A World-First: Transforming Mental Health Treatment with Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies in Collaboration with Locum Life
With Dr Stephen Proud and Tania de Jong AM
Date: Wed 29 October 2025 @ 7:30pm (AEST)
Location: Webinar (online)
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Join this FREE WEBINAR presented by Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Proud and Mind Medicine Australia’s Executive Director, Tania de Jong AM.
A World-First: Transforming Mental Health Treatment with Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies in collaboration with Locum Life
In this session, Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Proud and Mind Medicine Australia’s Executive Director, Tania de Jong AM, will provide an engaging update on psychedelic-assisted therapies. You’ll learn how these innovative treatments work, what’s required to deliver them safely and effectively, and how they can help people not responding to current therapies. The webinar will also cover the latest developments in Australia, including medicine supply, clinical rollouts, Authorised Prescriber support, and training opportunities for psychiatrists, doctors, and multidisciplinary clinicians.
EVENT DETAILS
DATE: 29th October 2025
TIME: 7:25pm (AEDT) for 7:30pm start, finishing at 8:30pm
DURATION: 60 minutes (incl Q&A)
LOCATION: Online – a link will be emailed to you with the viewing details
Learn how a movement for Healing Revolution was created in Australia and what is happening in the land down under right now!
Australia was the first country in the world to successfully apply to reschedule psilocybin and MDMA from Prohibited Substances to Controlled Medicine. The world-first rescheduling decision occurred in 2023. Since 2024 patients have been treated in clinical settings under the supervision of Authorised Prescribing psychiatrists and their clinical teams. Multiple clinics are emerging around the nation to meet the significant demand for these innovative therapies. With 1 in 4 Australians suffering from a mental illness and current treatments not helping the majority of those suffering, these innovative therapies are urgently needed.
Through the work of the Mind Medicine Australia charity led by social entrepreneurs and philanthropic pioneers, Tania de Jong AM and Peter Hunt AM, Australians suffering with depression and PTSD can now access psychedelic-assisted therapies. MMA has developed the ecosystem for the use of these transformational treatments in Australia through world-leading training and professional development programs, education and awareness building, affordable medicine supplies, development of clinics and funding of innovative research and a world-first National Registry to collate real world evidence at Australian National University. Through MMA’s work the Australian Government also invested AU15 million dollars for further research and trials in this rapidly emerging field. This is the largest grant awarded to this rapidly emerging field from any government.
Learn more about MMA’s first six years here.
EVENT DETAILS
DATE: 29th October 2025
TIME: 7:25pm (AEDT) for 7:30pm start, finishing at 8:30pm
DURATION: 60 minutes (incl Q&A)
LOCATION: Online – a link will be emailed to you with the viewing details
This event is open to all Locum Life members and the broader clinical community. For clinicians wishing to get more information about joining Locum Life, please register here.
Please note that CPD Certificates will be supplied on request for a one-hour educational session.
At this event, we will also announce the new exclusive discount offer for Locum Life Clinicians to enrol for clinician training to complete the Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies.
The Presenters
Tania de Jong AM
LL.B (Hons), GradDipMus
Co-founder Mind Medicine Australia, Founder Creative Universe, Creativity Australia, The Song Room & Creative Innovation Global
Tania de Jong AM is the co-Founder and Executive Director of Mind Medicine Australia. Tania has garnered an international reputation as an award-winning social entrepreneur, acclaimed soprano, inspirational speaker and storyteller, creative alchemist, philanthropist and spiritual journey woman. She is a passionate leader for social change. Her mission is to change the world, one voice at a time!
She regularly presents on creativity, innovation, leadership, purpose, psychedelic-assisted therapies, mental health and wellbeing at major conferences and events around the world across the business, government, creative arts and community sectors. Tania is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs and innovators developing 6 businesses and 4 charities including Creative Universe, Creativity Australia and the With One Voice programs, Umbrella Foundation, Creative Innovation Global, Pot-Pourri and The Song Room.
Tania was named in the 100 Women of Influence, the 100 Australian Most Influential Entrepreneurs and named as one of the 100 most influential people in psychedelics globally. Her TED Talk has sparked global interest.
Dr Stephen Proud
MBBS FRANZCP FAChAM Grad Dip Env Sc
Stephen Proud is a psychiatrist in private practice in regional WA with 45 years’ experience in medicine and 25 years as a psychiatrist. He has 3 sons. He has worked as a GP in rural WA, Perth and rural Zululand South Africa. He has taught GPs and psychiatric registrars for many years in Perth. He has built and run two psychiatric hospitals, one in Perth and the other an innovative rural retreat where patients lived for a month to undergo extensive psychotherapy, meditation and community living.
He has a long interest in spirituality and psychotherapy, starting with psychedelics in the 1970s, going onto humanistic psychology in California, Vipassana, The Rajneesh Ashram in India and then experience with traditional healers and Sangomas in rural Zululand. He runs meditation and psychotherapy retreats and is Monash MAPS trained in MDMA assisted therapies. He is currently involved in an MDMA trial for PTSD in Perth.
Stephen extols cooperation and is open to all groups promoting safe and sensible Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies.
Disclaimer: Mind Medicine Australia does not encourage or facilitate illegal use of psychedelics or plant medicines. MMA focus is focused on clinical and legal use only supported by the emerging science and legislative processes. Mind Medicine Australia reserves the right to record and publish webinars on various social media platforms. You agree that you will not discuss any names, locations or specific details of illegal use of psychedelics both verbally or via any written forms of communication via Mind Medicine Australia social media platforms (for example Facebook, Instagram or Zoom private and public chat forms during a webinar). Breaches of these guidelines may result in not being able to participate in the event. We thank you for support and cooperation on these matters.