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What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
The idea that psychedelics can be adapted to corporate, left-brained, data-driven, profit-seeking operating systems is folly.
Instead, it is us that must adapt to psychedelics, asking over and over again, “what model is actually most aligned to the values that are inherent in these medicines?”
Instead, it is us that must adapt to psychedelics, asking over and over again, “what model is actually most aligned to the values that are inherent in these medicines?”
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
This can be a frustratingly slow process.
Healing truly takes its own time - there is no rushing it, only assisting in it.
In practice, during a session this looks similar to what Somatic Experiencing would describe as “titration and pendulation” - moving back and forth between “control” and “letting go.”
Letting go 0.25% at a time, then noticing the... See more
Healing truly takes its own time - there is no rushing it, only assisting in it.
In practice, during a session this looks similar to what Somatic Experiencing would describe as “titration and pendulation” - moving back and forth between “control” and “letting go.”
Letting go 0.25% at a time, then noticing the... See more
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
rigidity to medical model (quick, clean fixes) can be detrimental in true healing
if there’s one key thing I learned from these years, it’s that the neurobiological legacy of trauma is driving everything.
Said another way, it’s the nervous system where my client had the disconnect.
They didn’t connect their lack of meaning in jobs, superficial relationships, or living in a concrete, EMF-bathed matrix with feeling malaise or lack... See more
Said another way, it’s the nervous system where my client had the disconnect.
They didn’t connect their lack of meaning in jobs, superficial relationships, or living in a concrete, EMF-bathed matrix with feeling malaise or lack... See more
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
The act of creating a physical anchor to somatically remind the client of the experience of wholeness that was contacted, and is essentially still present, even months or years after the experience - this is a key milestone in a client’s healing journey.
It demonstrates that enough work has been done to create safety in the nervous system, which in... See more
It demonstrates that enough work has been done to create safety in the nervous system, which in... See more
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
Because psychedelics are basically an end-of-the-world “technology-gift bundle”, they do not fit into a paradigm that is essentially still pretending that we can continue business as usual.
Startup culture cannot extricate itself from corporate values, no matter how whitewashed the outside is with clever branding.
Startup culture cannot extricate itself from corporate values, no matter how whitewashed the outside is with clever branding.
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
That’s why a much better fit for Stage 2 is MDMA, as in the right context, this medicine can act similarly to ketamine, in that it creates safety while also tending to “bring up” more from the subterranean “grief well” than ketamine usually can.
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
Integration is misunderstood. Most people don’t know what it really means.
It’s not just about mentalizing an experience.
The best integration is an embodied action, often simultaneously symbolic, communicating back to the unconscious that the message has been received, and is now being integrated.
That’s why I would always tell my client that... See more
It’s not just about mentalizing an experience.
The best integration is an embodied action, often simultaneously symbolic, communicating back to the unconscious that the message has been received, and is now being integrated.
That’s why I would always tell my client that... See more
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
All this must be titrated - again the job of the therapeutic container - to ensure that the nervous system of the individual does not become flooded - in effect, by truth.
Because we have a tendency to rush in our culture, there is a very real risk of getting to this stage and undoing all progress by rushing into material and feeling too much, too... See more
Because we have a tendency to rush in our culture, there is a very real risk of getting to this stage and undoing all progress by rushing into material and feeling too much, too... See more
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
gotta go slow to go “fast” (i.e. the most healing speed for one’s nervous system)
“Achieving” contact with the Soul via its language - symbol - is proof of a body beginning to regulate and become an integrated, habitable whole again.