Cannabis: Pyschedlia's Best Kept Secret

The Aware Project (www.awareproject.org) hosts a series of monthly Psychedelic Awareness Salon events in Los Angeles and San Diego. We are creating a connected and educated community that feels passionately about balancing the conversation about psychedelics. SCHEDULE Doors open at 7:00 PM for drinks and mingling. Presentation will begin at 8:00 PM. TALK TITLE: Cannabis: Pyschedelia's Best Kept Secret DESCRIPTION Though policies are moving towards regulating cannabis like alcohol, we know this plant medicine to be so much more. Using the combination of set, setting, and skill, Preston Lopez unpacks the hidden potential of cannabis to create powerfully healing experiences. His method integrates the non-ordinary state induced by Cannabis with mindfulness practices, somatic trauma release techniques, and shadow work to provide uniquely healing journeys and sustainable personal transformation. BIO Preston Lopez, MS, is trained as a Professional Clinical Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist and is now working as a Transformational Coach based in Southern California. He has spent the last ten years on a personal journey of healing, growth, and training that has lead to the development of a unique modality of assisting clients in doing deeply transformative work. He has integrated his clinical background with practices of mindfulness meditation, shadow work, somatic trauma release techniques, and the use of non-ordinary states produced by cannabis to create powerful healing experiences for those who are willing to take the deep dive into their own inner spaces. Preston is trained in the Vipassana meditation technique and has worked under the tutelage of Daniel McQueen of Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder, CO. TICKETS Pre-sale tickets are $15 and door price is $20. We have a limited number of volunteer positions if you can't afford the ticket price (please email [email protected], first come, first serve). VENUE Cross Campus Downtown LA Across the street from the 7th Street/Metro Center Station (connects to the Red, Purple, Blue, and Expo Lines) At Cross Campus, our vision is to reimagine the office by creating a more inspiring, productive and socially connected environment for startups, entrepreneurs and creative professionals. We provide our members with beautifully designed collaborative workspace and offices, access to the most innovative community of entrepreneurs and weekly business and networking events. With locations in Santa Monica, Pasadena, Downtown Los Angeles and South Bay (coming in 2017), we are the leading coworking space and startup hub in Southern California, and have become known as "the nerve center of Silicon Beach." PARKING Street parking is available. On-site daily valet parking On-site bike storage IMPORTANT NOTICE: This group is being designed as a secure space. It is not a place to seek, encourage, or participate in the procurement of controlled substances. Do not bring, buy, sell, transfer, or arrive on any illegal substances, or swap information on how to buy them. Members who violate these basic house rules will be removed from the group and will not be allowed to attend future events."