Embark on a deep journey
with our psychedelic retreats and training programs in the heart of the Netherlands
Experience the unique potential of psychedelics
At the Experiential Training Institute, we offer psychedelic practitioner training programs and small group retreats for individuals and couples seeking to explore psychedelics in a safe and legal setting. Our psilocybin-containing truffle programs provide a powerful and transformative opportunity to delve into the psychedelic experience, deeply exploring mind, body, and spirit.
Our Programs
Psilocybin Retreats
Transformative, expertly guided retreats designed to support deep insight, healing, and personal growth.
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Curious about exploring your inner world in a way that feels supported, grounded, and relational?
Our 3-day small group retreats are the foundation of our work at Experiential Training Institute.
Held in groups of up to 8 participants, these retreats offer a carefully facilitated space to explore consciousness, meaning, and personal growth — not in isolation, but in the steady presence of others doing their own work. This shared container supports safety, integration, and a pace that allows insights to unfold without pressure or performance.
All retreats are medically supervised, legally held, and delivered to the highest professional standards.
Small groups (maximum 8 participants)
Relational, carefully held container
Professional facilitation and medical supervision
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A more tailored, one-to-one container for specific needs and circumstances.
Private journeys are offered as a focused, individual option when there is a clear reason to work one-to-one.
These programs provide full discretion and dedicated facilitator attention, and are most suitable when particular therapeutic needs, life circumstances, or previous work indicate that a private container is the most supportive way forward at this stage.
Private journeys are not designed to be more intensive or “deeper” than group retreats — but different in how the work is held, and in what they ask of the individual.
One-to-one setting with full discretion
Individually tailored facilitation
Explored through a careful screening process
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Seeking to reconnect, deepen intimacy, or explore your relationship in a more intentional and supported way?
Our couples journeys offer a carefully facilitated, private container for partners who want to explore their relationship with greater presence, honesty, and care.
These personalised retreats combine psychological insight with the ceremonial use of psilocybin-containing truffles, creating space to slow down, soften habitual patterns, and listen more deeply — to yourself, to each other, and to what may be asking for attention within the relationship.
Rather than aiming to “fix” or resolve everything at once, the focus is on creating the right conditions for understanding, empathy, and reconnection to emerge in a way that feels grounded and respectful for both partners.
What this might support:
More open and attuned communication
Increased empathy and mutual understanding
Space to explore past experiences or relational patterns with care
A renewed sense of connection and intimacy, at your own pace
Practitioner Training
Comprehensive training for those seeking to support psychedelic experiences with safety, integrity and care.
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Our Core Program offers a comprehensive and practice-driven immersion into the principles and practice of psychedelic facilitation.
Across the training, we cover the full arc of psychedelic facilitation: from screening and preparation through to dosing-day support, challenging experiences, integration, ethics, consent and boundaries. You’ll also explore approaches including IFS, psychodrama and constellations, alongside practical casework and reflection on developing your practice.
Learning is grounded in real-world scenarios, role-play, and facilitated intervision groups — designed to equip you with not just the theory, but the embodied confidence and applied tools to do this work with skill, intuition, and integrity.
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Our Advanced Program is evolving alongside the wider field of psychedelic-assisted care.
As research, regulation and models of care continue to develop, we are exploring what future training may need to look like across different professional roles, settings and levels of clinical responsibility.
This work is currently focused on the development of a Dutch framework for psychedelic-assisted care, bringing together questions around competencies, professional scope, supervision, governance, screening, preparation, facilitation and integration.
Rather than assuming there will be one pathway or one model of training, we are interested in understanding where shared competencies exist, where role-specific requirements differ, and how experiential, academic and clinical learning might work together.
At this stage, the Advanced Program is a work in progress. We are listening, learning and connecting with practitioners, healthcare professionals, researchers, educators and others helping shape the future of the field.
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Alongside the chosen Education Module, all participants will take part in a dedicated Experiential Retreat — an immersive, hands-on training designed to ground your learning in lived practice.
Held as a retreat in the Netherlands, this module offers a rare opportunity to step into both the participant and facilitator roles within a carefully held, professionally facilitated setting. You’ll deepen your understanding of altered states through direct experience, while refining your skills in relational presence, group dynamics, and integration.
What to expect:
Embodied learning through real-world facilitation — guided by experienced trainers
Alternating roles of participant and space-holder — offering a dual perspective on the process
A focus on facilitation approaches, ritual structure, and responsive support
A small group format to allow for depth, safety, and shared reflection
We will be running three Experiential Retreats throughout summer 2027, giving participants a choice of dates while ensuring the same carefully held, in-person training experience across each retreat.
Where science meets ancient wisdom
We’re committed to facilitating psychedelic experiences which respect ancient traditions while bridging the gap with Western psychology. Through our carefully designed and evolving programs, we guide our clients through preparation, exploration, and integration within a safe and ethical environment, providing the optimal conditions to discover new perspectives and meaning.
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