PT557 – Psychedelic Education Through a Healing Justice Lens, with Diana Quinn, ND
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Diana Quinn, ND: naturopathic doctor, healing justice practitioner, and director of clinical education at the Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies, where she directs their Psilocybin Facilitator Training certificate program.
She discusses her path from anthropology to naturopathy, and eventually to psychedelics and activism, finding a framework for psychedelic education grounded in healing justice, which recognizes the impact of collective trauma on all of us, seeks to reclaim lost or stolen models of healing, focuses on equity and accessibility, and brings an anti-oppression lens to training programs to give students a greater capacity for culturally responsive care. She encourages seeing things from an anti-capitalist viewpoint, and recognizes the huge clash between using such powerful and mystical medicines inside structures so embedded with problematic human qualities. How can you build inside of these Western systems without being affected by that capitalist energy?
She discusses:
- The importance of respecting plants from other cultures – that no healing or consciousness expansion is justifiable when it threatens an entire species
- The challenge of integrating the weirdest parts of non-ordinary states into education: How does a Western framework come to terms with the ineffable?
- How colonialism and the culture born from it has hurt us all
- The importance of finding your own lineage and what is sacred to you
- The work of Rick Tarnas and the amazing patterns we can find in astrology
and more!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore. Today on the show, |
| 0:17.0 | we have Diana Quinn N.D. Director of Clinical Education, Neuropa Center for Psychedelic Studies. |
| 0:23.9 | We had a lovely conversation here actually on the Neuropa campus, which is always a treat. |
| 0:29.9 | And we actually had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year at the Aspen Psychedelic Symposium, |
| 0:35.4 | which was really fun as well. had, I forget, maybe breakfast |
| 0:39.3 | or coffee or something. And that was great too. So really just lovely to get Diana on the show |
| 0:45.3 | finally and excited to learn about what's going on over at Neuropa, which is always an interesting |
| 0:51.1 | place. And yeah, just great to connect. |
| 0:54.6 | And hopefully we can collaborate on some things in the future with Noreopa. |
| 0:58.1 | All right. |
| 0:58.6 | Well, enjoy this show with Diana Quinn and D. |
| 1:01.2 | And we will see you on the other side. |
| 1:06.3 | Now here we are at Noreopa in Boulder. |
| 1:10.0 | Diana Quinn. How are you today? I'm great. How are you, Joe? |
| 1:13.2 | Lovely. Lovely. I had the pleasure of meeting you at Aspen, their recent symposium this summer, |
| 1:20.3 | and that was really fun, and I'm excited to finally get you on the show to learn about you, your |
| 1:25.3 | background, and what's going on here at Neuropa and more. |
| 1:27.8 | Thanks. Glad to be here. I think we teed up a really interesting conversation that we'll save |
| 1:31.8 | towards the close. So we're both excited to dig in on that one. So starting, let's contextualize |
| 1:40.0 | a little bit for folks and then we can rewind the tape. So currently, what is your position here |
| 1:45.4 | at Noropa? My role is Director of Clinical Education at the Center for Psychedelic Studies. |
| 1:51.5 | Great. And what are your credentials? It feels like a rude question sometimes. Sure. No, that's |
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