Facilitator Support Circles & Retreats

Peer Support for Psychedelic Facilitators

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About

These circles and retreats are for underground or above ground facilitators serving medicines. This work asks something profound of us: to know ourselves deeply… our shadow, our limits, our intentions, our blind spots, our gifts, and our growing edges.

This is not clinical supervision, and it is not guidance on illegal practice. These are peer-led support circles and retreats for facilitators who want to stay grounded, self-aware, and connected to community while doing deep, relational medicine work.

This community is rooted in mutual respect, privacy, and shared responsibility. There is no hierarchy, no “expert,” and no attempt to instruct how anyone should practice. You do not need to have a lot of experience in order to join, a small amount is fine. More experienced facilitators will be grouped with facilitators of their own experience level. 

These are confidential circles and retreats for facilitators who are committed to:
– Integrity
– Personal inner work
– Ethical psychedelic care
– Reducing harm
– And growing through relationship with others walking a similar path

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Together We Will:

  • Bring real situations, questions, ethical complexity, and “I’m not sure” moments

  • Explore internal dynamics such as transference, projection, entangled energies, and parts of self that show up in facilitation 

  • Notice patterns and impulses that arise in facilitation roles (rescuer, savior, teacher, healer, hero, martyr, etc.)

  • Practice radical honesty with ourselves

  • Support one another through the emotional, spiritual, and logistical realities of this work

  • receive peer wisdom on protocols used, contracts, intakes, integration, group work, collaboration, etc.

Ask Questions and Talk to Jeanie

Email jeanielorretta@gmail.com to ask additional questions and learn more

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Ongoing Support Circles

 • Meets weekly on Zoom (75 minutes, dates voted on by the group)
• limited to 4 participants for depth and intimacy
• Monthly contribution -  $150 to attend all 4 sessions

This is a space to:
Double-check your gut.
Ask the questions you’re afraid to ask.
Be witnessed in the places you’re still learning.
Remember that you are not doing this work alone.

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Upcoming Retreats

  • When: Friday, April 10th at 3pm to Sunday, April 12th at 11:00am.

    Where: East Stroudsburg, PA

    Price: $400

    Meals: Vegan, gluten-free meals. To keep pricing accessible, all facilitators will sign up for a meal to cook and clean with a partner.

    How to sign up: Fill out THIS FORM

    Facilitators: Jeanie Lee

  • When: Friday, May 1st at 3pm to Sunday, May 3rd at 11:00am.

    Where: East Stroudsburg, PA

    Price: $400

    Meals: Vegan, gluten-free meals. To keep pricing accessible, all facilitators will sign up for a meal to cook and clean with a partner.

    How to sign up: Fill out THIS FORM

    Facilitators: Jeanie Lee

  • This is not a training.
    This is not a medicine retreat.

    Below is a rough schedule on what to expect: 

    Friday: 

    • Arrivals/settling

    • Opening Circle / logistics

    • Dinner 

    • Facilitator Circles: groups of 4

    • Bonding

    Saturday:

    • Breakfast 

    • Group Process (constellations work)

    • Lunch + unstructured rest 

    • Hike

    • Facilitator Circles: groups of 4

    • Dinner

    Sunday:

    • Breakfast 

    • Facilitator Circles: groups of 4

    • Closing Circle

    ***Facilitator circles will include dialogue around case consultation, power, boundaries, transference, harm reduction, rescuer/savior roles, money ethics, and more.

Retreats are held in the Poconos of Pennsylvania

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