KARIN SILENZI DE STAGNI

Karin Silenzi de Stagni
Founder and Chair of Psycare UK

Karin is a harm reduction activist, founder and Chair of Psycare UK, the first Psychedelic Emergency Services in the UK. She has over 35 years of experience working in festival environments and has been an active part of the curation of many unforgettable psychedelic parties around the world.

Through this experience, she recognized the need for disseminating honest and pragmatic drug information and the responsibility to help people in crisis inside the festival community.

In 2008 she formed Psycare UK as a grassroot community project that became a registered charity in 2012. Karin was a board member of the Nightlife Empowerment & Well-being Network (NewNet) and one of the authors of The Manual of Psychedelic Support. She has worked as a psychedelic sitter for over 15 years and trained hundreds of volunteers at UK festivals and abroad.

Psycare UK is a charity dedicated to helping people who are undergoing difficult drug-related experiences at festivals. We specialise in crisis intervention dealing with people in all kinds of mind-altering substances and difficult situations.