Private Coaching
1:1 Preparation and Integration Coaching
If you are a participant registered for one of our programs at any point in your program, you are encouraged to consider supplementary 1:1 coaching. While our preparation program is comprehensive and includes one 1:1 intake session with a retreat facilitator, some of our program participants find that private coaching can greatly assist in both the preparation and integration processes.
Preparation Coaching
Your Beckley Retreats Coach will work with you to identify appropriate topics, which may include:
- Building understanding of how psychedelics work and what to expect in the experience.
- Gaining confidence and personal agency in the preparation process.
- Setting clear intentions and digging deeper into why you feel called to participate in a psychedelic retreat.
- Exploring your protective mechanisms and developing insight into inner resistance to be better prepared for your retreat experience.
- Allaying fears and worries through expectation-setting and reframing; becoming equipped with tools, skills, and resources to navigate potentially challenging psychedelic experiences.
- Setting up for a soft landing upon return from retreat through mindset shifts and taking preparatory actions.
- Gaining a deeper understanding of how to talk about the psychedelic experience with family and friends.
Integration Coaching
Your Beckley Retreats Coach will work with you to identify appropriate topics, which may include:
- Making meaning of our psychedelic journey, especially if your experience was confusing; or purely somatic (lacking visual or narrative content)
- Working through content that arose during your psychedelic journey that feels unfinished
- Responding to a fading experience post-retreat and anchoring to a beneficial psychedelic sensation such as unconditional love using somatic recall practices
- Incorporating supportive skills and practices (self-regulation, self-reflection, mindfulness, responsivity vs. reactivity, boundary-setting, etc.) into daily routines
- Troubleshooting barriers and potential derailers to sustain personal growth and wellbeing
- Continuing self-discovery through “parts work” (having perhaps discovered a part of self that may have been dormant; working with narratives around parts of self).
- Generating personal accountability and setting and monitoring goals.
- Connecting relationally, navigating friction with personal relationships, and reintegrating back into relationships.
- Harmonizing how you’ve changed as a result of your psychedelic experience with your life – and changing your life to meet you as you’ve changed.
- A coaching session ideal for individuals who feel they would benefit from extra preparation (in addition to the included 30 min session) or integration support in the form of individual one-on-one meetings.
- A package of four one-on-one coaching sessions ideal for those who feel they need more individual assistance. Can be used across preparation and/or integration as desired. Offers a 10% discount.
- A package of six one-on-one coaching sessions ideal for those who feel they need more individual assistance. Can be used across preparation and/or integration as desired. Offers a 20% discount.
The Coaches: Highly experienced and here for you at every step.
Our people are what make Beckley Retreats what it is today. We are committed to serving others and continuing our own inner work.
Our world-class team of coaches have decades of combined experience creating safe and transformational spaces and working with psychedelics.
Mark Mabon
Mark is a certified Systemic coach and Family Constellations practitioner, with 18 years parallel experience facilitating psychedelic experiences in ceremonial settings. As part of his coaching practice, he helps clients prepare for and integrate their psychedelic encounters, with an emphasis on creating an ongoing, everyday lived experience that incorporates the depth and meaning found there.
| Mark combines a deep warmth and compassion with a strong clarity and unwavering dedication to truth and acceptance. His work is about surfacing, facing and ultimately integrating the facts of our lives, including our family background and the entanglements inevitably found there. He draws from Internal Family Systems and Somatic work to help clients navigate daily life with greater presence and authenticity, which has made his work popular with creatives, performing artists, and entrepreneurs, with a frequent focus on addictive behaviors. He has been married for 15 years, has 2 children and also works around conscious communication, relationship and parenting. Availability: Mark is not available for August 25 – September 3 or October 4 – November 6 sessions in 2023. He is typically in the UK timezone. |
Lucyne Pearson
Lucyne is a dedicated, compassionate, skilled and experienced psychedelic preparation and integration coach who combines various therapeutic methods, neuroscience, and shamanic wisdom to support individuals in their psychedelic journeys. She helps her clients develop a thoughtful and personalized plan, fostering a safe and supportive space.
| Her coaching is grounded in neuroscience and brain retraining in order to enhance the neuroplasticity derived from these experiences and to create lasting change. She also draws from her extensive training as a psychotherapist, including Internal Family Systems, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, and Gestalt. In addition to her therapeutic experience, Lucyne is also well-versed in Family Constellations, Breathwork, and Eastern frameworks for navigating transpersonal experiences. With a 20 year background in wellness and psychedelic therapy, including running addiction programmes in the UK and working in one the foremost ayahuasca retreat centers in Costa Rica, she brings a diverse range of experience to her practice. In 2018, Lucyne co-founded a pioneering training retreat company in the Netherlands which focused on teaching psychotherapists essential integration skills for working with psychedelics. Availability: Lucyne is available for sessions in 2023: August through October 27; November 7 through December 23; January 4 (2024) – February 8; February 19 – Feb 28; and after March 7. She is in the UK timezone. |
Isabel Santis
Isabel is a psychedelic educator and integration specialist and the Director of Integration Programs for Beckley Retreats. She has been supporting people’s process and integration of expanded states of consciousness since 2005. Her coaching style is tailored to the needs of each individual, and combines exploration of internal landscapes, deepening connection with the self and nature, and supporting the implementation of life changes inspired by insights gained during the journey.
| Isabel is an Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy practitioner, an accredited Eco-Tuner, Shamanic Practitioner, IFS-Informed and Trauma-Informed Positive Psychology Coach. She also holds a MA in Transformative Leadership and is currently completing a PhD in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The topic of her dissertation is “The Effect of Psilocybin Mushrooms on the Experience of Eco-Anxiety”. Availability: Isabel is typically in the US pacific timezone. |
Ben Sheinwald
Ben’s work is about supporting people to connect to their true nature or essence and from this place to become conscious creators of their lives. He is trained in Biodynamic Body psychotherapy as well as coaching, and so brings a deep understanding of the synergistic connection between body, mind, spirit and the heart. He works from a place of presence and acceptance.
| In psychedelic work, Ben supports his clients to find the pearls of their experience and find ways for these insights to become an embodied reality in their day-to-day life. He believes deeply in the life force as a movement within us towards our own unique blueprint for wellbeing and vitality. He supports people to trust the life force for their growth and evolution. Availability: Ben is not available for sessions in 2023: August 3-19, August 25 – September 2, October 28 – November 13. He is typically in the UK timezone. |
Dr. Dingle Spence
Dingle Spence is a Jamaican physician with training in Clinical Oncology and Palliative Care. She has worked in this area of cancer care for over thirty years and has considerable experience in having serious illness conversations with people facing end of life and in providing support to their families. Many issues that people who are coming to the end of life are dealing with cannot easily be fixed or solved; the important thing at this time is for people to feel accompanied, heard, respected, and supported as their journey towards transition becomes more poignant and more real.
| Dingle brings to the table her experience in working with people at this time in their life and can provide a gentle supportive presence based on years of doing this work at the hospital bedside, in people’s homes, and more recently in an online setting. Her own personal work as a both a participant and facilitator in the psychedelic space has only helped deepen her understanding of what clients are experiencing and what their needs may be as they approach the end of their own lives. Dingle is available to provide coaching assistance and support to Beckley clients dealing with these issues. Dingle is only available for palliative/end-of-life care coaching. |
Andy Sudbrock
Andy is a Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Coach certified by The Third Wave and the Psychedelic Coaching Institute. Andy works at the leading edge of human potential by combining ancient shamanic practices with modern neuroscience.
| Andy is skilled at working with clients to overcome negative thinking and self-doubt. His coaching style coupled with the increased neuroplasticity provided by psilocybin mushrooms is a recipe for personal success and transformation that can improve and elevate all areas of life. Andy’s presence and coaching style are calm and grounding blended with positive encouragement and deep nature-based spirituality. Availability: Andy is available for sessions in 2023: August 1-20; September 1-4, 8-11, 13-18, 22-25; October 14-Nov 4; November 22 – December 1; and December 23-Jan 1. Andy is typically in the Central U.S. timezone. |
Important considerations
- Coaching is not therapy. However, our coaching may be informed by psychotherapeutic modalities such as Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Traumatic Incident Reduction Therapy or other therapeutic modalities.
- All of our coaches are also retreat program facilitators – but not all of our retreat facilitators are coaches. (Some facilitators are ceremony musicians, yoga teachers, etc.). While you may be drawn to a particular facilitator on retreat, that facilitator may not have formal coaching experience and thus may not be participating in the Beckley Retreats Coaching Program.
- When available, you may be able to schedule coaching sessions with a select facilitator-coach present on your retreat. This option provides continuity and depth in the coach-participant relationship.
