Grof Psychedelic Therapy Training -Team
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 has taught in various mindfulness and psychology programs. Paula has extensively explored psychedelic therapy with different compounds and has facilitated numerous sessions in holotropic states of consciousness. She regularly leads both Eastern and Western meditation practices in Chile and is co-director of the Drikung Kagyu Center for Vajrayana Buddhism. In addition, Paula has developed a specialized mindfulness program for athletes and has organized several international congresses on Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy, as well as training modules on Transpersonal Psychology across South America.
Viktoria Luchetti - Teacher and Therapist
Viktoria Luchetti was trained and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator by Dr. Stan Grof and his then-wife Christina in 1988. Since then, she has led seminars and training workshops in North and South America and Europe, with more than 30 years of experience. Since 2007, she has co-directed Holotropic Breathwork trainings in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. Viktoria is also a certified Waldorf Education teacher, having trained in Kassel, Germany. She has worked pedagogically and therapeutically with children for over 20 years. In Chile, she co-founded and co-directed a Waldorf school that currently serves more than 100 students, from Kindergarten to 8th grade. She trained with the renowned dance and movement teacher Anna Halprin in California, learning her "Life-Art Process." She also studied "Authentic Movement" and has integrated both practices into her current work. Viktoria had the opportunity to work for 3 years in a hospice, accompanying the dying during their transition. For more than 20 years, she has worked with children and adults using "Sand Therapy," developed by Dora Kalff. Additionally, Viktoria trained at the Upledger Institute in craniosacral and somato-emotional therapy, and has been dedicated to this work for more than 15 years. Recently, she studied and practiced "Family Constellations" with Albrecht Mahr in a year-long workshop. Her many years of varied and complementary studies allow her to bring broad and deep knowledge and experience to her current work. Viktoria has also made a pilgrimage with Mexican Huicholes and has vast experience working within holotropic states and with various entheogenic medicines.
Jay Dufrechou PhD - Therapist and Teacher
Jay Dufrechou, PhD. is one of the co-directors of the Grof Legacy Project USA and works with the international team of educators and trainers appointed by Stan and Brigitte Grof. He holds a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University) and has been an adjunct professor there since 2002, often supervising research theses, many of which involve the work of Stanislav Grof. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English (with an emphasis on Creative Writing) from Stanford University and holds a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Jay’s interest in transpersonal work began in the mid-90s, following spiritual emergency experiences that revealed the healing and transformative power of contact with spiritual intelligence. He discovered holotropic breathing in the mid-90s and subsequently explored a wide range of psychedelics, recognizing their power to harness and expand these healing potentials. He is a certified Grof® Breathwork facilitator and has facilitated workshops in the US, Canada, the UK, India, and China. Jay is the author of *Moving through Grief: Reconnecting with Nature*, a book that explores the experiences of grief, crying, and other deep emotions that many people encounter through intimate contact with nature, particularly in the context of today’s ecological challenges. He is also the co-author, alongside Ryan Westrum, of *The Psychedelics Integration Handbook*, a companion guide for individuals seriously exploring psychedelics for healing and personal growth. Jay has designed and taught courses on psychedelics for Sofia University and Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is particularly interested in helping facilitators find balance and presence when sitting with others during powerful transformative experiences.
Jean Paul Dufour - Therapist and Student Mentor
Ps. Jean Paul Dufour is a psychologist trained at the Continental University and currently practicing as a transpersonal therapist. He is a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, trained by Stanislav Grof, Javier Charme, and Viktoria Luchetti. Additionally, he has received training in Gestalt therapy at the Gestalt Center of Peru and in the SAT program by Claudio Naranjo. He has also completed several courses related to Mindfulness and meditation in therapeutic contexts. Jean Paul has over 12 years of personal work with master plants. He has participated in various "diets" and immersions with the Shipibo-Conibo ethnic group, deepening his work with ayahuasca. He has also worked with Wachuma (San Pedro cactus), Bufo alvarius, and Willka (Anadenanthera colubrina), the latter being the medicine he currently uses in therapeutic and self-exploration settings. His approach integrates psychology, transpersonal psychotherapy, and ancestral knowledge. He also incorporates psychotherapy, personal development, and microdoses of psilocybin into his practice. Jean Paul is a promoter of Transpersonal Psychology and Psychotherapy in Peru, actively involved in the Grof Legacy Training in Peru, the Transpersonal Association of Peru, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Holquimia. He has organized and participated as a speaker in various trainings, courses, workshops, congresses, and international seminars. In addition to his psychology work, Jean Paul studied music at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, specializing in musical composition. He has explored traditional Peruvian music from the coast, mountains, and jungle, as well as indigenous music from various regions of the world. Music therapy is a key component of his psychotherapeutic work, serving as a fundamental tool in his practice.
Paul Grof M.D. Psychiatrist - Teacher
Psychiatrist Paul Grof, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the Ottawa Centre for Mood Disorders. After graduating from medical school, Dr. Grof completed his psychiatric training and specialized in psychiatry in 1962. He worked as a research psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatric Research in Prague and as a fellow in psycho-endocrinology of affective disorders in West Germany. In the fall of 1968, he was recruited as a research psychiatrist and faculty member at McMaster University in Canada. Between 1974 and 1977, Dr. Grof helped develop and direct affective disorders clinics at the University of Toronto's Sunnybrook Medical Centre and several other Canadian universities. In 1977 and 1978, he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, first in the clinical neuropharmacology branch with Dennis Murphy and later in the psychobiology branch with Fred Goodwin. In 1982, Dr. Grof became the Director of Research and Education at Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with McMaster University, where he expanded research activities in psychobiology and established a psychopharmacology research and training center. From 1985 to 2000, he was active as an Expert for the World Health Organization (WHO) Mental Health Section, where he chaired an expert committee and a Working Group on psychotropic drugs. From 1988 to 1993, Dr. Grof was the Clinical Director of the Royal Ottawa Hospital and later led its clinical and research activities in mood disorders. Dr. Grof is currently a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and directs the Ottawa Centre for Mood Disorders. He has published more than 400 articles and three books, and he has received several national and international research awards.
Emma Bragdon PhD - Pre-recorded classes, Live Q&A
Emma has been a pioneer in mind-spirit wellness for 50 years. She has written seven books and co-produced two documentaries on topics related to health and healing. She has been an adult experiential learning teacher since 1985.
Prior to graduate school, Emma trained with some of the best bioenergetic and neo-Reichian therapists in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Stan Keleman, Anne Dreyfuss, Nadine Scott, Phil Cucuruto, Ed Jackson, M.D., William Emerson, Ph.D., and others. Her advanced training in breathwork, bodywork, and energy work became critical to her understanding of how to support personal growth and well-being. Her facilitation of group breathwork in the 1980s was sponsored by her graduate school to benefit the community.
Between 1985 and 1992, Emma devoted herself to writing about and promoting spiritual development. She volunteered with the Spiritual Emergency Network (SEN) for seven years, editing its magazine and newsletter and coordinating two invited lectures at the Esalen Institute. Stan and Christina Grof, founders of the SEN, attended these lectures, along with other psychologists, spiritual teachers, individuals with lived experience, and the visionary Anne Armstrong. Emma's doctoral thesis on "How to Support Someone in a Spiritual Emergency" was inspired by these encounters. The pioneering work of Stanislav Grof, M.D., remains a profound source of inspiration for her.
In 1988, Emma graduated as a marriage, family, and child therapist, received her doctorate in transpersonal psychology, and specialized in private practice around spiritual emergency issues. She continues to train individuals online from all continents and consults with organizations regarding the identification and management of spiritual emergencies.
From 1990 to 2001, Emma taught nine-day experiential courses on personal development. From 2001 to 2012, she traveled extensively for field research, focusing on Community Spiritist Centers and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil, which provide an effective, 120-year-old model of integrative health care for all economic levels, cooperating with government funding requirements as needed for hospital care. Brazilian spiritualists are very successful in recognizing and managing spiritual emergencies, having developed their protocols for over 100 years.
David Lukoff, PhD - Pre-recorded classes, Live Q&A
I am a licensed psychologist and retired professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. My work over the past 40 years on spiritual crises led me to propose the diagnostic category in DSM-IV and DSM-5: Religious or Spiritual Problem, which has increased awareness of spiritual issues in clinical practice. Currently, my work focuses on spiritual competence, which includes recognizing and working with spiritual crises, as well as leveraging clients' spiritual strengths. I have co-authored three articles on spiritual competence in APA journals and participate in an APA working group to develop guidelines on this topic. Spiritual competence encompasses the skills to conduct spiritual assessments and utilize mindfulness, forgiveness, self-compassion, and other spirituality-based practices in clinical settings. I have recently founded the Academy of Spiritual Competence, which offers online courses on these topics. Spiritual Competency Academy: https://spiritualcompetencyacademy.com Courses: https://spiritual-competency-academy.thinkific.com/collections
Ted Esser, PhD - Teacher
Ted Esser, Ph.D. has been the Director of the Spiritual Emergence Network (founded by Stan and Christina Grof in 1980) for over fifteen years. He has training and experience in several spiritual traditions, with expertise in lucid dreaming, kundalini, nonduality, altered states of consciousness, and other transpersonal topics. He has held Core Faculty and Adjunct Professor positions, teaching graduate-level courses in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Philosophy, Theory, and Research Methods at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University), as well as Consciousness and Dream Studies courses at John F. Kennedy University. His dissertation, *Lucid Dreaming, Kundalini, the Divine, and Nonduality: A Transpersonal Narrative Study*, examines its subject from a transdisciplinary framework, including transpersonal psychology, consciousness studies, religious studies, and dream studies. He is a contributing author in *Lucid Dreaming: New Perspectives on Consciousness in Sleep*, published by Praeger. Previously, he worked in public and educational television for seven years, producing the *Midnight Theatre* series for KCTS 9 in Seattle, WA. He holds B.A. and B.F.A. degrees in Communications (New Media) and Photography (Video Art) from the University of Washington, an M.A. in Philosophy and Religion (Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program), and a Ph.D. from the East/West Psychology program (Consciousness Studies track) at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He has five children and lives in San Diego County, CA, with his partner, where he conducts his spiritual counseling practice globally.
Amy Burrel - Therapist
Amy Burrell spent her formative years in Brazil and returned to the United States for her higher education. Her experience of two cultures and languages has shaped her worldview, giving her an appreciation for other cultures and the diversity they bring. Amy has participated in sacred ceremonies for more than a decade and weaves cultural wisdom from these experiences and ongoing international training and mentorship into her work. She began her professional life as a ballet/modern dancer and costume designer. Her appreciation for aesthetics and deep understanding of the body and movement, instilled early on, continue to inform her work. She created art installations exploring themes of suspension, timelessness, healing, death, and rebirth, where participants could experience their own bodies and achieve greater self-awareness. These themes integrated well with her interest in Grof studies. Amy holds an MFA and a BS in Dance/Psychology, is a licensed massage therapist (LMT), and has extensive training in trauma-informed holistic healing modalities. Her additional certifications include Grof® Breathwork, Thriving Relationship Coach™, Authentic Tantra® teacher, Reiki Master, and Structural Energetic Therapy (SET). She has taught movement and dance at the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil and at Indiana University. She is pursuing Grof® Psychedelic Therapist training in Spain while continuing her practice as a massage therapist. She facilitates Grof® Breathwork workshops and is a teacher of Grof Legacy Training® nationally and internationally. Amy’s enthusiasm for learning, traveling, and experiencing cultures continues to inspire and enrich her life and work. It is her greatest honor to hold space for others in their transformational journeys.
Sebastian Torres - Student Mentor
From a very young age, Sebastián has been passionate about music and deep exploration. At the age of 17, he received a scholarship to study Aquaculture Engineering at Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile, but shortly after, he switched to Musical Composition.
In 1997, his first child, Salvador, was born. By then, Sebastián was working as a music teacher and participating as a guitarist and arranger in the Chilean music scene. In 2002, his second child, Samuel, was born. That same year, he completed his studies in Composition and Arrangement in Popular Music at the Modern School of Music and began studying sound and recording engineering.
Between 2002 and 2012, he worked as a composer, arranger, producer, guitarist, and creator of audiovisual content through his production company, Sonidoimagen. In 2007, his third child, Simón, was born.
In 2008, he began studying psychological astrology and consulting, and shortly after, he started working as an astrological consultant and teacher of basic astrology. In 2010, he was recognized with the Pedro Sienna Award from the Chilean audiovisual industry for Best Original Music for the film *Más Allá de Estos Muros*. That same year, overwhelmed by recurrent and profound depressive episodes, he found Holotropic Breathwork to be an effective healing tool that virtuously combines the different paths he has followed until now.
In 2013, he became certified as a Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator, and since then, he has regularly participated as an organizer and/or co-facilitator in workshops and individual sessions in Chile, Peru, Spain, Portugal, and Croatia.
In 2012, he closed his audiovisual production company and began working in sales until 2017. In that same year, he became certified as an Ontological Coach. Since 2017, Sebastián has been dedicated to accompanying individual and organizational processes privately through the Daya and Yo Cuido Foundations, in conjunction with the coaching consultancy Fractal. Since 2022, he has participated as a student, translator, and support team member in the first training for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy of Grof Legacy Training.
Edward Sellman, BA (Ed), PhD - Student Mentor
Edward Sellman is a mentor and tutor in the Grofian Psychedelic Psychotherapy training program, currently in the final year of the first cohort. He has experience in deep self-exploration, working with a range of psychedelic compounds in ceremonial and therapeutic settings alongside Holotropic Breathwork since 2017. Through his training in psychedelic therapy and Holotropic/Grof Breathwork, Edward has accumulated several years of experience holding space for others. Edward is a trained Mindfulness Teacher and volunteers as an Integrative Transpersonal Counselor at a hospice for clients who are bereaved or suffering from a life-limiting illness. He is passionate about the transpersonal approach, using Grof’s map of the psyche to inform the therapy he offers. As a prize-winning artist, Edward also draws upon Holotropic states in his oil paintings and the creation of contemporary altars and shrines. He is also a trained facilitator in TRE® (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises) and SoulCollage®, which he uses alongside daily meditation as integration practices. Edward works as an academic at the University of Nottingham, holding a first-class honors degree and a doctorate in the field of education. His work focuses on mental well-being, inner work, and human flourishing—topics he has written many journal articles about. Going forward, he would like to focus his research and writing on the educational aspects of transpersonal and psychedelic therapy.
Neil Hanon MD, FRCPC, Psychiatrist - Expert talks
Dr. Hanon is a psychiatrist in Kelowna, British Columbia, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is the Year 3 Director (the clinical year) of the Southern Medical Program of UBC in Kelowna. Dr. Hanon has been teaching medical students, psychiatry residents, and family practice residents both clinically and didactically since 1996. He also works inpatient at Kelowna General Hospital and provides outpatient care at Outreach Urban Health, an Interior Health-operated primary care clinic where he works with homeless and street-entrenched individuals often struggling with addictions and other mental health challenges, as well as in his private practice. In 2018, he was awarded the Clinical Faculty Award for excellence in clinical teaching by the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. Dr. Hanon has a research interest in legally sanctioned trials with ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin for the treatment of complicated grief, treatment-resistant depression, and severe addictions. He first became involved in Holotropic Breathwork as a participant to help cope with his grief after the death of his 17-year-old son, later becoming certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator in 2015. Dr. Hanon was fortunate to have Dr. Ralph Metzner as his teacher and mentor from 2015 until Ralph’s death in 2019. He was one of the founding members of Relief For Grief, which has since transformed into Jamaica Grief Retreats, a nonprofit organization that takes grieving parents to Jamaica for healing ceremonies with legal psilocybin mushrooms. Since 2015, Dr. Hanon has been facilitating Holotropic Breathwork groups.
Luis Eduardo Luna PhD. - Expert Talks
Luis Eduardo Luna was born in Florencia, Colombia, in 1947. He has a B.A. from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1972), an interdisciplinary Master's from Oslo University (1980), and a Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Religion at Stockholm University (1989). He received a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, appointed for a study of the ethnobotany and ethnomedicine of the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon (1986), and the title of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York (2002). He was an associate of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University (1987) and was elected Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London (1989). He served as an Assistant Professor in Anthropology (1994-1998) at the Department of Anthropology of Santa Catarina Federal University (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Brazil. He retired in 2011 from the Department of Modern Language and Communication at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. Besides publications in various journals, Dr. Luna is the author of *Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon* (1986), a co-author with Pablo Amaringo of *Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman* (1991), and co-author with Slawek Wojtowicz, Rick Strassman, and Ede Frecska of *Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies* (2008). He is also a co-editor with Steven White of *Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine* (2000, enlarged second edition 2016). Dr. Luna has lectured worldwide on indigenous and mestizo shamanism and has been a curator of visionary art exhibits in Europe, Latin America, the United States, and Japan. He is the Director of Wasiwaska, a Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art, and Consciousness in Florianópolis, Brazil (www.wasiwaska.org). Since June 2022, he has also been an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, England.
Renn Butler - Archetypal Astrologer for Individual Consultation
Ren Butler studied with Stanislav Grof and Richard Tarnas at the Esalen Institute in California, beginning in 1980, and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator in 1989. He offers workshops in British Columbia and abroad, as well as archetypal astrology consultations with clients around the world. Renn’s first book, Pathways to Wholeness, about astrology and psychedelic experiences, was published in 2014, followed by *The Archetypal Universe* in 2018, which focuses on dreams, and Oh, Goddess in 2020, about relationships. His nine-month online course in Archetypal and Holotropic Astrology has received enthusiastic reviews. Renn has a B.A. in English and Religious Studies and worked part-time as a healthcare worker with physically, mentally, and emotionally challenged adults for over thirty years. He lives in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Journal Publications: - “An Essential Map for the Inner Frontier: Review of Stan Grof’s Way of the Psychonaut,” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2019. - “Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art: Including the Visionary World of H.R. Giger,” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2016. - “H.R. Giger and the Zeitgeist of the Twentieth Century,” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2014.
Ps. Paulina Ulloa - Coordinator
Ps. Paulina Ulloa qualified as a clinical psychologist from Universidad del Pacífico in Santiago, Chile in 2012. She practices as a Transpersonal Psychotherapist with adults in her private practice in the United Kingdom. She is a Certified Grof® Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator with Grof Legacy Training, studying under Dr. Stanislav Grof and Ps. Javier Charme. Currently, she is finishing her third-year of training in Grof Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with GLT in Spain. She is also studying the Polyvagal Model and Integrative Focusing Therapy for treating trauma and addiction with the Polyvagal Institute, USA. Paulina’s primary interest, spanning 20 years, is the use of psychedelics for therapy and self-development, in both clinical and indigenous settings. She has spent extensive time in Peru, learning from indigenous practitioners, including in the Amazon with Shipibo-conibo shamans. She also worked as a therapist supporting clients in an Ayahuasca retreat centre in Huaraz. As part of her practice, she assists clients preparing for and integrating psychedelic experiences and dealing with spiritual emergencies.