Psychedelic Career Day A Webinar with Dr. Ben Sessa

Psychedelic Career Day
A webcast from Prague to the Pacific

Keynote address: Dr. Ben Sessa

Many psychonauts are interested in studying psychedelics in academia, but since there isn’t a well-defined path tread by multitudes of other students, deciding how to go about it can be quite a challenge. There are certainly success stories of people who have made a career for themselves out of working in the field of psychedelics, but they seem to be few and far between.

Fortunately, it does seem like academia is gradually warming up to the idea of psychedelia as a legitimate field of study. Since there aren’t a whole lot of tried-and-tested guides out there geared toward helping potential psychedelic scholars navigate collegiate careers, we have created a panel of experts from Europe, USA, and Canada that can help light your way to a psychedelic career. You’ll learn how our panelists made a psychedelic career in areas like communications, clinical research, psychotherapy, education, entrepreneurship, and psychiatry.

Dr. Ben Sessa

Ben is the curator and founder of Breaking Convention a biennial conference exploring the many facets of Psychedelics at Greenwich College outside London, U.K. Ben has been a consultant child and addictions psychiatrist with 20 years’ clinical experience with child abuse. The saddening inevitable trajectory into adult mental disorders and addictions forms Ben’s clinical outlook which has brought him to psychedelic therapies – particularly MDMA. Having studied LSD, psilocybin, ketamine and DMT for 15 years, he now runs the world’s first MDMA study for alcoholism. He’s authored textbooks (The Psychedelic Renaissance) and a novel about psychedelics. Devoted to his patients, Ben agonizes over their plights and is committed to novel psychotherapeutic approaches for his beloved, floundering field of psychiatry.