Veterans

Convenings and authentic conversations are the foundation of our work. We gather veterans, family members, and others as a way to hear their stories, understand their challenges and ensure that solutions emerge from the community that is being served. We are growing our program to focus on specific groups, including VA providers, spouses, family members, and those who have suffered sexual trauma in the military.
 
Our Invitational Gatherings are held at Reconsider’s home, located in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.

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We host a forum with veterans and their families, in collaboration with Horizons (one of the longest running psychedelic conferences in the world). The forum offers a safe and open space to learn more about transformational medicines, including psychedelics, and how to access them. We also offer opportunities for practitioners, policymakers, and the general public who are interested in supporting veterans, to learn and connect with others.

We bring together providers both within and outside of the existing systems, including the VA, to share learnings. These gatherings create a network of providers to support the emergence of these medicines for the veteran community.  We include veterans from various cultures and perspectives so that providers hear directly from those they serve.

One of the key components to this work is our ability to effectively train communities of providers in distinct fields of focus. Reconsider is collaborating with MAPS and others to provide opportunities for healthcare professionals and others to learn how to work with transformational medicines, and support a much-needed shift in the paradigm of mental health.

We work with policymakers at the State and Federal level to provide education around emerging medicines and therapies. This has included creating a panel on psychedelics for the Congressional Task Force on Military Mental Health, as well as working with NY State Legislators who are introducing a bill to make psychedelic medicines legally available in a just and accessible manner.

We believe in the power and strength of community. We collaborate with leading organizations including Heroic Hearts, The Mission Within, Seal Futures Foundation, Project Hope, Sabe, and others to connect and amplify important work that’s taking place in the veteran community.

Hearing the story of someone who has shared your path is a powerful way to build hope. We document many stories of veterans and their families who have benefited from the use of psychedelics. Our goal is to help destigmatize this work and to humanize and normalize these ways of approaching mental health.