REFUGIO VIVO
The way we meet ourselves shapes the way we meet those we support
A JOURNEY FOR CARE PROVIDERS
Designed and held by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals, this immersive program invites us to explore the place of expanded states of consciousness in our professional practice and personal lives.
A circle of peers
The program begins with experience.
Over three days, we step out of our usual roles and into a dedicated space where we can be held, slow down, and reconnect with ourselves within a circle of peers.
Guided by our team of psychiatrists, doctors and psychotherapists, this weekend immersion makes room for embodiment, ceremony, inner exploration and shared experience.
Into Practice
From there, we turn towards professional practice.
A concentrated series of online seminars extends the immersion into our clinical work, exploring psychedelic-informed care, harm reduction, and somatic, embodied and creative approaches.
The aim is not simply to add knowledge, but to bring our own experience into dialogue with our professional practice, asking what expanded states of consciousness might open in the way we understand and support our patients, ourselves, our relationships, and communities.
An intimate group of healthcare professionals (12-16 participants)
3-Day Immersion
4 Online Professional Seminars
5 - 7 March 2027
Montserrat Valley, Spain
Three days of shared experience, embodiment, ceremony, inner exploration, nature, reflection and integration, held within a small circle of peers.
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Integration and Psychedelic Informed Care
Beginning with our own processes of preparation and integration, we explore how to meet others in attuned conversation around expanded states of consciousness, and how our personal experiences can deepen the way we accompany them.
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Beyond the Hype: Psychedelics, Care and Context
Exploring the possibilities and limitations of psychedelic work, harm reduction, non-pathologizing perspectives, and the wider social and systemic questions surrounding psychedelic care.
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From Crisis to Opportunity: Navigating Challenge
Understanding how we can meet challenging psychedelic experiences with curiosity and care, and how embodied and experiential approaches can support people in finding meaning, working with distress, and supporting growth.
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The Human Behind the Role
Examining the identities we construct as doctors and psychotherapists, our relationship with health, care and service, and what becomes possible when we allow ourselves to be more fully human in our professional roles.
The Program
An introductory session to establish a shared foundation and prepare for the immersion.
Dates of online sessions:Â
17.02, 10.03, 24.03, 07.04, 21.04 (2027)
All at 18:30 - 20:30 CET
1 Online Preparation session
The Venue
Our immersive retreat is nestled in the beautiful Montserrat Valley, just 45 minutes from Barcelona.
We will be staying in a charming traditional Catalan farmhouse surrounded by forests and nearby streams. The peaceful setting offers a wonderful space to slow down, reconnect, and immerse yourself in nature.
The venue combines rustic charm with modern comfort, offering spacious bedrooms with private bathrooms, cozy communal areas with a fireplace, and a beautiful indoor practice space. Outside, lush gardens, a swimming pool, hammocks, and a fire circle invite moments of rest, connection, and quiet reflection.Â
The Team
Our team brings together experience working with psychedelics in legal therapeutic, research and retreat settings. Our backgrounds span psychiatry and medicine, academic research, hospital care, psychotherapy, somatic approaches, and learning within Indigenous contexts.
We bring these perspectives together with a shared commitment to ethical practice, harm reduction, safety, and critical engagement with scientific evidence.
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Lisa Wessing (MSc)Â
A clinical psychologist whose work is grounded in a deep curiosity about human experience. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, and integrative psychotherapy, she combines humanistic, somatic, and mindfulness-based approaches, including Hakomi, Compassionate Inquiry, and Harm Reduction Psychotherapy. Her work with psychedelics began in harm reduction within recreational settings and evolved into substance use therapy, group facilitation in psychedelic retreats, and the development and delivery of professional training programs in psychedelic-assisted support. Her academic research includes phenomenological analysis of therapeutic processes in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Her learning within indigenous contexts allows for a comprehensive view upon the psychedelic field. Across her work, she seeks to bridge clinical knowledge, embodied experience, and diverse perspectives on what it means to be human.
Dr. Julia Javkin
A physician, psychiatrist, and acupuncturist who serves as a bridge between clinical medicine and somatic wisdom. Grounded in Gestalt therapy, her holistic approach weaves together movement therapy, somatics, acupuncture, and care with psychedelics, always guided by deep listening to the body. Through somatic techniques and embodied practices, she supports emotional healing, trauma integration, and the exploration of expanded states of consciousness. Her work bridges the rigor of clinical medicine with the wisdom of the body, offering a nonjudgmental space where each person is met exactly as they are.
Dr. Juan Paris
Studied to be a philosopher and then became a physician, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist, trained in adult and young people’s psychiatry. A Venezuelan currently based in Barcelona, he has worked across Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, focusing on migration, violence, and trauma. His practice integrates general psychiatry, psychotherapy based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and the therapeutic use of expanded states of consciousness; he is trained in Augmented Psychotherapy and psychedelic integration. He works in Barcelona’s public health system with migrant populations, in psychedelic clinical research, and in his private practice. His interest is in working at the intersections and crossroads where human suffering occurs, and the intersections and crossroads where we find relief and healing.
Dr. Arturo Rodarte
Trained in allopathic western medicine, psychedelic assisted therapy as well as in Mexican indigenous healing practices, he is interested in the point where ancient wisdom and modern technologies converge and are able to support each other on behalf of health and well being. He believes that healing is an individual task, yet a collective effort, and therefore believes in the importance of supporting each other on the long journey of deconditioning the oppressive patterns of thought, as we transition from suffering to self realization.
Ohad Nave (MA)
A body-centered psychotherapist, somatic group facilitator, documentarist, and social activist. With a background in neuroscientific research on meditative self-dissolution, he is devoted to integrating experiential exploration, embodied presence, and improvisation into a life-affirming approach to personal and collective growth. Ohad is engaged in psychedelic facilitation for the open-ended exploration of expanded states of being, often drawing on expressive movement, Buddhist practice, and connection to nature. His creative work focuses on art and dance as vehicles for dialogue-building across socio-political divides.
Price & Registration
What is included
- Preparation & Integration support by specialists
- 3-day immersion including food and lodging in shared rooms in our beautiful venue
- 1 preparation session
- 4 online seminars of 2 hours each
- Material for professional use beyond the program
 - Private room available at extra cost (limited availability)
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I receive from this?
The weekend immersion and seminars offer a space to deepen your understanding of psychedelic-informed care and explore its place within clinical practice, allowing professional insights to emerge through your own experiences of personal exploration, reflection, growth and connection with others. Through experiential learning, dialogue and shared inquiry with other healthcare professionals, the program supports both your personal renewal and the development of a more embodied, thoughtful and sustainable way of working.
You will receive:
- A deeper understanding of psychedelic-informed care, including preparation, integration, harm reduction, navigating challenging experiences, and the possibilities, limitations, and ethical considerations of psychedelic work.
- Experiential learning for clinical practice, connecting theory with embodied experience and exploring how our own experiences of expanded states can inform more attuned, non-pathologizing and person-centred care.
- Personal space for reflection and renewal, stepping out of the professional role to explore our own needs, values, vulnerabilities and growth, including our relationship with perfectionism, responsibility and burnout.
- Community with like-minded healthcare professionals, creating space for honest exchange, mutual support and meaningful connections with peers who understand the realities of this work.
- A space to reimagine healthcare practice, exploring how we can bring our values into our work and contribute to a more relational, embodied, humane and sustainable approach to care.
The 3-day immersion
05.03.27 - 07.03.27
Arrival time: Between 15:00 - 16:00
Leaving time: approximately 17:00
Dates for online seminars:
(all 18:30 - 20:30 CET)
Preparation Session - 17.02.27
Session 1 - 10.03.27
Session 2 - 24.03.27
Session 3 - 07.04.27
Session 4 - 21.04.27
Our international team speaks both English and Spanish. The immersion and seminars will be held in English, with Spanish translation available when needed and applicable. Individual conversations can also take place with a Spanish-speaking facilitator.Please express your interest in another language so we can explore what may be possible.
Seminars include real-time captions.
You are very welcome. No previous experience with psychedelics is required. The immersion and seminars offer a supportive introduction to psychedelic-informed care, with preparation, guidance and opportunities for reflection.
Whether you have explored psychedelics personally or professionally, the program offers opportunities to deepen your understanding, exchange with colleagues, and discover new ways of bringing this work into practice.
Our program is designed specifically for healthcare professionals, including medical doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, and psychotherapists. If you work closely with people in care and your profession is not listed above, reach out to check eligiibility.
Certain medical conditions, psychiatric diagnoses, or medications may present contraindications to the activities of the immersion. Having a history of mental health challenges does not automatically exclude you, but we will carefully consider your individual circumstances to ensure that participation is appropriate and as safe as possible.
After reviewing your application, we will invite you to a short personal conversation. This gives us an opportunity to get to know each other, discuss any relevant health considerations, answer your questions, and explore whether the program is a good fit for you.
Please note that submitting an application does not automatically
confirm participation.
Your physical and psychological wellbeing is a priority. Certain conditions, including a personal history of psychosis or bipolar disorder, significant cardiovascular conditions, and certain medications, may make working with expanded states less safe. Our application process is therefore an important part of ensuring your wellbeing.
As part of the application process, we ask you to complete a confidential health questionnaire so we can assess whether the immersion is appropriate for you. Some circumstances require individual consideration, and we are happy to discuss any questions or concerns with you. Please do not discontinue prescribed medication in order to participate without consulting your treating physician.
Certain conditions, including a personal history of psychosis or bipolar disorder, significant cardiovascular conditions, and certain medications, may make working with expanded states less safe.Â
As part of the application process, we ask you to complete a confidential health questionnaire so we can assess whether the immersion is appropriate for you. Some circumstances require individual consideration, and we are happy to discuss any questions or concerns with you. Please do not discontinue prescribed medication in order to participate without consulting your treating physician.
Yes! We will offer plenty of time for you to rest, be in touch with yourself, and disconnect from busy life. We will offer gentle meditative and somatic practices to support your process, while leaving space for self-reflection or enjoying the natural surroundings.
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Alongside our shared activities, there will be plenty of time to rest, reconnect with yourself, and step away from the busyness of everyday life. Gentle meditative and somatic practices will support your process, while leaving room for quiet reflection or simply enjoying the natural surroundings.
We understand how important confidentiality is, particularly when sharing personal experiences among fellow healthcare professionals. We aim to create an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect, where everyone can feel comfortable exploring and sharing at their own pace.
All participants are asked to respect the privacy of others and not share personal stories or identifying information outside the group. Your application and health information will also be treated confidentially and only accessed by the relevant members of our team, with exceptions where disclosure is legally required or necessary in an emergency.
We understand how important confidentiality is, particularly when sharing personal experiences among fellow healthcare professionals.
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We aim to create an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect, where everyone can feel comfortable exploring and sharing at their own pace.
All participants are asked to respect the privacy of others and not share personal stories or identifying information outside the group.
Your application and health information will also be treated confidentially and only accessed by the relevant members of our team, with exceptions where disclosure is legally required or necessary in an emergency.
We want everyone to feel comfortable and well nourished throughout the immersion. We aim to accommodate different dietary needs, including vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diets, as well as food allergies and intolerances.
Please let us know about your requirements during the application process so we can discuss them with our kitchen team and confirm what is possible.