A world where all people can find well-being

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.

Ian-Michael Hébert is a retreat center designer and psychotherapist. He holds a BA in design and development, and an MA in counseling psychology and community mental health. He has served on numerous non-profit boards, and worked for many institutions committed to the development of humanity’s potential. He is CEO of Holos Global, a retreat center and regenerative oasis in the jungles of Costa Rica.

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.

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.

Sean is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer/director of photography based in Toronto, Canada. Sean works with social impact organizations and mission driven businesses with authentic stories to share. As a filmmaker of Canadian-Secwepemc descent he also specializes in Indigenous productions and storytelling.

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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.

Joel is a Research Assistant at the Behavioral Wellness Clinic, where he assists with the MAPS-sponsored  MDMA-PTSD expanded access study. His work includes scheduling, managing data, and supporting clients as a night attendant. Joel also works as a therapist assistant for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clients.

Joel graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.A. in Psychological Science, Magna Cum Laude, where he was designated a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Prior to attending the University of Connecticut, he received formal training and supervised clinical practicum at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, for his Behavioral Health Specialist (68X) position in the Army Reserves. Joel's research experiences as a McNair Scholar and Research Assistant have been integral to his development as a research professional. His research interests broadly surround substance use disorders and PTSD, which have arisen in part from his involvement with the U.S. military. These interests have primarily come from his upbringing as a Mexican American in an impoverished community in rural Illinois, where problematic substance use and violence were characteristic of the environment.

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 a 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.