Story Telling Circle
Kiln Auditorium
Saturday, January 25
3:30 - 6:00 pm

What to Expect

Our storytellers bravely share their personal narratives, illuminating how psychedelics have played a role in their healing journeys.

TW: topics will include sexual assault, incest, suicide, near-death experiences, domestic violence, and religious trauma.

Through these shared experiences, we recognize the complexities of trauma and how individuals navigate their paths toward recovery and understanding.

Storytelling Circle

  • Sabba Nazhand

    I felt disconnected from my family and lost within myself. My first experience with 5-MeO-DMT was a turning point—it forced me to confront my toxic patterns and unresolved traumas. Psychedelics helped me break free from ingrained behaviors, reconnect with my family, and heal.

  • Patricia Noelle

    MDMA allowed me to revisit my childhood abuse. I was able to heal my sexual, emotional, physical abuse with the help of psychedelics. .

  • Benjamin Martin

    A year ago, my life changed in an instant. I was in a horrific motorcycle accident that left me in a coma. I made the choice to return. And much like a mushroom journey, recovery wasn’t about controlling the path—it was about trusting that the next step would reveal itself when I was ready for it.

  • Brooke Lark

    The unbelievable true story of how I hitchhiked away from marriage, lost my religion, and discovered the mother.

  • Andy Silva

    LSD helped me navigate grief.

  • Darin Mano

    Psilocybin helped me take a leap of faith and make a big career transition.

  • Christine Stenquist

    Micro-dosing mushrooms helped me heal from a failed suicide attempt.

  • Nate Gallenson

    Microdosing psylocybin helped me figure out my misdiagnosis and lead me on the journey that eventually birthed our nonprofit, DBT with Friends.

  • Michelle Scharf

    Mushrooms helped me learn to feel love for myself and heal from grief.

  • Johnny Caffaro

    Ayahausca helped me heal my femmine and my pain body overcoming 3 hip replacements and healed.
    LSD brought to oneness wholeness cosmic consciousness.

  • Mareesa Stertz

  • Schedule subject to change.