Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit

Scheduled for 21–23 November 2025, the free, virtual Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit is organised by a patient-led collective determined to put first-hand voices at the centre of psychedelic medicine. By gathering patients, therapists, researchers and advocates across time zones, the summit flips the usual hierarchy of conferences and asks one core question: what can clinical science learn when it listens first to the people who have taken the medicine?

Across three days of livestreamed keynotes, moderated panels and intimate breakout rooms, participants will trade data sheets for lived narratives of recovery, challenge and integration. Themes range from trauma-informed preparation and disability-rights access to culturally rooted approaches for navigating altered states. Personal testimonies are paired with qualitative research, giving attendees concrete, experience-driven insights they can feed back into trial design, therapist training and policy making.

Because the event is entirely online—with recordings available on demand—barriers to entry are intentionally low, ensuring that those historically treated as study subjects rather than decision-makers can shape the agenda. By the closing session, the organisers aim to have seeded a network of practitioners and policy shapers who regard patient wisdom not as anecdote but as indispensable evidence for building ethical, equitable and effective psychedelic care.