My family and friends are skeptical about the healing potential of psychedelics and I want to discuss the topic. To begin we will have everyone share briefly about a person who inspired you to be curious about psychedelics or psychedelic medicine. This can be someone you know or whose work reached you in some way. Share briefly about this person and why they inspired you. What are your associations with psychedelic medicine? What comes to mind when you hear the words “Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA?” If you have experienced psychedelics, either in a clinical or non-clinical setting, share what if any healing benefit you have received from the medicine or experience. If you haven’t experienced psychedelic medicine share with the table any fears, hesitations and hopes you have about psychedelics for you personally. Have you read or watched any news coverage or other source of information that has made you skeptical of psychedelics as a healing medicine? Have you read or watched anything that has made you hopeful about the benefits of psychedelic medicine? Do you wonder if psychedelics will alter your mind? Do you want your mind altered? If so, why? In not, why not? Have you talked to anyone who has had a good or bad experience with psychedelics? What did you learn? End each dinner with a simple game called: Appreciation in the Round. This begins with someone at the table turning to the person on their left, and telling them something you admire or respect about them. They might be a person you met tonight, so you can highlight something you heard them express during your time together. This will start a chain reaction that continues around the table, each person admiring someone sitting on their left until everyone has been appreciated.