Why We Do This Work

It started in a catch up lunch between friends. Both were in our personal healing and learning path, being in We wanted to respond to the observation that while psychedelic and entheogenic experiences provide us with profound healing catharsis, trauma mending and mystical and spiritual experiences, it is the bridge we form after the experience that helps create long change and transformation.

All of us at TIC have had experiences that impacted us on multiple levels - emotionally, somatically, psychologically, and spiritually. Feeling the depth and potential of these experiences, we wondered how we relate to the complexity and nuances of the experience to create understanding, meaning, deep healing and sustainable, long term transformation. It became very clear that we needed bridges, ways to connect all the different aspects of these experiences - ways to conceptualize it, think about it, move through it, emotionally and spiritually engage in it. We understood this is a cycle of change that we go through more often than we think. With the right education, tools, and community we can practice integration with ordinary and out of ordinary experiences. We believe integration is an attitude towards life and an on-going practice.

These experiences have also lead us to committing ourselves in understanding this process through research, study, and practice. We conducted research looking into the different dimensions of integration entheogenic and psychedelic experiences using frameworks such as Jungian Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Somatic Psychology, Shamanic Cosmology, Eastern Philosophy, and Relational Psychology. We’ve found that an integrated approach creates those bridges. We’ve create frameworks to navigate and understand the process of integrating altered states of consciousness.