PsySoc Social READING: Speed-friending and Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Psychedelic Speed-friending: sweet conversation, friend-making and (maybe?) finding your future lover! You can drop the small talk and ask the questions you REALLY want to ask. Taking inspiration from the 36 Questions to Intimacy and The School of Life's '100 Questions,' this evening gives you a menu of profound, intriguing, and spicy questions designed to inspire authenticity and meaningful connection with those around you. You’ll be guided through playful icebreakers and a series of 10-minute one-on-one conversations with different people throughout the evening, wrapping up with free-flowing socialising. You’ll leave here with a fresh perspective on connection, some fun stories, and maybe even the beginning of something special.

Psychedelic Storytelling: This is becoming a must for our monthly socials. There will be the opportunity for all of us to share our psychedelic stories - the weird, the tricky and the downright wonderful. This part of the evening will be open-mic style, and we will have a sign-up sheet to add your name to the list of storytellers. Your stories should be no more than 5 minutes, and there's no need to rehearse what to say or come particularly prepared - often the best stories are told off-the-cuff and from the heart!

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Shroomshop London: Mushroom Cultivation Workshop For Beginners

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Come and learn the basics of mushroom cultivation and explore various techniques for growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. This will be a hands-on experience and will cover everything you need to know to get you started. 

Mushrooms' therapeutic value has been prized in indigenous cultures for thousands of years. In the past few decades, they have become even more popular for their medicinal qualities in the West, as a result of an expanding body of scientific research supporting their numerous health benefits.

You will gain valuable insights into the world of mushrooms and unlock the potential for producing your own food and medicine. You will learn practical knowledge that empowers you to cultivate these remarkable organisms for your well-being.

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You Are A Mushroom Having A Human Experience, with Darren Le Baron in London

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Did you know that mushrooms breathe air, drink and eat food just like we do? or better we do just like they do as mushrooms have been here doing it a lot longer than us. That’s not all we have in common. Did you know that mushrooms are genetically more closely related to humans than they are to plants. We share an ancient common ancestor. 

Prepare to be amazed as Darren explores the intriguing notion that humans are essentially mushrooms having a human experience.

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Prof. David Nutt & Alex Adams: Psychedelics and the future of mental health

What Oxford Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

In this historical and personal journey, Professor David Nutt will revisit developments in pharmacology over the last decades which have shaped today‘s climate for research and discourse on psychedelics. In conversation with activist Alex Adams from Pschedelic Action, he will share his personal experiences as a psychopharmacologist, as an advisor to the British Home Office and as an advocate for responsible use of psychedelics.

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Psychedelics, Unfiltered: A Candid Evening of Questions, Science and Honest Reflection with Tommaso Barba

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Curious about what really happens when taking psychedelics and why these experiences can feel so powerful? Blending science, personal insight, and cultural reflection, this session offers a grounded, nuanced introduction for both newcomers and the experienced.

We’ll explore how psychedelics reshape brain dynamics, dissolve familiar patterns of self, and open up powerful, sometimes destabilizing, experiences. Connecting neuroscience with lived reality, we’ll also examine what changes when these substances are used outside the ritual, community, and belief systems that once gave them structure.

Moving across different lenses, from individual self-exploration to romantic relationships and broader society, this talk invites a deep and more critical perspective.

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PsySoc Social BRIGHTON: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage.

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Psychedelic Coffee #8: Medicine & Growth Conversations

What the organisers are saying about their upcoming event:

Share psychedelic experiences, explore life and make real connections.

You’ll join groups of four and rotate every 30 minutes. Each round starts with a new topic announced by the host to sparker deeper, meaningful conversations.

We gather 70 max intentional people together monthly for a fully facilitated and carefully curated social experience over drinks or food — with space to share stories, insights, and opinions, focused on personal growth, fun and connection.

This is not group therapy, an integration circle, or an academic discussion. It's an intentionally designed social experience, giving you a rare opportunity to talk freely with others about your personal growth and psychedelic experiences. Opinions are welcome.

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PsySoc Social WINCHESTER: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What the Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage.

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PsySoc Social NORTH CORNWALL: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage. Share your story, whether it’s strange, tender, funny, or downright mystical. There’s no need to be polished or profound, just honest.

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What The Loop say about their monthly drug-checking service:

The Loop's regular drug checking service, the first in the UK, takes place every last Saturday of the month in Bristol. The Loop team, chemists and healthcare staff, complete drug testing in our mobile laboratory and provide harm reduction advice and consultations informed by the testing of submitted substances. Everyone is welcome to use the service and to drop-in to meet and speak with The Loop.

Members of the public can submit a substance for testing at Bristol Drug Project in Brunswick Square (look for the pink door). This is an anonymous service and no name needs to be provided. A brief assessment, related to the use of the submitted drug will be completed, and this informs the information that can be shared following the laboratory testing. This all takes place within an hour of submitting the substance, and there is an opportunity to speak openly and receive non-judgmental and factual information regarding drugs and harm reduction advice with a member of The Loop's healthcare team. Where there is a dependency on the submitted substance we are able to support people in engaging and receiving further services, accessing support and treatment.

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The Shroomshop: DIY Mushroom Cultivation Workshop with Darren Le Baron

What Seed Talks are saying about their event:

Mushrooms have been growing wild since prehistoric times. Their therapeutic value has been prized in indigenous cultures, for thousands of years. They play a critical role in medicinal practice and were noted in some of the first books on herbal medicine written thousands of years ago

In the past few decades, mushrooms have become more popular for their therapeutic qualities in the west as a result of an expanding body of scientific research supporting their numerous health benefits.

Come and learn the basics of mushroom cultivation, explore various techniques for growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. This will be a hands on experience we will cover everything you need to know to get you started.

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PsySoc Social FROME: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society say about their upcoming event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage. Share your story, whether it’s strange, tender, funny, or downright mystical. There’s no need to be polished or profound, just honest. Stories are 5 minutes max, and you can sign up on the night.

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Chatting AI, Psychedelics & Creative Brains

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Despite not always feeling inspired, we all possess a creative brain, able to innovate and imagine. In this sense, creativity is a way of being. Distinct brain patterns underlie original thought and moments of cognitive flow. Listening to music or moving our body may instigate inspiration moving our mind into liminal states of ideation or daydreaming - letting the mind wander and imagine new ideas. Can we enhance this creative potential through a dialogue with non-human intelligence?

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PsySoc Social BRISTOL: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society say about their upcoming event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage. Share your story, whether it’s strange, tender, funny, or downright mystical. There’s no need to be polished or profound, just honest. Stories are 5 minutes max, and you can sign up on the night.

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What Brighton Psychedelics say about their Psychedelic Book Club:

All are warmly invited to join our next Community Book Group. There is no expectation for you to have finished the book; all are welcome. Even if the book did not live up to expectations, the discussion will always be varied, valuable and valid. The space will be loosely held to ensure that each person has the opportunity to offer a contribution, before opening up for a wider discussion.

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What the organisers are saying about their upcoming event:

Inspired by the chillout rooms of 90s raves, our Sunday sessions are a gentle wind-down: downtempo music, visual art, massage and nourishing food in the calm atmosphere in the wonderful new sober bar The Arc. Art supplies and a communal art wall for attendees to draw along to the music.

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London Psychedelic Community: Sunday Park Day – Nature & Connection

What the organisers are saying about their upcoming event:

Meet open-minded people at a relaxed monthly social exploring psychedelics, mental health, and meaningful conversations on consciousness.

Join us for a Sunday gathering in nature—an opportunity to step away from the noise of daily life and reconnect with ourselves, each other, and the natural world.

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Shroomshop Pro: One Day Advanced Mushroom Cultivation with Darren Le Baron

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their event:

Come and expand your mushroom cultivation knowledge and learn new growing techniques in this full day course designed for people who already know the basics. It is perfect for anyone who has attended any of Darren’s previous Shroomshops for Beginners. 

The course has been designed to support previous attendees with their next steps and progression on their mushroom cultivation journeys.

We will also revisit but go deeper with some of the basics of mushroom cultivation, to reinforce previous lessons taught and address some of the challenges you may have faced so far.

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Breaking Convention One Day Summit 2026

What Breaking Convention are saying about their upcoming event:

Breaking Convention is back! Join us for a one-day event on Saturday 16th May 2026, ahead of our three-day conference in 2027. The day will be packed with insightful talks and panels.

As always, at Breaking Convention we're committed to providing a multidisciplinary approach to psychedelic education, bringing together academics, researchers, clinicians and artists to provide an exciting and nuanced view of the fast-expanding psychedelic ecosystem.

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Social Psychedelic Research Symposium

What the organisers are saying about their upcoming event:

Exploring dimensions of psychedelic experiences beyond the individual.

This event is designed to support networking, knowledge exchange, and dissemination of new findings on psychedelic communities and rituals, group preparation and integration, communitas, group-based rituals, and other collective settings.

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Psychedelics & Meditation: A Zen Practitioner Perspective

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Both psychedelic use and meditation are practices which can take us beyond the everyday egoic busy-mind, and open us to wider perspectives on life. Their stories have been intimately linked in Western counter-culture from its start, through influential voices such as Alan Watts and Ram Dass. Drawing on both academic evidence and personal experience, co-director of Bristol Zen Dojo Chris Preist will explore this relationship with a talk and guided practice. He will also open up space for audience discussion.

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PsySoc Social MANCHESTER: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage.

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PsySoc Social BRIGHTON: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage.

All info plus tickets linked below…

Shroomshop London: Mushroom Cultivation Workshop For Beginners

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their upcoming event:

Come and learn the basics of mushroom cultivation and explore various techniques for growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. This will be a hands-on experience and will cover everything you need to know to get you started. 

Mushrooms' therapeutic value has been prized in indigenous cultures for thousands of years. In the past few decades, they have become even more popular for their medicinal qualities in the West, as a result of an expanding body of scientific research supporting their numerous health benefits.

You will gain valuable insights into the world of mushrooms and unlock the potential for producing your own food and medicine. You will learn practical knowledge that empowers you to cultivate these remarkable organisms for your well-being.

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What Numinity say about their Psychedelic Community Meetup events:

Come and connect with our wonderful community and talk all things Psychedelics.

We are a friendly group who provide opportunities to meet like-minded people, make friends, and learn more about Psychedelics. Whether you're seeking integration support or simply want to connect with others who share your interests, this event provides a space for authentic connections and friendships to flourish.

We welcome everyone from curious newcomers to experienced psychonauts!

We can't wait to meet you!

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PsySoc Social HASTINGS: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage.

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Secret Psychedelics: Four surprise talks to satisfy your curiosity

What Seed Talks are saying about their upcoming event:

Join us for four 15-minute quickfire lectures on the world of Psychedelics. Followed by Q&A.

From Shamanism to Science, Trips to Transcendence, there’s a lot to explore in the world of Psychedelics. These substances have been used for centuries but studied for only decades. In this series we hope to shed light on each facet of this wonderful world including cutting edge research, real life stories and curious oddities.

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PsySoc Social EXETER: Speed-Friending & Psychedelic Storytelling

What The Psychedelic Society are saying about their event:

Join us for a night of Psychedelic Speed-Friending, where curiosity, courage and connection take centre stage. We’ll gently guide you through playful ice-breakers and juicy conversation prompts designed to help you meet new people in meaningful ways. Think slow, soul-nourishing conversations rather than frantic networking. Expect short but impactful heart-to-hearts in pairs and trios. Plus plenty of time to flow freely with whoever you vibe with most.

Once the room’s warmed up and hearts are open, we shift into Psychedelic Storytelling, our beloved open mic session where you get the chance to take the stage. Share your story, whether it’s strange, tender, funny, or downright mystical. There’s no need to be polished or profound, just honest.

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The Science of Magic Mushrooms with Dr. David Luke

What Seed Talks are saying about their event:

We are currently in a psychedelic renaissance and Magic Mushrooms are one of the key areas of research for scientists around the world. Recent studies have shown that psilocybin, the active ingredient in the plant, can heal depression, enhance connectivity in the brain and even result in an increase in participants' gardening! Join Dr. David Luke as he explains the chemistry, neuroscience and psychology of Magic Mushrooms.

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