We check with everyone to see if we have their permission, from every part of their bodies, to receive medicines. Then our doctor and registered nurse distribute the medicine through a shot – it is all intramuscular.
If it's your first time you use ketamine and you're nervous about it, thank goodness! That is the way it should be. But there is also the option not to do a ketamine at all: you thought you wanted to do it, and when pushing to push, you are on your travel mat and you are just like: “I really don't want to do it.”
Ketamine and psychedelics are not a panacea. We know it's not for everyone. You don't have to push yourself to do this new, innovative, advanced type of therapy. Yes, there is a big promise, and the data again and again make this area very frothy and enthusiastic. But it's all okay if you are scared and anxious. Just listen to your body and heart.
As: When we cross the journey, we pull out the backjacks.
SS: It's pretty sweet. They have small nests, small beds. They are all in it. They have blankets and pillows and earplugs when the environment music on the speakers gets too loudly. They wear eye masks, because ketamine is more a dissociative medicine – this feeling is naturally entering and being quiet. There are a lot of hugs there that some people take for their journey.
As: There is a huge teddy bear with a cup of intramuscular ketamine.
We encourage customers to bring things that are useful for them – such as a diary, photos of loved ones, loved ones who passed, rocks. It is just very loving, grounding and open.
SS: It is like an executive coaching psychedelic sleeping party.
On the first day we do a psycholytic dose of ketamine. It is not exactly a psychedelic dose, but it just lets you stagger on the rich. The next day is a mid-dose. That day is all about medicines and integration, and there is coaching around it.
As: Four of us facilitate the off sites. While people are on their ketamine trip, we are all very thoughtful. We are in silent communication with each other. Together we really hold this space and see what is coming to the fore. I mean, we have seen more than 100 ketamine trips at the moment.
SS: In a supporting clinical setting, the chance of a bad journey has been seriously reduced. I also believe that there is no such thing as a bad journey. Instead, there are challenging or uncomfortable journeys.
Let's say someone's trauma is coming through. A way that could appear is that you scream, or a lot of energy is just tearing through your body. You get off your mat and you just want to run. You will think that you are in a dangerous situation. The first thing we do is ensure that you are in a safe grip so that you feel cared for. We let you take your eye mask off. Some people need a handle or would like to be walked through the room. All these things help you bring back to now.
The third day is all integration and coaching: “What does this mean for me? How did I feel? And how do I release something positive that trip to my daily life? “
As: And about a week and a half later we have a follow -up virtual integration session, aimed at the application of what they have learned on their leadership.
SS: One person came in not to feel their bodies. “I'm just a head, and this is my meat bag,” she actually said what they said. After the off-site they could determine: “Actually, I feel that I can feel my chest. I can go to other places in my body and be connected to it. '
As: People float away at the end. They say, “I don't want this to end. Can I integrate this way of being in my life?”
– As told to Elana Klein
