Europe's Psychedelic Unconference
Psyflow Community Meet-up
September 24-27, 2026 · Barcelona
What held you? How do you hold space for others?
What we're planning for Psyflow's Psychedelic Unconference
Psyflow community meet-up is Europe's Psychedelic Unconference - a gathering built on the belief that the wisdom that needs to move this field forward is reached through deep collective sharing. Reaching consensus con so many open questions we have today.
Not a conference. Not a summit. Not a festival. A space where the agenda belongs to everyone, the expertise is in every corner, and conversations are open and encouraged. Perspectives, points of view, understanding we all view reality through different prismas,
Inclusive psychedelic integration. Democratizing access to mental wellness.
Our theme for this year 'HELD'
The psychedelic field constantly talks about healing. But healing whom? Under what conditions? Within what structures of power?
Psyflow 2026 asks a simpler, harder question: who holds - and who has never been held?
Not guiding. Not fixing. Not converting. Just holding space.
Held in experience - Harm reduction, integration, accompaniment. The invisible work that holds everything else together - before, during, and after.
Held in community - A community that sustains, not extracts. That includes, not filters. What does it look like to actually hold each other in this field?
Holding space as a political act - Access to being held is not neutral. Who gets support, who gets safety, who gets to fall apart - these are not accidents. And the question doesn't end there: who held space for us, and how will we hold space for those who come after?
Held by our roots - Honoring those who held before us - women, traditions, knowledge that was silenced but never disappeared.
Female voices
The psychedelic renaissance has a problem. The voices that have historically dominated this space - in research, in practice, in media - have been overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly privileged. This is not an accident. It is a structure.
Psyflow 2026 makes a deliberate choice: to centre female voices. Not as a quota. As a recognition for the women who held this knowledge - often quietly, often without credit - deserve to be heard.
This edition opens with a dinner honoring the women who pioneered this field. It is curated to amplify voices that have been doing the work longest and loudest, regardless of whether the mainstream has been listening.
The unconference
No fixed agenda. No closed speakers list. No stage separating experts from the audience.
Psyflow runs on a different operating system.
An unconference is a participant-driven format. There is no pre-selected programme set months in advance - because the agenda belongs to the people in the room. Anyone can propose a session: a panel, a workshop, a circle, a practice, a question. The format adapts to what the conversation needs.
It runs on one core belief: the person who shows up is the right person. And the room always knows more than any single voice in it.
Why this format for psychedelics?
In a field as complex, contested, and deeply human as this one — where every discipline, every tradition, and every lived experience holds a different and necessary piece of the truth — no single voice should set the agenda.
The neuroscientist and the nurse. The anthropologist and the activist. The therapist, the philosopher, the harm reduction worker, the artist, the patient, the elder, the student, the sceptic. The person who has been through it and the person trying to understand it. The veteran researcher and the one asking their first question out loud.
All of them belong here. All of them have something the room needs.
How it works
Thursday - The weavers An intimate dinner honouring the women who pioneered this field. Open to all women attending Psyflow. Setting the tone, holding the thread, and opening the conversations the rest of the event will follow.
Friday - The community dinner, open to everyone. Over food and the first real encounters, we begin to shape Saturday's programe together. What questions are alive in the room? What does this particular gathering need to explore? The wall opens. The agenda starts to form.
Saturday - The unconference The programe, co-created the night before and on the same morning, comes to life across the five spaces of the venue. Sessions, panels, workshops, circles, practices - proposed and led by the people in the room. Anyone can facilitate. Anyone can attend. The Law of Two Feet applies: if you're not learning or contributing, it's your right - and your responsibility - to move, and keep flowing.
Sunday - Back to the roots An open day in nature. Walking, sharing, silence. No programe, no agenda. Just the community sharing, the mountain, siblinghood, reflecting and a wonderful and magic picnic shared in a magic place. Sharing bread... como buenos compañer@s!
The Unconference - The five spaces
The Agora - Open circle. Large-group conversations, fishbowls, and community dialogue. Where the field talks to itself.
The Sanctuary - A held container for conversations that need care — not debate. Integration stories, emotional processing, deeper listening.
The Lab - Participatory workshops, max 20 people. Skills, methods, embodied practices. Come to do, not just to hear.
The Jungle - World Café format. Rotating tables, seed questions, cross-pollination between disciplines and traditions that rarely meet.
The Threshold - The in-between space. Projects, books, organisations, initiatives. Where the best encounters happen without being planned.
Be part of it
Propose a session You don't need a title or a credential. If you have a question, a practice, a story, or a method that this community needs - bring it. The floor is open.
Attend Open to researchers, clinicians, therapists, harm reduction workers, activists, artists, patients, policymakers, and anyone with genuine curiosity and something to contribute.
Partner with us Psyflow is independent. We look for partners who share the values of this project: access, inclusion, rigour, and care. If your organisation works in mental health, psychedelic research, harm reduction, or drug policy — let's talk.