Colloquium Meetings 2025-2026
Adana Omágua Kambeba
Psychedelic Parenthood: Intergenerational Healing, Harm Reduction, and Psychedelic Justice
Adana Omágua Kambeba is an Indigenous physician from the Omágua/Kambeba people, known as the “People of the Waters,” whose presence extends across the Brazilian, Peruvian, Colombian, and Ecuadorian Amazon. Born in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, and raised between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds, she dedicates her work to building bridges between Indigenous traditional medicine and contemporary biomedical science. As a spiritual leader in formation, she is currently carrying out a social, cultural, identity-based, and spiritual initiative together with her people in Omágua/Kambeba communities in the Amazon. She is the first woman physician of her people in Brazil and the first physician in the country authorized to officially register both of her names (Indigenous and Portuguese) with the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine (CFM). She also served on the CFM Commission for the Integration of Frontier Physicians, seeking to promote dialogue between ancestral knowledge and institutional medicine. She currently works as a cannabis-prescribing physicin, serves as Director of Community Health at the Psychedelic Parenthood Community (PPC), and participates in national and international initiatives to protect the cultural heritage of forest medicines and advance Indigenous leadership in global discussions on ayahuasca and Indigenous biocultural knowledge.
Psychedelic Parenthood: Intergenerational Healing, Harm Reduction, and Psychedelic Justice
Abstract:
What does it mean to care in times of psychedelic expansion?
This talk offers a reflection on the role of parenthood in psychedelic contexts, exploring how these experiences affect not only individuals, but also families and generations. It invites us to see parenthood as a space for the transmission of healing, memory, and responsibility.
Drawing from a dialogue between ancestral knowledge and contemporary practices, the talk will address themes such as intergenerational healing, responsibility in care, harm reduction, and the need for psychedelic justice—one that recognizes the importance of building ethical pathways that consider not only the individual, but also families and future generations within their cultural, territorial, and historical contexts.
More than a discussion about substances, this is an invitation to rethink care, family, and the future.