HELD is coming, Europe's first psychedelic unconference. A gathering of the Psyflow community, in two parts. Online · Saturday 26 September 2026. In person · Barcelona, Friday 11 to Sunday 13 December 2026.
What held you? How do you hold space for others?
What we're planning for Psyflow's Psychedelic Unconference
HELD is coming, Europe's first psychedelic unconference. A gathering of the Psyflow community, in two parts.
Not a conference. Not a summit. Not a festival. It's a space where the agenda belongs to the people in the room.
Part 1 · online · Saturday 26 September 2026. Open to everyone, free and bilingual.
Part 2 · in person · Barcelona, Friday 11 to Sunday 13 December 2026.
We've spent years expanding individual consciousness. The next evolutionary step is collective: thinking together, deciding together, moving forward together. HELD opens that space. Through deep conversation and shared thinking, we connect with the collective intelligence of this field to reach the ideas and agreements that no single voice can reach alone.
Psychedelic integration doesn't end when the experience ends. It ends when you have a community that holds you. That's Psyflow.
Inclusive psychedelic integration. Democratizing access to mental wellness.
Theme: HELD
The psychedelic field talks constantly about healing. But healing whom, under what conditions, within which structures of power?
HELD asks a simpler and at the same time more complex question: who is held, and who has never been held?
Held in the experience. Held in community. Holding as a political act. Held by our roots: the women, the peoples and the traditions that carried this knowledge and were never heard.
Regenerative culture and psychedelics
The psychedelic field is booming. And everything that grows fast runs the same risk: extracting instead of nourishing. Patenting what was communal, charging for what should be a right, hollowing out the traditions that made it possible and moving on without looking back.
HELD chooses the opposite path. A regenerative culture doesn't settle for doing less harm: it actively restores what it touches. We began to wake up to this need in the land, in the soils and ecosystems we've depleted. But the same logic that extracts from the land extracts from people, and to regenerate is also to repair the social fabric those structures tore apart.
Reciprocity instead of extraction. Access instead of privilege. Honoring the roots instead of erasing them. Because no medicine regenerates anything in isolation, neither in the land nor among us.
That's why Psyflow is free, peer to peer and open. We don't scale by accumulating, we grow by releasing. Integration doesn't end when the experience ends: it ends when you have a community that holds you.
Community is the medicine.
Women's voices
The voices that have dominated this field have been male, Western and privileged. This is not by chance, it's a structure. HELD makes a deliberate choice: to give the floor to the women who held this knowledge, often in silence, and who deserve to be heard. This edition opens with a dinner in their honor.
How it works
Part 1 · online · Saturday 26 September
Open to everyone, free and bilingual (Spanish and English).
Morning, 12:00 to 13:30 CEST · Amplifying Future Voices. Twelve emerging voices from the field share their talks.
Afternoon, 17:00 to 20:00 CEST · Hackathon: defining the ethical frameworks within the psychedelic field. We're not here to listen, we gather to build together, harness collective intelligence through dialogue and liberating structures.
Part 2 · in person · Barcelona, December
Friday 11 · The community dinner. Open to all. It's also the night we honor the women who held this medicine: the pioneers of European psychedelic integration, invited as our guests of honor. Over food and encounters, we co-create Saturday's program together.
Saturday 12 · The unconference. The program is born the night before and that same morning, it comes alive across five spaces: The Agora (open circle), The Sanctuary (deep listening), The Lab (workshops, max. 20), The Jungle (world café) and The Threshold (the space in between). Anyone can facilitate, anyone can attend. The law of two feet: if you're not learning or contributing, move on and keep flowing.
Sunday 13 · Back to the roots. A walk to Montserrat. Nature, silence, kinship and a magical picnic in a magical place. We let time set the pace, eyes on the sky.
Tickets
Part 1 · online · 26 September. Free, you just need to register.
Part 2 · in person · Barcelona, 11 to 13 December.
· Saturday unconference: €55 early bird until 15 November, includes the midday buffet.
· Friday community dinner: €15 early bird.
· Sunday walk and picnic in Montserrat: free.
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.
Amplifying the voices of the future · public speaking workshop
HELD begins before the unconference. As a prelude, we ran our first free public speaking workshop, to shape the talks you'll hear in September. Not to speak better, but to speak truly, from the body and from the heart.
In this field it's usually the same voices that speak. We wanted to open space for others, new and diverse, that are rarely heard.
Fifteen people signed up and, after five weeks of collective work, twelve voices are ready: eight have already given their talk and four are finishing theirs.
They were guided by five masters of word and presence:
- Caroline Dream, clown and expressive arts educator
- Álex Rovira, writer and communicator, a reference in speaking from the heart
- Dr. Joan Obiols, psychiatrist and medical director of Clínica Synaptica
- Celia Casey, co-founder of Psyflow and weaver of liberating structures, leadership teacher
- Flora Sirkia, psychonaut with over 30 years of experience, curator of soundscapes for expanded states of consciousness, founder of Psyflow
The talks by these twelve participants will be presented in the online session on 26 September, open to everyone.
One of these voices will be invited to the KAP Summit in Barcelona.
Get involved!
Propose a session. You don't need a title or credentials. If you have a question, a practice, a story or a method this community needs, bring it. The space is open.
Open to researchers, clinicians, therapists, harm reduction professionals, activists, artists, patients, policymakers and anyone with genuine curiosity and something to offer.
Partner with us. Psyflow is independent. We're looking for partners who share this project's values: access, inclusion, rigor and care. If your organization works in mental health, psychedelic research, harm reduction or drug policy, get in touch.
info@psyflow.org
Online on 26 September · in person in Barcelona in December 2026
info@psyflow.org
Contact us and let's collaborate!
September 24-27, 2026 · Barcelona
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Frequently asked questions
What is psychedelic integration?
Psychedelic integration is the process of making sense of and bringing into daily life the insights from a psychedelic experience, through practices like journaling, meditation, somatic work and, above all, community. The experience opens the door; integration is what walks through it. At Psyflow we offer a free 10-week integration program.
Why does community matter in psychedelic integration?
Much psychedelic use happens outside clinical settings, without structured support. Integration doesn't end when the experience ends: it ends when you have a community that holds you. That's why peer integration circles exist.
What is a psychedelic integration circle?
A group, confidential and non-hierarchical space to share and process psychedelic experiences with peer support. It's not therapy and doesn't replace clinical care: it's structured community. Psyflow runs free circles in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Lisbon and Amsterdam.
What is an unconference?
A participant-driven event format: no preset program, no fixed speakers. The agenda is co-created among the people present and anyone can propose a session: a circle, a workshop, a practice or a question. HELD is Europe's first psychedelic unconference.
Is HELD online or in person?
Both. HELD has two parts: a free online day on 26 September, open to everyone, and an in-person gathering in Barcelona in December.
What is a regenerative culture?
An approach that goes beyond sustainability: instead of just minimizing harm, it actively restores degraded ecosystems and social fabric. Applied to the psychedelic field: community that nourishes instead of extracts, access instead of privilege, reciprocity instead of commodification.
Do I need experience or credentials to attend HELD?
No. HELD is open to researchers, therapists, harm reduction professionals, activists, artists, people with lived experience and anyone with genuine curiosity. No one asks for titles here.
How much does it cost to attend HELD?
The online day on 26 September is free. For the in-person gathering in December: the Saturday unconference is €55 with early bird until 15 November, and includes the midday buffet; the Friday community dinner is €15 early bird, and the honored women pioneers attend as guests; the Sunday closing in Montserrat is a free picnic.
Where does HELD take place?
The online part on 26 September is by video call, with an access link when you register. The in-person gathering in December is in Barcelona: the unconference at Bloc4, the closing in Montserrat, and the dinner locations are shared with registered attendees.
Are psychedelic substances used at the event?
No. HELD is a space for dialogue, community and integration, not a space for substance use.
What is the Friday dinner?
The community dinner on Friday 11 December opens the in-person gathering and is also a tribute to the women pioneers of European psychedelic integration, who attend as guests of honor. It's open to the whole HELD community (€15 early bird), and during the dinner we co-create Saturday's program together.