Who we are
The Santa Fe Psychedelic Society is a community chapter founded in 2022, part of the Global Psychedelic Society network. We are a peer-led space for education, honest dialogue, and integration support.
Our mission
Why we gather
We exist to create a community space where people can explore the emerging landscape of psychedelic research and experience with honesty, care, and rigor. Our gatherings are not ceremonies or therapy sessions. They are peer conversations, grounded in mutual respect and harm reduction.
We believe that integration is the heart of this work. The peak experience matters far less than what we do with it afterward. How we carry insight into daily life. How we relate to each other. How we tend to ourselves and our communities.
We are committed to holding space for the full complexity of this terrain. Its promise and its risks. Its long history and its uncertain present. We want this to be a place for honest conversation about our evolving relationship with a landscape still in motion, without claiming more than has been earned.
We gather to explore psychedelics, and to tend to the wider garden of transformation: healing, truth-telling, reciprocity, joy, and belonging.
Our guiding values
Radical inclusivity
However you have come to these conversations, there is room for you here. The curious, the cautious, those long devoted to this work, those newly arrived. No one needs to qualify to belong.
Integrity
We try to say what we mean. We try to acknowledge what we do not know. In a field crowded with certainty, we hold to the slower work of being honest.
Honoring Indigenous wisdom
Many of the practices and substances we discuss have deep roots in Indigenous traditions. We approach this history with humility, gratitude, and a commitment to reciprocity.
Integration as practice
The deeper work happens slowly, in the weeks and months after. We honor that quieter labor, the practice of weaving new understanding into everyday life.
Ecological healing
These experiences often awaken a felt sense of belonging to the natural world. We hold our responsibility to that world, and to the generations that follow, as part of the practice.
Harm reduction
We meet people where they are. We share accurate information. We support safer choices. There is no judgment in this room.
How we began
Our story
The Santa Fe Psychedelic Society was founded in 2022 by Gina Devani. What began as small group conversations with clients who needed more than her practice alone could offer led her to join the Global Psychedelic Society network and start the Santa Fe chapter's gatherings, grassroots style.
Kate Hawke joined as co-lead for events and gatherings in 2025, and with Gina and Kate's co-creative energy, the community has grown steadily since. Gatherings occur monthly, the mailing list continues growing, and attendance is consistent.
Santa Fe, with its deep history at the intersection of Indigenous cultures, contemplative spiritual traditions, and artistic community, is a particularly fertile ground for this kind of community and our gatherings. The city's character shapes our character: unhurried, curious, and anchored in place.
The Santa Fe chapter is part of a global network of chapters spanning dozens of cities, sharing resources, speakers, and a common commitment to thoughtful, community-based engagement with this landscape.
Leadership
Community Leadership Bios
Gina Devani
Gina Devani is a Santa Fe-based board-certified holistic counselor, with a practice devoted to psychedelic engagement, preparation, and integration. She brings experience and an in-depth approach to those who embark on the long arc of psychedelic healing for childhood trauma and spiritual awakening.
With over a decade of experience organizing community gatherings and engagement around spiritual topics, Gina founded SFPS out of a need she recognized for expanded support around the integration conversations she was already having informally across the greater community and in her practice. She is committed to the long view: building a community that is trustworthy, inclusive, and built to last, one that genuinely supports the psychedelic seeker and practitioner alike.
She can be reached through our contact page.
Kate Hawke
Kate Hawke became the first Certified Trauma Specialist in the Southwest in the 1990s and has spent over fifty-five years in intentional relationship with psychedelic states. She approaches altered states as portals into meaning-making around identity, mortality, grief, and legacy.
Kate joined SFPS as co-lead for events and gatherings in 2025, bringing decades of trauma and psychedelic work into the community's next chapter. She describes herself as a psychedelic elder, shaped by decades of lived experience.
She can be reached through our contact page.
Before you come
What to expect at our gatherings
A peer conversation, not a ceremony
Our gatherings are educational and community-oriented. We don't facilitate substance use or conduct ceremonies. This space is for dialogue, not facilitated experience.
A warm, no-pressure environment
You do not need experience, credentials, or a particular perspective to attend. You are welcome whether you are deeply curious, cautiously skeptical, or somewhere in between.
Structured and open time
Each gathering typically includes a brief presentation or prompt, followed by group conversation, with some time for open mixing at the beginning and end of the evening. Sessions run roughly two hours.
Confidentiality as a norm
What is shared in the room stays in the room. We ask all attendees to honor this practice.
New here
Your first gathering
Getting here is simple: RSVP for the gathering you want to attend, then show up. We ask everyone to RSVP in advance so we can prepare the space accordingly.
When you arrive, introduce yourself to Gina or Kate, or catch them before you leave if that's easier. Name tags are usually on hand. The first fifteen minutes are built as a soft landing: come in, say hello, meet someone new, find a seat where you'll feel comfortable for a couple hours, grab a beverage or a snack.
This is a friendly group that loves meeting new people. You are welcome here, just as you are.
Stay in touch
No noise, no filler
Hear about the next one
Leave us your email and we’ll write when there is something worth saying: the next gathering, or news that matters. No noise and no filler, just short notes that point you back here.