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Our Trip Sitting course starts today
Hello Breakero!
There is still just time to sign up for the BC hosted Trip Sitting online course. Four weeks with four experts, begins 26th February, today! 7pm UK time. Follow this link for more information.
Tickets are available for our 2026 event at Woolwich Works, just a short trip downriver from Greenwich; easy to reach via the Elizabeth Line, DLR, overground rail, and even by ferry. With two rooms, both with a full program of talks, panel discussions, and audience participation sessions, you will be sure to find plenty to enliven your mind. Also featuring a stalls area, art, and plenty of spacetime to network.
Full details of speakers and program will be available very shortly.
All tickets currently have the earlybird promotion applied, but only for a limited time; purchase yours now so you donāt miss out!
See below for links to a couple of events and an article we feel may appeal to our audience.
Nikki Wyrd
On behalf of the Breaking Convention team
The Mind-at-Large Project is a three-year conference series, with associated film and other media, that investigates consciousness and its role in reality. The project seeks to challenge the common yet unnecessarily-restrictive worldview that posits that brains alone are required for consciousness. We seek to expand to a broader āmind-at-largeā set of theories by exploring mindās presence across various scales, from quantum physics to ecosystems to the cosmos as a whole. This is a multidisciplinary project though anchored in Philosophy, looking at ideas including panpsychism, pantheism, 4E cognition, questions of AI and plant sentience, animism, perspectivism, idealismāas well as certain associated extraordinary phenomenologies such as those found in psychedelic states or paranormal phenomena. Prepare for the new paradigm.
Registration is live for the first conference, now an online event 15ā17th April 2026.
https://ctr4process.org/mind-at-large/registration/
You may remember our psychedelic caberet evening at Breaking Convention 2025, one of the stars was the fabulous Lydia Daisy. She has created an eveningās entertainment we think may appeal to some of you.
A bold theatrical space for those most often told to tone it down, calm it down or shut the f*ck up. No āgood girlsā sitting quietly. No shrinking. Just sharp humour, dangerous tenderness and unapologetic presence. Expect circus, spoken word, clowning and the gloriously hard to describe. Funny, political, tender and chaotic in equal measure.
Jasmine Virdiās latest feature for @doubleblindmag explores how Coloradoās Natural Medicine Health Act, which decriminalised the personal cultivation, use, and sharing of psilocybin mushrooms, DMT, ibogaine, and mescaline (excluding peyote), and opened the door to licensed, guided psilocybin sessions, sidelined Indigenous perspectives.
After the act was passed, the Colorado legislature commissioned the Federally Recognized American Tribes and Indigenous Community Working Group, a nine-member body tasked with assessing how legalisation might affect Indigenous communities. The group developed recommendations for DORA and the stateās Natural Medicine Board, ultimately calling for the state to suspend portions of the NMHA, including pausing the rollout of the psilocybin therapy programme and similar initiatives for mescaline, iboga, and DMT until key concerns are addressed. In the piece, she speaks with Working Group members about their concerns.