
For more information and to RSVP, visit:
Events | Nowak Society | Colorado (thenowaksociety.org) - Psychedelic Professionals Meet: DENVERRaices Brewing, Denver, CO
Psychedelic Professionals Meetup Groups are happening! Let's keep Colorado on the leading edge of psychedelic medicine work by coming together in community to learn, share, and grow. Each Psychedelic Professionals Meetup Group starts with an informative topic relevant to research, practice, policy, or activism around psychedelic medicines, followed by open discussion and an opportunity to connect with like-minded others.
Join us the third Wednesday of each month in Denver at Raices Brewing Company at 6:30pm! For May in Denver, we are pre-gaming for Psychedelic Science 2025. Join us for a casual social hour where we'll see who's who and what's what for the upcoming Psychedelic Science conference. Also be sure to mark your calendars for June 18th in Raices for the Official Psychedelic Science Colorado Welcome Party!
There is parking at Raices and in the lot next to Raices, yay! Raices also features both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer and other beverages. Most nights there will be a food truck available if you're coming hungry!
Suggested donation of $10 goes toward supporting the work of The Nowak Society. If you have ideas for topics or presentations for these meetup groups or would like to be more involved, please contact us!
Finally, if you have a brochure, flyer or business card you want to display, please bring them! We kindly request that anything advertised is legal and aboveboard, but otherwise we're happy to make space for you to share your offerings with the larger community.
For more information and to RSVP, go to Events | Nowak Society | Colorado
- Psychedelic Professionals Social Hour: Colorado SpringsTrinity Taproom, Colorado Springs, CO
Psychedelic Professionals Meetup Groups are happening! Let's keep Colorado on the leading edge of psychedelic medicine work by coming together in community to learn, share, and grow. Each Psychedelic Professionals Meet gathering starts with an informative topic relevant to research, practice, policy, or activism around psychedelic medicines, followed by open discussion and an opportunity to connect with like-minded others.
On the last Wednesday of each month we are excited to offer a Psychedelic Professionals Social Hour in Colorado Springs! Join local professionals in a casual, friendly space where we can connect and meet other like-minded practitioners and activists.
We can't WAIT to see you there, Colorado Springs!
Please also be aware of our Community Guidelines for all Nowak Society events. To protect the community, we ask that no one try to solicit illegal substances or services from anyone attending the event. Be kind, be respectful, and keep it legal.
For more information and to RSVP, visit Events | Nowak Society | Colorado
