In this episode, Natasja Pelgrom the host of The Awaken Podcast is interviewed by Beth Weinstein from the Psychedelic Entrepreneur Podcast, tune is as they speak about…
- Natasja’s attraction to energy work, shamanism, meditation, and psychedelics at a young age
- How “Do no harm” should be a central tenet of all psychedelic facilitation work
- The huge responsibility you have as a facilitator is to hold sacred the trust you are offered by the people you serve
- Serious issues that can arise when people wanting to work with psychedelics don’t report contraindications and how this can negatively impact them, their facilitator, and the whole psychedelic ecosystem
- The growing problem of people doing short facilitator training and immediately jumping into facilitation long before they have the knowledge and experience to do so
- The energetic differences between male and female facilitation styles
- “Cleaning” the system to help prepare people for a bufo experience so their innate healing capacity can be more easily activated
- How the cleaner you are, the more you trust, and the more you trust, the more deeply you can surrender
- Using a smaller “integration dose” after the main dose/s to empower and bring resilience to the psyche and nervous system
- How giving super high doses of medicine can be a sign that a facilitator feels they are “not enough”, which is picked up energetically by the client/s
- The need for facilitators to be able to understand their own programming and hold space without their own issues interfering
Natasja Pelgrom is a visionary leader and mystical mentor, she is the host of The Awaken Podcast and the founder of Awaken The Medicine Within, retreats and programs that support people with psycho-spiritual approaches since 2017. Natasja is a highly intuitive guide and has held training, assisting, and facilitation roles in over 800 psychedelic ceremonies. Natasja was a founding member of the Synthesis Institute and the director of the psilocybin-assisted Wellness retreats. As a key curator of retreat programs, she oversaw the retreat team development and training. She currently advises and supervises executives in the (psychedelic) wellness industry. Natasja is also a mentor to leaders, coaches, therapists, and/or space holders, where she focuses on the mind, and heart coherence to prosper in their Self-leadership. Natasja’s multifaceted mentorship approach is paired with 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience
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