This event is SOLD OUT.
…But you’re welcome to join the waiting list incase we get a cancellation.
Heal, Grow, & Learn
from both sides of the mushroom
experiential training in psilocybin journeying and facilitation
Sunday, February 26th to Friday, March 3rd, 2023
1 hour 45 minutes from Mexico City, Mexico
Welcome.
This retreat is designed support your personal healing and strengthen your facilitation skills.
You will have the opportunity to experience a facilitated psilocybin session and to facilitate another’s experience.
You will also have the chance to join in a group psilocybin ceremony, allowing you to experience different types of containers for this medicine.
We will also gently encourage you to lead a group activity, such as a guided meditation, yoga class, singing circle, or other experience.
We are coming together in the spirit of healing, learning, and growing – together.
Retreat Overview
- 6 day (5 night) program
- 30 hours of practicum experience
- Your own room in a secure, private retreat center
- Up to 3 supported psilocybin experiences (most will have 2)
- 1-3 opportunities to facilitate others’ psilocybin experiences (most will have 1)
- Group integration and sharing
- Practice leadership by facilitating a group activity
- Peer-led daily activities, like yoga and meditation
- Tasty meals cooked on-site (GF, veg options available) & filtered drinking water
- On-site swimming pool
- Optional Temazcal ceremony (traditional Mexican sweat lodge)
- Private group Slack channel
- Limited group size for secure container and shared experience
Air and ground transportation expenses are not included.
Retreat Schedule
Subject to change
Sunday
Evening arrival
Agreements, intentions, co-create container
Dinner
*Wind-down activity
Monday
Morning activity*
Breakfast
Refresher in journeying & facilitation
Lunch/break
Guided meditation*
Journey Sessions (1/2 participate; 1/2 facilitate)
Dinner
Night time activity*
Tuesday
Morning activity*
Breakfast
Group integration
Lunch/break
Guided meditation*
Journey Sessions (swap roles from Monday)
Dinner
Night time activity*
Wednesday
Morning activity*
Breakfast
Group integration
Light lunch
Down time, Afternoon activity*
Group Journey Ceremony
Late dinner
Thursday
Morning activity*
Breakfast
Group integration
Light lunch
Down time, Afternoon activity*
Temazcal (Sweat Lodge)
Late dinner
Night activity*
Friday
Morning activity*
Breakfast
Closing ceremony
Lunch
Departure
Items marked with an asterisk (*) are activities that will be organized and lead by participants (that’s you!). Each participant will be encouraged to prepare an activity to share with the group. Some ideas include: guided meditation; live music; a yoga, t’ai chi, or qi gong class; an art therapy session; a creative movement exercise; a smudging ritual; a sound bath; etc.
Erica Zelfand, ND
Retreat Leader
Erica is a family physician specializing in integrative mental health and psychedelic healing. In addition to seeing patients in her private practice, she also facilitates psychedelic experiences and teaches others to do the same through her work with Inner Trek and Science of Psychedelics. She is also a public advocate for the legalization of psychedelic medicines and regularly presents at medical conferences. Erica has supplemented her medical skillset with additional training in counseling and MDMA-assisted therapy (through MAPS); volunteering with the Zendo Project, Iboga Quest, and other organizations; administering ketamine-assisted healing; working in Jamaica at a psilocybin retreat center; and of course having her own personal healing experiences in a variety of settings. To every session Erica brings her cheeky, quirky personality, her reverence for nature, and her respect for the resilience of the human spirit.
Ken Bonnin, Jr.
Retreat Co-Leader
Ken is a long-time advocate of the healing power of sacred ceremony with psychedelics, particularly ayahuasca and psilocybin. He has worked with a variety of organizations such as Zendo supporting participants at large events through the tenants of psychedelic harm reduction. Ken is a certified leader in the Mankind Project, training staff and leading intensive initiation weekends. Professionally, Ken works in technology and lives in Mexico with his partner, their two cats (Piña and Toonces), and their substantial collection of cat t-shirts.
Giovan Reyes 
Head of Operations
Born and raised in Mexico, Giovan lived in Abderdeen, Washington for a year, where he worked as a court intepreter for Latino migrant workers. Through his deep relationship with plant medicines and shamanic practices, his work as an ethics & compliance attorney, his strong identity as a father to two beautiful boys, and his service with ManKind Project Mexico, Giovan has honed his stills in creating and protecting containers for transformation. He will be serving as the “operations guy” for this retreat, but may also bring along his guitar to serenade us during ceremony.