Dr. Charfen now offers Psychedelic journeying and training with the legal use of ketamine during or as an add-on for the death doula trainings that she co-facilitates. These unique and one-of-a-kind trainings offer the opportunity for deep inner investigation into our most intimate relationship with life, death, nature, joy, grief and the Great Mystery.
Like most innovative and unconventional medical tools, it was Dr. Charfen’s terminal patients who introduced her to the concept and the research supporting psychedelic therapy to assist those suffering from significant fear and anxiety at the end of their lives.
Upcoming Death Doula Psychedelic Trainings
EOL Doula Psychedelic Training Hawaii
Training Details
Dr. Charfen will be offering an optional training in using Psychedelics for supporting death anxiety and existential distress for trainees attending the Inspired Endings EOL Doula Training on September 27-29, 2024. The legal use of Ketamine for a psychedelic journey will be available to 8 participants and will take place at the Fusion Medicine & Wellness center in Kapaau, HI. There is a fee of $695. In order to participate, a medical and psychological screening will need to be completed prior to being accepted into this portion of the training. You can find the screening health form here.
Date: September 30, 2024 9am-2pm
Location: Fusion Medicine & Wellness 54-3858 Akoni Pule Hwy Kapaau, HI 96755
Fee: $695 includes:
- Medical evaluation by Dr. Charfen
- Precourse preparation & education materials
- Precourse Zoom group preparation session: Sep 18, 2024 3:00 PM HST
- One IM (intramuscular) group medicine session
- One sitter session with assigned partner
- Post course Zoom group integration session Oct 9, 2024 3:00 PM
- Nutritious, grounding snacks and beverages
There will be two ketamine sessions on September 30th. Four sitters will hold space for the other four journeyers who are having the Ketamine experience. Then later in the day, the groups will switch. Each Ketamine session will last approximately 2 hours: one hour for the Ketamine experience itself and one hour for integration. Dr. ChaCha and other skilled practitioners will be providing support in these sessions.
Women's Death Doula & Psychedelic Retreat Florida
Training Details
Why combine death doula training and psychedelics?
Supported by Research
Psychedelics as a tool to support death anxiety is not a new concept as research dates back to the 1950s. However, it was not until 2016 that the Western medical system started to take notice, when two groundbreaking, randomized double-blind trials at world-renowned institutions (NYU and Johns Hopkins) demonstrated long-term, significant decreases in death anxiety and increases in quality of life for those with life-threatening illness.
An Emerging Field in EOL Care
Although in most states the classic psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD remain federally illegal outside of research studies, there is a growing field of palliative care practitioners who are providing this therapy in clinical practice. Their use of legal Ketamine and other psychedelics is showing promising benefits for people facing end-of-life, and their care groups,in dealing with significant stress, fear, and grief.
Ketamine is a Legal Psychedelic
Ketamine is best known as a dissociative anesthetic, with more than 50 years of history in known safety and use in the OR, ER and on the battlefield. Now, at much lower dosing and with the proper preparation and setting, it has been shown to induce psychedelic states. Its fast onset and short duration of action allows for deep journeys and is ideal in group settings, offering quick recovery unlike the classic psychedelics.
Death Doula Professional & Personal Growth
The role of a doula is to educate and support the dying and their loved ones. It is imperative that doulas understand and can explain to their clients all options available to them at the end-of-life in an informed and nonjudgmental way. Psychedelics are one of those supportive options that may be helpful or possibly harmful, depending on a person’s physical, mental or social condition. An effective doula needs to be able to speak to these factors.
There are many similarities in how we sit and support the dying and how we do the same for a person having a psychedelic journey. This is one reason why we offer the experience of sitting and receiving the medicine and potentially touching what our patients may be experiencing. For those doulas drawn to specializing in psychedelic sitting for the dying, this safe experiential process can be educationally transformative.
The Inspired Endings EOL Doula training is already a profound examination of our personal relationship to living and dying. After spending several intense days nestled safely together to explore our losses, loves, joys and grief, the group is primed for a psychedelic journey that can potentially deepen and expand our own personal growth in unexpected and ineffable possibilities.
To start the process to join a Psychedelic training, please complete the Ketamine Participant Heath Form.
