Psychedelics & Animal Safety
Could your psychedelic experience be harming your animal? Come learn about animal harm reduction with us.
Thank you! - For your interest in creating safety for animals.
Whether through accidental ingestion or intentional sharing of medicines in hopes of providing support of a pets wellbeing. How can we as a community advocate for inter-species harm reduction and education with a focus on animal safety and consent in psychedelic spaces?
Let’s learn together. Join Dori Lewis MA, MEd, LPC-S (Elemental Psychedelics, Reflective Healing) and Dr. Casara Andre, DVM cVMA (Care for the Healer, VeterinaryPsy) for a discussion on conscious animal guardianship in the emerging psychedelic landscape.
July 18th 4:00 - 5:30p MT - Virtual Workshop
This virtual community workshop will focus on developing inter-species awareness for practicing and aspiring psychedelic facilitators.
If you have a question about animal safety - your own service or companion animal, the animal-dependent of your client, or the safety of animals adjacent to human psychedelic interest - this workshop is for you.
What do you want to know about animal safety and psychedelics?
Through the support of the Elemental Psychedelics, VeterinaryPsy, and the Care for the Healer nonprofit - this event is free to the community.
There is no cost for this event. Set the sliding payscale to $0 when registering.
Date / Time: July 18th 4-5:30p MT
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Cost: free!
Learn about Animal Safety & Consent in Psychedelic Spaces
With both educational content and opportunities for community discussion and problem-solving - this workshop will tackle these, and other, topics:
What is an Animal Healer - how to identify one? Addressing consent in animal service.
What is an animal’s scope of service? What is their role and are they safe in that role? Safety-focused best practices for guardianship of animals in healing, service, or task-based roles.
Considering animal-dependents. Safety for the emotional support animal / companion animals of patients pursuing psychedelic assisted therapy.
Mitigating risks and injury prevention. Stress-related physical and mental injuries in animals.
Recognizing harm and providing care. Medical monitoring and integrating animal care with recovery.
About our Facilitators:
Dori Lewis MA, MEd, LPC-S
Dori is a co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics and the owner-operator of Reflective Healing in Fort Collins, CO, a psychotherapy group practice that specializes in psychedelic therapy using ketamine, integration therapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, and providing clinical supervision.
As a clinician in practice for 10 years, Dori blends transpersonal psychology, depth work, and psychedelic-assisted therapy within a model that centers the therapeutic relationship.
As interest in psychedelic medicine continues to grow, Dori feels it is the responsibility of those who have a voice in our professional and psychedelic communities to stay informed and intercept and challenge disinformation and questionable ethical practices that are being put out into the public arena.
Casara Andre DVM (veterinarian) cVMA (veterinary medical acupuncture)
Dr. Casara Andre is a Healer consistently motivated by her desire to help all mammals of all species (human and veterinary) repair and sustain their health and wellbeing.
A veterinarian by education and training, Dr. Andre’s day-to-day mission is creating a safe-haven and incubator-for-ideas opportunities within medical communities. By leveraging the power of cooperation, creating a supportive community, and encouraging creative solutions, she works to support entrepreneurship among Healers that have a vision for positive change in the world.
Dr. Andre is dedicated to providing practical education and harm reduction training to the emerging fields of veterinary cannabis and psychedelic medicines to ensure that veterinary practitioners and animal caregivers have access to science-backed, clinically-applicable, and patient-focused information with these emerging areas of medicine.
Dr. Andre firmly believes that scientific curiosity can and will open unexpected, exciting, and hugely beneficial opportunities within this field but also that scientific rigor and scrutiny must never be neglected.
Know these DOs and DON’Ts
Do NOT do this:
Do NOT give your animal a psychedelic substance
Do NOT neglect your animal during your journey - make a plan for their care
Do NOT require your animal to be a sitter for you
Do NOT ask your animal to do the work of a trained human facilitator
But DO this:
DO tell your facilitator that you have an animal-dependent
DO check for respectful and sustainable sourcing of animal-derived psychedelics
DO make a plan for animal care during your journey
DO allow your animal to leave the room where you are journeying
DO include your animal in integration - how can they integrate alongside you?
DO seek veterinary medical guidance if your animal shows signs of post-journey stress