A world where all people can find well-being

Arjun is an award-winning writer, editor, and strategist from Montréal, QC. For the past 20 years he has worked with multinationals, luxury brands, associations, and charities in a variety of industries. Over the years he has spoken at multiple conferences on content strategy and marketing. He is semi-famous for his 140 character stories on Twitter.

Amánda Efthimiou is a mental health and psychedelic wellness advocate. She is the founder of Integra, which advises companies, retreat centers, and facilitators on the tools, content, and frameworks necessary for integrating transformational experiences and psychedelic journeys. Her most recent clients are leading the mental wellbeing and alternative healthcare sectors, including Headspace, the world's largest meditation app and Woven Science, an ecosystem of companies that creates and supports early-stage psychedelic and wellness companies in the US, Canada, and Europe.  Her work also bridges the sacred wisdom of transformation with the science of healing.

She’s on the Board of Directors for the foundation El Puente, which bridges the modern science of psychedelic therapy with indigenous wisdom traditions while creating a model of reciprocity for the psychedelics sector. Amánda earned her MSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London with a focus on the effects of integrative therapies using psilocybin with psychotherapy.

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.

Shiri Godasi is a teacher, author, visionary creatrix, depth poet and mother. She is passionate about creating a decolonized, psychedelic-positive counterculture and empowering people to step into radical authenticity/radical action and co-create a just world. Shiri is best known for her pioneering methods in the field of psychedelic integration and community bridging, including founding 5 entheogenic harm reduction organizations; directing a professional psychedelic therapy & creative leadership training program; and innovating a proven integration treatment protocol called The Psyched Soul™ Method. Shiri specializes in multidimensional, quantum-leap life transformations, soulcode recovery & realignment. Her approach draws from consciousness & cosmology, transpersonal psychology, quantum healing, Eastern philosophy and multidisciplinary arts, fusing ancient wisdom with modern practices for a ‘Psyched’ lifestyle.

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.

Trevor is currently the co-founder of Ambio, an ibogaine treatment centre for veterans located in Mexico.

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.