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Psychedelic Research Beyond the Protocol
Featured Pre-summit Conversation with Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD
RECORDED OCTOBER 27, 2026 · AVAILABLE ON DEMAND
Watch Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD in conversation with PLE founder, Pedram Dara, exploring longer-term outcomes, safety and support beyond treatment, what current measures may miss, and how psychedelic research can better reflect people’s lived experiences.
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Register free and you’ll receive:
✓ Immediate access to the full Robin Carhart-Harris conversation
✓ Selected most-watched interviews and panels from the 2025 summit
✓ Access to additional pre-summit content and updates
We’ll explore:
Longer-term outcomes, what current measures may miss, safety and support beyond treatment, qualitative and lived experience evidence, and where psychedelic research may need to go next.
The conversation also draws on themes from Robin’s new book, How Psychedelics Work, exploring what decades of psychedelic research can tell us about the mind, therapeutic change, and the future of psychedelic science.
About the conversation
💻 Recorded live online
🗓️ October 27, 2026
⏳ 60-minute conversation
🎥 Full recording available immediately after registration
Meet the speakers
Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD
Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, is the Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at UCSF and a leading researcher in psychedelic neuroscience. He founded Imperial College London’s Centre for Psychedelic Research and has led influential studies of psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, and DMT.
Pedram Dara (Host)
Pedram Dara is a former MDMA-assisted therapy clinical trial participant and founder and director of Psychedelic Lived Experiences, a patient-led initiative bringing lived experience and clinical science together to strengthen safety, ethics, and decision-making across psychedelic research, care, and policy.
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Register for immediate access to the full conversation with Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD and Pedram Dara. You’ll also receive selected highlights from the 2025 Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit.
November 20–22, 2026
Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit
2026 Theme: Beyond the Protocol
Join a global, multi-stakeholder summit bringing patients, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and organizations together to examine real-world outcomes, emerging risks, and support gaps after psychedelic treatment.
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Psychedelic Lived Experiences is a patient-led initiative bridging lived experience and clinical science to strengthen decision-making in psychedelic research, care, and policy.
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Yes. Register for free and you’ll receive immediate access to the full recording.
The conversation was recorded live on October 27, 2026.
You’ll receive immediate access to the full Robin Carhart-Harris conversation, along with selected highlights from the 2025 Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit and additional pre-summit updates.
The Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit 2026 brings together patients, trial participants, caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and organizations to examine safety, real-world outcomes, and support gaps after psychedelic treatment. Taking place online November 20–22 under the theme Beyond the Protocol, the summit features nine working roundtables and three synthesis panels, each organized around practical questions about better research and care. The independent summit is built and led by people with firsthand experience of psychedelic trials and treatments. It creates space for lived experience to help shape the agenda. Session outputs will inform a post-summit paper documenting findings, gaps, and priorities. Organized by Psychedelic Lived Experiences and hosted by Pedram Dara.