Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

We’re excited to welcome Laura Dawn to the Microdosing & Psychedelic Retreats Summit! ✨

2 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube promo/intro for Laura Dawn at the Microdosing & Psychedelic Retreats Summit. In the excerpt Dawn argues that psychedelics and sacred plant medicines hold great promise because they open windows of heightened neural/plasticity that can support deep transformation, but warns they can be maladaptive and cause harm if not used intentionally, in trauma-informed and safe ways. She emphasizes mindful relationships to these medicines and the need for careful education to reduce harm even while supporting system-level change.

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I don't think it's a coincidence that as we're witnessing this moment of time where it feels like the world is unraveling around us, that we're also witnessing this explosion of interest in psychedelics and sacred plant medicines. And I absolutely believe that they hold so much promise and potential. And the reason that they're so effective for supporting transformation is because they open up these windows of heightened plasticity and so they can be extremely adaptive. But I think it's also really important to remember that they can also be maladaptive if we're not working with them intentionally or in trauma informed ways, or in ways that are safe and that reduce harm. And I think that this is often not discussed in this psychedelic conversation, that what can be so beneficial for transformation can actually also cause a lot of harm. And so even though I think that these medicines are one of our greatest bets to catalyze really significant systems wide change, I think we have to be extremely mindful in how we relate to them, how we work with them and how we educate about them.