Good Medicine Collective

Good Medicine Collective We are a collective of providers and facilitators doing consciousness-change work.

✨Join us for June First Friday Community Gallery at Good Medicine Collective ✨We are excited to provide a space to celeb...
05/21/2026

✨Join us for June First Friday Community Gallery at Good Medicine Collective ✨

We are excited to provide a space to celebrate the intersection of art, healing and community. Through our First Friday Series, our mission is to provide a platform for local artists to share their pieces, story-tell and bring all ages and walks of life together to connect, get inspired and learn more about how the expressive arts can catalyze healing and connection.

This month we are featuring the work of local artist & muralist Erica Sedler — an artist whose work explores the connection between nature, storytelling, healing, and the human experience.

Erica’s paintings invite us into beauty, mystery, imagination, and the wild emotional landscapes that make us human. We’re honored to share her work with the community in a space designed for connection, creativity, and care.

The evening will also include a guided mini Breathwork Journey at 5:30 PM led by GMC provider Tania of Spiraldance Breathwork.
Come explore the healing arts, meet local creatives & GMC practitioners, enjoy light refreshments, and experience a taste of what Good Medicine Collective has to offer. 

📍 Good Medicine Collective
231 York Street, Portland, ME
🗓 Friday, June 5
⏰ 5 P – 8 P
✨ All Ages Welcome

Our First Friday event is hosted through the Good Medicine Collective non-profit whose mission is to support accessibility to healing for all. Donations are welcome to support accessibility to future arts & wellness offerings - link in bio.

Our Community Gallery is curated in collaboration with GMC provider, Desiree Lester at The Artist Assignment, along with other GMC volunteers. If you are an artist interested in being featured, please email [email protected]

Personal transformation ripples outward. And now, more than ever, our communities need grounded men with open hearts to ...
05/20/2026

Personal transformation ripples outward. And now, more than ever, our communities need grounded men with open hearts to step forward to do our part to tend the world.

Decades of feminism have empowered women, but most men remain limited by our culture’s collective patriarchal programming. Unlike indigenous cultures, we have lost the rites of passage that once guided boys into mature manhood.

As a result many men find themselves isolated, overworked, emotionally disconnected, searching for meaning and purpose, unsure how to do inner work, afraid to show vulnerability, and confused about what authentic masculine presence is. We must get beyond the aggression of toxic masculinity and the people-pleasing of the passive nice guy. This is also the work that makes us better partners capable of real intimacy.

Drawing from Jungian archetypal psychology, Shamanic wisdom, somatic bioenergetics, and Gestalt Therapy, this daylong introductory workshop will provide an opportunity to explore:

connecting to and embodying the primary masculine archetypes
cultivating the aliveness of full moment-to-moment presence
compassionately reclaiming our disowned shadow parts
sustainable practice tools to take home with you
This workshop will utilize mini-lectures, experiential exercises, movement, and group interaction.

While this workshop can be a stand-alone day, it’s intended to be the first of a series of workshops that will continue to more deeply explore the territory of masculinity, healing wounds, discovering your soul’s purpose, friendship, further freeing ourselves from collective oppression and programming, navigating the dance between the masculine and the feminine, not having our attention hijacked by screens, and other relevant topics.

You’re invited to join a group of men committed to being more awake in the world in a way that embodies passion, integrity, wildness, authenticity, kindness, and joy…to being more fully yourself.

We look forward to welcoming you into this space.

Facilitated by Marc Felix, Ph.D. (www.drmarcfelix.com)

Hosted by Brad Peirce (www.bradpeirce.com)

Link to register in bio!

In this month’s Psychedelic Studio, Jezmina Von Thiele (they/she)—Romani fortune teller and co-author of Secrets of Roma...
05/04/2026

In this month’s Psychedelic Studio, Jezmina Von Thiele (they/she)—Romani fortune teller and co-author of Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling—explores the connections between traditional Romani divination practices and altered states of consciousness. Drawing on their family lineage and professional practice, they discuss how tools such as tarot, palmistry, dream interpretation, and tasseomancy can function as pathways into intuitive or trance-like states that help readers access symbolic insight, emotional truth, and guidance.

Roma are a diasporic Indian ethnic group known more commonly by the misnomer/racial slur, “gypsies.” Due to centuries of persecution, Roma have developed a number of survival trades, including metal working, horse trading performing, and fortunetelling. Jezmina was raised in a fortunetelling family, which included folk medicine training, and was taught the survival trade that has been passed down for many generations.

Jezmina also reflects on their personal experience undergoing M**A + ketamine therapy as a patient, and how those experiences deepened their understanding of altered states and spiritual experiences. By examining the crossover between psychedelic healing, trance, and Romani fortune-telling traditions, they highlight how practices now popular in modern wellness culture have long existed within Romani and other BIPOC communities—and how divination can serve as its own form of consciousness exploration. These Psychedelic Studio events are donation-based to support community building and education. Link to register in bio. We hope you’ll join us!

Coast to Coast Salmon is a small, fisherman-owned business based in Lincolnville connecting Maine communities to wild so...
04/27/2026

Coast to Coast Salmon is a small, fisherman-owned business based in Lincolnville connecting Maine communities to wild sockeye salmon, sustainably harvested in Bristol Bay, Alaska - direct from fishermen Courtney & John Sidik. Our pickup days are meant to connect more Maine households with wild sockeye and to give folks a chance to talk with their fishermen, ask questions about where their fish comes from and most importantly to celebrate wild, nourishing and truly sustainable seafood while supporting fishermen who catch it. is partnering with to provide a convenient pick-up location to our Portland community.

Pickup day offers: Bulk Options: 10lbs - $220, 15lbs - $315, 20lbs - $400
    This is top-quality wild sockeye salmon from our boat and other independent fishermen on the bay.

We’d invite the community to pre-order by June 15th to reserve a share of salmon from the limited supply brought back. After that deadline, you may still order as long as inventory allows.  Orders can be placed by emailing [email protected] or at www.coasttocoastsalmon.com (link in bio) where Good Medicine Collective will be listed as a pickup location. We encourage friends to order together to share the salmon and savings!

We may also bring a small selection of partner products if there’s interest (canned smoked salmon, salmon jerky, and wild Maine seaweed from Maine Coast Sea Vegetables), though the focus is on bulk orders.

Join us on April 8th 6-8pm for a special Psychedelic Studio in honor of Bicycle Day—a moment in history that quietly ope...
04/01/2026

Join us on April 8th 6-8pm for a special Psychedelic Studio in honor of Bicycle Day—a moment in history that quietly opened the doors of perception for generations to come. We’ll begin with a short historical video exploring the origins and significance of this day, then move into an open, community-centered space for storytelling, reflection, and conversation.

This evening is an invitation to gather in curiosity and reverence—for the history, for our own experiences, and for the ways these medicines continue to shape healing and consciousness.

Come as you are. Listen, share, and be part of the unfolding dialogue.

All proceeds support ongoing education and community building around consciousness, culture and healing. Link to register in bio.

Celebrate teacher appreciation week by joining us for a special fundraising event to support the vital and incredible ed...
04/01/2026

Celebrate teacher appreciation week by joining us for a special fundraising event to support the vital and incredible educators in our community!

Riverbird and Good Medicine Collective are hosting a community screening of When It Breaks, a documentary following the “inspiring story of Special Education teacher Konrad Wert and his personal journey from teacher burnout through becoming a folk-singing advocate. Stepping away from the classroom, Wert turns to his musical side career as a means to tour the country with his family and engage teachers, parents, and audiences in a conversation about the current state of Special Education and the epidemic of Teacher Burnout. As opportunities arise, Konrad must decide how his service is most effective- as an advocating artist or as a teacher in the classroom.”

Teaching is an invaluable profession and is also notoriously under-supported and underpaid, leading to burnout. This July, Riverbird Clinic is offering an Educator Resilience Retreat as a way to care for, nourish and help restore our educators. 100% of the proceeds we raise from this event will go directly to supporting accessibility to this retreat for our community educators. Come help us care for our beloved teachers!

Our evening will begin with an open-mic poetry reading. Share your own words, or the words of another poet who has impacted you, or simply receive in the audience. We’ve found that pairing film screenings with shared poetry creates a uniquely intimate and connective experience. After you make a donation for your ticket, a link to sign up to share a poem if you wish will be in your registration email.

Link to sign up in bio!

For this month’s PSYCHEDELIC STUDIO, Good Medicine Collective hosts anthropologist and chaplain Bonnie Glass-Coffin from...
03/05/2026

For this month’s PSYCHEDELIC STUDIO, Good Medicine Collective hosts anthropologist and chaplain Bonnie Glass-Coffin from Utah State to discuss 5-MeO-DMT. It is one of the most potent psychoactive substances on the planet and has been foundational to spiritual practices in South America (and the Caribbean) for at least 5000 years. It is an increasingly popular alternative to other tryptamine psychedelics because it is short-acting, easy to use, and because it has few side effects .

Bonnie will present a general overview of the history and current use of this powerful plant in a spiritually-informed understanding. The evening will include community participation in building a despacho. This is an earth-honoring gratitude ritual, native to the Andes. We hope you will join us for this informative and experiential gathering.
Link to register in bio. This is a donation-based community building event.

Come join us for a morning sing! In this song circle, we explore voice not as performance, but as a practice of inspirat...
02/27/2026

Come join us for a morning sing! In this song circle, we explore voice not as performance, but as a practice of inspiration, connection and belonging . Come to sing, listen, or simply rest. No prior musical experience needed.

Family-friendly, perfection-free zone.
Link in bio.

Join us next Tuesday evening, February 24th, for our monthly Francis Weller-inspired grief circle. All are welcome. Link...
02/20/2026

Join us next Tuesday evening, February 24th, for our monthly Francis Weller-inspired grief circle. All are welcome. Link to register in bio. Donations go to support Riverbird scholarships for ketamine-assisted therapy.

in collaboration with Good Medicine Collective and .mechanics, is deeply honored to hold an empathetic, safe, and nurtu...
02/04/2026

in collaboration with Good Medicine Collective and .mechanics, is deeply honored to hold an empathetic, safe, and nurturing space for grief, gratitude, and community. Join us and a team of over 20 facilitators, healers, social workers, death doulas, grief counselors, art therapists, shamans, and performers. Space is limited to 100 participants.

Grief and gratitude are not meant to be solitary, though today many of us grieve and give thanks alone; communal ritual offers the opportunity to witness one another’s pain and joy, share our stories of heartbreak and heart-made, and to hold each other as we journey into the depth of our collective sorrow so that we may more fully experience the joy of being alive and connected to each other and the world around us.

This event will include:
• poetry and song
• an invocation to the unseen world through spoken word and drumming
• grounding somatic movement practices to help us find deep support as we unwind and soften the bracing in our bodies
• time to explore different healing modalities including Reiki, art therapy, and more
• the creation of a beautiful shrine
• guided writing practices that include an opportunity to share and witness in small groups
• dancing and singing together to let our feelings move through us and back into the world

Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, “If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.”

Link to register in bio.
Sliding scale tickets $25-75

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