Shannon Clare Petitt - MAPS, Zendo and an update on MDMA's status
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2016
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
Download Joe and Kyle talk to Shannon Clare Petitt about the current state of MDMA research and what MAPS needs to do in the next number of months with the FDA as the phase three trials become approved. A few days after the interview the New York Times reported that the phase three research was approved. Shannon's story is great and optimistic. If you are interested in how to get a job in the psychedelic field, this is certainly an episode you'll want to listen to. We also discuss some possible tweaks to the studies that could be done that may yield interesting results, and also why MAPS is taking the approach that they are (its the most straightforward way to push the research through the FDA). 
Here is Shannon's bio from the MAPS staff page. Links Psychedelic Salon Podcast Featuring Shannon, Rick Doblin and Annie Oak Zendo Project MAPS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzwFRbV9ggShannon Clare Petitt, M.A., MFTI, Therapist Training Program Coordinator and Zendo Project Community Engagement Coordinator
Shannon received her Master's in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2014, with a practicum working with youth on moderation management for drug and alcohol use. Her passions include working with addiction, trauma, relationship, the body, and nature. At the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies she serves as the Therapist Training Program Coordinator. She also leads Community Engagement for the Zendo Project, bringing harm reduction services to events and expanding efforts for awareness and integration of psychedelic experiences. Shannon is a co-therapist in a MAPS-sponsored Phase 2 trial researching MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. She is a California native and can be found running outdoors anywhere she travels, dancing to the beat, and jumping in the ocean when she gets the chance!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Joe here, psychedelics today. Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:13.7 | Really appreciate it. Today on the show, we have a really great guest, Shannon, Claire |
| 0:19.1 | Petit from Maps and Zendo. I'm going to read the bio |
| 0:23.3 | from the Maps website. Shannon received her master's in integral counseling psychology from |
| 0:28.5 | CIIIS in 2014 with a practicum working with youth on moderation management for drug and alcohol |
| 0:36.1 | use. Her passions include working with addiction, |
| 0:39.2 | trauma, relationship, the body, and nature. At MAPS, she serves as the therapist training program |
| 0:46.1 | coordinator. She also leads community engagement for the Zendo project, bringing harm reduction |
| 0:51.5 | services to events and expanding efforts for awareness and integration |
| 0:56.1 | of psychedelic experiences. Shannon is a co-therapist and a MAPS sponsored Phase 2 trial |
| 1:02.2 | researching MDMA assisted psychotherapy for anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. |
| 1:08.6 | That's it there. Well, she's also a California native, which is pretty neat. |
| 1:12.5 | So Kyle does a bunch of work with Shannon through maps. |
| 1:16.1 | Kyle's doing some volunteering. |
| 1:17.9 | And I think Shannon is his primary contact, which is great. |
| 1:21.8 | Really fun interview. |
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