Daniel McQueen - Medicinal Mindfulness & Conscious Cannabis Circles
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2016
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
- Healing power of cannabis
- Conscious Cannabis Circles
- Spiritual effects of cannabis
- Breathwork
- Tranpsersonal Psychology
- Psychedelic Shine
- Integration and self-care
Daniel earned a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa and received advanced training in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy through a year internship with the MAPS Boulder MDMA for PTSD Study. It was his experience with MAPS that inspired Daniel to explore alternative visions in psychedelic activism and entrepreneurship. Daniel bridges transpersonal paradigms with the grounded clinical and organizational skills necessary to begin addressing the significant ecological and mental health crises facing our society today. Although Daniel no longer practices as a clinical psychotherapist, he supports his clients as a teacher, coach, ally and event facilitator, providing individual and group transformational experiences and deeply held intentional conversations. In his practice, Daniel quickly realized that the most important intervention he could provide to his clients, who were isolated and longed for meaningful contact with others, was a sense of community. Medicinal Mindfulness is, in a very real way, a cultural intervention that provides a safe and transformational community container for healing and awakening... a program based on skill development and not dogma. Since 2012, Daniel has been teaching a psychedelic harm prevention and intentional psychedelic use course called Mindful Journeywork. Since the legalization of recreational cannabis in Colorado, he has been facilitating Conscious Cannabis Circles and individual cannabis journeys.
In addition to his work with Medicinal Mindfulness, Daniel has a successful spirituality and life coaching practice with his wife, Alison, through their company, Aspenroots Counseling LLC. Highly skilled in identifying and cultivating giftedness in young people and supporting significant life transitions, Daniel is inspired to support passionate and talented individuals striving to live into their calling. A primary focus of his practice involves assessing and addressing the benefits and difficulties related to psychedelic and cannabis use and misuse. Daniel co-founded the Naropa Alliance for Psychedelic Studies and helped organize the first annual Psychedelic Symposium at Naropa University in 2012. He is currently working with Grounding Solutions, Inc. to develop a natural rescue medicinal for users of psychedelics and cannabis. daniel@medicinalmindfulness.org
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Joe here, psychedelics today. Thanks for tuning in again. Today in the show, we have |
| 0:12.4 | Daniel McQueen of medicinal mindfulness. This is a great interview, really happy to be able to |
| 0:18.2 | share it with all of you out there. And really just great to connect |
| 0:21.9 | with Daniel and find out what he's doing. It seems like it's one of the more democratic approaches |
| 0:27.5 | to this work that we've really run into. I'm going to read you the bio directly from his website, |
| 0:34.2 | medicinal mindfulness.org. Danny McQueen, I'm executive director. |
| 0:39.9 | Daniel was always a little different from other folks growing up in Little Rock. |
| 0:43.5 | He discovered meditation and spiritual practices at 12 and has been exploring altered states |
| 0:49.8 | ever since. |
| 0:51.1 | He apprenticed under a number of shamanic teachers and has been a practicing intentional |
| 0:55.7 | journeyer for over 15 years. For Daniel working in the professional field of psychedelic harm |
| 1:00.4 | reduction isn't a career interest but represents a core identity and life calling. Finding a place |
| 1:06.1 | to honor such a life calling within a world has until recently been prohibited. It has been an interesting |
| 1:12.8 | challenge. After graduating from University of Arkansas with a degree in communication where he was a |
| 1:19.1 | student activist and non-native member of the Native American Student Association, Daniel traveled |
| 1:25.8 | down a many forked and unmarked road through the wild |
| 1:29.3 | terrain of political activism, corporate accountability research, and campaign finance reform |
| 1:34.1 | for many years in Washington, D.C. Disillusioned by the city, he moved to Florida and opened a |
| 1:39.2 | small meditation center to explore grassroots community organizing before moving to Boulder, Colorado, and |
| 1:44.8 | returning to school at Neuropa University. |
| 1:47.1 | Daniel learned a master's degree in transpersonal counseling psychology from Neuropa and received |
| 1:52.5 | advanced training in MDMA assisted psychotherapy through a year internship with the Maps |
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