Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Journeys
I am delighted to invite you to a series of Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) workshops. It appears the world is ready for this sort of thing.
These workshops will be taking place weekly, in-person, for a little over a month, right outside of Asheville, NC, this March-April.
My co-facilitator, Ted Riskin and I put our heads together and came up with a way to expand access to this treatment by reducing cost and creating a group structure inspired by the Holotropic Breathwork model.
We see ketamine not just as a breakthrough treatment for depression, but also as means to interrupt ruminative patterns and become open to new learning, growth, and really, endless possibilities.
As such, our emphasis is on taking advantage of the neuroplasticity that ketamine induces to anchor into healthy changes that are inherent to one’s deepest intentions and goals.
Ted, myself, and other collaborators will be offering skills, tools, and practices that can help deepen our integration beyond the scope of the sessions and into the realm of our lived, day-to-day experience.
In my experience, the intentional use of the medicine coupled with preparation and integration support is one of the most effective ways to accelerate and sustain healing.
The series will also be informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), an evidence-based modality that is at the forefront of a collaborative therapeutic approach. IFS strongly complements psychedelic therapies and relies on a person's intuitive wisdom.
IFS is currently being implemented in the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy model for the treatment of PTSD with tremendous success.
It is very clear that IFS has an important role to play in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), as well, due to ketamine’s ability to help people face painful experiences with more clarity and ease, and by unblending, or disassociating, from those parts while increasing access to “Self-energy,” our deepest wisdom, or our inner healing intelligence.
From my years of working with ketamine both personally for healing purposes as well as in clinical practice with Mindbloom where I currently guide others through ketamine sessions, I have developed a profound appreciation for the fast-acting transformational potential that this medicine often produces. I have witnessed and supported hundreds of breakthroughs and feel ready to take this work to the next level by offering a safe and explorative container for psychedelic group experiences to be had. My hope is that this offering can serve as a new paradigm for how healing happens -- in a loving container, where people feel safe to explore consciousness, surrounded by a community that accepts them for exactly who they are.
Please check out our site at groupkap.com and reach out if you’d like to join our journey or discuss more about this offering. Thank you for your interest and support.
