Guiding the Unbound Mind
Guiding the Unbound Mind: What Every Practitioner Must Know About Working With Psychedelics, is an on-demand expert forum. This event is available at no charge and is designed to help practitioners safely and effectively incorporate psychedelics into their treatment protocols.
Course Overview
Guiding the Unbound Mind: What Every Practitioner Must Know About Working With Psychedelics, is an on-demand expert forum featuring former Imperial College London Lead Psychedelic Researcher and Clinical Director of The Synthesis Institute, Dr. Rosalind Watts, co-founder of Guild of Guides Netherlands and Lead Facilitator at The Synthesis Institute, Daan Keiman, and Angela Ruiz, Operations Manager at The Synthesis Institute. This event is available at no charge and is designed to help practitioners safely and effectively incorporate psychedelics into their treatment protocols.
During this recording, attendees will discover the not-to-be-skipped educational and self-care practices that are foundational to a safe psychedelic healing journey, the critical importance of a comprehensive screening process to discern the best treatment path for each patient, how to prepare the mindset and promote safety for clients by effectively setting expectations for a new relationship with a co-created consciousness and ways to effectively work with both challenging psychedelic states and transpersonal experience to support clients on their psychedelic journey optimally. They will also learn how to use post-session integration to ground the benefits of a psychedelic ceremony into real and lasting change for clients.
The speakers, Dr. Rosalind Watts, Daan Keiman and Angela Ruiz, are experts in the field of psychedelic therapy and have extensive experience in guiding clients safely and effectively through psychedelic experiences. This recording is an opportunity to gain knowledge and insights from their experience and expertise.
Who is this for?
Practitioners working with or preparing to work with psychedelics in treatment settings.
About the Provider
Synthesis is a legal psilocybin retreat company based in the Netherlands, offering 'Immersion' — a comprehensive 7-week program including a 5-day in-person psilocybin truffle ceremony retreat held at the New Eden venue 90 minutes from Amsterdam. Founded in 2018 and having supported over 1,100 individuals, Synthesis integrates modern science with contemplative wisdom traditions and has collaborated with the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London.
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