Jerónimo Mazarrasa is Program Director at the ICEERS Foundation, where he is committed to maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms of the globalization of ceremonial plant practices. He has worked with facilitator communities in self regulation processes, developed harm reduction tools, initiatives and training, commissioned scientific research as well as legal and policy reports to inform proposals for the integration of ceremonial plant practices in global north societies. Previous to that, he was a user experience designer developing products and services for many of Spain’s largest companies. He also wrote and produced four documentaries on various aspects of the West’s encounter with indigenous knowledge, from ayahuasca in the treatment of drug addiction, featuring Gabor Maté, to Colombia’s Kogi Mamos, the Brazilian ayahuasca religions, and Bruce Parry’s last feature film, Tawai. He has travelled extensively through South America, researching a broad spectrum of indigenous, mestizo and Western ayahuasca practices and has lectured internationally on the past, present and future of the globalization of traditional indigenous medicines.
Jeronimo´s TEDx talk – One Culture’s Sacred Medicines, Another Culture’s Deadly Drugs