375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States
December 5 - 8, 2024
About this Retreat
Jayne Gumpel, LCSW (she/her/hers) is a psychotherapist, trainer, and teacher with 30 years of experience working with couples, individuals, and groups in New York City and Woodstock, NY. Jayne is a professional clinical trainer in Psychedelic Integration Psychotherapy, is a member of the Woodstock Therapy Center’s Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) team, and has completed MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Jayne describes meditation as a core life practice, is a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and she includes mindfulness practice as a foundation of her work with clients. She is additionally trained in Imago Relationship Therapy and Gestalt Psychotherapy. Jayne is a co-founder of accessmindfulness.org, a 501c3, along with her son David. Her passion is supporting clients on their journey towards inner wisdom and healing from trauma to have more rich and satisfying lives and relationships.
David Gumpel, Co-founder of Relationship Resources, is an Integral Master Coach and a qualified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through UMASS medical school. He completed his MA in Psychology at The New School for Social Research. David is the co-founder of Access Mindfulness and was a study coordinator for the MAPS sponsored MDMA-Assisted Therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder study in NYC. As Director of Operations at Fluence, David provides guidance to Fluence trainers, leads experiential trainings and ensures the successful implementation of Fluence’s many offerings. As a coach, David teaches mindfulness to clients in private practice and to groups in corporate settings.
Seema Desai, MD (she/her/hers) is a board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with a clinical interest in the intersection of spirituality and psychiatry. She integrates principles of mindfulness into her work with patients and teaches on topics of mindfulness and mental health. For the past 10 years she has served as assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and at the NYU World Trade Center Health Program treating first responders who suffer from mental health conditions related to events of 9/11. Seema has experience in leading mindfulness-based skills groups for stress reduction and wellness. She co-edited a book published by the American Psychiatric Association titled "Becoming Mindful: Integrating Mindfulness into your Psychiatric Practice" She has been a study therapist in research examining the effects of psilocybin on depression and existential anxiety related to end-stage cancer diagnosis. She is currently a study therapist in a MAPS trial examining the effects of MDMA assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD. Seema offers psychopharmacology treatment and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in her private practice.
Irina is a board certified Internal Medicine physician and LGBTQ+ health and HIV specialist whose integrative medicine practice, Contemplative Medicine, focuses at the intersection of physical illness, emotional trauma, and spirituality. Irina has supplemented her rigorous medical education with training in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy with Drs. Phil Wolfson and Bessel van der Kolk, Internal Family Systems Therapy (Level 1), Core Energetics (a somatic psychotherapy modality), and over a decade of Vipassana meditation practice.
Irina grew up in the former Soviet Union in a family deeply burdened with mental illness, violence, and post-Holocaust trauma. Her own healing journey via somatic trauma therapy, Vipassana meditation, and psychedelic-assisted therapy in the US and the Peruvian Amazon opened her eyes to the complex nature of health and illness - complexity reaching far beyond her Western medical education. Irina has come to regard most illness as the body’s attempt to communicate, in an increasingly insistent voice, deep-seated imbalances within. Her clinical approach is one of deep listening and root-level healing of the body, mind, spirit, and ancestry. Irina speaks multiple languages and is passionate about bringing multi-dimensional, tailored healing to individuals, groups, and communities, with a primary focus on populations deeply impacted by systemic violence, poverty, and ancestral trauma.
Irina is an avid hiker, mushroom forager, and adventurer who splits her time between the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn.
Dr. Andrew Tatarsky has worked with people who struggle with drugs and their families for over 40 years.
A leader in the field, Dr. Tatarsky developed Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP) to address the spectrum of risky and addictive behavior. As the Director of Clinical Programming at Freedom Institute, Dr. Tatarsky will integrate the IHRP framework into the organization’s abstinence-based programs to develop a comprehensive, individualized, harm reduction-informed addiction treatment program. He is also responsible for the development and facilitation of internal and external IHRP training programs for individual practitioners and organizations.
A renowned clinician, educator, author, and advocate, Dr. Tatarsky aims to reinforce a re-humanized view of problematic substance use and provide a continuum of care that extends help to all those who need and want it. The principles of IHRP are described in his book, Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems, which has been translated into three languages. Dr. Tatarsky has also led over 100 training, consulting, and teaching presentations across 20 countries.
Before joining Freedom Institute in 2024, Dr. Tatarsky served as the director of the Center for Optimal Living in New York City, which he founded in 2011. He has also worked as a consultant to a broad range of behavioral health organizations and practices.
Dr. Tatarsky holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the City University of New York and is a graduate of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is a long-time member of the Medical and Clinical Advisory Panels to the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) and has contributed to the OASAS regulations that support a harm reduction approach.
Mark Green, MD is a psychiatrist specializing in addictions. He completed his residency and addictions fellowship at Cornell before conducting research into stress and addictions at Rockefeller University. He has been on Faculty at Cornell, Vermont and Harvard, and lectured nationally on harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, opiate treatment and psychotherapies. Mark has run outpatient and residential programs and systems in several states. Until recently Mark owned and operated Psych Garden in Belmont, MA, which provided evidence-based, family-focused and harm reduction treatment. Mark is a certified therapist and supervisor in training in AEDP and has trained in ketamine assisted psychotherapy with Phil Wolfson; the MAPS study for MDMA for PTSD; has taught ketamine assisted psychotherapy at Harvard conferences, the Boston Psychedelic Training Center, and at multiple retreats.
Details of this retreat
A retreat for professionals looking to explore healing the heart of addictions using Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP).
This is a safe, structured retreat led by a staff of licensed and highly experienced therapists and physicians in the beautiful Catskill Mountains at MENLA Retreat and Spa.
~Meet at the intersection of science and spirituality~
Participation in this retreat begins with an application to attend
Fee: $2850 + medical intake $400 & housing with meals [range from $250/$400 per night]
This four-day retreat is designed for licensed professionals. The program design focuses on supporting the personal challenges of clinicians, particularly those dealing with burnout, experiencing Zoom fatigue, depression, anxiety, and having limited time for self-care practices.
Addictions, and cravings and compulsions in general, impact us all - as healers, as clients and as humans trying to escape pain. Mindfulness, Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP) and Accelerated Dynamic Experiential Psychotherapy (AEDP) help us slow down together, reach beneath the impulse, and go back to times where the avoidance of emotion had to happen so we could survive. Then, we can find or rediscover new ways into self-care, connection and flourishing. Ketamine can beautifully facilitate this process, reducing defenses and anxiety so we can feel into the stillness and love, so we might find new ways out of addictive behaviors.
Esteemed teachers and leaders Mark Green, MD, Andrew Tatarsky, PhD, and Jayne Gumpel LCSW will be lead faculty at this retreat and bring AEDP, Mindfulness and IHRP into focus as practice modalities working with ketamine and psychedelics in general. Pre and post retreat zoom classes will complement the learning and build on practice skills and theory drawing from Diana Fosha’s extraordinary work (AEDP).
Dr. Green is a certified therapist and supervisor in AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Therapy), and an expert in substance use disorders and KAP.
Dr. Tatarsky’s important seminal work is Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy. IHRP, is a treatment for the broad spectrum of problematic substance use and other addictive and high-risk behaviors.
Seema Desai MD and Irina Linetskaya MD are returning core faculty and facilitators and medical providers for this retreat. David Gumpel M.A. is the retreat manager and mindfulness teacher.
Cultivating JOY is emerging as a model for group work. The highly valued and evidence based work from AEDP, IHRP and Mindfulness are integrated into this retreat model.
This retreat is experiential with a focus on personal development and learning. The professional components will be offered pre and post via zoom classes.
At our retreats we use guided practices to bring individuals home to their inner intelligence. Regardless of what is unfolding moment to moment, we each have the innate capacity and inner wisdom to choose to be present and to practice compassion and kindness with ourselves and with each other.
We take great care in the enrollment process. Safety is our top priority while making sure every individual that will attend has the capacity to be in a group setting and to experience Ketamine in a safe and constructive manner. This retreat is not a residential treatment setting and is not meant for people suffering from an acute mental health crises, and it is not for those with chronic and persistent psychiatric conditions.
Included in the tuition.
Group Zoom Preparation Meeting
(MBSR) Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction 8 week class. Mindfulness education through experiential and didactic learning. (Optional)
Professional Development Zoom Sessions through our optional cultivating joy community zoom rooms (Supplemental)
Post Retreat Integration and learning. We will meet three times as a cohort on zoom for continued integration and application of material. An on-going, no fee, peer group will be supported and encouraged.
Steps to join:
Step 1: Apply to the retreat.
Applicants will have a screening call to determine if this is the right retreat for you. You will be asked to fill out the application form before the interview. If the screening call determines that the retreat is appropriate, you will be invited to attend and provided a payment link to make a deposit. Instructions for reserving housing with Menla will also be shared.
Step 2: Complete the medical interview.
Applicants will be assigned to a medical doctor on staff for a medical interview. This is essential and may involve speaking with your psychotherapist or prescribing medical professional. Following this, you may be approved for the prescription for the retreat.
Step 3: Preparation with retreat staff.
You will be assigned to a staff member for a 60 minute group preparation session on Zoom. The preparation session is included in the tuition. This meeting is an important part of the process and introduces you to the retreat in detail. It is possible that this session will result in a decision that the retreat is not a good fit.
Step 4: Complete retreat documentation.
You will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement that addresses our request to hold the names/identities of other participants as confidential. We also provide an informed consent document which we will ask you to read carefully and sign.
Can add the Apply Now link: https://bookings.relationshipresources.info/en/product/cultivating-joy-an-aedp-and-ihrp-informed-ketamine-assisted-retreat-for-professionals-december-2024
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If we have space it would be helpful to have a contact beyond the front desk:
Organizer/faculty contact details
Jayne Gumpel, LCSW
jayne@relationshipresources.info
914.924.1509 (cell)
www.realtionshipresources.info
Woodstock, New York 12498
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Schedule
Thursday, December 5
3 - 4 pm Arrival & Room Check-in
4 - 6 pm Medical Check-in
6 pm Dinner
7 - 9 pm Evening Program
Friday, December 6
7:15 am Meditation and Yoga (Optional)
8 am Check-in & Opening Program *No Breakfast
9:30 am Meeting the Medicine
10 am Ketamine Session
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm BREAK (book a massage or spa treatment!).
3:30 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7 pm Evening Workshop
9 pm Bonfire (weather permitting)
Saturday, December 7
7:15 Meditation and Yoga (optional).
8:30 am Morning Program *No Breakfast.
10 am Ketamine Session
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm BREAK (book a massage or spa treatment!).
3:30 - 5:30 pm PM Afternoon Program
6 pm Dinner
7 pm Evening Workshop
9 pm Night Activity
Sunday, December 8
7:15 am Meditation and Yoga (optional).
8 am Check-out of Rooms
9 am Ketamine Session (optional)
11 am Group Process
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
2 pm Small Group Integration Circles
3 pm End of Program (Optional stay Sunday night, please reach out to Menla's front desk for availability.)
* Please note that the schedule is subject to change.
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