Reweaving the Web: Family Systems, Psychedelics, and Collective Integration

This panel invites a vital reexamination of psychedelic-assisted therapy by centering the family system as both a site of wounding and a wellspring of transformation. Bringing together seasoned women practitioners from diverse cultural, geographic, and therapeutic backgrounds, the discussion challenges the traditional individual-focused model of healing—even within psychedelic contexts. Too often, the powerful insights uncovered in medicine sessions are constrained by the client’s inability to engage their primary relationships in meaningful dialogue and integration. This panel explores the clinical and ethical imperative of working with the family system from the outset of treatment, not merely as an afterthought in integration.Panelists will share case studies and personal reflections to illuminate how psychoactive medicines can act as both disruptors and harmonizers within relational fields, and how their inclusion in family systems work requires intention, preparation, and reverence. They will also address the risks of iatrogenic harm when change is pursued in isolation, and how systems naturally seek homeostasis even when dysfunction is familiar. Through honest storytelling, practical insights, and cross-cultural wisdom, this conversation will offer a powerful invitation: to widen the lens of healing and attune to the web, not just the individual.