OFFERING TRAININGS IN KETAMINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
The Ketamine Training Center 2023
The Ketamine Research Foundation (KRF)is proud to present its research on the presence/absence of ketamine in breast milk. As a first line antidepressant, ketamine in assisted psychotherapy (KAP) for women who are breast-feeding and suffering with postpartum depression (PPD), and depression and PTSD offers the option for intermittent use. This solves the dilemma for women seeking effective treatment and who do not wish to expose infants to continuous exposure to conventional treatments such as antidepressants. As the effects of long term continuous use of medication on infant development is unknown and difficult to study prospectively, the assurance of our study opens the door to a different and effective approach.
KRF is in the process of developing its protocol for PPD and we expect to launch in the Fall.
Contributions to our 501c3 Ketamine Research Foundation are deeply appreciated: ketamineresearchfoundation.org
Read the New Yorker Article that mentions our work here: Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a novel, breakthrough approach to awakened mind and the healing of trauma and depression. The Ketamine Training Center (KTC) is the premier organization in the field having provided training to over 800 practitioners in our 6-day residential retreat events.
We have arranged with PeerPoint to provide a certificate of training which will go out to each participant after the conclusion of each training. This will provide 30 AMA Category I credits which are applicable to both medical practitioners and therapists—this being acceptable to licensing boards in over 40 state, do confirm this with your Board if you have a question about this. Embedded in our fee structure for CE is $150 and is included in our tuition.
Looking forward to being with you in what have been profound learning, experiential and connecting events that continue to move KAP forward and support our developing practices.
You will learn and enjoy yourselves, We look forward to being with you.
BIPOC Scholarship Program
The Ketamine Training center is proud to announce the emergence of a new scholarship program for BIPOC applicants. To learn more about the program, please click here
UPCOMING TRAININGS
KTC Presents its Advanced Sharing for KAP Practitioners | September 19-24, 2023 at our beloved Menla Retreat Center in the Catskills
Please Note: Some Changes to our Event
The Advanced Sharing Retreat is open to KPA and others who have attended different KAP trainings and who have at least begun to practice KAP. It will include group experiences—psycholytic mornings and higher dose afternoons—all IM–and presentations and case discussions. Our program is in process, and we will solicit interest from participants. Sessions will include: Successes and Failures; Case Presentations as Consultations; Practice Issues; Working in Groups; Couples; Adolescents; Our Methodologies; KAP and Sex Therapy; Ketamine and Emerging Psychedelics; Diversity, Identity and Culture; Commercialization and Where We Are Heading; Expanded Awareness and Movement in KAP; Trauma and KAP; Update on Science; and other topics as we bring them to our attention. We would conduct the program within a contemplative practice set. Please see this as an opportunity to expand our connections and skillful means. Please see this as an opportunity to come together as a community of devoted practitioners. We are committed to sharing and fun. All of our trainings and events have created kindness and affection. We welcome your application and attendance.
As this is a Sharing event, aside from Organizers, Providers, and our Support team, we are not paying for Leaders as we do in our Fundamentals program. In the spirit of collaboration, we are asking applicants to pay their tuition fees on a sliding scale by your own estimate in an honor framework of fees of $2500-$3500, regardless of degree.
Participants will be requested to provide their suggestions for topics and their potential offerings to add to the scheduling. Zoom sessions will precede the event for planning and participation. Our intention is to have a sharing that elevates all of our practices conceptually, methodologically, spiritually, and practically. And to support the growth and development of the KAP community of practitioners, and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.
Fees to Menla for room and board are arranged separately with Menla at https://menla.org/
KTC presents its Renowned Fundamentals Training in the Fall at Our Inspiring Menla Retreat Center in Autumnal Splendor/ OCTOBER 24-29TH
The Fundamentals of KAP Is a community experiential journey of learning what KAP is truly about both personally and didactically.
With Phil Wolfson, Licia Sky, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Corbett, Gita Vaid, Tom Brod ,and others.
The Menla Retreat Center—in the Catskills
375 Pantherkill Rd, Phoenicia, New York
Limited participation for licensed health practitioners only.
Four BIPOC scholarships are available by application. Registration is now open, and we welcome your application and presence. The registration fee is $500 for all applicants, $400 of which is refundable. We predict the training will fill up rapidly, so we suggest you apply soon.
Tuition:
$3,500 prescribing providers
$3,000 non-prescribing providers
(Room and board separate and additional cost)
Room reservation is made directly through Menla after acceptance to the program at https://menla.org/
COVID Precautions
With the recent upsurge of Covid 19, we had our own experience of two participants, who were unknowingly harboring the virus, attending our August training. They tested Covid positive on the first and second full days of the training and had to leave. Learning from this disruptive and fearful experience, we are mandating new testing for your and our health. The program continued after four additional participants voluntarily departed in concern for their protection. Fortunately, with daily testing, no one else tested positive and the training concluded with a sense of great community and great learning. To be clear, it was tough going.
The incubation period appears to be 2-3 days from exposure, though it may be even longer—up to 5 days. The current strains seem quicker to become symptomatic.
We wish to take the necessary precautions. These are as follows:
- COVID VACCINATION IS A REQUIREMENT FOR ATTENDANCE.
- Please test two days prior to attending the program.
- Please test the morning of the program before leaving your abode.
- We will test on arrival so long as the Covid risk is present. We follow CDC guidelines.
- We may test subsequently during the training.
- If a training is cancelled due to Covid, we will refund fees minus $100 if the cancellation precedes the commencement of the training with consideration for any non-refundable expenses we have made.
- If a training is cancelled during its course, refunds will be prorated to the length of the training and expenses incurred.
- If an individual contracts Covid and cannot attend the training, a refund will be made according to expenses expended by KTC.
- If an individual contracts Covid during the training, they will be asked to leave the training and a refund will be made according to the duration of their presence in the training and expenses incurred.
- If a person becomes Covid positive during the training and leaves, it is up to participants to decide to stay or leave. Testing will be conducted daily. If a participant makes a voluntary decision to leave the training, they will have their remaining fees (after deduction for expenses incurred to the time of their departure) put forward towards another training. KTC will hold the remaining fees up to 12 months from the time of the training. KTC will do its best to provide trainings in that time period.
Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
—Phil Wolfson MD
Our Papers:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1141988/full
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02791072.2019.1587556
MDMA AND LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS
Our Ketamine and Lactation prepritnt:
https://www.
FACULTY
Peter Corbett
Licia Sky
A BIT OF INSPIRATION
I would do it all over again:
Be the harbor and set the sail,
Loose the breeze and harness the gale,
Cherish the harvest of what I have been.
Better the summit to scale.
Better the summit to be.
– Toni Morrison
Testimonials from Past Participants
“Thank you so much for a truly wonderful workshop. You both impart such compassionate wisdom and maturity to the multiple aspects of psychedelic medicine, from biochemistry to ethics. Apart from it being an amazingly enjoyable experience, I can’t remember the last time I learned so much on so many levels in just 4 days.”
-Past Participant David Dansky, MD
“I saw into the heart of my soul and connected with the universe and its inhabitants as one. I came away knowing I could release myself and others from trauma and suffering and contribute to a healing of the world”
-Anonymous
“With all my experience of psychedelic medicines, ketamine’s release from my body and the welcome absence of my ego enabled me to know myself as the pure energy I truly am. I returned to a sense of liberation from my usual formats and obsessions. This interruption of my ordinary mind liberated me to begin anew, to original being.”
-Anonymous
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