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Dreamland Conversations: Welcome to Your Mind
Monday, Jul 24, 2023 7:00 PM
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Admission Admission Non-Member - $25.00
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NIGHT 1: Monday, July
24th at 7pm: Meditation and the Creative Possibilities of Practice
Welcome to your mind. Often when we
encounter mental health challenges, we look for outside help: therapy,
medication, behavioral treatments, external structure and support. All these
are important. And … there’s also something we can do from the inside.
Meditation is deep preventative
mental health. This evening, Jeff Warren and Tasha Schumann join Rob Cocuzzo,
editor of Nantucket Magazine, for a conversation about the creative
possibilities of meditation and practice. Warren and Schumann are meditation
teachers and hosts of the Consciousness Explorers podcast. They will offer an
overview of the enormous diversity of meditation practices, how they can be
customized to fit different challenges and situations, and how the skills of
meditation can be applied to any movement or art or work practice to deepen the
impact and benefits. One or two short guided meditations will be interspersed
throughout the evening, to give people an experiential taste of these powerful
technologies of inner exploration and transformation. Conversation will include
an audience Q&A.
NIGHT 2: Tuesday, July
25th at 7pm: Psychedelics, Treatment & Self
Psychedelic medicines are having a
moment in the culture. What’s the appeal? What is the nature of the healing and
transformation that happen through careful use of these medicines? For Dimitri
Mugianis and Ross Ellenhorn - experts in the field and recently featured in the
Rolling Stone “Psychedelics Issue” - psychedelics help put us in an open-ended
relationship with the world around us. Everything else flows from there.
In the second evening of our
exploration into consciousness, Dimitri and Ross join hosts Tasha Schumann and
Jeff Warren for an evening of practice and conversation. What is the impact of
psychedelics on mental health, how do they help us change and connect? An
exciting evening for anyone interested in the future of mental health, and
considering embarking on their own psychedelic journey.
BIOS:
Jeff Warren is a meditation instructor
and writer, known for his dynamic and accessible style of teaching. He’s
co-author of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, author of The Head Trip – a
travel guide to sleeping, dreaming and waking – and founder of The Consciousness
Explorers Club, a nonprofit
meditation adventure group based in Toronto. His mission is to empower people
to care for their own mental health, through the realistic, intelligent and
sometimes irreverent exploration of meditation and personal growth practices.
His meditations reach millions of people through the Ten Percent Happier and
Calm apps.
Tasha
Schumann is an artist, writer, and contemplative teacher based in
Toronto.
An award-winning
recording artist, she’s brought her Afrofuturistic sound to the mosh pits of
the world and to both the small and big screen. She’s been profiled in media
like Billboard, New York Magazine’s The Cut, The FADER, and VICE.?
As a
teacher of contemplative practice, she’s authorized in both Indo-Tibetan
Buddhist traditions and in Western contemporary modalities, which she
illuminates for a whole new generation of practitioners. ?
A
relentless explorer, she dives headfirst into the “WTF-IS-GOING-ON-HERE?!” of
being human in whichever way she can, which includes co-hosting the Consciousness Explorers Podcast with friend
and fellow explorer Jeff Warren, mentoring emerging creatives, and hosting Floralogic
– an award-winning show about nature at its weirdest.
Ross Ellenhorn, PhD, is the founder, owner, and CEO of Ellenhorn, a
company providing psychiatric services in Boston, New York City, and Los
Angeles, that offers an alternative to residential or hospital care. He is also
a founder and co-owner of Cardea, a psychedelic wellness program providing
services in the United States and Jamaica. Dr. Ellenhorn has written three
books on human experience and transformation, Parasuicidality and Paradox:
Breaking Through the Medical Model (Springer, 2007); How We Change (And the Ten
Reasons Why We Don’t) (Harper Collins, 2020), and most recently, Purple
Crayons, the Art of Drawing a Life (Harper Collins, 2022). He gives talks and seminars throughout the
country and is an in-demand consultant to mental health agencies, psychiatric
hospitals, and addiction programs in the United States and Europe. Dr Ellenhorn
is the first person to receive a joint PhD from Brandeis University’s Florence
Heller School for Social Welfare Policy and Management and the Brandeis
Department of Sociology. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dimitri Mugianis, a musician, writer, community organizer, union activist,
harm reduction advocate and psychedelic practitioner, became the face of using
underground ibogaine to kick heroin addiction. As documented in the 2009
film, Dangerous with Love, he has led more than five hundred ibogaine ceremonies and supported
numerous individuals with their problematic habits. He’s also performed
thousands of ceremonies using sound, art and other psychedelics – especially
psilocybin mushrooms and MDMA – to help individuals with psychological
suffering and to spark spiritual awakenings.He is also the cofounder of Cardea,
a psychedelic wellness program providing services in the United States and
Jamaica.
Immersed in the psychedelic space
for the last 20 years, Mugianis is an expert in both the potential and
limitations of psychedelic medicines. A respected elder in the field of harm
reduction, he co-created a holistic program at NYHRE (the New York Harm
Reduction Educators, a Harlem-based community organization) bringing together
acupuncture, ritual, sound meditation, reiki, bodywork and other modalities for
people experiencing homelessness, active drug users, sex workers and the
formerly incarcerated. He believes in the power of intentional psychedelic use
for revolutionary and evolutionary change. Dimitri has written for the
Guardian, Jacobin, Salon, Huffington Post, Chacruna and Reality Sandwich. He
was a founding member of the drug users union at VOCAL in New York City and
co-founded the first 12-step 12-tradition psychedelic recovery fellowship.
The two nights are ticketed separately.
General Public: $25 +$3 Service Fee
Dreamland Members & Summer Dream Pass Holders: $20 + No Service Fee
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