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 (3)
See all- Summer Hike with Nowak SocietyFlatirons Vista Trailhead, Boulder, CO
Join the Nowak Society for a summer hike! Let's enjoy our thriving community while connecting with some of Colorado's natural beauty. Therapists, psychedelic enthusiasts, and Nowak Society volunteers, Pam Peters and Becky Natenberg will lead us on an easy hike through Ponderosa Pines for stunning views of the Flatirons. Open to anyone interested in community, nature, and psychedelic exploration, healing, or growth.
The details:
Sat. August 9 at 8:00 am
Meet at Flatirons Vista Trailhead Flatirons Vista Trail, Colorado - 5,229 Reviews, Map | AllTrails
Hike length 3.5-ish miles
The parking lot costs $5 (cash or credit card) so carpool if you can.
Bring sturdy walking shoes, lots of water, snacks, and sunscreen.RSVP for free at: www.thenowaksociety.org/events
- 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: 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.
For August in Denver, help us welcome Jaz Cadoch to share about OPEN: a community-wide, non-commercial research effort housed at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) that studies the impact of state-legal psychedelic services on client health. Founded in Oregon in 2021, OPEN is now welcoming both Colorado and Oregon facilitators to be research participants in this innovative work!
OPEN uses a secure, web-based system to collect data on client safety and outcomes. Participation is voluntary, confidential, and designed to minimize disruption to workflow while helping healing centers improve the quality of their services. Big impacts are already happening: OPEN has dozens of licensed facilitators enrolled, and their clients are seeing meaningful improvements in their lives.
Please join us in August to learn more about the research findings and how you can participate!
Join us the third Wednesday of each month in Denver at Raices Brewing Company at 6:30pm! 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
