Do you work in psychedelic clinical research? In this short Behind the Scenes Update (Dec 20, 2025), our founder and director, Pedram Dara @pedramdara.bsky.social, shares how a new initiative is taking shape following conversations from the first-ever Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit.

This is why outcomes ≠ experiences. Healing doesn’t always show up on a checklist, but it still shows up in real life.

Behind the Scenes Update | Dec 13, 2025 In this short update, our founder & director Pedram Dara, @pedramdara.bsky.social shares reflections on what has been happening behind the scenes in the psychedelic research and education space over the past few weeks. #LivedExperience #Psychedelics

Behind the Scenes Update | Dec 8, 2025 In this short update, our founder and director, Pedram Dara, @pedramdara.bsky.social shares what’s coming up after the first-ever Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit. #LivedExperience #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalResearch #PatientVoices #PatientAdvocacy

Patients and trial participants are the ones who take part in regulated psychedelic-assisted therapy research, yet their perspectives are often missing from the conversations that shape this field. #LivedExperience #ClinicalTrials #ClinicalResearch #PatientAdvocacy #psychedelics

We did it. The world’s first Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit has officially wrapped and what started as a response to a major gap in the field has now become a global movement. 3,000+ attendees from 74 countries. 3 full days. 54 speakers. #psychedelics #livedexperience

Behind the Scenes Update | Nov 16, 2025 In this week’s update, Founder and Director @pedramdara.bsky.social shares what unfolded during the final stretch of preparing for next week’s Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit. Claim Your Free Pass: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit #psychedelics

3 weeks until the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit (Nov 21–23 | Free & Virtual). Join us to hear from 50+ patients, therapists, and researchers. Explore the potential and limits of psychedelic treatments. Claim Your Free Pass: psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit #livedexperience

I’m excited to share I’ll be speaking at #PS2025 (June 19 at 2:30 PM on Rick Doblin's stage) in Denver, sharing insights on lived experience in psychedelic care. I'm part of a groundbreaking panel, a first at Psychedelic Science led by MDMA-assisted therapy trial participants.

Scientists are joining. Now we need the journalists to join along with politicians to bring news along with them.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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