Grof Psychedelic Therapy Training -Team Stanislav Grof M.D. PhD. Creator of Method – Teacher, Psychiatric & therapeutic Consultant (Pre-recorded classes) Brigitte Grof, Psychotherapist (Exponent – Expert talks) Javier Charme M.A. PhD (c) Psychotherapist (Director, Teacher and Therapist) Paula Guzmán M.A. Psychotherapist, (Co-Director Teacher and Mentor) Viktoria Luchetti (Teacher and therapist) Paul Grof M.D. Psychiatrist (Teacher) Jay Dufrechou (Therapist and Teacher) Jean Paul Dufour, Psychotherapist (Therapist and Mentor) Neil Hanon MD, FRCPC, Psychiatrist (Expert talks) Renn Butler, (Archetypal Astrologer for Individual Consultation) Ted Esser, PhD. (Teacher) Emma Bragdon PhD. Psychotherapist (Pre-recorded classes, Live Q&A) David Lukoff, PhD. Psychotherapist (Pre-recorded classes, Live Q&A) Edward Sellman (Mentor) Sebastian Torres (Mentor) Stanislav Grof M.D. PhD. – Creator of Method – Teacher, Psychiatric & therapeutic Consultant (Pre-recorded classes) Stanislav Grof is a psychiatrist with more than sixty years of experience in the research of holotropic states of consciousness, a large and important subgroup of non-ordinary states that have healing, transformative, heuristic, and evolutionary potential. In the past, he was Principal Investigator in a psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; and Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Currently, he is Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA, conducts professional training programs in holotropic breathwork and transpersonal psychology, and gives lectures and seminars worldwide. He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of transpersonal psychology and the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (ITA). In 2007, he was granted the prestigious “Vision 97” Award from the Václav and Dagmar Havel Foundation in Prague, and in 2010, the Thomas R. Verny Award from the Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH) for his pivotal contributions to this field. In 2004, he received an honorary Ph.D. from the World Buddhist University in Bangkok, later one from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), and in 2018, another one for Psychedelic Therapy and Healing Arts from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, California. Among his publications are over 150 articles in professional journals and the books Beyond the Brain; LSD Psychotherapy; The Cosmic Game; Psychology of the Future; The Ultimate Journey; When the Impossible Happens; Healing Our Deepest Wounds; Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art; The Stormy Search for the Self; Spiritual Emergency; and Holotropic Breathwork (the last three with Christina Grof). He was also invited as a consultant for special effects in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer science fiction movie Brainstorm and the 20th Century Fox science fiction movie Millennium. Since April 2016, Stan has been happily married to Brigitte Grof. They live together in Germany and California and travel the inner and outer worlds in tandem, conducting seminars, trainings, and Holotropic Breathwork / Grof® Breathwork workshops worldwide. In August 2019, his life’s work encyclopedia The Way of the Psychonaut was published, and the documentary film about his life and work, The Way of the Psychonaut: Stan Grof and the Journey of Consciousness, was released. In May 2020, he and his wife Brigitte launched their new training program, the international Grof® Legacy Training, focused on working with holotropic states of consciousness. www.stangrof.com Javier Charme M.A. PhD (c) – Director, Teacher and Therapist Ps. Javier Charme M.A. PhD.(c):** Javier Charme is the Director of the Grof Legacy Psychedelic Training in Spain and has been Professor and Director of Grof Transpersonal Training in South America since 2008. He is a Clinical Psychologist with a Transpersonal Orientation in private practice and has worked as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator since 1999. He received his degree in Psychology from Universidad Santo Tomás in Chile and later completed a master’s degree in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), USA, in 2003. He has facilitated thousands of participants in over 400 Holotropic Breathwork group sessions around the world. He has training in different Eastern traditions, including Raja Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, and Tibetan Buddhism, and has explored holotropic states for over 34 years. As a committed psychonaut, he has experimented with the use of psychedelics in native contexts with numerous taitas and, thanks to Grofian Psychology, has experienced hundreds of psychedelic sessions with high doses of different compounds, including 114 high-dose (500 mcg) sessions with LSD-25 in a therapeutic context. He was authorized by Stanislav Grof, with whom, together with Paula Guzmán, he developed this program to train Grof psychedelic therapists. Javier has participated in the training of transpersonal therapists and psychologists in several postgraduate courses in South America and Europe. For a decade, he taught several courses in Transpersonal Psychology and Transpersonal Psychotherapy at Universidad Del Pacífico, Chile. He is an international lecturer on topics related to psychology, psychedelics, holotropic states, psychospiritual crises, and Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy. He also conducts harm reduction work with the use of psilocybin in the Netherlands. He has given and organized transpersonal conferences in several countries, leading training cycles and workshops in Chile, the United States, Europe, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Ecuador. Paula Guzmán M.A. Co-Director Teacher and Student Mentor Ps. Paula Guzmán M.A.:** Co-director of the Grof Legacy Training for Latin America and the Grof Psychedelic Therapy Training. Paula is a clinical psychologist, facilitator of Grof® Breathwork, and educator. She holds a Master’s in Psychology of Physical Activity and Sport from the University Central Chile and the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. She serves as a university professor at Universidad Autónoma and Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana in Chile, where she teaches courses in Humanistic and Transpersonal Clinical Psychology, Psychological Theories (systemic, humanistic, and transpersonal), Professional Skills, and meditation. Paula has been a dedicated meditation practitioner under the guidance of various teachers for many years and has been a speaker in mental training programs for sports, sports psychology, and mindfulness for athletes. She has also served as a facilitator in the “Stress Reduction with Mindfulness and Integrated Cognitive Behavior (MCCI)” program and