The art of Self-energy facilitation in immersive contexts invites us to expand our systems’ capacity to remain present with whatever arises. Just as our clients' inner systems contain multitudes, our systems’ parts can become overwhelmed, polarized, or extreme in the face of uncertainty.

Through training experiences like Self-Energy Facilitation, we can built the trust in Self to calmly presence the body, compassionately witness intense emotion, and courageously allow for the unexpected ways personal growth and spiritual emergence unfold. This retreat offers a unique opportunity to cultivate this Self-led trust within a structured container of reciprocal learning and practice.

Pre-Retreat Zoom Call: Welcome to Self-Energy Facilitation

In the week before our retreat, we’ll meet for a 2-hour Zoom call to get to know each other, discuss the agenda, and prepare for our time together. We’ll speak for our parts, engage in IFS practices, and open a little more room for Self-energy!

Day 1: Laying the groundwork

Self-energy facilitation requires us to come into deep contact with all of our parts and expand the capacity of our system to hold whatever comes up for our clients. On day 1, we’ll get to know each other better and help our parts relax back and trust the Self-energy inside and outside. We’ll do this through authentic relating games, breathwork, and group sharing.

Day 2: The first medicine session

On our second day together, we'll enter the sacred container of immersive facilitation. Half of our group will journey with medicine while being held by the other half. As facilitators, you'll practice maintaining Self-energy presence while witnessing the unfolding journeys of your peers. Those journeying will experience firsthand how IFS principles can guide and deepen immersive work, creating a template for your future client facilitation.

Day 3: Roles reversed

Today we shift perspectives, with journeyers becoming facilitators and facilitators becoming journeyers. This reciprocal design allows everyone to experience both sides of the therapeutic relationship within the IFS-psychedelic framework. Through this embodied learning, you'll develop a profound understanding of how to navigate non-ordinary states while maintaining contact with the qualities of Self-led curiosity, compassion, clarity, and courage.

Day 4: Integration and embodiment

Our final day is dedicated to weaving together the threads of our shared experience. Through somatic practices, reflective dialogue, and collaborative wisdom-gathering, we'll articulate key insights about Self-energy facilitation in immersive contexts. You'll leave with not only conceptual understanding but an embodied knowing of how to hold space at the intersection of IFS and immersive healing—a knowing that resides in your nervous system, not just your intellect.

Post-Retreat Zoom Call: Reflections on Self-Energy Facilitation

In the week after our retreat, we’ll meet for a 2-hour Zoom call to connect, debrief, and reflect. Just like in our pre-retreat call, we’ll speak for our parts, engage in some connecting IFS practices, and open a little more room for Self-energy!