$3,650.00
Welcome to the Ketamine enhanced IFS Clinician Training Retreat Cohort!
I am excited that you are joining us and look forward to our time together. To complete your enrollment, please pay the remainder of your tuition ($3650) either here or through a Zelle payment for a $50 discount ($3600). The email associated with Zelle is concrescenceinstitute@gmail.com.
To ensure your spot is secure, please complete enrollment via tuition payment within 14 after acceptance. Enrollment closes 2 weeks prior to start date.
If you already have an existing ketamine prescription that you would like to bring with you and use for your experiential sessions, you are welcome to do so and do not need to do the medical clearance and prescription step. If you do not have an existing prescription, please let me know and I will put you in connection with our medical partner for clearance and a prescription. Medical clearance and prescription costs will be additional and paid to the physician and pharmacy.
The KIFS training retreat is residential and room and board are included in the tuition cost. Travel to the training site is not included. Please plan to arrive by 4:00 pm on arrival day and depart at 1:30 on closing day.
The training will be held at 136 Pioneer Drive Woodstock, GA 30188. If you are flying in, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport is the best airport. The training is approximately an hour north of the city. You can either rent a car at the airport or take an Uber/Lyft. Once you are onsite, you will not need a vehicle.
Things to bring:
Recommended preparation:
For those not already IFS L1 trained, please familiarize yourself with the basics of the IFS model. Ways of doing this include,
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This training blends ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP) with Internal Family Systems (IFS) to provide clinicians with a map to support clients and patients through altered consciousness therapy. Ketamine enhanced Internal Family Systems (KIFS) will instruct clinicians in KIFS specific preparation for medicine work, therapeutic support, anchoring, and integrated embodiment. During this experience, participants will learn the basics of IFS, translate the IFS paradigm from ordinary consciousness into a map for medicine work, gain a foundational understanding of ketamine as a supportive medicine for psychological exploration, and practice facilitating ketamine enhanced IFS sessions as well as dive into the medicine to support your own internal processing. Participants will also learn about the ethics of altered consciousness psychotherapy and best practices for set, setting, and integration.
This experience is part professional learning and part personal retreat. We welcome you to bring your curiosity to get to know and care for your internal family more fully. Ketamine can be thought of as WD-40 (helps get stuck things unstuck 🙂 ) for protectors which allows them to relax. During this window of time, we are granted greater access to parts that are often out of reach of Self energy that supports and nourishes all within our inner world.
In this small group learning retreat, all parts of you are welcome! The limited number of participants allows us to support your professional learning as well as your personal journey. This training retreat will include didactic learning, personal medicine experiences, practice facilitating ketamine enhanced IFS, and deepening your integration practices.
Registration is limited to those in the mental health profession and includes the following:
Learning Objectives:
Describe the basics of the IFS therapeutic modality including parts, Self, flow of the model and its application in KIFS.
Learn the pharmacology of ketamine, routes of administration, medical preparation and contraindications for ketamine use.
Facilitate KIFS sessions with supervision and support.
Participate in integration practices.
Discuss the role of ethics, consent and building a strong therapeutic alliance in the context of altered consciousness therapy.
Basic Schedule:
Feb 16 — Arrive by 4 pm. Travel is not included in tuition.
Feb 17 — Didactic Learning and Group cohesion practices.
Feb 19-21 — Didactic in AM, medicine experience and practice in PM.
Feb 22 — Closing conversation and circle. Depart by 1:30 pm.
Trainer: Jennifer Baldwin, PhD, LPC, Certified IFS Level 3 therapist
Jennifer is a certified IFS therapist in private practice. She completed her initial IFS training in 2009, was certified in 2016, and has trained directly with Dick Schwartz multiple times. In addition to IFS, she is trained in Somatic Experiencing (SEP), EMDR, heart rate variability, neurofeedback, applied shamanism, sound therapies, breathwork, and multiple movement practices. Jennifer completed her clinical training while in the midst of her doctoral work in Systematic Theology with an emphasis in Religion and Science. She was ordained in 2007, completed her doctorate in 2013, and has published five edited volumes and two monographs. She was trained in ketamine assisted psychotherapy in 2019 and MAPS MDMA assisted psychotherapy in 2021. She has facilitated over 120 ketamine enhanced IFS sessions since 2019 honing and refining protocols on the intersection of IFS and KAP. While between writing projects, she is developing a “blueprint” for integrative trauma care that actively accounts for alterations or expansions of consciousness, including trauma-related (Frewen & Lanius) and safety-dependent.
