In this week's podcast Tim Cools speaks with Marta Kaczmarczyk, a wellbeing and health optimization consultant and the founder of the psychedelic society of the Netherlands.

Topics:
- Marta's Background
- The nervous system
- Burnout, stress and other imbalances of the nervous system
- Somatic therapies
- Psychedelics and the nervous system
- Biohacking
 
About Marta Kaczmarczyk
Marta is a wellbeing and health optimization consultant living in the Netherlands. She bases her methods in systems theory – if you face any difficulties in your life, you need to look at them holistically, there is no isolated cause for any problem.
She helps people to rewire their brain towards a positive outlook on the future and get you out of the survival mode. She has a rich portfolio that equips her for this type of work: MSc in Cognitive Science, Post-MSc and academic research on persuasion techniques for healthcare and wellbeing, two years of guiding psilocybin truffles one-on-one sessions, co-creation of the first longevity clinic in Europe, half a year of work as an assistant facilitator at one of the most prominent legal psychedelic retreats in the world, and more...

Links:
http://embodyingthemind.com/
https://www.instagram.com/embodying_the_mind/

About Tim Cools
Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

Links:
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/

In this week's podcast Tim Cools speaks with Erica Siegal, psychedelic researcher, clinician and psychotherapist and founder of NEST, about making psychedelic care accessible, and practicing harm reduction and creating support communities in the psychedelic space.

Topics:

• Erica's Background
• Promoting Harm-Reduction with Psychedelics
• What it is like to be part of a safety team at a festival
• Supporting Others' Psychological Needs and Supporting Integration Process
• The Current Faults in the Psychedelic Renaissance and the Importance of Community
• The Importance of After-care Support
• The Challenges in Psychedelic Care Work
• Warning Signs for the Formation of Psychedelic Cults
• Avoiding Economical Hierarchy and Power Dynamics in the Psychedelic World
• The Ethical Boundaries in Psychedelic Therapy
• How to Take Care of Yourself as a Psychedelic Care Worker

About Erica Siegal
Erica Siegal specializes in trauma-informed therapy, anxiety management, compassion fatigue/professional burnout in first responders and caregivers, and the integration of non-ordinary states.  She completed the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Training program in 2018 and has spent several years working as a psychotherapist on the FDA-approved MDMA-assisted psychotherapy clinical trials. 

Erica has provided crisis mental health, harm reduction outreach and community support to over 30 transformational festivals and large-scale events since 2013.  This work has given her unique perspective and expertise in extreme psychological distress, substance-induced altered states of consciousness, poly-substance use and addiction.  She has collaborated on multi-disciplinary emergency response teams, trained first responders in emotional resilience and provided integration and support after traumatic events.  

In 2019, Erica founded a harm reduction focused practice, NEST, to provide compassionate and comprehensive trauma-informed services to individuals, groups and communities, specifically oriented toward first responders and care professionals.  NEST provides telehealth psychotherapy, harm reduction education, event support services, and psychedelic integration.  

Erica takes a humanistic, harm reduction approach to her work, helping her clients foster a sense of self determination to improve their overall sense of wellbeing.  Utilizing mindfulness techniques, somatic awareness and compassion practices into the integration process can help to make deeper meaning of the ketamine-assisted sessions. 

Links:
https://linktr.ee/NESTharmreduction
https://www.instagram.com/psychedelicsocialwork

About Tim Cools
Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

Links:
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/

In this week's podcast Tim Cools speaks with Jessika Lagarde, psychedelic-assisted guide, integration coach, freelance writer and co-founder of Women on Psychedelics, about liberating and de-stigmatizing women in the psychedelics discourse.

• Jessika's Background
• Empowering Women in the Psychedelic Space
• Opening the discussion about Womens' bodies and minds
• Avoiding Spiritual Bypass When Working with Medicine
• Working with Psychedelics in Tolerant Environments
• Integrating Different Perspectives for Promoting Acceptance and Inclusiveness in the Psychedelic Space
• Harm Reduction with Psychedelics
• Women on Psychedelics

About Jessika Lagarde

Jessika Lagarde is a psychedelic-assisted medicine guide, integration coach, Women On Psychedelics co-founder, and freelance writer in the psychedelic space. Since 2020, she has been behind WOOP's content production, where her passions for storytelling, women's empowerment, and psychoactive substances converge. Jess' goal as an advocate for psychedelics is to work towards the normalization of these substances and the end of the stigmatization of women’s mental health and women’s drug use.

Links
www.womenonpsychedelics.org
www.instagram.com/womenonpsychedelics
www.instagram.com/theglobalpaths

About Tim Cools

Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

Links:
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.cools

In this week's episode, Tim Cools speaks with Victoria Rose, pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, about working with plant medicines and allowing them to teach us how to tune into our reality and create a deeper relationship with our world by connecting with our primal self.

• Victoria's Background
• Pre- and perinatal psychology
• Experiencing our (re-)birth through a ceremony
• Ayahuasca introduces us to the world of plants
• Master Plants
• The Different Kinds of Dietas
• Forming New Relationships With Our World

Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and Ayahuasca preparation and integration guide. She has apprenticed extensively with elder and birth pioneer Barbara Essman, founder and director of The Sacred Birthing School on Kaua’i Hawaii - with whom she’s completed several trainings and certifications in conscious conception, pregnancy and birth, birthing the next generations, and conscious death and dying.

She provides birth preparation and education that equips couples to conceive, grow, and birth their babies in love and sovereignty and navigate the modern industries and structures that so often oppose natures intelligent design.

Victoria guides adults back to transcribe the living memories of their own birth and pre-birth, conception and pre- conception experiences, in order to reclaim the energetic excellence of their own true essence, remember their power and purpose, and revitalize their health, life, work, and relationships. She believes this is the work of our time: coming back into right-relationship with nature, and consciously engaging as active participants in our lives; she says this is the most optimal way one can prepare themselves for any kind of journey involving non-ordinary states.

Links:
Website: https://luminousbirth.earth
IG: @luminousbirth
Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings
Email address: birthingluminousbeings@gmail.com
Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre:https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center
Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com
APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.com

About Tim Cools

Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

Links:

https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.cools

In this week's podcast Tim Cools speaks with Bima Inuma Pezo, a Shipibo curandero and visionary artist, about stories from his life and his journey with ayahuasca and other medicinal plants. There are english subtitles in the YouTube video, see links at the bottom.

• Bima's Journey with Ayahuasca
• Communicating and Working with Different Plants
• The Revival of Ayahuasca Culture
• How to Guide Plant Experience Facilitators 
• Recommendations for the Use of Ayahuasca
• Tobacco and Cacao
• How To Give Back to Shipibo Culture
• What It's Like Visiting Peru
• Ancient Shipibo Story
• An Icaro

About Bima Inuma Pezo

Bima is a traditionally trained Shipibo curandero & visionary artist - expertly translating the visions from his deep connection to the plants & spirits through Ayahuasca into his paintings. He has worked with various Maestros and has been leading ceremonies in the well-renowned healing center ‘Nimea Kaya’ in Amazonian Peru.   

About Tim Cools

Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values.

Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide.

He is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Tools Of Awareness, a personal development center focussed on combining psychedelics and mindfulness to grow personal and interpersonal awareness though (online) courses and retreats.

Furthermore, he founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities.

His personal interests are technology, meditation, metaphysical and eastern philosophies, shamanism and the healing power of nature and plants.

Links:
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.cools
https://youtu.be/BeRF6YuujI8

In this week's podcast, Tim Cools speaks with Jakobien van der Weijden, psychedelic guide, microdosing educator & coach and co-founder of the Microdosing Institute, about the potentials and challenges of microdosing and discovering how to integrate it into our lives.

- Jacobien's Background
- Promoting both academic science and citizen science in the psychedelics and microdosing domain
- Why people chose to microdose
- Tips for improving the microdosing experience
- Microdosing alone is not a magical cure
- Combining microdosing with other healing practices
- Challenges in developing scientific aspects of microdosing
- Understanding the role of the placebo effect
- Microdosing and macrodosing
- Evolving health paradigms through research
- Fostering communities for sharing and learning about the psychedelic experience
- World Microdosing Day

About Jakobien van der Weijden

Jakobien van der Weijden is a Certified Holistic Coach, psychedelic guide, and microdosing educator & coach. She has been in service of the psychedelic renaissance since 2003; thoroughly studying entheogenic plants, promoting psychedelic research, and studying the many modalities that support safe and effective psychedelic therapy. She has been attending plant medicine ceremonies from different traditions since 2008 and continues to deepen her understanding of psychedelics and the human psyche ever since. 

In previous roles at organizations such as OPEN Foundation, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, Synthesis Institute, and now at the International Microdosing Association, she developed close relations with scientists, therapists, and knowledgeable facilitators across the planet.

Links
https://www.holisticworks.nl/
https://www.instagram.com/jakobienvdw/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobien/
https://linktr.ee/jakobienvdw

About Tim Cools

Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values. Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide. He founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities. His personal interests are technology, meditation, metaphysical and eastern philosophies, shamanism and the healing power of nature and plants.

Links
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.cools
https://timcools.net/

In this week's podcast, Tim Cools speaks with Yannick Jacob, existential coach, about the role of existential coaching and integration with the psychedelic space.

Topics:
-The differences between the coaching and psychedelics background
-Is coaching always helpful?
-Integration on different levels
-Creating answers for yourself may be more helpful than expecting them from others
-Bringing analysis into more abstract processes
-Existential coaching as grounded in human lived experience
-No-one can understand your own psychedelic experience in its entirety
-Expertise does not presume an ethical approach to coaching and psychedelics
-Revealing the shadow with psychedelics, therapy and coaching
-Yannick's Background
-Coaching is contextual to the culture it takes place in
-Coaching is not one-size-fits-all solution
-Trying to engage with perspectives that are larger than your own
-Coaching is a responsibility, how much of it should guide the psychedelic experience?
-Yannick's coaching circles

Yannick Jacob
Yannick Jacob is an Existential Coach (MA), Positive Psychologist (MSc), Coach Trainer,  and Coaching Supervisor passionate about taking conversations about coaching & psychedelics overground. He’s the Course Director of the ACIC at the School of Positive Transformation, for which he’s gathered many of the world’s most influential coaches, and he’s the former Programme Leader of the MSc Coaching Psychology at the University of East London. Yannick is part of the teaching faculties at Animas Centre for Coaching and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision, and he founded the Interest Group Coaching & Psychedelics. Yannick is the host of the Talking about Coaching & Psychedelics podcast as well as the founder and lead facilitator at Yannick’s Coaching Lab. Yannick loves to help his clients explore big questions, integrate challenging experiences, as well as successfully and meaningfully navigate their lives and careers. Yannick presents at conferences internationally and his book, An Introduction to Existential Coaching, was published by Routledge, the world’s leading academic publisher. You can learn more about Yannick’s psychedelics work at www.existential.coach/psychedeliccoaching and coaches looking for a supervisor can learn more at www.RocketSupervision.com.

Tim Cools
Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values. Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide. He founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities. His personal interests are technology, meditation, metaphysical and eastern philosophies, shamanism and the healing power of nature and plants.

Links
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/

This week, Tim Cools speaks with Daniel Shankin, integration coach, about about the process of coaching, guiding and using psychedelics and ancient wisdom to support individual paths to enlightenment.

-Daniel's Background
-Using psychedelics and altered states to connect to ourselves
-Combining psychedelics with the spiritual path
-Psychedelics as initiators and accelerators
-Combining meditation and psychedelic medicine
-Using ancient wisdom and practices in the modern age
-The important of community and teachers
-The importance of ethics in reaching purpose/meaning
-The Challenges in Coaching and Guiding
-Daniel’s events and integration coaching

About Daniel

As a psychedelic integration coach, Daniel serves people with emerging spiritual visions as they find ways to weave their new-found truths into their lives in a way that is sustainable, harmonious, compassionate and wise. He has worked people from all walks of life and is grateful to have been able to work with a diverse clientele. His methods are fiercely practical while maintaining space for mystery and magic to emerge. He offers time tested and scientifically backed tools so clients can create a life for themselves that is aligned with their deeper values and manifests measurable results that matter.

As the founder and director of Tam Integration, he’s committed to offering radically accessible and inclusive support and education for people who are wanting to transform, heal, and grow. Tam’s integration circles and online conferences enjoy a world wide audience and much critical acclaim.

He and his wife live in a tiny town in New England where they forage for mushrooms and throw rocks into creeks with their toddler.

Links
https://tamintegration.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tamintegration/
https://www.facebook.com/tamintegration
https://twitter.com/notifications
https://www.youtube.com/c/TamIntegration
Daniel's Article: https://tamintegration.com/2018/11/safety-guidelines-for-guides-psychedelic-integration-practitioners-and-other-people-with-privilege/
Integration Jam: https://2022.integrationjam.com/

About Tim Cools

Tim is a psychedelic integration specialist and legal psychedelic guide. He facilitates powerful, life-changing experiences for professionals, to help their professional lives come in alignment with personal ambition and values. Tim is a Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, a certified coach, and psychedelic advocate, educator and guide. He founded Psychedelic Experience, an online non-profit platform for information surrounding psychedelic substances. It's a community based non-profit organization, created by and for psychedelic and plant medicine communities. His personal interests are technology, meditation, metaphysical and eastern philosophies, shamanism and the healing power of nature and plants.

Links
https://psychedelicexperience.net/
https://timcools.net/
https://www.instagram.com/tim_cools_net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcools/
https://www.facebook.com/tim.cools