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Feb 2023
1h 37m

051 | Re-Imagining Psychedelics for Crea...

Modern Psychedelics
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If you haven't come across Laura Dawn yet, you are in for a treat! She has deeply integrated and developed her thought leadership, having been on the medicine path for 25 years. Her ability to speak into the essence of what it means to walk to medicine path is liberating to listen to.

Today's conversation turns the mainstream narrative of psychedelics for healing on its head. We explore the use of psychedelics for creativity, problem solving, and "be-friending" oneself.

Laura Dawn, M.Sc, is the host of The Psychedelic Leadership Podcast and Founder & Director of Grow Medicine. She has a Masters in Science specializing in Creativity & Change Leadership and is at the forefront of exploring the intersection between psychedelics and creative cognition for leadership development.

You are going to be so ignited and inspired by this conversation!


Topics covered:

  • Laura’s 25 years of experiences on the medicine path
  • The medicine path as an exploration of courage, authenticity and vulnerability
  • Boundary pushing and challenging paradigms with psychedelics
  • The intersection of psychedelics, creativity and leadership
  • Challenging the mainstream lens through which we view psychedelics
  • Set and setting for psychedelics for creative problem solving
  • Engaging with psychedelics using the 4 P’s of Creativity
  • Nature as a teacher of creativity
  • What it means to walk the medicine path: humility, integrity, alignment, and joy
  • Humor, lightness and levity on the medicine path


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