Why we created this programme

Attending a retreat alone and being thrown back into the busy-ness of daily life after a powerful experience is not ideal. Research shows that over 53% of people who attend a ceremony will have some emotional and mental challenges in integrating the experience afterwards. And that’s not considering the loss of potential that happens without proper support.

Exciting new research indicates that a psychedelic experience opens up a ‘critical period’ in the mind reactivating a heightened level of neuroplasticity normally closed to us past the age of seven. This extremely valuable time allows you to recode behavioural and thought patterns no longer beneficial for you and implement new patterns that contribute to your overall well-being in a positive way.

From our extensive experience, people often leave our retreats with more questions than they came with. During a psilocybin ceremony, there is potential to become overwhelmed by information and insights that need time and space to be digested and integrated. Our guests commonly report that sharing their experience in the group setting benefits the processing of their journeys, describing these sessions as extremely powerful, almost as powerful as the psilocybin experience itself.

As we always say at the end of our retreats, the real work after a psychedelic experience starts when you go back into everyday life. With this programme you have the unique opportunity to extend the retreat experience by the continuation of important sharing circles and guidance throughout the integration process. During this important time after the retreat, people often describe the group sharing circles as being a journey of transformation in itself. Guests wanting to figure things out on their own often realise that if support was available, a few missteps could have been avoided; saving valuable time, energy, and money.

This programme was designed by experts to offer preparation, guidance, and support beyond the retreat and into the integration phase. It will equip you with the resources you need to avoid common challenges that can cloud the process of bridging a psychedelic experience to the future you want to create for yourself.

These challenges can include, but are not limited to:

• Going back to your ‘old life’ with new understandings and confusion about how to reconcile this new mindset.
• Feeling others do not understand what you have experienced and, thus, not having someone to speak to.
• Lack of support resources to translate insight into tangible daily action.
• Other aspects of the experience which can cause confusion and distress such as; spiritual bypassing, ego inflation, and trauma responses. For more information on these aspects see below.

Avoiding common pitfalls will promote an unhindered and effective integration period. However, don’t worry, you will not have to figure it out alone. Our expert team of psychedelic facilitators and therapists will guide you through the subtle nuances and various layers of meaning contained within this powerful experience.