GPS Network Meeting: When Harm Happens: Mutual Aid and Repair in Psychedelic Communities

A conversation with Mikaela de la Myco

A note on care: we will be speaking directly about sensual and sexual harm. Tend to yourself however you need during the session, including stepping away and returning.

Prohibition has kept harm in our communities out of view. It has made naming sensual and sexual harm risky for the people who survive it, and made it easy for many to look away, defer, or wait for someone else to carry the conversation.

As psychedelic societies hold essential roles in education and community care, the question becomes unavoidable. What do we owe the people harmed in our spaces? What does support look like when there is no institution to hand it to, and when the person causing harm is someone the community depends on? How do we build containers where repair is possible, rather than containers where silence is simply more comfortable?

In this session, Mikaela will share her work with MAAT, a mutual aid initiative supporting survivors of harm in the wellness community, and the trauma-informed, earth-centered practices she has developed over a decade of filling gaps our field has been slow to name. From there, we will open into a broader conversation, inviting participants to bring what they are already carrying as organizers, facilitators and community members: the situations you have navigated without a map, the norms you are trying to build, and the questions you have not had a place to ask.

Before the session, take a few minutes to sit with this: if someone were harmed in your community tomorrow, what would actually happen? Who would they go to, what would that person be able to offer, and what would be missing? A note on care: we will be speaking directly about sensual and sexual harm. Tend to yourself however you need during the session, including stepping away and returning.

Mikaela de la Myco serves as a mother, mushWOMB educator, facilitator, researcher and eco-sensual in the plant medicine, womb care and ethics space.

Supporting from Kumeyaay & Luiseño territories (San Diego, CA), she advocates for trauma-informed and earth-centered practices, filling in educational and service gaps in the wellness community.

She founded Mothers of the Mushroom, a citizen research project studying mothers who ingested psilocybin mushroom during pregnancy, breastfeeding, and postpartum and MAAT, a mutual aid initiative supporting survivors of harm in the wellness community. Her work has been featured in Microdosing for Health, Healing and Enhanced Performance, The Psilocybin Handbook for Women, and many other publications, podcasts and media outlets.

In her collaboration with organizations, families, and practitioners across the psychedelic field, she is committed to being a dear friend and ally in the struggle to rematriate entheogens.

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GPS Network Meeting: When Harm Happens: Mutual Aid and Repair in Psychedelic Communities with Mikaela de la Myco

Wednesday, August 26 - 11am PT / 2pm ET / 8pm CET