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About the Retreat:With a proven track record for leading safe and legal psychedelic retreats for more than a 1000 individuals, Synthesis has collected years of data and experience that make us uniquely qualified to offer you the opportunity to experience the potentially life-enhancing benefits of a psychedelic retreat experience.
Expansion—a comprehensive experience that includes pre-retreat preparation, a 5-day psychedelic supported retreat, and post-retreat integration—is our cornerstone program designed for those who feel ready to explore their unconsciousness in order to find:
1. Reduction in Anxiety and Stress: Synthesis provides a safe and comfortable space to explore emotional issues and integrate personal insights into daily life. Our research shows that psychedelics can help to reduce feelings of anxiety and stress, and support long-term psychological and behavioral benefits.
2. Insight and Clarity: Psychedelic retreats provide a powerful and alternate way to gain insight into yourself and explore areas of your life you may have been neglecting. It can be a uniquely meaningful way to connect with your personal history, your current emotions and beliefs, and your purpose, and find clarity on how to move beyond stuckness towards clarity.
3. Improved Spiritual Well-being: Psychedelic retreats can promote physical well-being through deep relaxation, improved cognitive flexibility and behavior change. A retreat will allow you to move outside the pressures of every day life and prioritize yourself and your well-being.
4. Connection with Nature: Our retreats take place in natural surroundings, promoting a connection with nature and a feeling of oneness with the universe. This connection can bring profound peace and a sense of wellbeing, and a deep lasting trust in the ever unfolding of the world.
5. Personal Growth and Transformation: We designed our retreat to be powerful catalyst for personal growth and transformation. Experienced in the right container, these "non-specific amplifiers" can bring about radical shifts in mental and emotional patterns, which can help to improve relationships, career, and overall happiness.
This is a legal opportunity to take moderate to high doses of truffles containing psilocybin in a safe, intentional, and transformative container consisting of a pre-retreat preparation and integration components essential to fully surrender and release who we thought we were in order to step into who we could become.
Past Expansion participants have reported their experience provided:
- The ability to access deeper levels of consciousness that promoted new insights and creativity.
- A deeper connection to others and the larger world that encouraged the development of stronger personal relationships and a lasting connection to their deepest values.
- Increased emotional resilience and feelings of balance and peace as they navigate life.
- A greater sense of purpose and meaning in their life, resulting in a renewed sense of focus and direction.
Synthesis is committed to safely, legally, and effectively stewarding psychedelics into modern culture through our use of truffles containing psilocybin. In our professionally curated settings, this remarkable molecule can be an agent of life-enhancing experiences. Synthesis is committed to support you wholeheartedly through your own unique and individual process.
Description of Services:Using our integrative approach to transformative wellness, we combine leading-edge research with ancient wisdom traditions, rites, and spiritual practices to establish a safe, intentional, and transformative container with tremendous potential for meaningful change.
Led by interdisciplinary trained professional facilitators, Synthesis' Expansion integrates psychedelic education, spiritual practices, workshops, private one to one sessions, breathwork, meditation, and beautiful psychedelic ceremonies, with the aim of deconstructing and restructuring conceptual patterns and awakening expanded forms of consciousness.
At Synthesis, safety is our number one priority. Although the psychedelic retreat experience can be beneficial for many, for some it’s not appropriate to consume truffles containing psilocybin. These include people who have medical contraindications relating to their physical and mental health. Our health screening process aims to mitigate the risk for participants, and we have a dedicated team that assesses each health screening using informed guidelines.
Our Facilitation Team includes a Lead Facilitator as well as a minimum of seven (7) Co-Lead Facilitators and a minimum of three (3) Retreat Assistants, all of whom have been carefully trained and supervised by our Lead Facilitators to support you during your journey. Our retreats have approximately one (1) support staff for every two (2) participants.
Practitioners:Our interdisciplinary facilitator team consists of experienced therapists, psychedelic practitioners, breathwork facilitators, spiritual chaplains, meditation teachers, and more.
Team/Medical Staff:We have a dedicated full time health screening team to support you to assess whether a psychedelic experience can be safe for you. Our team is supported by various consulting psychiatrists with decades of experience with psychedelics and mental health.
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Founder(s) / CEO: Martijn Schirp, Paul Austin, Myles Katz, Rachel AidanGroup Size: 14-20Price Range: $6497Our Process
Overview of Experience:At Synthesis we believe the container is the medicine. Therefore we currently only offer a 7-week program based on our experience with more than a thousand clients, training hundreds of facilitators, and collaborations with dozens of research collaborations.
Setting the container for your experiential retreat begins weeks in advance. Synthesis' preparation process draws upon scientific research and wisdom traditions to prepare you for your psychedelic journey.
There are three weekly Live Online Preparation Sessions:
(1) Preparation Through Practice
(2) Awareness Through Active Listening
(3) Opening Up Around ResistanceWhich leads to your 5-day retreat experience in the Netherlands, consisting of multiple 1-1 sessions with professional facilitators, meditation & breathwork, and two psychedelic ceremonies.
While preparation is essential for maximizing the potential of a psychedelic retreat, integration is critical for unpacking and understanding your experience and transforming it into your desired outcomes.
And your program ends with three weekly Live Online Integration Sessions:
Somatic Integration
Social Integration
Synthesis - The Culmination of Elements:Intake Process:At Synthesis, safety is our number one priority. Although the psychedelic retreat experience can be beneficial for many, for some it’s not appropriate to consume truffles containing psilocybin. These include people who have medical contraindications relating to their physical and mental health. Our health screening process aims to mitigate the risk for participants, and we have a dedicated team that assesses each health screening using informed guidelines. Please reserve about 45 minutes to go through the whole process.
Supplemental Modalities: Meditation, breathwork, tea ceremony, one to one conversations, preparation and integration programPsychedelic Substances Offered: Truffles containing psilocybinHow does this Center source medicine?:Synthesis works with organic truffles, an earlier stage of mushroom development that still contain psilocybin and has psychedelic effects if ingested.
Practice reciprocity with local communities?: YesPhotos
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