Three-Day Experiential Psychedelic Integration Workshop
You’re warmly invited to our
Three-Day Experiential Psychedelic Integration Workshop
Presented by Dr Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky
Heartlands, Montecollum – near Byron Bay, NSW
Saturday 4 April at 3pm to Tuesday 7 April morning
Set at the magnificent and sacred Heartlands Retreat, this three-day experiential workshop is an intimate, practice-rich space for therapists who want to sit more confidently with the full spectrum of psychedelic experiences—including the beautiful, the confusing, and the truly terrifying. Together in a small cohort, we’ll slow down, listen closely to the body, and explore how art-making, journaling, sounding, and parts work can help difficult journeys become more liveable; meaningful stories rather than isolated “bad trips.” The tone is relational, grounded, and deeply respectful of each person’s inner wisdom; you’ll have time to be a participant, not just a clinician, so that what you take home is felt, not just understood.
Along the way, we’ll also widen the frame, looking at how states that may feel destabilizing in a modern Western worldview are held as familiar, and sometimes even initiatory, within other cultural and ritual traditions.
You’ll leave with practical tools and a more spacious lens for your clients’ experiences, as well as a sense of being accompanied in your own work in this rapidly emerging field.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe a multimodal, trauma-informed framework for psychedelic integration that includes somatic, creative, and relational dimensions.
- Facilitate at least three integration practices (e.g. art-making, journaling, sounding/toning) to help clients work with difficult or terrifying experiences.
- Apply basic Internal Family Systems–informed parts work to psychedelic integration, including unblending from fearful or protective parts.
- Articulate at least two cultural perspectives on non-ordinary and “frightening” states, and use this understanding to offer de-pathologizing, culturally humble reframes in therapy.
- Co-create with clients a simple, sustainable integration plan that can support both recent journeys and years-old unprocessed “bad trips.”
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