How to Create Conscious Containers: Elevate Your Psychedelic Group Leadership Skills

Instead of working in dyads we are offering a unique cohort model, giving you the opportunity to practice co-leadership and holding space as a group, as well as being guided by a co-leadership team. Each participant will have the opportunity to work in partnership with a small team to develop, plan and facilitate a small group ketamine experience, and participate as a group member for two group journeys guided by other participants in the cohort - under the  support and supervision of the retreat facilitators. 

We will begin the learning journey with two pre-retreat virtual sessions to get to know your fellow participants and start the small group leadership preparation. We’ll end our work together with another virtual meeting two weeks after the retreat.

You will learn about and practice:

• Co-leadership skills: practical concerns, techniques, how to work with difficult situations / co-leadership conflict 

• Group preparation skills: how to design a KAP experience for a group and hold space as a co-leadership team

• Two Group KAP experiences guided by your colleagues (ketamine optional) - oral and IM  

• Group integration skills: how to guide group integration sessions, support a variety of client presentations   

Drawing on their combined experience as psychedelic guides, therapists, physicians, and teachers in this field, Eva, Katja, and Steve will present and model a variety of options for co-leadership, preparation, and integration, including but not limited to:

• Guidelines and structure for safe containers

• Movement, meditation, and  mindfulness

• Ceremony, music, and art

• Self-leadership skills

• Rupture and repair processes 

• Integration processes

Special emphasis will be on self-leadership, working with shadow, misattunements and how to repair them.

Limited to 15 - 18 people 

LOCATION: In person, Rainfall, Portland, OR

DATES:

Pre-retreat virtual gatherings: May 24th, 2024 - 1pm-2pm Pacific Time, and May 29th, 2024 - 11am-12pm Pacific Time

Retreat: June 5-9, 2024 - 9:30 - 4:30pm Pacific Time daily (exact time each day subject to some change)

Post-retreat virtual gathering: June 21, 2024 - 12:30 - 2pm Pacific Time

COST:

Incl. the 5-day retreat, daily breakfast and snacks, two virtual preparation sessions before and a virtual integration after the retreat:

Apply and pay by April 15th: $3,999

Apply and pay by May 5th: $4,125

After May 5th: $4,250

PLUS medical evaluation and prescription by Dr. Altobelli or Dr. Rosonke: $350 

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Two months out: full fee minus $250 admin fee

Six weeks out: 50%

One month out: 25%

0-2 weeks out: 0% (unless we can fill the spot from a waitlist, minus a $250 admin fee)

Eva Altobelli MD is an addiction psychiatrist and the founder of HOME-LA a holistic mental health center integrating psychiatry, psychology and psychedelics. Trained with IFS, Haikomi and Reiki,  CIIS,  MAPS and psychoanalysis she is passionate about trauma informed clinical care and psychoeducation.  With extensive experience in working with MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine, she remains dedicated to integrating clinical research and creativity  into her practice. Dr. Altobelli is committed to setting the highest standards of safety, ethics, and efficacy, contributing to the advancement of the field and the well-being of individuals and communities alike.

Steve Rosonke MD is the founder of Rainfall Medicine, a ketamine healing center in Portland, OR. He has been leading ketamine trainings since 2018 with the Ketamine Training Center (KTC) and through a collaboration with Rainfall/Polaris Insight Center. Additionally he leads KAP healing groups and retreats. He is firmly dedicated to help others create high-integrity healing and consciousness containers throughout the world.

Katja Cahoon LCSW MBA started her career leading year-long closed trauma groups. In addition to ketamine assisted psychotherapy groups she has guided mindfulness and meditation groups. She works as a lead therapist for Usona sponsored, FDA approved Phase I and III clinical studies (5-MeO-DMT and psilocybin) both in individual and group settings. She trained with Polaris Insight Center and MAPS, Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield (MMTCP), EMDR Institute, and others and is committed to helping others grow in this field. She has trained over 100 clinicians in Group KAP.