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 practitioners have hundreds of years of combined experience holding safe, structured spaces and working with psilocybin.
Leadership
Amanda Feilding (In Loving Memory)
Co-Founder
Founder of the Beckley Foundation in 1998 and co-founder of Beckley Retreats. A defining figure in psychedelic science for five decades. 1943 to 2025.
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Neil Markey
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-founder and CEO. Former U.S. Army Ranger captain with three combat deployments, then McKinsey. Certified mindfulness teacher since 2015.
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Rock Feilding-Mellen
Co-Founder & Board Member
Co-founder and board member. Entrepreneur and investor. Son of Amanda Feilding, he came to this work as a sceptic in his mid-thirties.
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Anja Saloranta
COO
Chief Operating Officer. Built a $300 million biosecurity operation at Ginkgo Bioworks and was COO of a multi-family office. Harvard MBA.
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Fede Menapace
CGO
Chief Growth Officer. Structural engineer, McKinsey consultant, technology leader at Segment, then COO of MAPS.
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Dr. AZA Allsop
Head of Research
Head of Research. Psychiatrist, neuroscientist and musician. MD and PhD from the Harvard-MIT program, psychiatry training at Yale.
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Lead Facilitators
Dingle Spence
Lead Facilitator
Retired Jamaican physician in oncology and palliative medicine. Heads the Hope Institute Hospital in Kingston. Co-founder of the cancer research non-profit JACCRI.
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Ben Sheinwald
Lead Facilitator
Biodynamic body psychotherapist, trained at the Centre for Biodynamic Body Psychotherapy. Leading group work since 2014.
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Kosu Boudreau
Lead Facilitator
Registered trauma psychotherapist and integration specialist. Eighteen years as a hospital spiritual care therapist. Certified yoga teacher and ordained Buddhist chaplain.
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Sergio Rodriguez-Castillo
Lead Facilitator
MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy Practitioner and trained marriage and family therapist. A former attorney of twelve years. Eighteen years in this field.
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Hanifa Nayo Washington
Lead Facilitator
Facilitator, integration specialist and musician, from a matriarchal line of Afro-Indigenous practitioners. Twenty-five years in non-profit community work.
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Mark Mabon
Lead Facilitator
Therapeutic coach and family constellations practitioner. Twenty years supporting guided sessions. Lifelong meditation, yoga and breathwork practitioner.
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Facilitators