Cultivating Joy: An Experiential AEDP, Ketamine, and Mindfulness Retreat and Training For Professionals

Thursday October 23 to Sunday October 26, 2025

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This immersive experiential retreat and training is designed for professionals seeking deep healing, renewal, and transformation through the integration of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), ketamine-assisted work, and mindfulness. Primarily, this is a participant retreat; secondarily, it is a training opportunity. Participation offers valuable learning experiences. Pre and post zoom classes will be offered for didactic learning.

What is AEDP?

Developed by Diana Fosha, PhD, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a healing-centered, attachment-based therapy that integrates neuroscience, affective neurobiology, and transformational theory to support deep emotional processing. AEDP is based on the understanding that healing happens through relationship and the co-regulation of emotions in safe, attuned connections.

Grounded in the latest neuroscience research, AEDP harnesses neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to rewire itself through experience. The therapy focuses on undoing aloneness, activating core affect, and harnessing positive neuroplasticity to rework painful emotional states into experiences of safety, connection, and integration. AEDP’s four-state model maps out the process of emotional transformation:

1. Defense & Resistance: Protecting against emotional pain.
2. Accessing Core Emotions: Tapping into deep feelings stored in the nervous system.
3. Transformational Processing: Allowing healing waves of emotion to integrate the experience.
4. The Emergence of the Authentic Self: A deep sense of joy, connection, and wholeness.

This retreat is both a personal healing experience and a professional training opportunity, offering a unique approach to blending AEDP principles, ketamine work, and mindfulness practices.

What You’ll Experience:

• AEDP-Informed Healing: Learn to tap into the innate capacity for transformation, embracing emotions as pathways to deeper connection and vitality.
• Ketamine Sessions: Three optional dosing sessions with SL Ketamine. Supported by experienced facilitators, participants explore expanded states of consciousness, uncovering insights, and releasing barriers to joy.
• Mindfulness & Somatic Awareness: Develop present-moment awareness, learning to attune to your body, heart, and mind with compassion and curiosity.
• Relational Practices: Engage in guided dialogues and practices to co-regulate, connect, and deepen emotional resilience.
• Community & Reflection: Share space with like-minded professionals, exploring how to integrate these transformative experiences into your personal and professional life.

Pre and Post Retreat Learning

This experiential training includes pre- and post-retreat Zoom meetings to deepen understanding of AEDP, ketamine, and mindfulness through didactic learning, case discussions, and integration support.

The Neuroscience of Joy and Transformation

AEDP, ketamine, and mindfulness all work by engaging neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to reorganize itself in response to new experiences. Research shows that deep emotional connection, safety, and presence can shift implicit memories stored in the nervous system, creating new pathways for resilience and joy.

Who is This For?

This retreat is open to clinicians, healers, and helping professionals who want to experience their own deep healing while cultivating tools to bring back to their work.

Come As You Are

Joy is your birthright—not a luxury, but a way of being that can be reclaimed. Come sit with us, breathe, and rediscover the aliveness, awe, and tenderness that have always been within you.

Call Jayne Gumpel 914 924 1509 for more information.

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Tuition $2500. Plus housing and medical interview. Pre and post retreat zoom classes are included in the tuition.

Partial scholarships offered, please reach out to Jayne Gumpel 914 924 1509 for more information.

Program Tuition Cancellation policy : Credit towards another retreat if cancellation is 45 days prior to the retreat minus a $500 fee.

*Housing cancellation policy listed on Menla’s booking page.