​​FUTURE CALENDAR

Saturday, January 24, 2026, 1-3 pm 

In Collaboration with the Mizell Center
A Community Conversation About Psychedelic Medicine: A Panel Discussion with Healthcare Providers.
Do you have questions about psychedelic medicine?
Please join us in this community gathering!

Saturday, March 14, 2026, 1-3 at the Mizell Center

#1 NYT Best-selling author Susannah Cahalan on The Acid Queen:  The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of
Rosemary Woodruff Leary.  
"The untold story of the woman who played a critical role in bringing psychedelics into the mainstream -- until her audacious exploits forced her
into the shadows."  
Other best-selling books include Brain on Fire, and The Pretender.  
This is one of those opportunities
​you don't want to miss!

And...

Saturday, May 9, 2026, 1-3 pm at Mizell:

Joseph Tafur, MD, author of Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine, and Medicine Song: Spiritual Healing and the Psychedelic Renaissance.  
An integrative physician and curandero, Dr. Tafur will share his insight, experience, and stories as a healer with 30+ years experience.

Recent Events
12.13.2025
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​11.8.2025
Altered States Without Psychedelics:
The Inner Journey Through Breath
with Bill Bastian, DACM, L.Ac

Information about this special event:  
Bill Bastian, DACM, L.Ac will guide us in a modern exploration of how simple, intentional breathing can open the same gateways once accessed by mystics and shamans.  This presentation teaches you to enter non-ordinary states of consciousness naturally -- a non-substance related experience into non-ordinary states of consciousness!

10.11.2025
A Panel Discussion​
Healing Together: A Community Conversation on Psychedelic Medicine
Katie Bell, MSN, RN, CARN, PHN, CPTR 
Sam Ko, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
John Ninos, MD
Maggie Shelton, LCSW
Brian Wexler, PhD

9.13.2025
Special Guest
Carla Clements, PhD, LPC, BCPC on 
"A Witness to Transformation:  MAPS Phase 2 Study on MDMA and PTSD"

​8.9.2025
A Special Event with Decriminalize Nature
​and Larry Norris, PhD,
Cofounder, Board Member,National Organizing Director of DECRIMINALIZE NATURE
at the Mizell Center, Palm Springs.

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7.12.2025
Our first Community Gathering 
with Zach Leary!!
Your Extraordinary Mind: Psychedelics in
​ the 21st Century and How to Use Them
A full house at the Palm Springs Cultural Center!!

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6.14.2025

An Open Forum: What Do You Want to Know About 

Psychedelic Medicine?



5.10.2025

Presenter:  Rob Janiger

Topic:  An Anecdotal History of LSD

​on the West Coast: 

Reflections as a child of the '50's and '60's on the legacy

and pioneer work of his father, psychiatrist Oscar Janiger.


4.12.2025

Presenter:  Joseph Rhea, JD

Topic:  Pathways to Legalization


March 8th, 2025

Presenter:  Katie Bell, MSN, RN, CARN, PHN, CPTR

Topic:  Protocol and Practices for 

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Care.

Encouraged reading:  Swimming in the Sacred

by Rachel Harris



2.8.2025

Presenter:  Rex Harrison, MD

Topic:  What is N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, aka DMT
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1.4.2025

Margery Shelton, LCSW on

The Principles of Microdosing:

Its More Than You Think!


November 16th, 2024

Christi Bell, LCSW on

Integration and Psychedelic Medicine


10.5.2024

Topic:  An open forum with Peter Shorts, LCSW: The

Researched Based Efficacy of Specific Plant Medicines

and Psychedelics.  



8.3.2024

Psychedelic Medicine & Addiction - Ethical Concerns and

Efficacy for Modern Psychiatry 

with Gaetano Vaccaro, PhD


6.22.2024

Ketamine Therapy with Sam Ko, MD


5.18.2024

An Open Forum.  Q&A

with Brian Wexler, PhD


4.13.2024

Psychedelic Medicine and Therapy


3.9.2024

A discussion on the role of

Psychedelic Assisted Guides


January 27th, 2024

The Inaugural Gathering of the

Palm Springs Psychedelic Society:

Who we are and what we're about.

Brian Wexler, PhD & Peter Shorts, LCSW




And this happened! 

A Better Trip with 

Shane Mauss live in Indian Wells!!

Tuesday, May 28th, 2024

Thank you Shane!!!

​We appreciate your shout out and support!​

​We are proud to announce our affiliation
as a new member in the
Global Psychedelic Society!
Please support www.GlobalPsychedelic.org
​
Who are we?​
The Society is an educational-based group focused primarily for healthcare professionals​ in Palm Springs​ and the Coachella Valley.  
Our intent is to meet monthly and share resources, ideas and experience, and explore how to productively integrate effective care within our valley.
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In the meantime, please check out our tabs below.

​If you are interested in joining our new community  ​Email us at
[email protected]
and find us on
LinkedIn Healthcare group
​LinkedIn Community group
Bluesky @psychedelicps.bsky.social

Join our group at
Palm Springs Psychedelic Society