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Our Mission
To build community around psychedelics.
Our Goals
Educate the public about psychedelic culture, therapeutic and spiritual uses, and responsible use.
Advocate and help to promote scientific research around psychedelics.
Help people with therapeutic support related to integrating psychedelic experiences.
Provide information to promote harm reduction related to set and setting, drug laws, and safe, responsible and legal uses.
Help community members engage with and cultivate their own spiritual and personal development.
Our Policies
Do not engage in illegal activities during our events. This group is designed as a sober space to reduce harm/maximize benefits of those using psychedelics on their own accord.
Conduct yourselves with sincerity, openness, and respect with each other and while representing the PSMN.
Do not bring, buy, sell, trade, or arrive on any illegal substances.
Violations of these rules can result in being banned from events.
DISCLAIMER: The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on or available through this website is for general information purposes only.
Our Board of Directors
Jessica Nielson, PhD - President
Jessica is a neuroscientist and psychedelic researcher that has been exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics for the past 10 years. She is leading several psychedelic research studies at the University of Minnesota aiming to understand how psychedelics like ayahuasca and psilocybin may help with post-traumatic stress and depression, mechanisms for how psilocybin changes the human brain, and survey studies about the unique perspectives of marginalized groups often excluded or not represented in psychedelic clinical trials. She is also the founder and President of the Psychedelic Society of Minnesota, the Innovation Alchemist at Big Psych, co-founder of the DecriMN Coalition that recently advised Mayor Frey on the Executive Order to deprioritize entheogenic plants and fungi in Minneapolis, and was appointed by Governor Walz and elected to serve as Chairperson on the Psychedelic Medicine Task Force.
Christine Diindiisi McCleave, BS, MA - Vice President
Christine is a scholar and an activist. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Nation and has been working in Indian Country at the national level for more than 10 years. Most recently, as the CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, she advocated for truth, justice, and healing for the ongoing trauma from the genocidal policy of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. Prior to that, she was the Communications Officer for the Indian Land Tenure Foundation advocating for #LandBack in the U.S. With a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies and a Master of Arts in Leadership, she conducted her master's thesis on Native American spiritual leadership and the intersectionality of Native spirituality and Christianity in the spectrum of Native spiritual practices today. Christine is currently a doctoral student pursuing her Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where her dissertation is focused on using traditional entheogenic plant medicines to heal Indigenous historical trauma. Her scholarship and advocacy continue to concentrate on the intersection of cultural, political, and spiritual agency for global Indigenous Rights and the neuroscience of healing historical trauma as a generational survivor of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools and genocidal, settler-colonial violence. She is dedicated to prioritizing Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in all sectors and communities, particularly decolonizing spaces in psychedelic research pertaining to Indigenous plant medicines.
Alyssa Nelson, MSW, LICSW, LADC - Secretary
Alyssa is a therapist trained in Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Alyssa serves as secretary of the Board of the Psychedelic Society of Minnesota (PSMN) where she has co-hosted psychedelic practitioner and trauma survivor support groups.
Brook Martin, BFA - Board Member
Brook is an artist, photographer and boat builder. He is an explorer of natural places and interior spaces. He has long term involvement in several facets of underground communities, as well as involvement in western esoteric traditions.
Brook is interested in the use of psychedelics and entheogens for healing as well as deeper human transformation.
Brook holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.