Three retreat formats.One responsible framework.
Carefully developed formats for professionals, personal concerns, and research-oriented groups.
In cooperation with
Three formats
Choose the retreat format that matches your context
Our retreats don't follow a one-size-fits-all model. Each format is developed for a specific audience, with a clear focus and a carefully held structure.
Professional self-exploration · Peer-based format · English-language retreat
Practitioners Retreats
For people who hold space for others.
A retreat format for therapists, facilitators, clinicians, and other practitioners who work with people in altered states of consciousness, integration processes, or deep psychological work. The focus is not certification or performance. It's about embodied learning, peer-based practice, and the experience of being held by someone who understands the demands of this work.
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German-language · Personal development · Guided framework
Self-Exploration Retreats
For personal inner work within a responsible framework.
These retreats are for people who want to work with personal themes, biographical patterns, relationships, and inner processes. The focus is on preparation, guidance, integration, and a clear framework. The retreats are conducted in German, for participants who come not as professionals but with a personal concern.
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Research-oriented · Community-sensitive · Project-based
Research Retreats
For research, community, and carefully held group processes.
Research Retreats are developed around specific research questions, communities, or areas of interest. They can be created in collaboration with researchers, clinicians, cultural practitioners, or community partners. These retreats aren't standard programmes — they're developed project by project, with particular attention to ethics, context, documentation, and the people whose experiences are at the centre.
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Who we are
A network of medicine, psychotherapy, and research
Psychedelia Retreats is a programme of Novuni BV, developed in cooperation with the Psychedelia-Stiftung. We share one concern: destigmatising the public debate about psychedelics — factually, responsibly, and with openness to different perspectives.
Why we do this
We believe a nuanced, well-founded discourse about psychedelics is essential to understanding — and meaningfully using — their potential for individual and societal development. Altered states of consciousness aren't simple solutions to us; we see them as experiences to be taken seriously, requiring context, responsibility, and competent guidance.
That's why we create experiential spaces that neither simplify nor overstate: clearly structured, carefully guided, and embedded in preparation and integration. The people behind these formats have worked for many years at the intersections of medicine, ritual practice, and science.
Our network
Medicine
A medical perspective is built into the retreat design, from screening to medical safety standards. The network includes Sergio Pérez, a physician specialising in anaesthesiology, emergency, and intensive care medicine, co-founder of Germany's first clinic for psychedelic medicine, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa.
Psychotherapy
Preparation, guidance, and integration follow psychotherapeutic care. Experienced psychotherapists help hold the framework — before, during, and after the retreat.
Research
We work in exchange with science and ethnopharmacology, including with Markus Berger, ethnopharmacologist, author of nearly 40 books on ethnobotany, and editor-in-chief of "Lucy's Rausch".
The Psychedelia-Stiftung accompanies our work as a partner for education, research, and cultural dialogue. Responsibility for the framework and delivery of the retreats rests with Psychedelia Retreats.
Different formats. Shared standards.
The retreat formats differ, but the underlying standards stay the same. Across all formats, we work with careful preparation, appropriate screening, structured guidance, and integration after the retreat. We don't see altered states of consciousness as simple solutions. We see them as experiences to be taken seriously, requiring context, responsibility, and competent guidance.
Before the retreat
Preparation
A clear process before the retreat, so participants understand the framework, the expectations, and their own readiness.
During the retreat
Safety
Medical, psychological, relational, and legal considerations are built into the retreat design.
After the retreat
Integration
The work doesn't end with the retreat. Integration is part of the structure.
Across everything
Responsibility
Every format is developed with attention to ethics, culture, power dynamics, and the limits of a retreat.
Find the retreatformat that fits
Three formats · One framework
Each retreat format serves a distinct purpose. Find the one that matches your professional role, personal context, or research interest.
