3-Hour Live Interactive Webinar

DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 - 5 PM - 8 PM EDT (2PM - 5 PM PDT)

Indigenous man playing a drum

Course Description & Objectives

This 3-hour interactive workshop explores the impact of colonization on psychedelic medicine, psychology, and modern systems of care. Grounded in a healing justice framework, we will look at how colonization lives in the nervous system—shaping patterns of stress, disconnection, and how we relate to ourselves and others. From this lens, we will consider why body-based and earth-based practices rooted in Indigenous wisdom, including psychedelics, may be especially relevant for healing these imprints.

  • At the end of this course, participants should be able to:

  • Analyze the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization and structural racism on psychedelic medicine, psychology, and contemporary systems of care.

  • Explain the concept of neurocolonization and how colonization shapes nervous system patterns, including stress responses, relational dynamics, and the influence of implicit bias and internalized narratives.

  • Evaluate the ethical tensions involved in integrating psychedelic and Indigenous-informed practices into colonized mental health systems.

  • Identify ways that body-based and earth-based practices, including psychedelics, may support healing from trauma related to colonization, systemic inequities, and oppression.

Course Syllabus

For complete course details, including a detailed agenda, registration information, course policy and requirements, ADA accomodation requests, and more, download the course syllabus: Decolonizing Psychedelics - An Introduction.pdf

Instructor(s)

Charlotte Duerr James

Instructor

Charlotte is an educator, therapeutic coach, and ritual guide with over 15 years of experience in healing justice and psychedelic integration. She is the founder of New Old Ways, a platform dedicated to integrating indigenous wisdom with modern therapeutic practices and supporting collective healing. Charlotte has completed over 2000 hours of psychedelic therapy teacher training through the Awe Foundation and previously served as a program mentor in a transpersonal psychology certification program. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies and Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University and brings extensive experience teaching workshops, facilitating practitioner trainings, and mentoring clinicians in culturally informed psychedelic care.

Earn 3 CE Credits


Prism Wellness, provider #2509, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/13/2025 – 11/13/2026. Social workers completing this course receive a total of 3 continuing education credits as follows: 1.5 CE – Implicit Bias / Cultural Competence; 1.5 CE – Structural Racism / Systemic Inequities.