Aliveness Initiative
Core Team
Our Core Team has been called by an awareness that our species and the planet have lost right relationship. And, a belief that we have the wisdom and the potential to reawaken an inner knowing and find wholeness within ourselves and with the community of life; that the time to embody, connect and waken Aliveness, and ecological belonging, is now!
Jamie Beachy, MDiv, PhD
Co-Founder & Adviser
Jamie Beachy, MDiv, PhD, is a spiritual care educator (ACPE), ethics consultant, and psychedelic practitioner. She was a sub-investigator for MAPS Phase 3 clinical trials in Boulder, Colorado, researching the safety and efficacy of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD. Dr. Beachy now serves as an MDMA-assisted Therapy Consultant, and a Field Scholar with the Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality.
A leader in professional chaplaincy, Dr. Beachy co-founded Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies and was a founding member of the Transforming Chaplaincy Psychedelic Care Research Network. Prior to specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapy, Dr. Beachy served for many years as a palliative care and hospice chaplain. She developed an Essentials of Palliative Care Chaplaincy certificate for the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care and has spoken broadly on the role of professional chaplains in both palliative care and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines.
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Azul DelGrasso, Romani, PhD. Candidate
Co-Founder & Adviser
Azul DelGrasso, Romani, PhD Candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, is a Denver-based professional and ceremonialist with over 28 years of experience in public health, specializing in trauma-informed care and sexual health diversity. Now a full-time scholar, Azul's research and ceremonial practices center on the transformative potential of psychedelics, with a particular focus on 5-MeO-DMT, to explore unitive consciousness and ecological identity. His doctoral studies in entheogenic gnosis integrate cultural traditions, ecopsychedelics, and in-depth consciousness research, bridging ancient practices with modern therapeutic applications. Azul holds master's degrees in Latin American Studies from California State University Los Angeles and Ecopsychology from Naropa University.
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Travis Cox Ph.D
Co-Founder and Adviser
Travis Cox, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Masters in Ecopsychology and Bachelors of Environmental Studies at Naropa University. He has been studying consciousness throughout his career in academia, both as a student and as faculty. His interests in psychedelics are at the intersection of activism, philosophy, sustainability, and ecopsychology. He presented on psychedelics and sustainability at the 2019 AASHE conference, helped organize the "Can Exceptional Experience Save the World?" conference at the Claremont Graduate School of Theology in 2019, was a part of the "Philosophy and Psychedelics" conference at the University of Exeter in April of 2021, co-taught the Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) course at Naropa, leads nature connection sessions for Naropa's PAT Certificate, co-facilitated a workshop on "Ecopsychedelics" at the 2023 MAPS conference in Denver, and is slated to teach a 3-credit course in "Ecopsychedelics" in spring 2025 as part of the new Psychedelic Studies minor at Naropa
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Tracey Easthope MPH
Co-Founder and Advisor
Tracey Easthope, MPH, is a founding member and senior strategist with Health Care Without Harm. For 23 years, she directed the US-based Safer Materials Workgroup of Health Care Without Harm. Ms. Easthope helped develop and direct the successful market campaign work, leading procurement criteria development, and working with some of the largest health systems and manufacturers in the country to strategically leverage health care purchasing to drive safer furnishings, building materials, cleaning chemicals, and medical devices in the US. She currently directs the global supply chain transformation efforts and was part of the leadership team for SHiPP, a project jointly implemented by HCWH and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in ten lower and middle- income countries, to promote sustainable procurement in the health sector in order to conserve resources, promote ethical supply chains, reduce the toxicity of materials in health products, and reduce greenhouse gases. Currently she is part of Health Care Without Harm’s Sustainability Leadership Team, and helps lead the organization’s engagement in the Plastics Treaty. She has authored numerous resources and articles, including a textbook chapter on the challenges faced by the health sector from the intersecting crises of climate and chemical contamination. Ms. Easthope’s training is in public health from the University of Michigan.
Ms. Easthope also has a degree in sculpture from Eastern Michigan University. Her work has appeared in a number of regional galleries and is in one permanent collection.
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Jamie Harvie P.E.
Co-Founder and Adviser
Jamie Harvie is nationally recognized for his extensive experience at the nexus of health, community, environment, and the sacred. Jamie is a founding member of Health Care Without Harm. He led the successful coordination and phaseout of healthcare mercury nationally, supporting the United Nations Minamata global mercury treaty. Jamie founded and directed the Healthy Food in Health Care campaign and is credited with raising the alarm and initiating the transformation of healthcare food policy and practice nationally. Jamie served as the Founding President and Executive Director of the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) and is the founder of the One Sacred Earth Project, working to catalyze reconnection to the more than human world. His work is published widely and he is a contributing author to the textbooks Integrative Medicine and Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility. Jamie offers organizational development, strategic planning and collaborative leadership training and consults and presents internationally. He is a trained as racial healing, Work that Reconnects, and Art of Hosting facilitator, and psychedelic sitter. Jamie is a mixed media artist and actor; he finds joy in the garden, gliding on skis through wintery forests and buffeted by the wind on mountains tops.
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Jamie Kohanyi MA, LMFT
Co-Founder and Advisor
I meet with the psyche (soul) of those with whom I work through conscious conversation and the engagement of non-ordinary consciousness through dreamwork, active imagination, prayer, art, music and psychedelic medicine in the context of healing.
I received my masters degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Counseling Psychology where my training in mythology, archetypes, and depth psychology benefited from the wisdom of its supporters and founders including Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, James Hillman, and Thomas Moore. I am also honored to hold a certificate from the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles and The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology founded by psychedelic pioneers Robert Frager and James Fadiman. My most recent training was with PRATI (Psychedelic Research and Training Institute).
From both a depth and transpersonal orientation, suffering commonly called anxiety, depression, addiction, or compulsion all express an unmet want or need that is often buried in the psyche (soul). These unconscious longings reveal themselves in our language, dreams, and images but also through unwanted symptoms. Part of my task is assisting in unearthing these hidden yearnings and discovering ways to integrate these subconscious desires in a whole-some way.
Many significant events in people's lives that lead to upsetting symptoms happened before they had words or were so traumatic and wounding, they couldn't be captured in language. Existential distress from the incremental loss of habitat for most living beings perhaps expands beyond our current communicative capacity. Most of the people I work with come to realize they have been expressing themselves through eating disorders, addictions, and compulsive behaviors until psychotherapy gave them a new way to talk about, tolerate, or transform their experience.
With these limitations of language in mind, I was trained and received a certificate through The Sky Mountain Institute in Expressive Arts Therapy and Ecopsychology which focuses on what creativity and creation have to teach us about ourselves and reality.
My most foundational training in caring for the soul was through music and I have a bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music where my principal instrument was the human voice.
The areas of healing most calling to my attention at this time include maternal wellness, marriage enrichment, body image, eating disorders, and relational trauma. I am a certified perinatal mental health provider.
I am a mother of three and wife to psychotherapist David Kohanyi.
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