More and more people are feeling called to try ayahuasca for healing. And yet, there’s a lot to consider before embarking on this journey. Firstly, as a medicine that has been used for hundreds, if not thousands, of years by Indigenous communities across the Amazon, it requires a lot of care. Sadly, there have been cases of sexual assault reported by facilitators in ayahuasca circles. More common than cases of explicit harm are ceremonies that are led by people who just don’t have the proper training to help participants navigate whatever emerges during their experiences. As ayahuasca grows in popularity, we felt it was important to have a free workshop to help people think about what questions to ask themselves and their facilitators before they sit with this medicine, as well as what it means to be in right relationship with these plants and their stewards.
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About Our Guests
Shelby Hartman is Co-Founder and Publisher of DoubleBlind, a media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. She’s reported for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, VICE, Playboy, Quartz, LA Weekly, and the Huffington Post, among others. Her work has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Business Insider, KCRW, Bustle, and Forbes, and she’s been invited to speak at SXSW, Horizons: Perspectives in Psychedelics, and Harvard Law School. She’s the co-author of The DoubleBlind Guide to Psychedelics (Hachette, 2026), a practical guide on how to trip situated within reporting about the psychedelic ecosystem. In 2020, she was named by Forbes as a female leader in cannabis and psychedelics. She’s a graduate of Columbia Journalism School.
Wesley Sol is a musician, ceremonial facilitator, artist, and earth steward. In 2025 he co-founded Entre Mundos, an initiative working in direct partnership with the Noke Koî people of Timbaúba Village in the Brazilian Amazon — supporting community-led efforts to protect their territory, preserve their ancestral traditions, and sustain their way of life.
His personal journey of healing weaves together indigenous traditions of Peru and Brazil. His altar and main studies were passed to him by a Mestizo/Cocama palero and curandero, and he has maintained a steady spiritual practice of dietas with the master plants and trees of these traditions.
It is with much reverence and respect to those who have opened this path and to these ancestral ways that he carries these healing traditions with the utmost integrity. He is humbled and honored to
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Clancey Cornell, MSW, LCSW, is a somatic psychotherapist whose work centers on trauma resolution through a body-centered, relational approach grounded in present-moment awareness and each person’s innate capacity to heal. Drawing on Somatic Experiencing®, and somatic psychotherapy, she supports clients navigating complex trauma, fostering connection, stability, and resilience at the nervous system level.
Clancey offers specialized preparation support and integration therapy for experiences in non-ordinary states of consciousness, with a particular focus on ayahuasca. Over the past eight years, she has walked a personal path with this medicine under the guidance of teachers from North and South America, experience that deeply informs her clinical work and her steadfast commitment to safety, harm reduction, and supporting people through the full arc of their healing.
She holds a background in nonprofit management and grassroots community organizing, and co-stewards a healing retreat center in Santa Clarita, California.
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