TRANSPERSONAL RETREATS
Half of the intensives are retreats dedicated to experiential psychotherapy where students will have the opportunity to do personal work, healing, and self-knowledge while at the same time learning first hand from expert psychotherapists while they work with amplified states of consciousness, psychedelics (respecting local laws), bodywork, gestalt, family constellations, and meditation. We have one ten-day transpersonal retreat each year for a total of three throughout the program.
In these retreats, students will have the opportunity to work on their personal journeys, descend into the dark, murky dredge of their own emotions and challenges and heal, while learning important tools and methods of transpersonal psychotherapy. By working on themselves and learning the basics of transpersonal psychology, students will have sufficient experience and knowledge to guide and accompany other people's therapeutic processes.
During these retreats, students will also have the opportunity to practice the tools and methods learned with their peers while being supervised by experienced transpersonal psychotherapists; understanding that apart from personal transformation, supervised hands-on practice is the best way to really acquire knowledge in the therapeutic field.
PILGRIMAGES
The other half of the intensives consist of pilgrimages to indigenous territories where students will begin to build relationships with authentic psychedelic communities and elders while learning from their shamanic traditions and power plants. We are usually received as locals as we have been developing relationships with these communities for many years. They have all gifted us tribal land inside their reservations where we have built small retreat houses and have held pilgrimages and retreats of this sort many times. In this training, we will have one pilgrimage per year interspersed with the transpersonal retreats. Although most of the time will be spent learning from the shamanic practitioners and journeying with them through the nights, there will also be psycho-therapy classes throughout the day.
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Through years of conversation with the political leaders and spiritual elders of these communities, the intensives in these territories are carefully designed to give voice to what these traditions want to show to the world, respecting and honoring their traditional ways.
