Healing for Healers
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Retreat
May 22-25
Frederick, Maryland
Complete the Interest FormWe're here now for a reason.
Holding space for others at this particular moment in time is deep work on so many levels. You are holding others, all the while also navigating your own feelings and experience. The consistent work of holding space for others while they heal and process their experiences alongside navigating current events is something you likely haven't seen or felt on this scale in your lifetime. This work is deeply sacred, essential, and challenging in its own unique ways.
We wholeheartedly believe that you're here right now for a reason. Your work matters. Holding space for others is a gift, and an immense responsibility different from other professions. In order to stay the course and do the work that you're meant to do, you also need space for your own personal care and growth.
Who is this for?
We created this offering for therapists, caretakers, healers, body workers, doulas and midwives, teachers and space holders. If you're holding space for others in their healing, we want to hold space for you.
We understand, because we are you! Helping people heal is a calling. It's a joy, a gift, and an honor. It also can be a lot, and offers challenges that are unique to holding space for healing work. Taking time and space for yourself is not only essential for your own well-being, it's also ethical so that you have capacity to help those you serve.
Complete the Interest FormAll are welcome.
This is a trauma-informed space open to all ethnicities, races, cultural identities, gender identities and expressions, and spiritual orientations. If you call yourself a healer or you hold space for others in their healing in any form, this retreat is for you. If you have questions about whether or not the theme of this retreat applies to you, we are happy to have a conversation to explore this with you.
Join us for a weekend that's just for you.
- Healing in community
- A small, intimate container with less than 10 participants
- Self exploration as an essential practice
- Art, song, breath to help you connect to yourself
- Yoga and meditation practices
- Preparation, journey with ketamine, and integration as a community
- Beautiful land in Frederick to explore with plenty of free time
Journey with Ketamine
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is a psychedelic healing modality that can help you cultivate powerful change, move through stuck patterns, and has the potential to create profound shifts in your life. Research has shown that this type of medicine work can be beneficial for folks experiencing treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, stuck patterns of behavior, thought rigidity, and those seeking personal exploration and growth.
As a healer, it's essential that you are engaging in your own personal work. The better you understand yourself and your patterns, the more effectively you're able to hold space for the people you serve. Not only that, but understanding your own experience can help you navigate the transference and countertransference that shows up in therapeutic relationships.
While each individual's experience is different, this treatment modality provides the potential to deepen your relationship with yourself and gain powerful insights about your patterns of behavior so that you can acknowledge and integrate what may feel stuck or challenging.
Learn more about KAPTime as a human invention
Reflecting on how we want to support you this weekend, we will encourage you to let go of a sense of time. We'll ask that you keep your phone in your room and use it only for essentials. We'll offer an outline of events so you know what to expect, but your agenda will contain no start and end times. We hold all of that for you, so you can let go of "shoulds" and "supposed to's", and simply enjoy the flow of the weekend without worrying about what time it is.
Meet your Facilitators
Nicole Sparrow, LCPC
Nicole is a psychedelic facilitator, psychedelic somatic practitioner, licensed therapist, and founder of Mind Body Wellness. With experience as a yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and reiki master, she offers a holistic, down-to-earth lens that holds space for you to heal in a safe and collaborative container. The focus of Nicole's work is nervous system-level healing, and she works with other therapists and healers and folks who are healing from trauma and attachment wounding.
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.
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.
Weekend Rate:
$1200
We are more than happy to accommodate payment plans
2 payments of $600
3 payments of $400
4 payments of $300
Your Accommodations
Join us at Foxhaven Farm outside of Frederick, MD
Enjoy mountain views, a dry sauna, peaceful creek, and a large porch with plenty of space to explore.
