Psychedelic Preparation

During the psychedelic preparation phase, the aim is to collaboratively build a framework for navigating the psychedelic experience utilizing various tools, ideas and concepts drawn from various theoretical modalities, as well as what we’ve learned from traditional and historic practices involving the use of psychedelic medicines for healing purposes. Good preparation builds the foundation for the psychedelic experience, and for the ongoing “life work” of post-psychedelic integration. .

INTENTIONS & FEARS

In the preparation phase, we talk through intentions for your plant medicine journey, and help to orient you to how you can approach and value the psychedelic experience. Most importantly we explore what it looks like for you to live a meaningful life. Additionally, we talk a lot about fears, worries and anxieties, and together identify how we can approach these should they arise during the treatment experience. This includes an exploration of trauma and other life experiences that may be distressing and cultivate an “attitude” for how we can “move through” such material when it comes up.

TELLING YOUR STORY

During the preparation phase of healing, we uncover internal narratives, and how their suffering fits into their life story and worldview. Sharing your unique story with an unbiased and attentive witness can be extremely healing in and of itself. We may identify parts of your life history in which such internal narratives are not serving you well and explore what life would look like if they had less control or dominance in your life. 

TRAUMA INFORMED APPROACH

Often, psychedelic healing work involves the recovering of and working through trauma. You can relax knowing that if trauma surfaces during your experience, that our founding coach possesses almost 20 years of experience as a licensed therapist (now retired), with a focus on trauma, with 12 of those years involving psychedelic medicine. A key part of the integration process is focused on healing and re-integrating these fragmented parts into the psyche, which has the potential to free an enormous amount of energy previously tied up in protecting the system from re-experiencing the trauma. When the body feels safe enough to relax and let the strongholds in the somatic system go, new life can be discovered and existing relationships to the outer world can deepen. From a coaching perspective, we guide individual’s toward practices that both integrate the trauma on a psychological level, as well as practices that maintain clearing on the somatic level.

DISCOVERING YOUR INNER HEALER

 At the heart of psychedelic therapy is the concept of inner-healing wisdom or intelligence. The idea is that within every individual, there is a deep aspect of the psyche that’s innately driven towards healing, wholeness and integration. During the psychedelic experience, defenses and barriers are lifted and the inner-healing intelligence “takes the wheel”. During preparation, we explore how to develop a trusting relationship with one’s own healing intelligence.

IDENTIFYING PRACTICES

Identifying the practices that you will implement during the integration (post-medicine) phase of your plant medicine experience is also an important aspect of preparation. Beginning at least one of these practices during the preparation phase is highly encouraged, as this sets the tone for the integration phase, and is associated with a better outcome for your experience overall. This is where intention meets actions.

DISCLAIMER- WE DO NOT PROVIDE PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY AT CALIGO, WE PROVIDE PREPARATION AND INTEGRATION ONLY. WE DO HOWEVER PROVIDE KAMBÖ, WHICH IS LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES. WE SUPPORT AND PARTNER WITH PSYCHEDELIC HEALING CENTERS OUTSIDE OF THE US IN COUNTRIES WHERE IT IS LEGAL TO POSSESS SACRED PLANT MEDICINES.