Upcoming Programs

Presenting Our Third Dharma K Program—an exploration of spirituality, meditation, yoga, and consciousness in concert with the ego dissolution properties of the legal psychedelic medicine ketamine. Our aim is to share with each other and to experience the impact of ketamine on contemplative practice and realization, emptiness and fullness, silence and connection, community and compassion, tolerance and respect for differences, love, and empathy. The ketamine experiences will be embedded in a program of meditation, explorations of the integration of contemplative and psychedelic practices, community building, and exploration of the clinical applications of ketamine combined with contemplative practice. The event will be largely experiential in an environment designed to be safe and supportive, with a commitment to maintaining confidentiality of personal disclosures.  

Dharma K 3.0 will be held at the Menla Retreat Center in Phoenicia, New York between 4 PM on April 22nd and noon on April 27. To help create a safe, intimate experience, enrollment will be limited to 20.  The program is sponsored by the non-profit Ketamine Training Center of the Ketamine Research Foundation and by the Menla Retreat Center.

We are requesting that applicants have some experience with both mindfulness or other contemplative practices and psychedelic medicine, though not necessarily ketamine. While this is designed to be a mutual exploration and is open to all, mental health professionals will also have the opportunity to learn about and discuss clinical applications and earn CE credits. This program will therefore inform and enrich clinical practice with ketamine but is not a full substitute for learning the therapeutics of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in one of our formal training programs.

Participants will have the opportunity to personally experience ketamine at different doses in the context of contemplative practice, as well as to sit for others. Our plan is to administer ketamine as an intramuscular injection. If anyone would prefer oral administration, that will also be provided.

Organizers are Ron Siegel and Phil Wolfson in association with Gina Arons, Will Hamilton, Lisa Sherman, and Gita Vaid. 

We wish to make this program as accessible financially as possible and is therefore designed to be non-profit. While the maximum (and initial) cost will be $3000 plus room and board at Menla, tuition will be partially refunded based on total actual enrollment and expenses. The KRF BIPOC scholarship fund will also offer scholarships and there will be limited general scholarship support by application acceptance to the program.  

Continuing Education Credits and CMEs will also be offered for professionals seeking a clinical training component. The maximum cost will be $350. Since the program is non-profit, partial rebates will be offered based on final number of participants electing credits. Participants seeking credit will be asked to attend a pre-retreat zoom session offering an introduction to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, as well as break-out sessions during the retreat to discuss the clinical integration of ketamine and contemplative practice.

There is a non-refundable $100 application fee, plus a $400 deposit which will be applied toward tuition if you are admitted to the program. On acceptance, you will be given a link to select and pay for your room and board at Menla.

A link to Phil’s Tricycle paper on Buddhism and intoxication is posted here: https://tricycle.org/article/was-buddha-atheist/

Other papers will be suggested as we move towards April.  We welcome your suggestions.

We welcome you to our unique and exciting program and to the conscious and loving community we will form together.

The Fundamentals Training of KAP Is a community experiential journey of learning what KAP is truly about both personally and didactically. CE credits are provided. Over 900 practitioners have experienced our programs, and many have gone on to practice KAP and to become members of our international Ketamine Psychotherapy Associates program fostering their practices and building our community. .We are a non-profit 501c3 organization

With Phil Wolfson, Licia Sky, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Corbett, Gita Vaid, Ben McCauley, Mark Braunstein and others.

The Menla Retreat Center—in the heart of the Catskills—near Woodstock

375 Pantherkill Rd, Phoenicia, New York

Limited participation– for licensed health practitioners only.

BIPOC scholarships are available by application. Registration is now open, and we welcome your application and presence. The registration fee is $500 for all applicants, $400 of which is refundable. We predict the training will fill up rapidly, so we suggest you apply soon.

Tuition:
$4,000 prescribing providers
$3,500 non-prescribing providers

Room and board are separate at additional cost payable to Menla.
Room reservation is made directly through Menla after acceptance to the program. Link will be provided at that time.

The Advanced Sharing Retreat is open to KPA and others who have attended different KAP trainings and who have at least begun to practice KAP. Attendance is limited to 20 applicants.  It will include group experiences—psycholytic mornings and higher dose afternoons—all IM–and presentations and case discussions. Our program is formed with attendees as a process of mutual interests. We will be soliciting your input into the program. We expect sessions potentially to include: Successes and Failures; Case Presentations as Consultations; Case Videos, Practice Issues; Working in Groups; Couples; Adolescents; Our Various Methodologies; KAP and Sex Therapy; Ketamine and Emerging Psychedelics; Diversity, Identity and Culture; Commercialization and Where We Are Heading; Expanded Awareness and Movement in KAP; Trauma and KAP; Update on Science; Ketamine Abuse and Misuse, Meditation, Rituals and the Ketamine Experience-and other topics as we bring them to our attention. We would conduct the program within a contemplative practice set. Please see this as an opportunity to expand our connections and skillful means. Please see this as an opportunity to come together as a community of devoted practitioners. We are committed to sharing and fun. All of our trainings and events have created kindness and affection. We welcome your application and attendance.

We are providing 30 Credits of CEs under the Fundamentals Training Rubric which is how we obtain them for you.  In addition to full participation in Advanced Sharing activities, we will be having daily lunch time CE specific meetings, These will be focused on practical KAP issues; practice building; case discussions; new applications for ketamine and KAP; neuroscience discussion; and integrating methodologies into KAP.  Depending on enrollment, the cost of the CEs will be $300.

As this is a Sharing event, aside from Organizers, Providers, and our Support team, we are not paying for Leaders as we do in our Fundamentals program. In the spirit of collaboration, we are asking applicants to pay their tuition fees on a sliding scale by your own estimate in an honor framework of fees of $3500-$4500. regardless of degree. Fees to Menla for room and board are arranged separately with Menla.

BIPOC Scholarships and limited reductions in fees will be processed on request and dependent on registration as we are a non-profit organization.

Participants will be requested to provide their suggestions for topics and their potential offerings to add to the scheduling. Zoom sessions will precede the event for planning and participation. Our intention is to have a sharing that elevates all of our practices conceptually, methodologically ,spiritually, and practically. And to support the growth and development of the KAP community of practitioners, and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.

Please apply now as there is large interest in the event based on the results of our survey.

Tuition:

$3,500 – $4,500 sliding scale 

Scholarships potentially available after ascertainment of enrollment. BIPOC support available after acceptance of application.

Room and board separate at additional cost payable to Menla.

Room reservation is made directly through Menla after acceptance to the program. The Menla Link will be provided at that time.