12-12:45 pm
Overview of Psychedelics, specifically ketamine, and intersection with AEDP
- Major Drugs being used; focus on ketamine science and research. When to use psychedelics; when to avoid.
- Set and Setting as organizing principles in psychedelic work and how AEDP makes this easy.
- The arc of a psychedelic session and the overlap with AEDP states and methods.
12:45-1:45 pm
AEDP as a way to direct psychedelic sessions
- Using the triangle of experience and fundamentals of AEDP for preparation of ketamine sessions.
- AEDP helps identify stuck points, establish an optimal internal state for psychedelic work, and inform intention-setting
- Video example
1:45-2:05 pm Break
2:05-3:05pm
AEDP as an ideal way to hold and direct ketamine sessions
- Co-creating safety; using portrayals in psychedelic sessions; working with the non-rational state.
- Evoking affect; being with terror, fear and rage. Use of fierce love in psychedelic states. Identifying and riding healing affects using states of awe, conviction, mysticism or spirituality.
- Working with non-rational experience.
- video example
3:05-3:20 Break
3:20-4:20 pm
- AEDP is ideal for integrating ketamine work.
- Meta-processing, stating new truth, using state 4, the true self to commit to new action for the future.
- Cherishing regret, atoning, and self compassion in psychedelic states.
- Video example
4:20-5:00 pm
- Closing review and discussion
- Dangers, boundaries and caveats
- Suggestions for future exploration
- Discussion