"Ayahuasca told me that…” Positive and harmful interpretations of psychedelic experiences (Jerónimo Mazarrasa) – webinar April 8th at 6PM UTC+3
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Sometimes people come out of plant medicine experiences with renewed clarity, insight, and sense of direction. At other times, the experiences can be harder to decode. On Tuesday April 8th 2025, Psykedeelisen sivistyksen liitto (PSL, Association for Finnish Psychedelic Education & Culture) presents a webinar lecture by Jerónimo Mazarrasa, Program Director at ICEERS, who will inspire us to think about how to wisely handle such experiences.
In the lecture, we’ll examine the common pitfalls related to powerful experiences, and both dangerous and constructive approaches to interpreting them. We’ll look at examples of practices to avoid and practices to encourage, both for facilitators and participants, in order to better discern what these experiences tell us.
Schedule:
18:00 Lecture
19:00 Audience discussion
20:00 End
The lecture part of the webinar will be recorded in order to be published on our Youtube channel, but the audience discussion is only for live participants.
Tickets:
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About the speaker:
Jerónimo Mazarrasa is Program Director at ICEERS. ICEERS is an NGO with a mission of ensuring that sacred practices around Indigenous medicine use are respected, integrated safely, and regulated ethically – both in and beyond the countries of origin. Jerónimo is also founder of ICEERS Academy, and creator of AyaSafety, an online course for people interested in increasing the safety of ayahuasca ceremonies.
Jerónimo is committed to maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms of the globalization of ceremonial plant practices. He has worked with facilitator communities in self regulation processes, developed harm reduction tools, initiatives and trainings, commissioned scientific research as well as legal and policy reports to inform proposals for the integration of ceremonial plant practices in global north societies.
Previous to that, he was a user experience designer developing products and services for many of Spain's largest companies. He also wrote and produced four documentaries on various aspects of the West's encounter with indigenous knowledge, from ayahuasca in the treatment of drug addiction, featuring Gabor Maté, to Colombia’s Kogi Mamos, the Brazilian ayahuasca religions, and Bruce Parry’s last feature film, Tawai.
Jerónimo has travelled extensively through South America, researching a broad spectrum of indigenous, mestizo and Western ayahuasca practices and has lectured internationally on the past, present and future of the globalization of traditional indigenous medicines.
This is Jerónimo’s second webinar with Psykedeelisen sivistyksen liitto (Association for Finnish Psychedelic Education & Culture). You can watch the previous one, After the psychedelic renaissance: Looking at a post prohibition world, here.