Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
Join integral psychotherapist Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold
for a conversation with social anthropologist and author Beatriz Labate on the
risks and benefits to the globalization of ayahuasca through the lens of her
research on new and traditional uses of psychoactive substances. Learn about
the healing traditions, politics, and conservation of mood-altering plant
medicines and their important role in shamanism and ritual.
Beatriz Caiuby Labate has a PhD in social anthropology
from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her main areas of
interest are the study of psychoactive substances, drug policy, shamanism,
ritual, and religion. She is Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology
Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco
and Visiting Professor at the Center for Research and Post Graduate Studies in
Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Guadalajara.
Beatriz is co-founder of the Drugs, Politics, and Culture
Collective in Mexico and co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for
Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil, as well as editor of NEIP’s website. She
is also Chief Editor at Chacruna.
She is author, co-author, and co-editor of seventeen
books, one special-edition journal, and several peer-reviewed articles. Click
here to learn more about Beatriz and her work.
Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold is a licensed psychotherapist
and core faculty member in the Integral Counseling Psychology program at CIIS.
She has been working as a psychotherapist for twenty years, using an
integrative approach that is rooted in Somatic, Humanistic-Existential and
Transpersonal psychologies. Since relocating to the Bay Area in 2001, Gisele
has been working with diverse clients in community mental health and private
practice settings, being particularly involved in serving the Latinx
population. Being an immigrant to the United States, a woman of color and in a
bicultural marriage, Gisele has a profound interest in multicultural issues,
which has become one of the main topics of her clinical work, teaching, and
consulting. Gisele's personal approach to healing is rooted in her commitment
to yoga, dance, and the spiritual traditions of her native Brazil.
Cost: $25
