Our approach
Science meets ancient wisdom
“We speak from the heart and the mind, both with curiosity, attention to detail, creativity, and passion.
Our way of working combines traditional and contemporary approaches, taking into account the layers of awareness, soul, heart, mind, and body.”
Jeanine & Hans
Unique aspects of psychedelics
There are some unique differences in working with psychedelics compared to regular therapy or coaching.
The length of a psychedelic session is much longer (about 4-6 hours) than a “traditional” psychotherapeutic session. The model is based on the concept of “the inner healing intelligence” meaning that healing is not an external but an internal process trusting the innate wisdom of the body. Healing can only take place when the conditions are right.
During the altered state of consciousness, one can experience a heightened vulnerability, requiring ethical considerations around touch, speech, and relational dynamics. Therefore a safe set (is the participant able to integrate whatever might come up?) and setting (how safe is the context in which the experience takes place?) is of utmost importance.
Music is an essential part of the experience, as it serves as a vehicle to enter and change mental landscapes.
How we guide your process
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Intentions
Intentions, expectations, and outcomes are part of the process. We begin the process with clear intentions, yet welcoming flexibility to follow the flow with whatever unfolds during the experience. We revisit the intentions during the integration process, to see how we can bridge the outcomes of the journey with the intentions set beforehand.
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Preparation
During the preparation process, we work with you to get a deeper understanding of who you are and your life path. We look at guilt, shame, and patterns together with you and how to get behind the concepts of right and wrong. We want you to enter a journey as a curious scientist, seeing a new mental landscape for the first time and leaving the judgments behind.
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Integration
During the integration process, we enter the meaning-making stage. This is kept open-ended; the aim is to broaden the experience, including a felt sense. We support you to actively engage in making sense of our experience, work through insights, and translate them in your daily life. How to embody the experience, to make lasting connections, and to bring awareness in your daily life are all topics we work with.
The ETI method
The ETI method is rooted in the philosophy of working with constellations and the different parts of ourselves, including our inner child parts, to gain greater insight into our patterns of thoughts and behaviours, to achieve balance, and healing. Using stacking dolls to configure a personal constellation, this approach is particularly relevant during a psychedelic journey, as these diverse aspects of ourselves may surface in unique ways, providing an opportunity to develop greater self-understanding and cultivate compassion.
Oyster metaphor
We like to use the Oyster analogy. When you go in a deep sea of psychedelic experience we invite you to search for Oysters, because inside is often a pearl. The shell of the oyster can be our coping, our protection from vulnerability. Underneath the layers of vulnerability and shame is sometimes a pearl. Formed by a transformation process. What was painful and what was gritty gets turned into something precious. This pearl can be seen as the insight, the meaning of something difficult.
The ACE model
The ACE model was developed by clinical psychologist Dr. Rosalind Watts as a way to help people make sense of their deep psychedelic journey, and take the learning to integrate findings into their daily life. The different phases in the ACE model are: let go – sense – feel – self – meaning – intention.
Supporting practices
Connected Breathwork
The breath has the profound potential to catalyse personal growth and healing.
Microdosing
Microdosing psilocybin-containing truffles can support ongoing integration from a psychedelic experience.
Music
Music is an essential part of the experience, as it serves as a vehicle to enter and change mental landscapes.
Our belief
Ultimately, you are the medicine. While psychedelics can act as a powerful catalyst, it is the relationships with yourself, others and the context that heal.
The commitment to your own process is what makes the biggest difference, more than the guidance or the psilocybin containing truffles itself.
Safety
We are a medically supervised team of psychologists and a psychiatrist trained in the use of psychedelic compounds
Your psychological, emotional, and physical safety is our priority
A private setting and safe location, and medical centres within 20 minutes distance
The care of medical professionals and dedicated staff with a vast knowledge of group dynamics, relationship issues, and attachment trauma, and are experienced in psychedelic medicine
Individual attention, with sufficient suitability screening and integration sessions after your psychedelic journey
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