Guiding the Unbound Mind

Guiding the Unbound Mind: What Every Practitioner Must Know About Working With Psychedelics, is an on-demand expert forum. This event is available at no charge and is designed to help practitioners safely and effectively incorporate psychedelics into their treatment protocols.

  • 200 Enrolled
  • Beginner
  • Last updated Oct '23
  • English
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Course Description

Guiding the Unbound Mind: What Every Practitioner Must Know About Working With Psychedelics, is an on-demand expert forum featuring former Imperial College London Lead Psychedelic Researcher and Clinical Director of The Synthesis Institute, Dr. Rosalind Watts, co-founder of Guild of Guides Netherlands and Lead Facilitator at The Synthesis Institute, Daan Keiman, and Angela Ruiz, Operations Manager at The Synthesis Institute. This event is available at no charge and is designed to help practitioners safely and effectively incorporate psychedelics into their treatment protocols.

During this recording, attendees will discover the not-to-be-skipped educational and self-care practices that are foundational to a safe psychedelic healing journey, the critical importance of a comprehensive screening process to discern the best treatment path for each patient, how to prepare the mindset and promote safety for clients by effectively setting expectations for a new relationship with a co-created consciousness and ways to effectively work with both challenging psychedelic states and transpersonal experience to support clients on their psychedelic journey optimally. They will also learn how to use post-session integration to ground the benefits of a psychedelic ceremony into real and lasting change for clients.

The speakers, Dr. Rosalind Watts, Daan Keiman and Angela Ruiz, are experts in the field of psychedelic therapy and have extensive experience in guiding clients safely and effectively through psychedelic experiences. This recording is an opportunity to gain knowledge and insights from their experience and expertise.

You will learn:

  • What is Bwiti?
  • Roles in Bwiti initiation/treatment
  • Instruments in Bwiti: ngombe, mogongo
  • What is an Nganga
    • Maboundi/Yombo
    • Maboundi/Yombo
  • Sustainability/reciprocity

You will learn:

  • History of the Fang tradition
  • Dissumba vs. Dissumba Fang
  • Ombwiri/Mbumbayano Fang
  • The kambo
  • State of Fang Bwiti in Gabon
  • Impact of Westerners coming to work with the sacred wood

You will learn:

  • History of the Missoko tradition
  • Various branches of Missoko initiation:
    • Miobe/Mioba
    • Ngonde Na Dipuma
    • Sengedia
  • The impact of logging on the tradition
  • What the future of Bwiti could look like in Gabon

You will learn:

  • History of Dissumba
  • Various branches of Dissumba initiation:
    • Abanji/Mabanji
    • Ilombo
    • Ombwiri
    • Ombudi
    • Loro
  • The ngombe (sacred harp)
  • Healing rituals involved in her tradition
  • Training to serve the wood
    • What does it involve?
    • How long does it take?

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Tatayo

Instructor

About Instructor

Tatayo (“Fruit of the Wind”) first arrived in Gabon in 1971 at the age of 21 and became a Gabonese citizen. In 1979, he became the first white person to be initiated into the Bwiti Fang tradition in Gabon. In 1994, he was initiated into the Misokko tradition. As a guide for numerous expeditions and missions, including those of National Geographic, the BBC, and others, Tatayo is considered to have “opened the door” to westerners in Gabon.

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This course includes

  • Lectures 1
  • Duration 1 Hours
  • Skills Beginner
  • Language English
  • Availability Always
  • Certificate No
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