Read STAT News article by Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis on the growing political embrace of psychedelics (link in bio).
As access expands, it’s worth remembering:
Psychedelics don’t work in isolation.
The strongest predictors of recovery remain the least glamorous ones:
relationships, stability, and what researchers call recovery capital.
If we frame these compounds as solutions while disinvesting in the conditions that make healing possible, we risk turning medicine into a kind of repair shop for problems we continue to produce.
Psychedelics may open something.
But what holds it?
Our second offering this Spring is a 4-day Harm Reduction Psychotherpay workshop with 2 group ketamine sessions, for those working in behavioral health, led by the creator of Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherpay, Dr. Andrew Tatarsky. @andrewtatarsky
Dr. Tatarsky will not only take a deep dive into all aspects of IHRP at this ground-breaking workshop, he will also help participants explore their own relationships with addictive behaviors and their transferential experiences working with clients engaged in dangerous habitual behaviors. Tatarsky’s teachings will be combined with Cardea’s own Lascaux method of ketamine-assisted care—a form of preparation and space holding that uses dialogic method and live sound during sessions, that matches a harm-reduction ethos and aims to assist participants with creative reflection about their own work and their personal experience with psychological suffering.
To learn more and reserve your spot head to the link in bio 🔗
Home is where the art is.
If you’ve been to Cardea space over the last two years, or joined us for a group ketamine session, you know that every group process began with an improvisational creative process of painting a mural. Those murals slowly filled our empty walls, and overtime our walls became murals in themselves, emulating modern day cave-drawing caverns.
To commemorate our space in its final days, we gathered with friends and family in one final ceremony together, based on our founding principle – that our drive to create and our drive to expand are one in the same. So what did we do? We created one last time at our 511 Canal St hub.
Together we tore down all 52 murals, ripped them up, and used the pieces to create something new. A final representation of all the unique souls who traveled through our space. Cardea team took to the streets of NYC with the creations. We picked out six meaningful locations that influenced each of us in our own ways, and in a our final rebelious act, we wheat-pasted pieces of the work to leave our mark on the city that made us who we are. We hope our message and the magic we co-created at 511 Canal ripples out into the city and continues to live on.
No space, no problem! The spirit of Cardea remains strong and we are collaborating with trusted partners to host two upcoming ketamine retreats and workshops this spring, and will be announcing more individual and group session offerings, trainings, and still accepting Furthur Fund applications.
Link in bio to learn more!
Cardea is teaming up with @mindbodpod co-host and meditation coach @tashatheamazon for a special weekend retreat in NYC - Ketamine, Meditation, Healing: 3 Day Therapeutic Journey for Mind, Body, and Soul.
With a unique blend of ketamine treatment, integrative meditation, and creativity, this retreat offers a profound opportunity to explore the mind’s potential in a supportive space.
We explore the principle of meditation, both how they can support psychedelic immersion, and how they underlie the integration process and keep us open to learning, healing and understanding.
Together, we’ll help you break through personal limitations, obstructive psychological barriers, and access the deepest layers of your awareness, as you reconnect with your most authentic, vibrant self.
Space is limited to 15 participants.
Learn more and reserve your spot with the link in bio 🔗
#ketamineretreatnyc #ketaminehealing #meditation #meditationretreat #meditationretreatnyc #cardeaspace #mindbodadventure #mindbodadventurepod
GOOD ANGELS OF @willtrademoneyforfollowers Dan Piepenbring, author & journalist, currently writing a book on dissociative drugs, bringing us the many lives of PCP (Phencyclidine) otherwise known as Angel Dust, and contemplates the widely different course its taken from Ketamine, despite their molecular similarities.
With a mixture of gratitude, reflection, sadness, excitement, and more we announce that Cardea’s physical space at 511 Canal Street will be closing its mycelium shutters and doors on December 1st. This decision marks a pivotal moment for our organization – one that holds both a sense of transition and an opportunity for reimagining the future of Cardea.
Since we opened exactly two years ago, we have had the honor of supporting over a thousand individual ketamine sessions, and facilitating 52 group therapy sessions. Most significantly, we launched our non-profit, The Furthur Fund, which expanded access to ketamine therapy for frontline and service-oriented workers in NYC. Through this initiative, we’ve offered over 1,200 hours of free ketamine care to those who need it most. We hosted 33 community events here that brought people together to learn, reflect, and connect. These numbers are a testament to the powerful work that has been done here and the lives that have been touched.
The Canal St. location has been a hub for innovative forms of healing, growth, and connection, all based on our founding principles – that our drive to create and our drive to expand are one in the same, and that all transformation happens in an improvisational dialogue. In services of all that, we wanted a physical space to be designed as the opposite of a clinical setting – something that resisted the way such spaces move people on a conveyor belt of waiting rooms, exam rooms, check out stations and so on. And we wanted something that reflected our ethos; an improvisational climate that reached a sense of home, that balanced an invitation to be curious, with experiences of continuity and trust. We were, and are, so unbelievably lucky to have the artist and designer, Randy Polumbo as a founding partner at Cardea. His creations in the design and manufacturing of the Canal St. interior ingeniously capturing this vision. People didn’t enter a clinic when they came to Cardea; they entered into a giant sculptural form, a brilliantly attuned work of art that held them, giving the right space to contemplate the always artistic work of making a better life.
Our final Salon Series of the season! Join us as we gather in our mycelium-clad Canal Street nook and engage in thoughtful and intimate conversations guided by two authors and experts in their respective fields. New updates and additions below! Don’t miss the last two events of the year!
Monday - Nov. 18: Dan Piepenbring - “PCP… ketamine’s forgotten cousin” @willtrademoneyforfollowers 💊
Thursday - Nov. 21: Eugenia Bone - “Have A Good Trip” @eugeniagbone 🍄
Link in BIO to RSVP. Limited spots! All tickets are donation based and support free ketamine scholarships through the @the_furthur_fund
Just Announced!! New addition to our Fall Salon Series coming up next Tuesday Nov 12 at 7pm…. Dr. Carl Hart!
@carlhart Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world’s preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a researcher and professor, husband, father, and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use–not drugs themselves–have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country’s enduring structural racism.
TICKETS IN BIO!
Limited space and will sell out fast.
#cardeaspace #psychedelics #psychology #decriminalize #carlhart
Aging is inevitable. Society has forced narratives upon us that make this an unfavorable truth. But in reality, people are happiest at the beginning and the ends of their lives. The vast majority of Americans over 65 live independently. Older people enjoy better mental health than the young or middle aged. The older we get, the less afraid we are of dying.
Why don’t more people know these things?
Because of agism - internalized and in the culture at large - obscured all but the negative aspects of life after 65. The personal and social consequences are disastrous. In the 20th century, powerful movements emerged to challenge racism and sexism. It’s high time to mobilize against discrimination and stereotyping on the basis of age.
-Ashton Applewhite @thischairrocks
This episode with @rossellenhorn of @cardea_space with @melaniecurtis11 is 🤯 SO GOOD. This clip about “integration.” We dive deep into the craft of holding space, into play and creativity as critical components of any healing space, and some of his strong views on psych-delic healing that are divergent from some of the current accepted narratives in the space. Ross has a multi-decade career in psychotherapy and helping others on their human journeys. Join us and please share below what resonates the most. #holdingspace #cardea @trustthejourney.today
Cardea transforms psychedelic-assisted therapy into an art form in NYC. Our psychedelic-assisted therapy is a unique blend of expert holding, sound, art and dialogue, all while connected to community. Join our upcoming group sessions this October…
• Sunday, October 6th, 12pm – 3pm
• Sunday, October 13th, 12pm – 3pm
• Wednesday, October 16th, 6 – 9pm
• Saturday, October 26th, 12pm – 3pm
Book free consultation through link in bio!
#spaceholder #psychedelichealing #community-healing #cardeaspace #ketamineassistedtherapy #ketamineassistedpsychotherapy #ketaminehealing #humantransformation #humanchange #psychotherapy #opendialogue #dialogic #therapynyc #nyctherapy
Join Cardea Co-Founders Ross Ellenhorn & Dimitri Mugianis @dimitrimugianis and friends for a 3 day ketamine assisted therapeutic weekend retreat!
We aim to help people reach goals of healing, recovering and expansion by taking a deep dive into serious play, seeing where it already plays in their lives and finding those places where they want it to play a bigger part. Believing that a state of play is the root of psychological transformation, and that psychological suffering is often caused by a lack of play in our lives, we also play a lot in a serious manner, bringing in artists, dancers and musicians to help us reach our own states of play.
DATE: November 8-10
COST: $1,500
INCLUDES: 2 group ketamine session facilitated with live sound, medical evaluation, and playful workshops including movement, improvisation, and creative expression
NEXT STEPS: book a free consult with link in bio
#ketamineretreat #ketaminenyc #playworkshop #nycretreats
