Objectives
Organize and Strengthen the Movement
- Foster meaningful exchange among diverse global actors—across cultures, disciplines, and worldviews—who have been touched by ayahuasca, creating space for dialogue between perspectives ranging from science to spirit.
- Engage strategic funders to align resources with the long-term vision
Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights
- Advance legal protections—both in and beyond countries of origin—for Indigenous spiritual leaders and their traditional medicines
- Contribute to the strengthening of Indigenous governance through the Council of Indigenous Spiritual Leaders
Ensure Safe and Ethical Futures
- Promote collective responsibility and culturally grounded standards to ensure safe, ethical, and informed ayahuasca practices globally.
- Confront extractivism, biomedicalization, and their cultural harms — amplifying Indigenous solutions
- Develop regulatory frameworks and policy proposals
- Present a Community-based Regulatory Framework
Bring Together International and Interdisciplinary Researchers
- Advance the decolonization of science through mutual learning and dialogue across knowledge systems.
- Explore how traditional Indigenous knowledge can serve Western knowledge, and vice versa
- Shape intercultural “Science Plans” together with Indigenous leaders and scientific communities.
Decolonial Narratives
- Transform public discourse: linking ayahuasca to Indigenous rights and ecological healing
- Reframe dominant scientific narratives by introducing biocultural perspectives, Indigenous epistemologies, and lived experience