Experiential Healing with Plant Medicine & Community for male-identifying folks

This program is designed to facilitate experiential awareness of the healing processes that plant medicines and indigenous healing traditions are capable of producing, within an intimate community of male-identifying folks. Small groups only, not to exceed 6-8 participants.

Throughout the weekend, participants will receive support, insight, and resources for their integration. Members will have the opportunity to share their healing journeys with others to strengthen the collective healing process. As a group, we will come to understand the breadth of experience that is possible within therapeutic and ceremonial plant medicine settings. We will have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships amongst each other within a safe container of vulnerability and authenticity.

This program is offered on a sliding scale and portions of the funds generated will be donated to support vulnerable native communities in Ecuador.

Additionally, in consideration of the ongoing oppression in Palestine, portions from this program will donated to the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in efforts to provide much needed aid as the situation there continues to unfold.

June, July, October and March Gatherings Ceremonies will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, at a location to be determined in northern California.

Participants should expect ● A consistent container for individual therapy, self-reflection, and personal growth. ● A safe and intimate community of peers in which to share one's process with others, give and receive support, and create a collective healing environment. ● Opportunity to cultivate a relationship with plant medicine in a ceremonial setting based in one's own therapeutic process. ● Experiential awareness of personal and collective healing through plant medicine, and the variety of altered states that it can produce. ● Participants should understand the importance of their own individual effort as a vital and necessary part in order to enact the changes they desire to see in their life. The outcomes achieved from this program are dependent upon one's own committed effort.

Rural Location in Northern California- TBD

Inclusivity & Positionality Statement As the facilitator of this program I acknowledge my privilege as a cis-gendered male, with higher education and access to basic vital resources. It is from this position that I am able to provide this service to you. I also acknowledge my intersectionality as a mixed raced person of Caribbean descent, who was born and raised in the United States, currently practicing a form of spiritual tradition indigenous to the Amazon. In acknowledging my own positionality, I wish to create a safe space for persons of all racial, cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds to meaningfully connect, experience healing, and open themselves to the deep and unique processes facilitated through plant medicines. This group is open to male-identified individuals. In modern western culture, there are few spaces for men to experience emotional connection and vulnerability with each other. Therefore, men in our culture often lack relationships with depth and meaning. This group in part seeks to address this. I believe that certain layers of our experience can unfold more fully in a male-identified container that is held with the intention of healing. The spread of ceremonial plant medicine practices here in the US, as well as the history of the development of the field of psychotherapy, have both been fraught with misogyny and violent abuse of power by male authority figures. I commit to not being a part of this trend by creating relationships of trust and accountability in both my personal and professional life, and inviting feedback anytime my behavior has unintentionally caused harm to someone in my life.