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As these new treatment options emerge on the horizon, this is also an opportune time to question our individualistic healthcare model of “patient” and “therapist”.
Although most psychedelic research has followed this model, recent studies point to the benefits of group-based psychedelic-assisted therapy. Historically, psychedelics were taken in ceremonial and group settings. Research has highlighted the importance of “set” and “setting” in shaping positive outcomes of psychedelic experiences. Now we’re seeing evidence that psychedelic-assisted therapy in a group setting leads to greater connection between people, enhanced empathy, and connectedness to society. In a group context, people tend to share and feel less alone with their suffering. This model may also help to address the loneliness and alienation that drive our mental health crises in the first place. And the group or retreat setting makes practical and financial sense too―it’s less expensive and time-consuming.
Right now, group psychedelic-assisted therapy is available at various retreat centers in those countries where psychedelics (or versions of them) are legal, such as Jamaica, the Netherlands, the Bahamas, and Peru and Brazil (where ayahuasca retreats are popular.) This makes them expensive and therefore out of reach for those who could perhaps benefit most from them―traumatized people from traumatized communities.
Our goal at Healing Hearts Changing Minds is to give access to as many people as possible to the healing potential of psychedelics, so that they can return to their communities, spreading the healing far and wide, in their own integration processes. We know that psychedelic-assisted therapy is not, as the scientists and MDs caution, a “magic bullet”. It also not for everyone, particularly those with schizophrenic or bipolar disorders. But it offers great hope for many of us to embark on the path of healing from trauma.
At Healing Hearts Changing Minds, our mission is for this to happen in a way that benefits not just ourselves and our families but our communities―and ultimately our society. Through this lens, the future looks a lot more hopeful.
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“With psychedelics…there is this epiphany that everything is connected. That we’re all tiny little beings on a huge planet. If you pull back and see the big picture, you see that we are all one organism, interconnected or interdependent.”
— Dr. Julie Holland, MD, psychiatrist
