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Sara earned her PhD at Columbia University in medical anthropology and public health, and an MSW at the University of Chicago. Her research sits at the intersection of religion, culture and healing with an emphasis on non-ordinary states. As a Fulbright scholar, she conducted long term ethnographic research in India, culminating in her book, Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism, which investigates how Buddhist concepts of mind shape traumatic memory and pathways to resilience. Sara has also published research on ayahuasca and spiritual emergencies.

At Naropa University, Sara served as Associate Professor and Chair of Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology. She co-founded the Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies, and has trained upwards of 400 students in providing psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is the director of Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts’  Colorado-approved Natural Medicine training program. As a contemplative psychotherapist, she specializes in intergenerational trauma and healing through Somatic Experiencing and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She serves as an MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training Consultant with Lykos Therapeutics and provides ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

Sara upholds her ancestral traditions of Celtic and Hungarian lineages, and is a long-time Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner, alongside her husband, Brett. They live in Longmont, Colorado with their spirited daughter, Matilda. 

For more than two decades, Marcela Ot’alora G. who was born and raised in Colombia has contributed to the research of the safety and efficacy of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD. She is a psychotherapist, artist, and researcher living in Boulder, Colorado. Deeply rooted in her maternal traditions kept alive through storytelling, she honors her grandmother’s belief that to make a positive difference in this world, work must be a manifestation of our love. She is deeply grateful to the women in her family for modeling bravery and resilience through love and the celebration of compassionate and caring relationships.

She has been a principal investigator, therapist, mentor consultant and lead trainer for phase I, II, and III clinical trials for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Lykos Therapeutics.

Marcela has an MA in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Bruce identifies as a cis-gender, neuro-diverse, white male and is an experiential learner.  He was a sub-investigator/therapist, and continues as a mentor clinical supervisor and lead trainer in the MAPS/Lykos Therapeutics-sponsored Phase I, II and III MDMA-Assisted Therapy trials for PTSD since 2012. He continues to have the privilege of training practitioners in “MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD” internationally.

His primary influence for therapy is Process Oriented Psychology developed by Arnold Mindell.  He was always interested in psychology but found the ‘therapy process too slow’, given his ADHD, until being introduced to psychedelic assisted therapy in the late 90’s.  That experience changed the direction of his life. Bruce combines somatic, contemplative and awareness processes to identify the phenomena present in the therapy container. He loves working with people inspired by being in ‘right relationship.’

During the 80’s Bruce was an ICU nurse at University of California San Francisco when the AIDS pandemic first began and during that time was able to study ‘living’ with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. He went on to receive a Master of Public Health from the University of California Berkeley. In the early 90’s he developed and ran public health programs including a nurse-midwife based perinatal program, serving low-income women, and a childhood abuse prevention program pairing public health nurses with community mental health workers.

In addition, Bruce has worked extensively with people in chronic pain as an educator and Rolfer for 25 years. His work with MDMA for PTSD has deepened his appreciation of the importance of being worthy of trust, of being with people who turn their lives around in response to care, compassion and understanding, while being able to sit in the perpetrator role as needed, and acknowledging his ‘training’ as a perpetrator, in our challenging society.  

He sits on the Board of the International Alliance of MDMA Practitioners and loves to be in dialogue on the issues surrounding working with psychedelics as well as the importance of mainstreaming psychedelics.

As a Black, queer, transmasculine, gender expansive, polyamorous, and kinky healing practitioner Syre is passionate about working with those who are marginalized in society. Syre practices from a liberation-centered, multidimensional feminist perspective, centering collaboration and embodied sovereignty. Syre is committed to energy work and psychedelic medicine as a path toward liberation and healing intergenerational wounds. Syre is a Co-Founder and Director of Programming of Cora Center, a queer and BIPOC-led psilocybin service center in Portland, OR, that centers serving marginalized communities. Syre is a licensed psilocybin facilitator in the state of Oregon.

Syre completed training in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He has an OHA-approved certificate in Psilocybin Facilitation from Alma Institute and a Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies from Naropa University. Syre is a sought-after psychedelic educator. He has been an educator with the Integrate Queer Facilitation Training team and a Core Faculty member and Clinical Skills Practice Group Leader at Naropa University in the Psychedelic Assisted Therapies Certificate Program and the Psilocybin Facilitation Certificate Program.

Syre is also a frequently invited speaker on psychedelics within marginalized communities. Most recently, he presented on Psychedelics For Black Trans Liberation at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

Syre graduated with a Master’s Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University in New York City. He has been a fully licensed psychologist in private practice since 2010. He is a Registered Yoga Teacher (Hatha & Kemetic), a Level II Ra Sekhi Kemetic Energy Medicine Practitioner, and a Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master. Syre is also the founder of Liberation Reiki, a path of Reiki that centers the energetic intergenerational healing of BIPOC and queer folx.