Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA
Entheogenic/psychedelic integration is the process by
which the material accessed and insights gained in an entheogenic experience
are incorporated over time into one’s life in a way that benefits ourselves and
our communities. In this workshop, licensed clinicians Julie D. Megler and Mary
McDermott share the basic principles of integration, as well as a structure to
approach it and understand our own experiences more deeply.
Julie and Mary guide the group through experiential
meditation, art, journaling, and ritual in addition to practical discussion
throughout this day-long integration process. Drawing upon their wisdom as
licensed clinicians, plant medicine experiences, dietas, and spiritual
practices, Julie and Mary teach participants how to work with shadow material
and develop skills to meet uncomfortable emotions with openness.
Leave this workshop with your own daily practice for
integration as well as the ability to evaluate how your physical and emotional
environment and belief structures can benefit or hinder integration.
This is an integration group, and does not promote,
facilitate, or require the use of entheogens.
Julie D. Megler, MSN, NP-BC is a licensed family medicine
and psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is co-founder of Sage Integrative
Health, a multidisciplinary health and wellness clinic in Berkeley, California.
She is also chair of the board of directors of ERIE (Entheogenic Research,
Integration, & Education a non-profit established in 2011, with a focus on
entheogenic integration, peer support, and education in the Bay Area. Her
dedication to entheogens has been inspired by her own first hand experience of
healing and creative inspiration. Julie has discovered that plant medicine is
best practiced when appropriately supported, and it has become part of her path
to give back to the community by sharing and expanding on the guidance she has
been lucky enough to receive along the way. Learn more about Julie at:
sageintegrativehealth.org & erievision.org
Mary McDermott, MFT, LPCC, CYT is a licensed marriage and
family therapist and professional clinical counselor as well as a Yin yoga
teacher. She is also certified as a psychedelic assisted therapist through
CIIS. Mary has devoted meditation practice with her teacher Jennifer Welwood,
and a long a dedicated relationship to entheogens. Combining her knowledge,
practice, and experience she helps people heal the wounds of trauma and
integrate their unresolved emotional material. There are many guides on the
path and in honoring her own teachers, Mary is grateful to share what has been
given her. Learn more about Mary at: mcdermott-therapy.com
Julie and Mary have been working in collaboration over
the last 2 years facilitating day long Entheogenic Integration Workshops for
ERIE, and as integration facilitators for The Temple of the Way of Light's (an
ayahuasca retreat center in Iquitos, Peru).
Cost: $160
