With Dr Deb Roberts, Scott Edwards, Julia Neubauer and Megan Smoak
Date: Fri 10 May 2024 @ 12:30pm
Location: Online
Don’t miss out – join our weekly online Community Meditation on Friday lunchtime.
Meditation is a valuable self-care tool by itself, but is also useful for both preparing for and integrating psychedelic-assisted therapies (Eleftheriou & Thomas, 2021) . It can help us to cultivate mental clarity, self-awareness, emotional regulation, presence, and support the integration of insights. Through practices such as mindfulness, we develop the ability to approach psychedelic experiences with openness and clarity, while also gaining skills to navigate intense emotions and sensations that may arise during therapy sessions as well as in everyday life.
Please note that meditation complements psychedelic therapy, but it’s crucial to only engage in therapy under professional guidance for safety and support.
The benefits of meditation can be enhanced by practicing with others. This view, which is central to many meditation traditions is being validated in recent research (Hanley et al, 2021).
These weekly sessions provide an opportunity for all members of MMA’s community to join members of the MMA team to connect and sit in meditation together.
DATE: Weekly on Fridays
TIME: 12:30pm start, finishing at 1:15pm
DURATION: 45 minutes
LOCATION: Online – a link will be emailed to you with the viewing details. Please note that this is the same link for each session.
Deb Roberts grew out of a deep longing to share lived experience in various capacities through yoga, meditation, speaking and writing services to individuals, groups and corporates. Deb has had a lifelong relationship with mental (ill) health yet been able to navigate a fulfilling existence through various means.
She has had two family members who have ended their life seeing no treatment pathway forward. One was her older sister who had tried countless medicine combinations, therapies and facilities over 30 years. Deb’s pathway is to continue a life worth living and advocate for treatment options including the use of psychedelics.
B.Mus
In his role as Executive officer of Mind Medicine Australia Scott leads the organisation’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training & Education program, including its leading Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies program and he worked on the strategy and implementation of MMA’s successful advocacy initiative to reschedule MDMA and psilocybin.
He has been working in adult education for over 15 years, designing and implementing programs in the music and healthcare fields. In addition, he is a somatic facilitator and breathwork practitioner, working with a variety of techniques to support and integrate expanded states of awareness for therapeutic outcomes.
B. A.
Julia is a digital marketer and somatic and arts therapist with over nine years of experience supporting entrepreneurs in the health and well-being sector through content creation and design.
She is also a student of Hakomi therapy, deeply curious about the intersection of psychedelic medicine, ancient Buddhist meditation practices, and the creative arts. Guided by a fascination with the healing potential of altered states of consciousness, Julia is passionate about how these modalities can transform individual and collective well-being.
MAPS, FCCP
Megan started meditating a bit over 30 years ago and has had an amazing journey out of anxiety and poor mental health into accidentally exploring the mystical, but the main thing she has learned across all the different traditions that she’s tried is that the most important thing is to Do It. Not read about it or talk about it, but to actually show up and do it. She’s passionate about meditation and the container it builds for us to enjoy greater ease and confidence in our self and our capacity. In her work as a Clinical Psychologist and supervisor, she so often uses the fundamental skills of mindfulness and meditation to work with clients experiencing grief, loss, trauma or even the basics of depression and anxiety. She is a mother, an educator and a therapist and within all these roles has, at the core, her practice of meditation.
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.
