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Educational Workshop for Professionals
Lived Experience as Quality and Safety Infrastructure in Psychedelic Care
🗓 APR 11, 2026 • 10AM PT | 1PM ET | 17:00 UTC
Lived experience is often treated as anecdote or advocacy. What if it functioned as quality and safety infrastructure?
This live workshop introduces core terminology, a simple framework for different lived-experience types, common failure modes, and practical ways to integrate lived expertise into research, training, protocols, and post-treatment pathways.
Access this workshop with a Summit Professional Pass.Â
Discover how lived experience expertise can move from “nice-to-have” input to a structured tool for safer, more valid decisions.
Built for teams working in regulated clinical or research contexts.
Who should attend
- Therapists, facilitators, and clinicians working in psychedelic-assisted therapy contexts
- Researchers, trial staff, quality assurance leads, and study monitors or coordinators
- Program leaders, educators, ethics and safety stakeholders
- Informed patients/trial participants working in advocacy or research.
What you’ll learn
- Define lived experience expertise vs stories/testimonials
- Map different lived experiences
- Spot common failure modes: tokenism, omission, unclear mandate, no feedback loop
- Identify high-leverage touchpoints across the care/research lifecycle
- Apply a simple maturity model and checklist to your own work
Event details:
🗓️ Date: Saturday, April 11th, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET | 17:00 UTC | 19:00 CEST
🎟️ Access: Included with Summit Professional All Access Pass
🧑‍💻 Format: 45min presentation with 20–30min Q&A (recording shared with registrants)
Access and eligibility
This workshop is included for Professional All Access Pass holders from the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit. If you have a Professional Pass, you should have received an email with instructions to register using the same email used for your summit purchase. Didn't get an email? Check spam/promo folder and get in touch via our contact page ->
Don't have a Summit Professional All Access Pass?
Workshop access is limited to Professional All Access Pass holders. Get your pass now.
Agenda
- Why lived experience input matters for quality and safety
- Key terms and distinctions
- Framework: types of lived experience and their relevance
- Current landscape: where it works and where it falls short
- Operating model: roles, decisions, and practical integration points
- Q&A and next steps
Key takeaways
- A shared vocabulary you can use in teams and institutions
- A practical integration map (design → consent → conduct → follow-up → interpretation)
- A one-page checklist to reduce tokenism and strengthen impact and accountability
- Networking with peers and fellow psychedelic professionalsÂ
Meet the presenter
Pedram Dara is the founder and director of Psychedelic Lived Experiences, a patient-led initiative bridging clinical science and lived experience to strengthen decision-making in research, practice, and policy through actionable insights.
A former participant in an MDMA-assisted therapy clinical trial, he has advocated for improved patient safety and treatment efficacy since 2019. Combining his background in media and technology with qualitative intelligence and systems thinking, he is building a participant-centered infrastructure that enhances safety, ethics, and long-term outcomes in clinical innovation.
He also organizes the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit, a global convening of 3,000+ attendees from 74 countries uniting patients, trial participants, therapists, and researchers. His work has informed key discussions with policymakers, including at the U.S. FDA and the European Parliament.
Educational Workshop for Professionals
Lived Experience as Quality and Safety Infrastructure in Psychedelic Care
A live educational workshop for professionals working in or interested in clinical applications of psychedelics. Join this unique session on how lived experience can move from “nice-to-have” input to a structured tool for safer, more valid decisions.
🗓️ Date: Saturday, April 11th, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET | 17:00 UTC | 19:00 CEST
Access this workshop with a Summit Professional Pass.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find quick answers to common questions about the event.
Psychedelic Lived Experience is a patient-led initiative bridging clinical science and lived experience to strengthen decision-making in research, practice, and policy through actionable insights.
To get in touch, visit our contact page ->
If you have a Professional All Access Pass from the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit (2025), the workshop is included and you should have received an email with your free registration link (contact us if you didn’t). If you don’t have a Professional Pass, you purchase a Professional All Access Pass to have the workshop included.
Yes. A recording will be shared with registrants.
Join the First-Ever Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit (Online 3-Day Event: November 21–23, 2025). Bridging science and human experience with nuanced wisdom. Hear from 50+ patients, trial participants, therapists, and researchers as they share lived wisdom and expert insights. Explore the potential and limits of psychedelic treatments with raw stories that move beyond hype and fear, highlight true complexity, and deepen understanding.
Yes. You’ll receive a link after registration.
No. Educational content for regulated clinical/research contexts; not medical advice.