Healing for Healers Weekend Retreat
Exploration, community, yoga, and group ketamine assisted psychotherapy
December 7th & 8th, 2024
Healers need healing, too.
If you are someone who holds space for others, we want to offer to hold space for you. Walking beside others while they do their own inner work can be beautiful, challenging, and transformative, and requires a willingness to step into that work for yourself.
Join us
This retreat is a powerful opportunity for you if you're a therapist or healer who wants to engage in your own healing and self exploration while being held in community. We'll weave this exploration in throughout the weekend, asking the questions:
"Who am I, really, and what's important to me?"
"How do I want to show up in the world?"
"What are my values as a healer and how can I make sure I'm living aligned with those values?"
"What intentions can I hold to deepen into my values?"
We'll explore social location, values, and will engage with the energy of the full moon to release what is no longer serving us as we journey with KAP.
Meet your support team
Nicole Sparrow, LCPC, PAT
Nicole is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Psychedelic Assisted Therapist, Reiki Master, and owner of Mind Body Wellness. She offers a holistic, down-to-earth, and approachable lens to therapy that holds space for you to create lasting change within a safe and collaborative container. Nicole offers ketamine assisted psychotherapy in addition to psychedelic preparation and integration.
Carrie Dennison, E-RYT 200, YACEP, Reiki Master
Carrie Dennison intuitively combines her experience as a trauma-informed yoga and breathwork teacher, rest facilitator, and reiki master to guide a practice, helping you connect with yourself in a soft and compassionate way. Carrie is also a self-care coach and runs her own business working with clients 1:1, teaching groups, and leading day and weekend retreats. You can find more out about her work and events at www.selfcarewithcarrie.com.
JaVon Townsend, LCSW-C
JaVon Townsend, LCSW-C is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, narrative artist and play enthusiast whose work centers joy and connection. With a background in cultural studies, JaVon's approach begins with understanding, appreciating, and leveraging the contexts that inform our experiences in facilitating positive change. She is passionate about cultivating fuller, healthier lives through strengthening the mind-body connection, deepening self-knowledge and self-compassion, and cultivating community care.
JaVon founded Jubilee Counseling and Wellness, LLC as a way to bridge her love for the healing powers of play, the creative arts, and fostering community.
Melissa Ward, CRNP, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC
Melissa Ward, founding member of Free State Health and Wellness, is passionate about customized patient care, professional medicine management, and helping people take care of themselves in the modern world. Melissa is a dual certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner, which allows her to provide comprehensive care for both the mind and body. Melissa has experience working in primary care, outpatient mental health, and crisis stabilization. Melissa’s practice, Free State Health and Wellness, accepts children, adolescents, adults, and patients with geriatric mental health conditions. Melissa’s goal is to care for her patients in a safe environment and to provide each one with individual medicine management and supportive therapy.
Let yourself be held. Our weekend will be full of exploration, yoga and rest, community, and a psychedelic journey with the intention of deepening in relationship with yourself and with community.
There's no better way to heal than together. As a small group, we'll connect, process, and support one another. Our retreat will be capped at 4-6 participants, so you'll get a chance to truly be seen and form lasting connections.
Using psychedelics for healing is an immensely powerful way to connect to yourself on a deeper level, and to cultivate a sense of community. As you heal yourself, you have greater capacity to connect, show up, and walk beside those you support.
Weekend Schedule
Saturday, December 7th
Day 1: 11am - 7pm
- Opening Ceremony
- Self exploration activities and community building
- Group KAP preparation and intention setting
- Yoga with Carrie Dennison
- Group KAP Journey (Learn more about KAP here)
- Post-journey discussion
- Meal and bonfire (weather permitting)
- Home for the evening (*please note that you cannot drive after KAP - you will need to arrange a ride)
Sunday, December 8th
Day 2: 11am - 3pm
- Yoga with Carrie Dennison
- Art integration exercise with JaVon Townsend
- Group Integration
- Closing ceremony
Payment plans are available.
**Medical evaluation is required prior to first KAP session (cost not included, insurance may be accepted).
To set up a consultation call with me for this group, please complete this screening form and indicate that you're interested in the retreat.
