Driving The Future Of Mental Health

Greg Shanken is the founder & CEO of Gloss, an 11 year old web development and digital marketing agency with 16 employees based in Boulder, Colorado, In 2021, Greg’s life dramatically transformed after he decided to stop using SSRIs and heal his depression and childhood trauma through psychedelic medicines. His journey helped him discover his passion and live his truth by serving the psychedelic healing ecosystem as a co-founder the Psychedelic Business Associationas; an Ambassador for Proposition 122, which legalized natural psychedelic medicines in Colorado in 2022; and joining the leadership teams of the Colorado Psychedelic Society and Empathic Health, a non-profit online psychedelic healing community.

Piper is a seeker of how to bring about the greatest joy and fulfillment to her community through her talents and gifts.  She is a designer, planning consultant, advocate, yoga and tennis teacher, song writer, singer, pilot and artist. Piper has been an Oregon resident for 18 years and has served the community in many different facets.  She has served on environmental boards, planning boards, teaching high school kid’s yoga, coaching tennis, and providing architectural design and planning services.  One of her passions is elevating individual’s spiritual and mental health by implementing altered states of consciousness.  She blends nature and ancient traditions to help others connect to themselves, their community, and their environments in a more meaningful way.  She is an advocate for psilocybin and was manager of the campaign in Deschutes County for allowing psilocybin to be provided.  She assisted county development departments across the state to figure out where best to place psilocybin services.  She is currently enrolled in a psilocybin facilitator program in the state, and is opening a nature based service center in central Oregon. Piper is a creator of sacred space through the traditional western tools of architecture and shamanic tools from cultures worldwide.  She has been practicing architectural design for 18 years and has studied different plant medicines with different cultural lineages and teachers for 15 years. Piper weaves the concepts of intentional space and “set and setting” by creating spaces that evoke healing, creativity, and transformation.

Elaine’s motto is “curiouser and curiouser,” as she is an enthusiastic explorer of life. She began her freelance writing career soon after college while also pursuing world travel, skydiving, living in the Yosemite caves among its big wall climbers, snowboarding, hitchhiking, and more. After an abrupt transition into fulltime motherhood, Elaine pursued extensive course work in functional medicine, becoming a ghostwriter, marketer, and content manager in the field. Elaine has lived in Oregon for more than 20 years, discovering the psychedelic path during that time. She founded the Portland Psychedelic Society, which produced the city’s first psychedelic conference with keynote speaker Dennis McKenna. After moving to Central Oregon, she became involved in the successful campaign to prevent Deschutes County from opting out of the state’s psilocybin services measure, during which she founded the Central Oregon Psilocybin Society. She is also the author and producer of the book and podcast, Psychedelic and MDMA Therapy for Veterans and First Responders, a collection of psychedelic transformation stories that is the first in a series. Psychedelics continue to serve an integral role in Elaine’s life, and she is passionate about returning them to their rightful role as aides to human consciousness.