A world where all people can find well-being

Co-founder at Coop Counsel where he helps non-profits and social enterprises with their mission. Master of Arts in Political Science from Dalhousie University, 2010. Juris Doctorate from University of Alberta Faculty of Law, 2014. Elliot is a member of the Alberta Law Society and the British Columbia Law Society. Fellow with Sustainable Economies Law Centre in Oakland, California.

Elliot is a member of ACCA and BCCA and has collaborated with both associations presenting on cooperative start-up formation, cooperative innovation, and cooperatives and green energy. Elliot has been providing independent legal services to co-operatives, social enterprise and community-minded businesses since 2017.

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Cory is a former media agency founder and human impact entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in communications, brand strategy, business design, functional health and human optimization.

Cory has committed his career to a vision of the future where mental health and disease are viewed as holistic, collective experiences and the shame and stigmatization of our communities are replaced with compassion and connection. A future that inspires the world with its ability to accept, support and provide opportunities for all of its people to reunite with our innate abilities to heal, overcome and actualize our full potential.

Cory is the Executive Director of the Psychedelic Association of Canada.

David is a mindfulness guide and conscious business advisor living in Vancouver, BC. He bridges wisdom traditions with modern living with a practical lens on what it means to live life with purpose, heart, and harmony. A student of Yogananda's teachings and zen philosophies for 25 years, he strives to live an embodied life that is authentic, grounded, and joyful. He is also Pascal's best friend and an hilarious comedian.

Peter is the founder of Evolve Investing, an investment advisory firm exclusively focused on value-aligned, impact, and environmental, social, & governance (ESG) investing. His background includes direct experience working in financial markets, in both investment banking and hedge fund management. Peter also has experience in early-stage investing as both an angel investor and a principal at a pre-seed venture capital fund. Peter is also a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner. For several years, he helped people break through limiting beliefs, restore balance, and achieve meaningful goals and desired outcomes.

Dr. Pamela Kryskow is a medical doctor in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is medical lead at the Roots to Thrive program in Vancouver. Her training includes Family Medicine, Rural Emergency Medicine, Chronic pain, Functional Medicine and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. She is currently working with colleagues on research related to Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Psychedelic Microdosing, MDMA for Chronic Pain, Psilocybin, and Psychedelic therapy.

Sadaf is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing psychotherapist, educator, facilitator, and social innovator. Her passions lie at the insersections of science and sacred, psychedelics and wellness, and in helping create safer spaces for transformation.

"My community has been a significant source of growth and nourishment for me. I am the constellation of healers, educators, mentors, activists, artists, and leaders, who have helped me internalize the value of support, reliability, transparency, collaboration, and empowerment. These principles inform my vision of holding a space to feel heard and nurtured, lean into discomfort, and soften into healing.

My daily personal journey includes the committed practice of mindfulness and meditation—expanding the space within for the cultivation of present-moment, focused, compassionate, and responsible living. During my morning meditations, I often reflect on how I am feeling about my day and I end the practice grateful for the presence of a compassionate, listening heart.

I believe that with adversity there remains space for healthy expression, healing, and growth. Our ability to embrace this space is influenced by a complex, interconnected system. With a compassionate heart, my daily commitment is to show up for myself and the world, holding brave spaces that inspire motivation for our inner and collective well-being."

Joseph is the Program Director of Chacruna’s Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative where he conducts collaborative research and build connections with Indigenous communities throughout the Americas to support Chacruna’s mission of increasing cultural reciprocity in the psychedelic space. IRI raises unconditional funding for 20 Indigenous community organizations with strict adherence to the parameters determined by Indigenous partners, present at conferences and universities and publish articles that explore reciprocity, biocultural conservation, plant medicines and Indigenous rights, and engage with Indigenous and local stakeholders on their own terms to provide on-the-ground support and ethnographic and audiovisual materials.

Lore is deeply dedicated, devoted and passionate about healing. As a relational somatic therapist and expressive arts therapist, Lore integrates trauma informed, mindfulness, gender affirming, feminist, harm reduction, social justice, shamanic and spiritual approaches to their practise and into their daily life. They support creative, compassionate and embodied integration of empathogen, entheogen, and plant dieta experiences.

Trevor Millar is a social-entrepreneur who has played a role in advancing the psychedelic movement for nearly a decade. He has the unique perspective of having operated a business where he legally administered psychedelics to over 200 people within Canada, mostly for substance use disorder. He is a board member and co-founder of the Canadian Psychedelic Association and from 2018 to 2021 was on the board of directors for the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada, where he acted as Chair of the Board for over two years.

From 2012 to 2017, Trevor was active as the founder and President of Liberty Root Therapy Inc., a business dedicated to healing and transformation by legally providing the plant medicine ibogaine to people mostly with opiate use disorder.

Sam is a marketing and strategy consultant, a new mom, and co-founder at Better Basics. She has 15 years of marketing leadership experience with lululemon, Saje Natural Wellness and AG Hair, and advertising agency IF. Samantha has an MBA from Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and a track record of performance and success.

Brent Vatne is a software developer from Vancouver, BC. He is one of the prominent developers in the React Native community, author and contributor to multiple open source libraries, Expo, speaker on many conferences, dog lover and marathon runner.

At the age of 29 Raven found herself feeling the weight of years of unresolved past wounds, verbal abuse, sexual trauma and deep-rooted feelings of abandonment. At the time she worked as a bottle server in the Miami nightlife scene. She was also dabbling with coke, drinking excessively and feeling as if her life was going nowhere fast. She struggled with anxiety, depression and sadness.

During this time Raven received a visit from a benevolent being showing her as a ball of light and being surrounded by other light beings blessing her on her journey. This encounter was a turning point for her, the desire to free herself from years of pain was ignited.

Raven then quit her job with a trail of financial debt hanging on her sleeve. She gave up her apartment and car and moved in with her best friend throwing herself into day-long meditations and seclusion. Ironically she was then hired to manage a restaurant and lounge in Dubai and although the opportunity was incredibly expansive, after the move Raven very quickly realized it was not the right fit.

Back in Miami Raven was led to the natural healing modality of Reiki. Her study of Reiki became the bridge between her own personal trauma and deep healing. For three years she rode a rollercoaster of extreme highs and profound lows experiencing a stint of homelessness, emotional upheavals, repairing the relationship with her father and the relationship with herself most importantly. She found solace in being in service through Reiki to Cancer patients, children, animals, friends and family.

Raven was then led to Costa Rica and began working with retreat centers and providing consulting and support to local wellness programs. This is where she encountered Iboga for the first time. This would become the redefining moment of who she was and how she would walk through life from that moment forward.

Working with Iboga granted her the opportunity to heal trauma throughout her ancestral lineage, as well as heal the deepest layers of her sexual trauma. She was freed from many things and in turn felt the love of Iboga so deeply that she followed the call to Gabon, Africa to be initiated into the Bwiti Tradition.

Raven is a Reiki Master, Advanced Belief Clearing Practitioner and a Holistic Stress Management and Ho’oponopono instructor. Using her own life experiences and lessons learned along the way she uses the gift of storytelling and these multiple modalities to inspire others to live with passion, to take risks, be unafraid to make mistakes and to recognize that pain can be transcended into power and love.

Lore is deeply dedicated, devoted and passionate about healing. As a relational somatic therapist and expressive arts therapist, Lore integrates trauma informed, mindfulness, gender affirming, feminist, harm reduction, social justice, shamanic and spiritual approaches to their practise and into their daily life. They support creative, compassionate and embodied integration of empathogen, entheogen, and plant dieta experiences.

Kester is an outdoor mentor leading land-based learning and nature connection work in Canada at his nature school Fianna.

He has a background of conservation field work in the tropics, mainly in the Western Amazon: Peru and Ecuador. It was during work with isolated Achuar communities of Pastaza’s interior that Kester came to know Flavio in 2014. They quickly established that they had shared vision, and Kester began to spend time with Flavio’s family – learning and assisting them in such ways as he could. Kester is a writer, and Flavio requested that he begin work on a book telling the history of the Ayuy Yu clan. Working from some seventy hours of recordings with Flavio and some elders, Kester has been crafting the story that tells of the clan’s origins and purpose – where they are from, and where they are going. Flavio is keen for the story to reach Western ears, in the English language, and that the story reflect the Mystery and Wealth of their lived experience as medicine people and true guardians of ancestral territories. Kester also assists Flavio with international travel, facilitating and interpreting for events and ceremonies. He lives between Canada and Ecuador.