The Center for Natural Intelligence’s

Innovation and Awareness Collective

The Innovation and Awareness Collective (IAC) is a consortium of clinical experts and healing practitioners convened to innovate and develop methodologies to advance the practice and artistry of psychedelic psychotherapy. The consortium is a project of the Center for Natural Intelligence (CNI).

Collaborators

  • Bessel van der Kolk

  • Licia Sky

  • Gita Vaid

  • Monica Winsor

  • Charlie Smith

  • Mariah Rooney

  • Linda Thai

  • Steve Rosonke

  • Center for Natural Intelligence

About the collective.

IAC’s founding assertion is that healing is an art form. Psychedelic medicines affords the mental illness treatment model an opportunity for substantial rethinking and reconfiguration. We wish to promote an approach to treatment and healing that cultivates mental well-being, imagination and emotional flourishing through novel psychotherapy protocols.

Our mandate is to develop new frameworks for practice, new healing strategies and principles, and by extension, to disrupt current treatment approaches and cultivate new foundations for research and scholarship in the field.

We will establish two tracks for scholars and practitioners from :

  • The field of psychology and psychiatry.

  • Scholars from spiritual studies, a diversity of healing wisdom traditions and the “underground" psychedelic healing community.

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