As part of the charge, the Strauss Committee hosts regular educational events, including a quarterly lecture series, to inform the community about integrative whole-person health practices and Indigenous, culturally based therapies. The Strauss-Wisneski Lectures are offered virtually and are open to the public. If you would like to be informed of upcoming lectures, please fill out the form below to be added to our email list.
Past Conferences & Lectures
Bridging the Worlds
Presented by:
Multiple Speakers
Date:
2024
Ceremony is Medicine
Presented by:
Kylie House, MD & Wesley Black Elk, Lakota Public Speaker
Date:
Much like how psychedelics challenge individual rigid worldviews, they are also challenging the conventional paradigms of modern medicine. Among one of the most important shifts which these catalysts call for is the understanding that how we relate to our medicines is part of the medicine itself. While some of us are being reminded of this fact, indigenous peoples have not forgotten. In this webinar, Lakota spiritual leader, Wesley Black Elk, and psychedelic psychiatrist, Kylie House, M.D., will describe how the way in which we relate to our “medicines,” better known as ceremony, gives us the direction and intent to come into alignment with the one true medicine: the healing intelligence that permeates our universe.
Spiritual & Psychedelic Experiences
Presented by:
Edward MacPhee, MD
Date:
While modern science is starting to explore both spiritual and psychedelic experiences, they have long been a part of cultural practices and have been described for millennia. What is now necessary is a synthesis to bridge the worlds and bring all the aspects of spiritual and psychedelic experiences together under one metatheory. This webinar will attempt to create a proto-synthesis to serve as a foundation for the exploration in these areas going forward into the future.
Virtual lecture full title: Spiritual and Psychedelic Experiences: Finding a Theory to Bridge the Worlds
Coloring within the Lines (CO Natural Medicine Health Act)
Presented by:
Jonathan Treem, MD
Date:
** This lecture will be held from 12pm - 1pm MST
Due to technical difficulties, the recording of this webinar is unavailable.
The Natural Medicine Health Act was passed in Colorado by popular referendum in 11/2022. Since then, the Colorado state regulatory agencies have been hard at work creating the scaffolding for how the law will be operationalized. This initial seminar is a discussion of how the law is being implemented, and a look into the real-time process of psychedelic public policy creation as it attempts to balance the considerations or public, private, medical, cultural, geographic, and indigenous perspectives.
Virtual lecture full title: Coloring within the Lines: Legal and Regulatory Considerations of Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Act
2023
How to Become a Psychedelic Care Provider
Presented by:
Sara Lewis, PhD, LCSW & Victor Cabral, LSW
Date:
Join the Director of Training and Research and Assistant Director for Community Care at Naropa University's Center for Psychedelic Studies to explore pathways to becoming a psychedelic care provider. The webinar is suitable for those seeking to begin a career in this area, as well as for therapists, physicians, chaplains, and other care providers interested in expanding their scope and expertise to include work with psychedelic medicines/entheogens. We will explore legal frameworks, including credentialing and will also discuss community use. This webinar may be useful for professionals wanting to compare and understand more about the variety of training programs offered in the psychedelic space.