Offering a new Extended training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)*, Functional Analytical Psychotherapy (FAP) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), with fortnightly supervision to measure your increasing ACT-consistency. *Delivered by three ACBS peer-reviewed ACT Trainers
Our ACT training is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Location: The Netherlands Dates: 29th Oct - 2nd Nov 2020 Contribution: £1700 (accommodation and meals included, excluding cost of psilocybin truffles (approx £80 – provided by a trusted legal third party).Two low-income places of £1350 are available.
In the recent Special issue for Psychedelics in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 2020, multiple leading researchers illustrate how ACT and psychedelics can be interwoven to create what may become new era of breakthrough therapies. This retreat has been developed in a very similar vein and following the daily data of 33 single cases that we already collected during these retreats.
The Programme:This four and a half day retreat and integration programme will include:
Day 1: Arrival (in the afternoon) and preparation: approaching the psychedelic experience as an opportunity for personal growth Day 2: Self as context meditation and bodywork - you are not your programming. Afternoon ceremony – with Psilocybin Truffles, you embark on your psychedelic journey with the support of sober mental health professionals Day 3: Integration – What is still coming up? Being in your direct experiencing. Holotropic Breathwork. Journaling on your experience as it continues to surface. Day 4: A scale of selves or ‘parts’ to integrate. Breathwork. Second Ceremony – an opportunity to go deeper. Day 5: Further integration – Is any of your inner or outer behaviour changing? What new paths do you feel invited to follow? Current psychedelic integration research findings. Is a new view emerging of the kind of life you want to live? Balancing the head with the heart: Awareness practices coupled with behaviour change. Each day will include meditative practices to help us get into our direct experiencing. Through sharing circles we will learn from each other. In preparation you may consider your personal challenges in terms of ‘willingness’ (how open are you to certain discomforts?), ‘experiential avoidance’ (what are the obvious or subtle ways you avoid those inner discomforts?), your motivations (what impulses behind your inner and outer behaviours are keeping you from what you truly want). Simple metaphors such as the ‘reverse compass’ may guide us on our way: where is your mind telling you not to go? To integrate your psilocybin experience into a life better lived, you may also consider if your old thought patterns take you where you really want to go. What new behaviours do our insights invite? How might our old habits get in the way of what we really want? As well as offering these latter perspectives, the ACT also model invites its own integration with other models and traditions, into a behaviourally aware eclecticism. Some of these modalities of integration include breathwork, art therapy, neuroplasticity and guided visualisation. Participants are invited to contribute their data towards a multi-baseline, single case series design study, tracking mediators of change before and after a psychedelic-assisted personal growth, including a number of ACT preparation and integration sessions pre and post retreat. Please contact us for further details of this research project… Minimum facilitator ratio: one to every 3.5 participants minimum. Each participant will receive one-on-one pre, between and post-ceremony check-ins. Spaces are highly limited to a maximum of 14.
Each day will include meditative practices to help us get into our direct experiencing. Through sharing circles we will learn from each other.
In preparation you may consider your personal challenges in terms of ‘willingness’ (how open are you to certain discomforts?), ‘experiential avoidance’ (what are the obvious or subtle ways you avoid those inner discomforts?), your motivations (what impulses behind your inner and outer behaviours are keeping you from what you truly want). Simple metaphors such as the ‘reverse compass’ may guide us on our way: where is your mind telling you not to go?
To integrate your psilocybin experience into a life better lived, you may also consider if your old thought patterns take you where you really want to go. What new behaviours do our insights invite? How might our old habits get in the way of what we really want?
As well as offering these latter perspectives, the ACT also model invites its own integration with other models and traditions, into a behaviourally aware eclecticism. Some of these modalities of integration include breathwork, art therapy, neuroplasticity and guided visualisation.
Participants are invited to contribute their data towards a multi-baseline, single case series design study, tracking mediators of change before and after a psychedelic-assisted personal growth, including a number of ACT preparation and integration sessions pre and post retreat. Please contact us for further details of this research project…
- Elisabeth Fonseca, PhD (NYU) Clinical Psychologist
- Kate Hawke MA, Director of the Trauma Transformation Network and Native American Trauma Project, International Energy Psychology Conference Founder. MAPS member since 1986
- J. S. Counselling Psychologist DPsych.
- Stephanie Dreis M.S. LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counsellor)
- Jim Clark Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (BABCP) and a UK Network Listed Mindfulness Teacher.
Henry J. Whitfield
Henry Whitfield is an Association of Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS) Peer-reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trainer, an Accredited Advanced TIR (PTSD therapy) Trainer and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (MSc – CBT). For over seven years Henry ran and supervised brief therapy for PTSD projects for Victim Support and Mind in London gun crime hot spots, using CBT and TIR. Henry has also trained over 1500 psychological therapists since 2003, supervising clinical psychologist for ACT and Trauma work in primary and secondary care with in the NHS. He is also a passionate integral thinker, publishing journal articles and book chapters on the integration of therapeutic models including, REBT-mindfulness, ACT-TIR-CBT, Person-centred-TIR. His psychedelic plant medicine path has changed how he does psychotherapy especially with self-concept issues. His knowledge of ACT and experience of facing trauma have guided him and many others on the path of psychedelic personal growth. He has written, co-written and edited training manuals for ACT, TIR and FAP (relational psychodynamic). Now he focuses his research on the development of ACT-consistent models for psychedelic integration, with psychedelic process research for Regents University London.
Lucyne Pearson
Dr Robert Krause
Robert Krause, DNP APRN-BC is a doctor of nursing practice and is a clinical specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing. He is currently Visiting Faculty at The Graduate Institute where he is teaching a course in Mind-Body Medicine. For twenty years Robert was a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University in the schools of Nursing and Medicine. He has lectured in philosophy at Quinnipiac University and at Western Connecticut State University. Robert has certifications in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery from Harvard University, in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapies and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and in Sex therapy also from the CIIS. He was a faculty advisor to the Yale Psychedelic Research Group and is currently the lead therapist and co-author of the treatment manual for the Psilocybin – Induced Neuroplasticity in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder at the Yale School of Medicine. He is also a co-author of the recently published ‘Psilocybin-assisted therapy of major depressive disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a therapeutic frame’ Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science 15 (2020): 12-19. Robert’s daily practices include yoga, meditation and tantra. He completed yoga instructor training with Aum Pradesh Guar in Goa, India and was certified in tantra instruction through the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program. He has been practicing zazen meditation for 30 years. Currently Robert maintains a private integrative psychotherapy practice in New Haven, Connecticut.