Trauma-informed Online Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Circle
Psychedelic Sharing Circles
Sharing circles create a sacred and precious container, where you can process profound experiences through collective witnessing and authentic expression. These communal spaces validate transformative journeys while providing diverse perspectives to enrich the individual insights from non-ordinary states of consciousness.
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‘In a circle of trust, we find safe space to nurture personal and communal integrity – and the courage it takes to act upon it.
Parker.J.Palmer
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‘The circle is a sacred symbol of life…individual parts within the circle connect with every other; and what happens to one, or what one part does, affects all within the circle.’
Black Elk (Oglala Lakota spiritual elder)
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‘A circle creates a sacred centre and all those gathered around the centre have direct access to one another. There’s no hiding, no pecking order.’
Christina Baldwin
Trauma Informed Circles
TOPIC facilitators understand trauma’s physiological and psychological impacts, enabling us to navigate triggering moments with you, regulate group dynamics, and foster resilience through collective witnessing. If you have a difficult experience within our circle, we want to know about it. We intend to create a safe and enjoyable experience for you.
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Many of us carry invisible wounds that shape our experiences, responses, and ability to engage. By creating an environment prioritising safety, transparency, and choice, we hope to establish the foundations for authentic communication.
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Where more traditional group approaches may inadvertently retraumatise us through rigid structures or confrontational methods, trauma-informed groups invite insight, healing and repair to happen in relationship and at a pace determined by each person’s nervous system capacity.
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We believe trauma-informed communication doesn’t only prevent harm, but models a new paradigm where vulnerability becomes strength and where each person’s experience is honoured as both deeply personal and inherently connected to the collective process of further understanding ourselves and our environment.
What is Welcome at TOPIC
Please bring your authentic self and your experiences. All of you is welcome.
​Our circle holds space equally for challenging encounters with fear, grief, or existential questions alongside experiences of ecstatic joy, creative inspiration, or spiritual communion.
TOPIC welcomes the full spectrum of expanded state experiences, without hierarchy or judgement. You may share profound mystical encounters, therapeutic breakthroughs, emotional releases, recovered memories, or reconciliations with shadow.
Some circle members might explore somatic experiences where insights emerged through physical sensations, spontaneous movements, or energy flows which bypassed their cognitive processing.
Sometimes people share visionary journeys filled with symbolic imagery, ancestral connections, entity encounters, and interdimensional travel. These experiences stand alongside subtle shifts in perception or moments of ordinary beauty.
What matters most isn't the content or intensity of the experience, but the rare and precious opportunity to weave these diverse threads into meaningful narratives within an intentional community.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ You might even discover you have more in common with people than you imagined!
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
The training and experience that brought all of us facilitators here.
All of us facilitators at TOPIC are different, with myriad approaches, techniques and philosophies underpinning our longstanding professional work, but we are all trained in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT). PAT combines carefully administered psychedelic substances or Holotropic Breathwork with professional therapeutic support to catalyse profound healing processes.
Within a carefully designed container of preparation, facilitated sessions, and integration work, breathwork protocols and substances like MDMA, psilocybin, or ketamine may temporarily disrupt rigid neural patterns, allowing participants to access and process difficult emotions, memories, or insights that remain inaccessible during ordinary consciousness.
Unlike recreational use, this clinical approach employs specific protocols where trained practitioners guide participants through their experiences, helping them navigate challenging material and integrate meaningful revelations into lasting change.
This treatment paradigm has shown remarkable promise for conditions including treatment-resistant depression, Anorexia, PTSD, end-of-life anxiety, and addiction, offering new pathways for healing where conventional approaches have proven insufficient.
Who You Might Be
You may be a mental health professional, a seasoned ‘psychonaut’, someone setting out on a journey of self discovery, or you may have taken part in a psychedelic clinical trial and need more time to process your experience. Inexperienced, highly experienced, in-between, sceptical, evangelical, just don’t know…. You are welcome at TOPIC.
Testimonials
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