Podcasts about dancewize

Linda Cowan from the PARTi Project and SeshEd shares with us how to keep safe over our summer pride festival season, and the importance of harm reduction interventions that are peer led. The Sesh.ed 2024 Survey can be completed here: tr.ee/hDpDMbhVUk The PARTi Project on Facebook facebook.com/PARTiproject/ Sesh.Ed on Instagram instagram.com/sesh.ed Drug Reagent Kits drugpolicy.org.au/shop Sesh.ed 2024 Survey: https://tr.ee/hDpDMbhVUk Alcohol and Drug resources Alcohol and Drug Services at Thorne Harbour Health including Rainbow Recovery, Walk In Program, and  TAPS thorneharbour.org/services/alcohol-and-other-drug-services-aod HRV and the Dancewize program hrvic.org.au/dancewize  ADF Drug Facts adf.org.au/drug-facts The Loop wearetheloop.org Touchbase touchbase.org.au HIV Drug Interactions Checker, including HIV treatment and PrEP: hiv-druginteractions.org/checker   Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH. This episode was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people and broadcast from the lands of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

James from Victorian Alcohol & Drug Association (VAADA) helps us navigate drug checking and minimising drug related harms for LGBTIQA+ communities. In light of the Greens, Legalise Cannabis, and Animal Justice Party's proposed bill on drug checking and harms at summer festivals, we're thankful to James and VAADA for their time. VAADA works to prevent and reduce Alcohol and Drug-related harms in the Victorian community by ensuring the people experiencing those harms, and the organisations that support them, are well-represented in policy, program development and public discussion. Find VAADA online at vaada.org.au Facebook: facebook.com/VictorianAlcoholandDrugAssociation X / Twitter: twitter.com/vaadaenews Alcohol and Drug resources Alcohol and Drug Services at Thorne Harbour Health including Rainbow Recovery, Walk In Program, and  TAPS thorneharbour.org/services/alcohol-and-other-drug-services-aod HRV and the Dancewize program hrvic.org.au/dancewize  ADF Drug Facts adf.org.au/drug-facts The Loop wearetheloop.org Touchbase touchbase.org.au Sesh.ed instagram.com/sesh.ed HIV Drug Interactions Checker, including HIV treatment and PrEP: hiv-druginteractions.org/checker   Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

Michael and Rachel talk about festival wellbeing during the Summer (silly) season! We discuss how to take care of yourself while partying and the current situation relating to Alcohol and Other Drug use. Nic Robinson-Griffiths joins the show as Thorne Harbour Health's AOD Coordinator. Key Peer Educator, Owen Hall from DanceWize also talks about being aware of the risks of using Alcohol and Other Drugs. Touchbase is a support service for LGBTIQ Australians. ADMIN is a peer support group for transgender, non-binary and gender diverse people looking to better manage their alcohol and other drug use. For more podcasts on queer health and wellbeing, check out our other JOY Podcasts!

Jack Revell from Drugswrap talks the week in drug news with us.Follow Drugswrap on TwitterNovember 1st is International Drug User's Day and DanceWize, SSDP Australia and Pill Testing Australia have teamed up to release a 'Pill Testing Explained' video.Check out the full DanceWize campaign videos at their YouTube channel.October Online Forum: An empowering, person centered approach to Substance Use and Mental HealthDesigned and delivered by staff from Nexus Dual Diagnosis Service, Harm Reduction Victoria, Mind Australia and Wellways.Brought to you by NEMHSCA, Yarra Drug and Health Forum and Yarra Mental Health Alliance. Harm reduction is a recovery oriented essential practice that can be used by any health care worker regardless of the setting. It values the consumers own experiences with substance use and mental health and supports their expertise in planning and decision-making. In this webinar viewers will be introduced to the principle’s of Dual Diagnosis and Harm Reduction. Viewers will hear real stories using interviews and animations on how staff and consumers from Mental Health settings implemented the Before, During and After Harm Reduction tool and some of the outcomes from using this approach. Viewers will be guided to free Harm Reduction resources to use with consumers and understand why Harm Reduction is a practice that shouldn’t be limited to Drug and Alcohol workers.  

 Owen from Dancewize dials in to give us a bit of an update on drugs. We talk about keeping safe and sound over the summer silly season, with Mardi Gras on the horizon – how […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_hideseek/p/joy.org.au/hideandseek/wp-content/uploads/sites/144/2020/02/Hide_and_Seek_Summer_Drugs_Podcast.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:56 — 92.3MB) | Embed Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify |

Rainbow Serpent Festival 2019 Safe & Sustainable Partying - DanceWize FeaturingMelissa DentSteph TzanetisNick KentLinda Cowan DanceWize (formerly RaveSafe) is celebrating 20 years of being a government-funded, peer-based harm reduction service. With grassroots origins beginning in 1995 as ‘RaveSafe’, we’ll share the story of DanceWize/RaveSafe with you, including the inspiration for the original ‘RaveSafe’ name being from a video made for rave VJs and filled with messages about safe sex and other harm reduction themes. Our team members, original members and new, come from a wide variety of backgrounds and will share with you some of their work in the event harm reduction space from the 1990s to date. DanceWize uses a peer education model to reduce alcohol and other drug (AOD) related harm at Victorian music events and festivals. Over the past two decades of operation, hundreds of volunteers have attended hundreds of events; providing harm reduction education and care for thousands of Victorians to reduce the risks associated with the music scene.

Since their introduction to industrial societies, psychedelics have been hailed as catalysts for personal and societal change. Researcher David Nickles delved into recent discoveries surrounding these compounds and the experiences they can bring. He highlighted friction around questions of who should control access to these experiences and who gets to craft the social narratives around them. Nickles examined the challenges of access, social control, and power dynamics that have crystallized since the psychedelic revolution of the 1960’s. He highlighted the ways which profit-motivated corporations and advocates of psychedelic mainstreaming have exerted control over public narratives about psychedelics under the pretense of addressing mental health epidemics. He urged us to examine psychedelics as tools for grappling with widespread social and political maladies—declining global ecosystem, the #MeToo movement, and the ongoing failures of late capitalism—rather than merely the next chic self-improvement product. Join Nickles for a conversation about fighting commodification and exploring culture through a psychedelic lens. David Nickels is an underground researcher and moderator for The DMT-Nexus community. He has worked on numerous harm reduction projects including KosmiCare, Check-In, TLConscious, DanceWize, and The Open Hyperspace Traveler. He’s offered cultural critiques and commentary on psychedelics and radical politics, as well as novel phytochemical data for psychedelic preparations at venues around the world. Recorded live at The Forum at Town Hall Seattle on July 24, 2019. 

The issue of pill testing at music festivals has literally filled the media this summer and is shaping up as a key issue in the upcoming NSW election campaign. To get the lowdown on this issue from the peer perspective, SpeakEasy sat down with Mary Harrod, NUAA CEO and Jessica Murray, one of the coordinators of NUAA’s Dancewize peer education and harm reduction program. For more information: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

Over the 2019 summer, music festivals - particularly those in NSW - have been put in the spotlight with a number of young people overdosing on substances. This prompted health and other professionals to renew their calls for pill testing. These calls were rejected by the New South Wales Government who instead decided to crackdown on festivals by introducing a raft of proposed changes to the industry. In this show, we speak with Steph Tzanetis, the Coordinator of Harm Reduction Victoria’s DanceWize program, a nightlife and music festival harm reduction service offering peer education and support. We also speak with Fiona Measham Professor of Criminology at Durham University since 2012, with over two decades of research and work across a broad areas including criminology and social policy. 

First we hear from Ash Blackwell who's in Warsaw at the Global Forum on Nicotine, speaking with Gerry Stimson, a public health sociologist with over 40 years’ experience of public health research and advocacy in the field of psychoactive substance use.RADIOTHON PANELGlenn Woodworth - Philosophy Student, University of Montana, USAGreg Denham - Executive Officer, Yarra Drug and Health ForumNick Kent - President, Students of Sensible Drug Policy AustraliaRachel Hopkins - Principal Solictor, Fitzroy Legal ServiceSteph Tzanetis - Coordinator, DanceWize program (Harm Reduction Victoria) 

Broadcast live from the Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) 2017 Psychedelic Symposium at Holmesglen in Eildon.Hosted by Nick WallisWith blanket bans on psychoactives increasing, cognitive liberty is in chains. Where does reform for laws covering psychedelics fit within drug law reform? In an environment where evidence is not the drive for policy how do we keep policy makers accountable? What have we learned recent work and development? How can you help with the next steps? A number of individuals who have been involved with drug law and policy activism will join a panel to discuss strategies for reform.The panel will bring along some recent examples of activism and workshop these with the audience, drawing out successful strategies, unsuccessful strategies and discussing potential future campaigns.PANELRICK DOBLINIn the mid 1970s MDMA, then known as Adam was used quietly in psychotherapy. In the 1980s, growing recreational use of Ecstasy led to the criminalization of the drug and the formation of MAPS in 1986. Now, MAPS is about to embark on FDA-approved Phase 3 research to make MDMA-assisted psychotherapy a legal treatment for PTSD. This talk will discuss the historical implications of MDMA use and the plans for ongoing clinical research.Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana and his Master's thesis on a survey of oncologists about smoked marijuana vs. the oral THC pill in nausea control for cancer patients. His undergraduate thesis at New College of Florida was a 25-year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Timothy Leary's Concord Prison Experiment. Rick studied with Dr. Stanislav Grof and was among the first to be certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise healthy people, and eventually to become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist. He founded MAPS in 1986, and currently resides in Boston with his wife and one of three children (two in college).MONICA BARRATTDR MONICA BARRATT is a social scientist at the Drug Policy Modelling Program, part of Australia's National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Monica's work examines the social and public health implications of digital technologies for people who use illicit and emerging psychoactive drugs. Research topics emerging from this interest include online drug markets or cryptomarkets and policy responses to novel psychoactive substance evolution. She specialises in engaging hard-to-reach networks and groups in digital spaces in conversations about research and policy, to inform policy change. Monica also serves as an Editor for policy-related articles at the International Journal of Drug Policy, and as the Director of Research at the international drug harm reduction community Bluelight.org. Monica is a lead researcher for the Global Drug Survey. She is also a regular attendee and contributor to EGA, from the mid-2000s.NICK KENTNICK KENT works as a secondary school teacher in the areas of languages and the humanities. He is currently completing his Masters through research at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, where he is undertaking a critical discourse analysis of school policies and resources as they relate to drug education, comparing both local and international examples. After completing the Grad. Dip in Teaching in 2015, Nick was perplexed at the lack of teacher training around student drug use and the silence of the education system on this issue, as well as the slow pace of drug reform more broadly. Inspired to learn more, and to advocate and research this area further, Nick helped found Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia in 2016, setting up their second chapter at the University of Melbourne. Nick was instrumental in the UniMelb chapter's work in setting up a harm reduction program that would supply re-agent drug checking kits to students free of charge through the Student Union, and has travelled to numerous international conferences to represent this globally significant program. Nick draws upon his experience in nightclub and festival communities, as well as his experience volunteering with DanceWize as a Peer Educator and his policy and international experience with SSDP in both his teaching and his research.FIONA MEASHAMFiona Measham is co-founder & co-Director of ‘The Loop’. The Loop conducts forensic testing of drugs at UK festivals and nightclubs and provides associated welfare support. Fiona Measham was appointed Professor of Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University in 2012. Fiona has conducted research for over two decades across a broad area of criminology and social policy, exploring changing trends in legal and illegal drugs; the night time economy and the socio-cultural context to consumption; gender; the regulation and policing of intoxication; electronic music scenes and club cultures; issues of deterrence, displacement and desistance; and broader policy implications. A key feature of her research has been the development of in-situmethods of data collection in pubs, clubs and festivals, a working environment with which she is familiar, having spent her early adulthood working in bars and clubs across several continents in various guises.BEN SESSADR BEN SESSA (MBBS BSc MRCPsych) is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist working in adult addiction services and with custodial detained young people in a secure adolescent setting. He trained at UCL medical school, graduating in 1997. He is interested in the developmental trajectory from child maltreatment to adult mental health disorders. Dr Sessa is currently a senior research fellow at Bristol, Cardiff and Imperial College London Universities, where he is conducting the UK's first clinical studies with MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD and alcohol dependence syndrome. In the last ten years he has worked on several UK-based human pharmacology trials as study doctor or as a healthy subject administering and receiving test doses of LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine. He is the author of several dozen peer-reviewed articles in the mainstream medical press and has written two books exploring psychedelic medicine; The Psychedelic Renaissance (2012) and To Fathom Hell or Soar Angelic (2015). In speaking publicly at universities and medical conferences, Dr Sessa is outspoken on lobbying for change in the current system by which drugs are classified in the UK, believing a more progressive policy of regulation would reduce the harms of recreational drug use and provide increased opportunities for clinical psychedelic research. He is a co-founder and director of the UK's Breaking Convention conference.

 This week's show is about upcoming drug law reform around recreational drug use, and what's current in harm reduction approaches.We’ll hear from three guests on this topic, Nevena Spirovska from grassroots campaign High Alert, Stephanie Tzanetis from DanceWize, once a grassroots campaign and now supported by Health Promotion Victoria, and Julaine Allan, an adjunct associate at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.  Music is by Simona Castricum N.B. The US academic referred to Julaine Allan is Dr Daniel Ciccarone, a San Franciso-based public health researcher and physician. Women on the Line does not condone or condemn people who use drugs for their choices. If you are concerned about your drug use or that of a friend, you can call Family Drug Support on 1300 368 186, or check out your state-based service. 

Nick and Ash discuss the week in drug news.MUSICTemple Step Project - New GenerationsINTERVIEW 1Former DanceWize co-ordinator Dan joins the show to talk of his time with DanceWize as he finishes up and moves to new endeavours.MUSICVida Sunshine feat. Troanthon Swift - ChangedINTERVIEW 2Julian Palmer, author or Articulations On the Utilisations and Meanings of Psychedelics joins the program from Estonia to talk about his travels and thoughts on psychedelics.

Nick and Ash discuss the news from the week.Interview #1Steph Tzanetis is the co-ordinator of DanceWize, a peer-based harm reduction program for festivals around Victoria. Steph recently visited Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Club Health conference, focused on harm reduction for the night life. We talked to Steph about her time in Lisbon and what she learned while in a country that has one of the most progressive drug policies in the world.In A Perfect World (podcast)Rak Razam is an experiential journalist who has traveled around the world, exploring issues around psychedelics, especially the esoteric and archaic revival. Only a small snippet of Rak's full program was played on the show. Make sure you click the link to listen to his full podcast.Interview #2Professor David Penington is one of Australia's leading intellectuals and public health experts. Professor Penington joins the show to discuss a recent article on the possibility of legalising MDMA to be sold through pharmacies.Call to make ecstasy legal and sell it at pharmacies - The Age 05/07/2015