District216 is a membership driven social club in Santa Barbara for exceptional humans: teachers, artists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and psychonauts who want more than bars and small talk.
Cultivate lively communities of psychedelics pioneers that exchange ideas, explore health innovations, author new policies, and grow the ecosystem into a mindful industry.
Advance the full legalization and normalization of healthy psychedelics use in our daily lives, worldwide.
The prohibition on cannabis and psychedelics stunted society for decades. As laws catch up, clinical trials are bringing psychedelics back to mainstream mental health, proving to be effective alternatives to traditional pharmaceutical treatments.
People are taking their health into their own hands, particularly through education and community. We are a forward thinking space for that dialogue: information sharing, policy making, and futurism.
And with a quarter of professional jobs now remote, a deep sense of place matters more than ever. Meaningful relationships are the foundation of co-creation and rich community.
Chief Dreamer Jacob Tell has owned and operated Oniracom, a Santa Barbara brand and marketing agency, since 2001, and launched the production studio LoDo Studios out of the pandemic.
Across those decades he has produced music festivals, networking events, entrepreneurship discussions, industry mixers, and educational lectures, and coalesced a diverse group of thinkers and doers into what is now District216.
"I was a D.A.R.E. kid. I had the shirt and the pencil and the lunchbox."Jacob Tell, in the Montecito Journal, April 2024. That was then.Read the press coverage
Fifteen principles for bridging the gap between what has been and what will be.
Be here now and fully experience life. Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
Show up fully and join in wholeheartedly. The sum of us is greater than each of us alone, and we all belong here.
Move with curiosity to explore within and without for greater wisdom.
Allow identity constructs to melt away so we can each reveal our true self.
Know who and what have come before, and carry their wisdom into the future.
Unravel the most effective answers at the intersection of intuition and data.
Challenge the status quo to inspire our greater good.
Evolve through constant refinement, looking to nature for answers.
Escape the feedback loop of our own bubble with diverse perspectives that usher new ideas, networks, and people into our lives.
Pause. It is the silence between the notes that makes music.
Channel your inner child's lighthearted wonder, curiosity, and thirst for fun.
Look to the stars to honor our cosmic blueprint. Gravity's got ahold of us all, and we are all starstuff.
Open your heart to the people, experiences, ideas, and vulnerabilities that show up.
Transmute fear to courageous acts of consciousness expansion.
Leave judgment at the door. What will be revealed, is. It's all understood.
Manifesto dedicated to Darryl Tell. Written by Jacob Tell.
Jacob TellChief Dreamer
Luke ArcherPartner / Creative Director
Mike WaldChief Revenue Officer
Hannah JoThe District House Host
Kat WalshMarquee Event Host
EmmaClaire BrockMarketing Support
Kate KubiakMarquee Event Production
Christian GrayStrategic Advisor
Paxon RussellTDH Coordinator
Becca SolodonTDH Community
Suzanne AustinStrategic Advisor
Jodi GreenCorporate CounselDistrict216 Chief Dreamer Jacob Tell featured on High TimesOn building a psychedelic social club in the open.
Montecito JournalFeatured in Lifestyle & CultureA look inside Santa Barbara's most curious weekly gathering.
LEFAIR"A Conscious Collective: The Art of Awakening"On art, awakening, and the D216 community.
Reality SandwichThe Importance of Events for the Psychedelic CommunityWhy gatherings like ours move the whole ecosystem forward.
The best introduction to District216 is a Wednesday evening at The District House.