Presentations from the Usona Set and Setting Immersive Forum

Below are the presentations from the event. Please note that these are exclusive to event attendees and should not be shared.

Set and Setting: Indigenous and Historical Origins with Anny Ortiz

Set & Setting: Clinical Applications with Chantelle Thomas and Christopher Nicholas

Adaptive Settings Across Diverse Self-Identities with Cody Wenthur

Spirit Underground Liberation Project: Leveraging Set & Setting for Black Mental Health and Wellness with Spring Washam

PRoMiSS Study Update Frederick Barrett, PhD & David Rosen, PhD Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research Johns Hopkins University

Ecological Medicine and Psychedelic Studies Initiatives at UCLA

UCLA-CDU Neuroscience & Society Grant Video presented by Helena Hansen

Music Design for Psychedelic Therapy with East Forest

Advanced Working Trailer: Music For Mushrooms

Usona Institute Campus Art

Set & Setting 2 x 2 factorial, double-blind, randomized study of ‘Set and Setting’: A translational study in healthy volunteers with Hannes Kettner

Set and Setting Collaborative with Susan Magsamen

Psilocybin, Salience, and the Remembrance of Things Past with Charles Raison.

About Usona Institute with Tura Patterson and Bill Linton

Opportunities for Follow-Up

  • Knowledge sharing platform
  • Health equity initiatives
  • Music- Live vs. recorded
  • What do we want to know? *Learning community
  • Engagement with practitioners (in modern medicine) + healers + indigenous practices + ceremony holders (role of people)
  • Community-based studies
  • Language