Workshop participants will learn how psychedelics are meeting unmet needs in mental health treatment, from the use of ketamine in a clinic, to the vast underground movement using plant medicines in the jungle. This knowledge of the power of psychedelic medicine will help you overcome cultural propaganda against these substances, so that you can be a greater source of support during these challenging times.

You will learn how psychedelics can not only help to alleviate mental illness, but also how they open the doors of perception, allowing people to transcend their suffering, fears, and anguish on the path of their personal destiny, which ultimately affects our collective evolution.

Through examples and sharing of personal experience, you will learn about the role of the therapist in this rapidly changing landscape of mental health treatment. Skilled integration of the psychedelic experience is essential, which can be augmented by using tools such as IFS, somatic work, mindfulness, and countless other tools already in your toolbox.

We welcome anyone seeking to empower themselves about diverse methods for fostering healing. If you are asking yourself whether you are ‘allowed’ to be here based on licensing, professional track or training, please know the answer is YES!  Whether it be for personal or professional enrichment, you're welcome to join and explore topics of interests with like-minded people in our HPG presentations.

Please note: The HPG workshop series is approved by the D.C. Board of Social Work for ten 1.5 hour workshops from Sept - June for a total of 15 CEUs if you attend all workshops. CEU certificates are emailed upon request in July. There is a requirement of 2 CEU credit hours or more for a certificate.

* This HPG presentation will be recorded. For those who would like to attend, but find that the time of the presentation doesn't work with your schedule, you may signup and get the recording of the presentation afterwards.

About the presenter:

Kathleen Hanagan, LCSW, has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years working with individuals, couples, and groups. She is dedicated to helping people connect to the healer within, through embodied inquiry, relational shamanism, and Psychedelic Psychotherapy.

Kathleen envisions a world in which pain is shape-shifted into purpose, and the power of love prevails. She guides and inspires people to courageously love and accept themselves fully in this lifetime, offering their unique medicine to a world in need. Her personal and professional experience is that psychedelics are powerful sacred tools of transformation, when used in a therapeutic set and setting.

Her book, Loveseed: The Template For Birthing A New World, is a map for personal and global awakening that ends the trance of fear and shows the way to a world based on love and truth.