HAI TALKS
At HAI House, we believe education is the cornerstone of community strength and equity. HAI Talks is our newest initiative to empower individuals by deepening their understanding of their minds, bodies, and souls. Moderated by HAI House Founder Kimberly Lisi, HAI Talks creates a platform for sharing wisdom, from seasoned experts in various fields to community members whose journeys offer profound lessons. Through engaging, live discussions, HAI Talks seeks to expand our mission of fostering not just therapeutic and social spaces but also educational ones, uniting our community in the pursuit of knowledge, growth, and collective empowerment.
UPCOMING HAI TALKS
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From Perfectionism To Freedom: Transmuting Internalized Fear Into Community Care
DECEMBER 8 @ 5PM IN BROOKLYN
Join us for an intimate, interactive panel discussion that taps into our collective experience of navigating perfectionism and how we can move through energetic blocks toward personal and community liberation. Our discussion will draw from the diverse individual experiences and professional training in spaces of harm reduction, psychotherapy, and expanded states of consciousness to provide tools for progressing beyond internalized fear and deeper into the creation of networks of care for one another.
Our Panel Members:
Leah O’Donnell, LCSW
A holistic and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist who integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy with ceremonial plant medicine practices. She combines traditional therapeutic models with a spiritual, psychedelic-informed approach to healing. Recently honored with the Heart Centered Leadership award, Leah is recognized for her contributions to training clinicians in creating sacred containers for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP). She frequently lectures on self-compassion, love, and the transformative potential of psychedelics in modern therapeutic practices.
Yvette Vexta, Multidisciplinary Artist + Certified Coach
Yvette Vexta, an Australian multidisciplinary artist and certified coach based in New York, who is best known for her artistic alter ego, Vexta. She began her career as one of the first female street artists, transitioning from illegal graffiti to developing a unique aesthetic that explores our connection to nature through a psychedelic lens. Her work blends mythology, cosmology, and consciousness themes, merging the earthly with the metaphysical and inviting viewers to experience the transformative power of art and identity. With 20 years of experience in art, personal transformation, and psychedelics. Vexta now channels these insights into her spiritual business and psychedelic integration coaching practice, helping clients navigate their own journeys of growth and self-discovery.
Logina Mostafa, MPH - Founder + Director of Queering Existentialism
The founder and director of Queering Existentialism, an education and connection initiative based in NYC that provides workshops and intentional events focused on nurturing communal secure attachment and healing-centered harm reduction. Their work is rooted in asking what existential healing looks like, and exploring how we can reclaim our hearts and minds from systems of oppression. Logina’s academic background is in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, and they earned their Masters Degree in Public Health Policy in 2021, where they focused on the intersections of bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, and equity in access to psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.