PT400 – Neil Markey – Beckley Retreats: Combining Modern Science, Tradition, and Holistic Wellness
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews the Co-Founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats, Neil Markey.
Markey describes Beckley Retreats as comprehensive well-being programs, and talks about the importance of holistic wellness – that, while the retreats are centered around two group psilocybin experiences, the true benefits come from complementary factors: the four weeks of online prep and community building before the retreat, the six days in Jamaica surrounding the experiences, the six weeks of integration work after, and the depth of connections people find in the new community they may not have realized they needed so badly. He breaks down the details of the retreats and what they look for in facilitators, and tells a few success stories that really highlight how trauma, opposing ideas, and an infatuation with material objects and amassing wealth can all get in the way of real relationships and meaning.
Beckley Retreats is currently working on two new projects: an observational study with Heroic Hearts and Imperial College London on using psilocybin for-traumatic brain injury, and a study with Bennet Zelner and the University of Maryland to bring executives through a retreat to see how it affects leadership and decision-making: can they prove that these types of experiences lead to more heart-centered leaders?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, it's David here. Did you know that at the current pace, the demand for psychedelic |
| 0:06.4 | experiences and retreats is far outpacing the supply of qualified psychedelic guides, therapists, |
| 0:12.0 | and practitioners. And as psychedelic healing grows in popularity, this practitioner bottleneck will |
| 0:18.0 | also grow bigger too. That's one of the reasons why we have created |
| 0:23.0 | vital, a comprehensive 12-month certificate training program for psychedelic-informed practitioners |
| 0:28.6 | to master the elements of psychedelic-informed therapy and integration. And to give you a feel for it, |
| 0:34.9 | it's been completely transformational for everyone that touches this program. |
| 0:38.8 | The students have graduated with the tools they need to create a new career for themselves |
| 0:43.3 | with a tight-knit community of the next generation of psychedelic practitioners. |
| 0:48.5 | And the staff, the team, us, me, come out of it just as transformed by the students and by their growth. |
| 0:55.6 | And we're fortunate to partner with industry experts like Bill Richards, |
| 0:59.5 | Kyla Taylor, Dick Schwartz for the weekly lectures, |
| 1:02.7 | and then to meet each other in person in places like Jamaica, Costa Rica, Colorado and Amsterdam |
| 1:08.5 | for immersive in-person retreats to give our students the |
| 1:12.2 | hands-on training and experience they need to work in this area. So if this sounds like what |
| 1:19.2 | you've been searching for, head to vital psychedelicraining.com and there's more information |
| 1:25.0 | and you can apply up until March the 26th. |
| 1:29.0 | Classes start April 17th. |
| 1:31.6 | Good luck, everyone. |
| 1:32.3 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to psychedelics today. |
| 1:47.4 | This is Joe Moore coming out. |
| 1:48.4 | You're from Bracken Ridge, Colorado. |
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