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JOIN US ONLINE
November 3rd, 2023
11am - 1pm Pacific
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$45 - RSVP (scholarships avaiable)
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Online Class w/ Will Hall, MA, DiplPW:
Ethical Psychedelic Therapy And Process Work: Challenges and Dilemmas
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Ethical scandals, research misconduct, and patient backlash are now a small - and growing - part of the "psychedelic revival."
Does Process Work offer a new direction for working with psychedelics? How can Process Work – and anyone inspired by the heart of Jung – approach psychedelics in our work, and ourselves? Most importantly, is Process Work capable of working with psychedelics while protecting clients from harm?
If you are thinking about training in using psychedelics, or already use them yourself or with your clients, this is a class you won't want to miss!
Due the the popularity of this topic, this is a stand-alone follow up to recommended class: w/ Will Hall:
Jung, Psychedelics, And Therapy: A Process Work and Harm Reduction Approach
This Ethical Psychedelic Therapy course is an advanced discussion of the potential dilemmas of using psychedelic therapy and process work. Will and Michal take a harm-reduction approach, sensitive to the ethical issues that can arise. Using real-world examples, and lots of time for your questions, you'll learn more about important ethical considerations when using psychedelics with therapy. This course is open to everyone, including people who are unfamiliar with Process Work or unfamiliar with Jung.
- Process Work offers powerful tools for working with moods, perceptual shifts, and altered states: we orient around signals to displace habitual reliance on the "ordinary" or primary process identity and support opening to broader secondary forces over our "edges" of familiarity and habit. Substances and addiction work may be broadly applicable to drugs such as MDMA, psilocybin, LSD and ketamine, but does the "tunneling and edges" model of unfolding client process around altered states and addiction also apply to work with psychedelics?
- What to make of the "two-state ethics" Process Work approach given the unique dangers of suggestibility and abuse of power represented by psychedelics?
- What is the role of Process Workers in today's "psychedelic therapy": providing substances, sitting with psychedelic sessions, and working with preparation for and reflection about ("integration) psychedelic drug trips?
- Are there key harm reduction protections Process Workers must bring to their work?
- Do Jung's warnings have specific relevance for Process Work practice?
- And crucially: how do the hype and media saturation of the "psychedelic revival" create a crucial timespirit and worldwork dimension to client interest in psychedelics?
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JOIN US ONLINE
November 3rd, 2023
11am - 1pm Pacific
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$45 - RSVP (scholarships available)
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About the teacher:  Will Hall MA, DiplPW, PhD Candidate Maastricht University, is a Process Work diplomate therapist and trainer internationally recognized for his innovative work with psychosis treatment, psychiatric medications, and changing the social response to madness. He is host of Madness Radio, co-founder of Freedom Center, co-founder of Portland Hearing Voices, co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network USA, and a past co-coordinator of The Icarus Project. Will was trained in Open Dialogue at the Institute for Dialogic Practice and studied Arnold Mindell’s Process Oriented Psychology, a Jungian approach, at the Process Work Institute in Portland Oregon.
 A schizophrenia diagnosis survivor, Will is a longtime organizer with the international psychiatric survivor movement, and has appeared in several documentary films including Crazywise, Healing Voices, and Coming off Psych Drugs; A Meeting of Minds. He has gained media coverage in the New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Radio New Zealand, Haaretz, Radio Sarajevo, and The Guardian. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Best Practices in Mental Health, Oxford University’s Textbook of Modern Community Mental Health Work: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and Research Ethics journal, and his book is Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness.
Will's work has received recognition in disability rights activism including the Judi Chamberlin Advocacy Award and the Stavros Center for Independent Living Disability Rights Award. Will is author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Medications, which has been translated into 14 languages and is widely used as a resource by patients, families, clinicians, and recovery groups around the world.
Will's interest in Jung and Process Work emerged out of his own struggle to understand himself: impulses of creativity and renewal at the heart of the dangerous extreme states of consciousness that threatened to destroy him as a young man. Will trained with leading psychedelic teachers in the 1990s but helped break media silence around psychedelic therapy abuse when he wrote about his personal experiences on Mad In America and Medium, catalyzing widespread media attention. Will's therapy practice includes work with people who have taken psychedelics, and he supports access to these substances and ending the war on drugs. At the same time, Will questions "psychedelic therapy" and opposes the medicalization and commercialization of psychedelics. Can we accept the positive potentials of altered states of consciousness while also guarding against the dangers of a Brave New World?
 Assisted by Michał Lasocik: Psychotherapist, member of the Polish Process Psychology Society, MA of sociology at Warsaw University, Member of the Polish Psychedelic Society, psychedelic integration therapist, and harm reduction educator. Co-founder of the LIMINAL initiative, which educates on psychedelic integration, especially for mental health professionals.
His interests, among others, are dreams, altered states of councsciousness and psychedelics. He learns and teaches psychedelic integration inspired by dreamwork as from Jungian psychology and process work. He is interested in understanding the meaning of so called “bad trips” and helps to develop a Safe Space project which provides psychological help at music festivals.
He supports the popular modern idea by which an indvidual is a self divided complexity of inner figures, parts and roles rather than a monolitic, undivided structure. This notion has a great impact on his daily work with individuals and groups. Privately, nature enthusiast, amateur musician and a science fiction fan.
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About the co-hosts:
Processwork Online is hosting this workshop. Processwork online offers resources and training in Process Oriented Psychology, including free and paid classes (scholarships available). Contact info@processworkonline.com for inquiries and requests.
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The Polish Psychedelic Society is an initiative established for the purpose of reforming the law which would enable the use of psychedelics in medicine and science. We want to initiate in Poland a material debate on psychedelics, a debate free from fears, myths, and falsehoods. We believe that only by acting together will we achieve this goal
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