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New paper: Lived experience should be treated as evidence, not dismissed as anecdote.
My new Perspective article is now published in @FrontPubHealth Lived experience as systems-relevant evidence in psychedelic public health.
frontiersin.org/journals/publi…
#psychedelics #publichealth
My new Perspective article is now published in @FrontPubHealth Lived experience as systems-relevant evidence in psychedelic public health.
frontiersin.org/journals/publi…
#psychedelics #publichealth
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Better decisions come from bridge building between lived experience and clinical science. I’m hoping the differences in perspective are where some of the most useful conversations happen.
We're 3 weeks away! I hope to see you there.
Get your pass today: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
We're 3 weeks away! I hope to see you there.
Get your pass today: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
Behind the Summit · Oct 30
Who needs to be in the room at a lived experience focused event?
A big part of the process has been asking: whose perspective is missing, and who might challenge how everyone else is thinking?
Nov 20–22:
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
#PsychedelicResearch
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I’ll be moderating this one and I’m really interested in what beneficial and harmful outcomes in people’s lives we may be missing when we focus mainly on whether symptom scores went up or down.
See you on Nov 21? Get your pass 👇🏽
See you on Nov 21? Get your pass 👇🏽
Roundtable 4 | PLE Summit 2026
How do we know whether psychedelic treatment has meaningfully helped or harmed someone’s life?
Nov 21 · 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT / 17:00 CET · Online
3 Days · 12 Live Roundtables & Panels · 50+ Contributors
Save $20: SUMMIT20
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
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I’ll be joining Andrew Penn and OPENurses tomorrow for a live conversation on why lived experience matters in psychedelic research and care.
Oct 27 · 5:30 PM PT / 8:30 PM ET
Streaming on the OPENurses YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=xSdFvN…
#psychedelics #livedexperience #OPENurses
Oct 27 · 5:30 PM PT / 8:30 PM ET
Streaming on the OPENurses YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=xSdFvN…
#psychedelics #livedexperience #OPENurses
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Hundreds of people are already registered for Tuesday’s conversation with Robin Carhart-Harris.
I’ve been wanting to ask him these questions for a while, especially what psychedelic research may miss when we look beyond the protocol.
Hope to see some of you there. Register 👇🏽
I’ve been wanting to ask him these questions for a while, especially what psychedelic research may miss when we look beyond the protocol.
Hope to see some of you there. Register 👇🏽
Can the same openness that enables psychedelic healing also create risk?
We’ll ask @RCarhartHarris about risk, long-term outcomes, lived experience, and what happens after treatment ends.
Plus his forthcoming book, How Psychedelics Work.
Live · Oct 27: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit-2026-ro…
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I’ll be speaking at Global Psychedelic Week on Ethics, Power & Facilitation.
I’ll bring a lived experience perspective to questions of trust, boundaries, responsibility, power, and whose perspectives are taken seriously in psychedelic care.
Nov 5 · Online
2–3 PM PT / 5–6 PM ET
I’ll bring a lived experience perspective to questions of trust, boundaries, responsibility, power, and whose perspectives are taken seriously in psychedelic care.
Nov 5 · Online
2–3 PM PT / 5–6 PM ET
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Looking forward to this panel discussion at Global Psychedelic Week with Ashley Carmen, LMFT-S and Valeria McCarroll, PhD, LMFT moderated by Patricia M. Delgado.
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What's unique at this year's summit?
And we’re independently run, with no grants or corporate or pharmaceutical sponsorships, which gives us freedom to focus on the questions we think matter.
Nov 20–22 | Online
Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit 2026
I hope to see you there
And we’re independently run, with no grants or corporate or pharmaceutical sponsorships, which gives us freedom to focus on the questions we think matter.
Nov 20–22 | Online
Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit 2026
I hope to see you there
Behind the Summit · Oct 23
Why there are no traditional presentations at this year’s summit.
Instead, we have roundtables where people with different kinds of expertise can work through the questions that still don’t have clear answers.
Nov 20–22:
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
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I was interviewed by @dyslexacon_ from @CDNAffairs about psychedelic therapy. I shared why we need to think more about personal histories, identity, belongings, cultural context and what support people actually have around them especially when they come out on the other side.
Who gets overlooked when psychedelic therapy is discussed mainly through veterans and first responders?
New @CDNAffairs piece on access, different forms of trauma, and why care cannot be one-size-fits-all.
PLE founder @pedramdara contributed.
canadianaffairs.news/2026/10/22/bey…
#Canada
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Pedram Dara retweeted
Roundtable 1 | PLE Summit 2026
What minimum support should be available when psychedelic treatment or a clinical trial ends?
NOV 20 · 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT / 17:00 CET · Online
3 Days · 12 Live Roundtables & Panels · 50+ Contributors
Save $20: SUMMIT20
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
What minimum support should be available when psychedelic treatment or a clinical trial ends?
NOV 20 · 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT / 17:00 CET · Online
3 Days · 12 Live Roundtables & Panels · 50+ Contributors
Save $20: SUMMIT20
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
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I’ve been wanting to have this conversation with @RCarhartHarris for a while. What are we missing when psychedelic research looks mainly at the protocol and predefined outcomes?
We’ll explore that and Robin's forthcoming book How Psychedelics Work.
Free + live Oct 27 👇
We’ll explore that and Robin's forthcoming book How Psychedelics Work.
Free + live Oct 27 👇
@RCarhartHarris joins us live for a conversation on psychedelic research beyond the protocol.
Long-term outcomes, what current measures miss, safety beyond treatment, lived experience + themes from How Psychedelics Work.
Oct 27
9am PT / 12pm ET
Register: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit-2026-ro…
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I’ve been pretty deep in the weeds lately getting this year’s summit ready, so I thought I’d start sharing a little more of what’s happening behind the scenes.
I hope to see you there on November 20–22.
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
I hope to see you there on November 20–22.
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
Behind the Summit · Oct 16
We've finalized the contributors around all 9 roundtables + 3 synthesis panels.
We’ve done our best to get the right mix of lived experience, clinical, research, and policy perspectives around the same questions.
Nov 20–22:
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
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Researchers, clinicians, pharma sponsors and regulators are increasingly listening to lived experience voices. What matters next is making sure those voices actually shape decisions, not just appear to be included.
A lot can get missed when research is designed around people but not directly with them.
Lived experience brings a different kind of knowledge into the research process. It can show researchers where protocol assumptions don’t match lived reality.
#LivedExperience #Research
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Really proud to see this study officially recruiting. It has been a long time in the making and I’m grateful to @JRichardPhD and the University of Ottawa team for building it with lived experience involved from the start.
Survey link is 👇
#livedexperience #psychedelicResearch
Survey link is 👇
#livedexperience #psychedelicResearch
Have you received psychedelic therapy through a legal pathway in Canada? 🇨🇦
We’re recruiting for a study in collaboration with the University of Ottawa @uOttawa.
Share your experience in a 15–25 min survey:
redcap.link/pace-ca
#PsychedelicResearch #LivedExperience
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Looking forward to exploring these important topics together. Join us.
What will we actually be working on at the 2026 summit?
These aren’t conventional presentation sessions. Each roundtable is built around a defined question and practical outcome, with findings contributing to a post-summit paper.
Nov 20–22, online.
Get your pass. Link in bio.
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Really looking forward to this year's summit. We’ve built the 2026 program around the questions that keep coming up after treatment ends and I’m glad to finally share it. I hope you'll join us. Happy to answer any questions here.
Registration is open for Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit 2026: Beyond the Protocol
Nov 20–22 | Online
12 live roundtables & panels
50+ contributors
Safety, real-world outcomes & support gaps after psychedelic treatment.
Standard $79 | Student $29
psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit
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Pedram Dara retweeted
Decisions that affect us should be made with us.
This isn’t about placing one form of expertise above another.
It means giving lived experience the same seat at the table as clinical, scientific, and policy expertise.
And real agency in decisions that affect patients.
This isn’t about placing one form of expertise above another.
It means giving lived experience the same seat at the table as clinical, scientific, and policy expertise.
And real agency in decisions that affect patients.
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Before psychedelic research, I built software. Then an MDMA-assisted therapy trial showed me that clinical research has a user-experience problem.
Lived experience should shape research, not just decorate it.
Lived experience should shape research, not just decorate it.
Before psychedelic research, Pedram Dara built software for startups. Then a 2018 clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy changed his career entirely.
In our newest Lived Experience Blog post, @pedramdara makes the case for why lived experience should help shape research, not just decorate it.
Read the full post: onemind.org/lived-experien…
🧠 Pedram Dara is the Founder & Director of Psychedelic Lived Experiences (@psych_lived_exp) and a member of our One Mind Community Advisory Network (OMCAN). Learn more about OMCAN at onemind.org/OMCAN
#LivedExperience #MentalHealthResearch #Psychedelics #OneMind
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