At The Inner Shift Institute, we offer personalised packages tailored to meet your individual needs and preferences. You have the flexibility to choose from a range of options, including 1 to 6-day mental health retreats. Whether you prefer a solo experience, wish to attend with your partner, or gather a small group of friends, we accommodate your preferences. Each package is designed to provide a unique and transformative journey.

Upon contacting us, you’ll receive detailed information about our various packages, allowing you to select the one that best suits your goals and schedule. Our team is committed to ensuring that your experience with us aligns perfectly with your intentions and desires.

Private ceremonies are conducted during daylight hours and typically span 6-7 hours. We advise participants to refrain from scheduling any activities afterwards, allowing for full introspection until bedtime, or to have a supportive companion present. Upon arrival, we engage in a discussion to address any lingering concerns before administering the psilocybin.

Following consumption, effects typically manifest within 30 to 60 minutes, occasionally extending to 2 hours. The effects last 4 to 6 hours, during which one of our facilitators remains present to provide guidance and ensure your safety.

Our ceremonies start with meditation, helping participants focus on their intentions. We guide clients through the journey using a mixture of a non-directive and directive approach. This means the session is client-led, and we only intervene if the client specifically asks us to or if something intense or difficult comes up. In such cases, we take a more directive role, using the Inner Shift Method to support you through challenging moments.

After the experience, we offer compassionate support and facilitate the sharing of insights. Integration sessions, either in-person or online, are available in the days or weeks following to help process and integrate the psilocybin experience.

We work in Maastricht and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, where Psilocybin is legal in the form of truffles. We also offer what people call “mushroom retreat” sessions in Innsbruck/Salzburg, Austria, Lagos, Portugal and Tulum, Mexico, where Psilocybin has been decriminalised. We offer private, partner and group ceremonies. We also travel to places where these substances are legal or decriminalised by request.

You will book your own accommodation. We recommend choosing a comfortable, cosy and private space on Airbnb, and we’re happy to suggest suitable options if needed. We did provide a ceremony room in the past, but we have found that it is more beneficial for our clients to be in their own space as they will not have to travel when the session is complete.

You will still feel quite sensitive after the 5-7 hour session, and a walk through the city often feels overwhelming. Plus, this is an incredibly valuable time for reflection and stillness, so we come to your temporary home.

If you live in the Netherlands, you can do this private ceremony in the comfort of your own home.

Ceremony and Integration Recommendations

When considering how many ceremonies to book, it’s essential to align your expectations with your personal intention and comfort level. While one ceremony can yield transformative results for some individuals, others may benefit from multiple sessions to delve deeper into their healing journey.

1. Initial Session Insights

For many participants, the first ceremony serves as an introduction to the psilocybin experience. It’s common for individuals to approach this initial session with a sense of caution or guardedness as they familiarise themselves with the substance and its effects. This cautious approach allows participants to gradually open up and gain insight into the transformative potential of psilocybin.

2. Deepening the Journey

Following the initial session, participants often find themselves better prepared to engage in deeper introspection during subsequent ceremonies. With a newfound understanding of the Psilocybin experience, individuals can more readily explore the depths of their consciousness and address underlying issues.

3. Personalised Approach

Ultimately, the number of ceremonies needed varies from person to person. While some may find profound trauma healing with just one session, others may require multiple ceremonies to achieve their desired outcomes. It’s essential to assess your readiness to open up to the experience and consult with our team to determine the most suitable approach for your journey.

4. Our Recommendation

Based on our experience, we’ve found that most individuals seeking profound transformation benefit from booking two ceremonies and two integration sessions. This approach allows for a comprehensive exploration of your inner landscape.

We also offer shared ceremonies with either one practitioner in the same space, or each person can have a practitioner in separate rooms, which will allow you both to share the experience together while also having an individual experience with your own facilitator.

If all of you feel that you will each feel very safe and comfortable with potentially difficult emotions coming up and know that you will not fear going into emotions in fear of upsetting or angering the others, then you can go for having the experience with the same practitioner in the same room.

The experience can be very vulnerable and if our relationship isn’t in a place yet where we can hold that vulnerability for each other, which is, of course, totally OK, then we would recommend having a practitioner each. You could either do it at the same time in the same place where you can be in separate rooms, or you can do it one after the other on separate days.

If you book two or three practitioners, the price will be the same as two or three private ceremonies. They also need to be booked separately. This is only possible in Amsterdam and Maastricht when two/three practitioners have the same dates open in their calendars.

Costs start at 1800 Euros for a 1 Day Session.

Multiple Day Sessions are possible, too.

Please contact us to receive our package list.

We offer 2-4 financial aid opportunities each month for those in need of support to join our mental health retreats. If you're interested in applying for consideration, please click to link below to submit your application. Each application is carefully reviewed, and selected participants will receive assistance based on their unique circumstances. Apply Here:

https://innershift.institute/scholarship-application/

Our Inner Shift Method is a carefully crafted approach designed to facilitate profound transformation through psilocybin-assisted therapy sessions.

Here’s how each component contributes to the process:

1. Creating an Emotionally Safe Space

The foundation of our method is establishing not only a physically safe environment but also an emotionally secure space. By embracing emotional validation and removing the shame around emotions, we empower you to freely explore the depths of your subconscious mind. This unreserved acceptance encourages you to express and navigate through your emotions with ease, making it possible to dive deep into self-exploration and healing.

2. Compassionate Inquiry

Unlike many providers who choose not to intervene during the journey, we actively engage with you by asking purposeful questions that align with your intentions and healing goals. Given the heightened state of consciousness induced by psilocybin, you are better equipped to uncover and understand deep insights. These timely inquiries guide you towards profound realisations and facilitate a transformative healing process. Our clients share with us how important these questions were to be directed in the right direction on their psilocybin journey.

3. Subconscious Reprogramming

Core beliefs about unworthiness, unlovability, or insufficiency can deeply affect your life. Our method utilises subconscious reprogramming techniques during the peak moments of the psilocybin journey to address and shift these detrimental beliefs. This pivotal aspect of the Inner Shift Method allows you to emerge from the experience with a newfound love and acceptance for yourself, transforming your internal narrative.

4. Empathetic Reflection

A pivotal element of the Inner Shift Method is our role as empathetic mirrors during your journey. Our facilitators are not just observers; they deeply empathise with and reflect your experiences. This profound level of empathy ensures that you feel seen, understood, and supported at every step. By resonating with your emotional landscape, we offer guidance and validation that enhance the therapeutic process, making your journey towards healing and self-discovery a shared and deeply validated experience. This approach fosters a powerful sense of connection and trust, allowing for a more open and transformative session.

5. Trauma Healing

From years of experience, we know that psilocybin experiences can unlock the subconscious, potentially bringing traumatic memories to the forefront – even those long forgotten. These may be deeply ingrained memories from early childhood or even birth. These memories can be visual memories or emotional memories. Our facilitators are adept at identifying and guiding you through these pivotal moments of trauma, ensuring what could have been a distressing experience transforms into profound healing. This approach turns potential “bad trips” into therapeutic sessions, offering significant trauma healing and growth.

6. Inner Child Work

When past traumas surface, we employ inner child work to navigate these challenging waters. Our facilitators are trained in trauma integration therapy, allowing us to guide you through moments of deep discomfort that may reemerge during a session. This aspect of our method involves nurturing and healing your inner child, offering the support and validation needed to heal old, unprocessed, longstanding emotional wounds. This aspect of our method ensures that healing is not just temporary but addresses the root causes of emotional pain, leading to lasting change.

7. Meeting Early Childhood Needs:

Our facilitators are adept at addressing needs that went unmet during your early childhood. If your psilocybin journey uncovers difficult memories rooted in unhealthy family dynamics, our facilitator embodies the role of a loving parent or caretaker, offering the support and nurturing previously absent. This unique aspect of our method provides a corrective emotional experience, promoting healing and closure.

8. Overcoming Resistance

It’s not uncommon to encounter resistance due to fear, a desire to control the experience or mental overactivity. This inner resistance can block the psilocybin journey from starting, leaving the participant in a waiting state. Our method includes proven therapeutic tools to help you move beyond these barriers. By shifting from a state of mental resistance to one of bodily presence, we facilitate the commencement of the psilocybin journey, enabling you to access the transformative potential of the experience fully

9. Nervous System Regulation

A key component of our approach involves working with your nervous system through somatic techniques. By helping you regulate your nervous system, we enhance your ability to stay present and connected throughout the journey, ensuring a more grounded and transformative experience.

10. Trusting Your Inner Healer:

An integral part of our healing method is recognising when to allow space for the psilocybin to guide the process and when to intervene. We respect the healing and learning facilitated by the medicine, choosing not to intervene when you are in a space of growth and surrender. Trust in your inner healer is paramount, balancing guidance with the autonomy of your journey.

11. Integration:

A critical phase of the Inner Shift Method, integration bridges the gap between your psilocybin experience and your daily life. This process involves consolidating the insights, emotional breakthroughs, and transformative realisations into actionable steps and sustainable changes. Our facilitators guide you through reflecting on your journey, identifying key learnings, and applying them to create meaningful, lasting changes in your life. This ensures that the profound shifts experienced during the retreat continue to enrich and guide you long after the immediate effects of psilocybin have subsided, making your transformation a lasting cornerstone of your personal growth and development.

The Inner Shift Method is a holistic approach that integrates modern psychological techniques with the ancient wisdom of psilocybin, offering a comprehensive path to healing, self-discovery, and profound personal growth. Through this method, we support you in navigating the complexities of your inner world, leading to lasting transformation and a deeper connection with your true self.

We specialise in people who have mental health struggles such as depression, anxiety & social anxiety, OCD, PTSD, imposter syndrome and/or are neurodivergent (ADHD, autism, gifted).

We help those who feel stuck or overwhelmed or are looking for a sense of deeper meaning and fulfilment in life.

Our focus ranges from transcending feelings of inadequacy to recognising your inherent worthiness, shedding facades for authentic self-expression, transitioning from depression to renewed joy, and guiding you from anxiety to calm assurance.

Additionally, our mental health retreat offers pathways for those navigating neurodivergence struggles to embrace their unique abilities, transform mental struggles into clarity and strength, find purposeful action and ease, discover deep fulfilment, foster comfortable social engagement, heal from PTSD, and shift from imposter syndrome to confident self-belief.

Yes, we guide transformative inner shifts, helping you move from challenging states to empowering realisations.

We help those who feel stuck or overwhelmed or are looking for a sense of deeper meaning and fulfilment in life.

Our focus ranges from transcending feelings of inadequacy to recognising your inherent worthiness, shedding facades for authentic self-expression, transitioning from depression to renewed joy, and guiding you from anxiety to calm assurance.

• From an Inner Sense of Not Feeling Good Enough to Feeling Unconditionally Worthy: We help you transcend deep-rooted feelings of inadequacy, leading you to recognize and embrace your inherent worthiness of love and success.
• From Hiding Behind a Mask to Authentic Self-Expression: We support you in shedding the facades, allowing your true self to shine forth confidently and freely.
• From Depression to Emotional Balance and Renewed Joy: Transition from the grips of depression to experiencing life with renewed enthusiasm, energy, and a sense of well-being.
• From Anxiety to Calm Assurance: We guide you from states of anxiety to feelings of peace, grounding, and inner safety, enabling a calm and assured engagement with life.
• From Neurodivergence Struggles to Embraced Unique Abilities: For those navigating neurodivergence, including ADHD, autism, and hypersensitivity, we offer pathways from feeling at odds with the world to embracing and leveraging your unique gifts and perspectives.
• From Mental Struggles to Clarity and Strength: Transform mental struggles into clarity of thought and emotional resilience, empowering you to face life’s challenges with newfound strength.
• From Feeling Stuck or Overwhelmed to Purposeful Action and Ease: Move from feelings of being stuck or overwhelmed by life to finding clear direction, purpose, and a sense of ease in your path forward.
• From a Sense of Life’s Meaninglessness to Discovering Deep Fulfillment: We help pivot from existential voids to discovering and living a life filled with deep meaning and fulfillment.
• From Social Anxiety to Comfortable Social Engagement: Transition from social anxiety to feeling comfortable and genuine in social situations, fostering meaningful connections.
• From PTSD to Healing and Wholeness: Guide those affected by PTSD from the shadows of their past traumas to healing and a sense of wholeness, integrating and overcoming their experiences.
• From Imposter Syndrome to Confident Self-Belief: Shift from the debilitating doubts of imposter syndrome to a place of confident self-belief and acknowledgment of your capabilities and achievements.

Our approach, rooted in the Inner Shift Method, is designed to navigate these transitions, supporting a journey from present challenges to a future of greater emotional and mental freedom.