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  How to transform hurt into healing: stories from Zendo Project
  Zendo Project volunteers and staff share stories about psychedelic care and harm reduction. These stories highlight Zendo Project’s techniques, our Four Principles, and tips for transforming challenging experiences into opportunities for healing and growth.
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  Psychedelic Care in Recreational Settings with Valerie Beltrán
  Cato de Vos of OPEN Foundation, Amanda Guzinska of PsyCareUK, and Valerie Beltran, Outreach Director for Zendo Project discuss how to provide care and emotional support to people in non-ordinary states (aka altered or expanded states) from psychedelics (eg. psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, ketamine, opioids, cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines, etc), grief, or any intense emotional experience that… Read more: Psychedelic Care in Recreational Settings with Valerie Beltrán
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  Zendo Project Expands Offering Its Peer Support Model To Mainstream Communities
  In an effort to support broader community-based mental health services, the Zendo is shifting its focus. According to Pires, the project needs to redirect its resources to have sustainable global impact and share its innovative model outside of the Burning Man container where it was incubated.
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  Psychedelic Support hosts Sara and Chelsea for a Harm Reduction Talk
  Chelsea Rose Pires, MA, LMFT and Sara Gael, MA, LPCC have over 17 collective years of harm reduction and peer support expertise with MAPS Zendo Project. Chelsea, a CIIS Counseling Psychology graduate has a passion for harm reduction as a therapeutic and practical approach to drug use and abuse prevention while Sara, a Naropa University… Read more: Psychedelic Support hosts Sara and Chelsea for a Harm Reduction Talk
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  Clarity Project Hosts Chelsea Rose of Zendo Project and Wesley Bellanca of Fireside Project
  Clarity Project is a Hawaiʻi-based organization working on psychedelic access through education & advocacy. Wesley was part of volunteer harm reduction Sanctuary Team with smaller Burning Man events. He started writing for Psychedelic Times and became editor-in-chief. He now works with Fireside Project, started in April of 2021. Fireside is a totally free service and nonprofit for people to… Read more: Clarity Project Hosts Chelsea Rose of Zendo Project and Wesley Bellanca of Fireside Project
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  Intro to MAPS and Harm Reduction with Sara Gael
  Q&A with Sara Gael, M.A., Harm Reduction Officer, Zendo Project & MAPS What is the history of MAPS and how did it begin? Since 1986, MAPS has been conducting research to create safe, legal, qualified access to psychedelic therapies for people who may benefit. As we conduct trials to inform our application for approval from… Read more: Intro to MAPS and Harm Reduction with Sara Gael