As a follow up to last week's episode on the work of Noah as an underground psychedelic therapist you will hear the continuation of my recording with him, where we go over the details of the process of one of his retreats.
Some of the questions that were interesting to me were:
Noah shares with me how he distinguishes between two major parts of the process of the medicinal experience. The first part which is all about storytelling and awareness - mainly just feeling, being in the somatic empathogenic experience and then the second part of the process, where they shift into more of a psilocybin medicinal use, which oftentimes tends to be more introspective and quiet as the evening comes to an end.
The difference between this and traditional therapy models is that here the safe space of the community itself, is the primary healing modality. The comfort and exploration of relationships in a group setting and the reciprocal cycle of giving and receiving healing is the main part of the relational therapy process, so to speak. So unlike traditional therapy work in a 1:1 or 1:2 setting, there are other dynamic factors that have a significant impact on how his group sessions unfold. According to Noah, there is an intelligence of the relational field of the community that decides what happens and how the evening unfolds. The overall process is strongly characterized by collaboration and mutual co-creation of the experience which I found really interesting.
There are so many lessons we can take from this kind of work and apply it to our daily lives but understanding what kind of impact this work can have in a cross generational context just blew my mind.
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