A Nine-Month Supported Journey
Explore Your Vibrant Depths
Women's Legal Psilocybin Retreat
Embedded in a Heart-Based Mindfulness and Eco-Connectedness
Preparation and Integration Course
What You’ll Experience
We begin in April 2027 and continue through October, giving you time to prepare, experience, and integrate together.
Your group journey includes:
- 4 weeks of preparation — weekly online sessions beginning 1 April
- 5 day retreat in the Netherlands — 1–5 May 2027
- 4 weeks of integration — weekly into June
- 4 months of extended integration — monthly into October
- 2 one-on-one sessions with a facilitator, one before and one after the retreat
flourishing happens in community
A Small Circle of Women
Designed for women aged 25 and over who are ready to meet themselves, and each other, with compassion, care, and reverence.
You don’t need meditation experience. You do need a willingness to:
- Practice between sessions
- Be seen by the group
- Be present for others without giving advice
- Stay present when things feel uncomfortable
- Approach the experience with care and curiosity
A women-only setting can create a sense of safety and space to be yourself.
Research Base
A Ripe Moment for Flourishing
Reasearchers are increasingly pointing to the limitations of the medical model of mental health, which has been focused on symptom reduction, and highlighting the need to promote flourishing: not just individually, but collectively, in community, and in connection with our living world.
We live in a time of overlapping crises — ecological, social, political, personal — and alongside them the ordinary, seismic upheavals of life: loss, change, transitions and choices around motherhood, peri- and menopause, and wondering if we are living in a way that honors what we most value. This retreat is a loving turning-toward — a chance to meet yourself, your relationships, your community, and the wider world, with more openness, steadiness, and connection.
What the research suggests
Research on psilocybin in healthy, non-clinical populations — people not seeking treatment for anything, simply moving through their lives — points to a handful of enduring shifts that recur across studies.
The first is openness: a lasting increase in the personality quality of openness to experience — to new perspectives, to aesthetic experience, to seeing familiar things freshly — has been observed to persist well beyond the experience itself. The second is connectedness, including to the natural world: people frequently describe a strengthened felt sense of connection to themselves, to others, and to nature, and this nature-relatedness has been found to endure and to track with wellbeing. The third is meaning: studies in healthy individuals report enduring gains in a sense of meaning and purpose, gratitude, and interpersonal closeness — particularly, one study notes, when the psychedelic experience is combined with meditation and contemplative practice.
These changes can move us toward openness, connection, and a deeper sense of meaning — true flourishing, together.
Why all this Preparation and Integration?
If the experience itself can be so brief — a single afternoon — why wrap it in nine months of practice and meetings?
Research is clear that psychedelic outcomes depend heavily on set and setting — on the state a person is in and the container they are held within — and that outcomes are shaped by what surrounds the experience, not just the substance alone. Current understanding around psychedelics has moved beyond set and setting and into preparation and integration.
The preparation builds the inner capacities — steadiness with difficulty, self-compassion, the ability to be present and open with whatever arises. During the window few weeks after a psilocybin journey, the brain is more malleable and patterns of thoughts, behaviours, and emotions are more easily changed. Therefore, the integration is a period for practicing the ways of being in the world that we value: moving us toward a more embodied, connected life, harvesting the wisdom of the journey to create lasting change in how you live and feel.
Doing this all within your group cohort adds connection and support.
What is a Mystical Experience?
Researchers describe "Mystical Experiences" as charaterised by:
- a sense of unity,
- transcendence of time and space
- a deeply felt positive mood
- sacredness and awe
- embodied sense of insight
- ineffability—beyond words
During a mystical experience, the ordinary boundaries soften — between you and others, you and the world — into a sense of oceanic boundlessness. People use words like oneness, beauty, love, coming home, everything is connected.
These experiences are significant, because they are moving in the moment and can give us a sense of perspective and purpose that we can can use to make changes in our lives. Across studies, mystical experiences predict lasting change — it is associated with enduring outcomes such as enhanced personal meaning, spiritual significance, and increases in subjective well-being and life satisfaction.
Am I Going to Have A Mystical Experience?
While classic psychedelics like psilocybin are the most reliable way to induce a mystical expereince, the honest answer is that no one can guarantee it, and it is not a test you can pass or fail. People can have expereinces that are profoundly mystical, quiet, emotional, somatic, difficult, or a mix — and all of these experiences can be equally valuable.
Chasing the mystical expereince, paradoxically, can introduce tension and resistance that make it harder to expereince.
Research suggests that your inner state, the setting, the sense of safety, the type and amount of preparation you have had, and your willingness to surender to the unknown all impact the type of subjective psilocybin experience you will have. That is precisely what the preparation is for — not to guarantee a particular experience, but to help you arrive open, steady, and able to allow whatever comes. We invite you not to reach for the mystical, but to be open and trusting of the process, yourself, and this medicine that mother nature provides for us, and let your own experience be exactly what it is.