“Psychedelic-Climate Week” Launches in NYC

“Meet the Psychedelic-Climate Community Expanding Consciousness and Driving Change”

Psychedelics for Climate Action (PSYCA) (PSYCA) Hosts Preparation & Integration Convenings, and Highlights Partner Program Track

WHY: Like a psychedelic journey, Climate Week inspires big dreams, profound revelations, and ambitious plans. Without the right preparation and integration, these powerful experiences can slip away as daily life resumes. Psychedelic-Climate Week offers frameworks and supportive structures to transform these insights into meaningful climate action — in community.

PSYCHEDELIC-CLIMATE WEEK PARTNER EVENTS (ET in NYC) - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:

• Music for Mushrooms, Sept. 13-19; film on a shamanistic musician & filmmaker’s bold experiments pairing music with psychedelics for healing in fractured world

• Roger Wu's ChaShaMa Exhibition “Thought Experience II: Think Again,” Sept. 19-Oct.10; challenges political, social, and cultural norms to provoke reflection and action

• Climate Ring, Sept. 25-27, referred to by NYT as a “Burning Man for climate geeks,” a pop-up boxing arena for the fight of the century: for planet Earth, presented by Swissnex

• Ancient Future’s NATURE TEMPLE: Reimagining Climate Action, Sept. 26, 8am-10pm, consciousness, ancestral wisdom & psychological well-being catalyze climate action

• PAUSE: A Space to Heal and Reconnect during Climate Week, Sept. 26, 12-5pm; at DOM, join Mothers Out Front NY and planetary stewards navigating climate anxiety

• Nocturnal Medicine’s Sensuous Planet Festival, Sept. 27, 8pm-late; at CX, a consciousness-raising nightlife experience, in ritual and dance for eco-spirituality 

• Climate Cafe, "Red: A Mark Rothko Story," "Imagined Futures: Grief & Seeds," Sept. 28, 1-3pm; how to face climate pressures without being in a constant reactive state

• “PSYCA INTEGRATION EVENT - Collective Presencing and Space Holding,” 10/5, 12-1pm ET on Zoom; Facilitated by Anya Kamenetz, Author; Alina Zolotareva, Fresh Future Consulting; Julia Mande, Common Field - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: RSVP link.

PSYCA’S PRESENCE DURING CLIMATE WEEK (ET in NYC):

• The New York Times Climate Forward’s Changemaker Lunch Discussion, “Can Psychedelics Help Address Climate Change?” - Sept. 25 at The Times Center

• Orchestrated Connecting and the ReAssembly24 - Sept 26; Join investors, innovators, business leaders, creatives, and policy makers for a series of educational and interactive activities focused on the intersection of biodiversity, circularity, and climate solutions. 

• Transformative Impact Summit NYC, Sept. 27-29; today’s most inspiring changemakers, funders, and policy-makers share their work and co-create truly transformative change 

The Official Launch of Psychedelic-Climate Week Took Place: Sept. 17, 6-11pm at CX, 54 Crosby St
“PSYCA PREPARATION EVENT - Meet the Psychedelic-Climate Leaders: Expanding Consciousness and Driving Change,”
Doors 6pm / Content 7-9:30pm / Mycelial Networking, Discourse & Action Tracking 9:30-11pm

• Introductions & Announcements with PSYCA Founder, Marissa Feinberg

• “Tonight: Immersive Art Tracks Your Climate Action” Barbara Michaels / “Psychedelic Scholarships for Climate Activists,” Further Fund / “Art, Psychology, Emotions & Nature,” Katya Goltseva / “Psychedelic-Climate Epiphanies - Storytelling and Integrating Personal Narratives and Transformation” Charlotte Binns / “Feel Yourself,” KA! Empathogenics / “PSYCA Pilot: Journey Protocols for Inhabiting Nature and Inspiring Action” Jon Burmeister / “Healing Trauma and Politics,” Beond Ibogaine

• Opening: “The Interconnection of Biodiversity, Indigenous Rights and Plant Medicine” with Sutton King, Urban Indigenous Collective & Julia Mande, Common Field

• “Psychedelic and Climate Policy—What to Know and How to Take Local Action in an Election Year” with Aaron Genuth, Decriminalize Nature; Madeleine MacGillivray, Seeding Sovereignty 

• “Climate Action Integration—Bridging States of Being with Doing” with Amánda Argot Efthimiou, Integra 

• “Psychedelics, Leadership & Regenerative Systems” with Bennet Zelner, PhD, Connected Leadership Program & Study

• “Belonging: Past the Ego to Unlock Climate Action” with Eli Walker, The Uplift Center

• “The Future is Not Fixed—Your Reality Creation Roadmap” with Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest 

• “Beyond Climate: Expanding Perception to Connect with Earth Energies” with Stephanie Traeger, Intentional Paradigms

• “Herd Immunity for a Positive Climate Consciousness” with Dr. Steven Radowitz, Nushama

• “Balancing Investing & Impact with Climate & Psychedelic Capital” with Helena Wasserman, Unstoppable, Investors for Climate; Simeon Schnapper, JLS Fund; Rose Uzunova, Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative 

• “Problems and Opportunities: AI, Climate, and Unlikely Global Solutions” with De Kai 

• Closing: “Dialectic of Enlightenment - How Humanity Uses Plant-based Foods and Medicine to Create a Culture of Innovation” with Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky 

PSYCHEDELIC-CLIMATE WEEK PARTNERS
Ancient Future, Beond Ibogaine, Bizdelics, Brooklyn Mushroom, Brooklyn Psychedelic Society, Chacruna Institute, Climate Cafe, Club Rapture, CX, dig differently, Global Psychedelic Society, KA! Empathogenics, Kinlia, Lightning Society, Lucid News, Microdosing Collective, NY Climate Tech, Nocturnal Medicine, Nushama, Orbit, PAUSE, Psilocybin San Francisco, Psychedelic Assembly, Psychedelics Design, Radiical Systems, Roger Wu & ChaShaMa, Sugary, Swissnex, Transformative Impact Summit, Tricycle Day

PSYCHEDELIC-CLIMATE COMMITTEE
Charlotte Binns, Rei Chou, Maxi Cohen, Irina Demchenko, Cameron Dubes, Josh Fox, Sarah Fernandez, Alli Hanes, Adriana Kertzer, Anna Konstantinova, Olivia Kronemeyer, Gina Levy, Ben Matusow, Eva McGarry, Constanza Mirre, Amanda Nesheiwat, Janine Nicole Dennis, Tali Orad, Rekha Philip, Adena Philips, Alexandra Plesner, Milica Radovic Mandic, Rae Richman, Dr. Nitin Ron, Felissa Rubin, Liz Rubin, Anna Sacks, Liana Sananda Gillooly, Sarah Rose Siskind, Michaela Slutsky, Lizzy Snider, Emma Soleil, Evan Steiner, Ross Sullivan, Ashley Taylor, Isadora Tang, Olya Titova, Yvette Vexta, Daniel Zahler

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Psychedelics for Climate Action (PSYCA) - Our climate crisis calls for creative solutions now more than ever. PSYCA is a community that believes raising and expanding consciousness is key to unlocking the behavior and collective climate action we need for systems change.

Psychedelic experiences can inspire a profound feeling of oneness with all things and beings — our mission is to transform this awareness into meaningful climate action. At the forefront of a growing psychedelic-climate trend, this community includes founders, entrepreneurs, change makers, creatives, explorers, philanthropists, authors, doctors, scientists, speakers, investors, researchers, marketers, professors, catalysts, environmentalists, artists, influencers, activists & more.