Ancestral Medicine - Healing the Streets : Grassroots Holistic Detox and Recovery

 This panel explores the intersection of ancestral medicine, street-based harm reduction, and community-led healing in the context of the incarceration, houselessness, and addiction crisis. Drawing from diverse cultural traditions and frontline experiences, panelists will share how indigenous, African diasporic, and Earth-based practices are being reclaimed and integrated into grassroots detox and recovery models. From mobile herbal apothecaries to ceremony to trauma-informed care, this conversation will highlight the role of culturally rooted, clinical (i.e EMDR, narrative therapy, IFS) and “outside the clinic” holistic approaches (i.e acupuncture, sweat lodge, entheogens) in supporting self-determination, spiritual reconnection, and trauma healing. With a focus on unhoused and formerly incarcerated communities often excluded from psychedelic discourse, this panel centers the wisdom of people healing in real time – with the community, under the sky, and in deep relationship with land and lineage.