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APPROACH

Welcome to Mama Mycelia, where we facilitate response-able engagement with Entheogens (Psychedelics). Entheogens offer us profound initiatory experiences in an age where we have lost many of our vital rituals and rites of passage. Ingesting high doses of a psychoactive substance in isolation and without appropriate preparation of mind and body has limited value.

Bridging indigenous and modern wisdom, Mama Mycelia offers these medicines within a support system that facilitates an integrated experience of healing. We focus on the education, initiation and activation of the person. These take the form of multi-faceted containers for those seeking healing, re-alignment and guidance.

We as people are not designed to live, heal or grow in isolation. The Mama Mycelia healing pathways emulate this, reaping significant, sustainable benefits from the synergistic and interconnected wisdom of diverse Medicines.

Altered States of Consciousness as Accelerants & Amplifiers

Psychedelics and Empathogens offer a doorway into altered states of consciousness. These non-ordinary states offer opportunities for deep insight, understanding and access to our inherent capacity for self-healing and activation. For millennia, humans have explored and regularly used a variety of altered or trance states as a natural part of the rhythms and rituals of life. Whether induced through breathwork, meditation, dance, fasting, music, sex or psychoactive substances, journeying beyond the veil and into the unknown is deeply embedded in our collective memory.

Psilocybin, as with all entheogens, holds a unique consciousness with which we can engage, dialogue and learn from. The work of the Mushroom occurs in all layers of being, from the physical, mental and emotional, to the spiritual, karmic, ancestral, collective and galactic. The rational mind can only ever ‘understand’ or process limited aspects of these experiences, which are most often ineffable and mysterious. The Mushroom has the ability to clear deep karmic imprints and psychological patterns, cleaning out old wounds that have never healed. This process of purification and opening allows body, mind and soul to return to equilibrium. While often gentle, the Mushroom can also be deeply cathartic, releasing physically through tremors, shaking, tears, heat, cold, laughing, sound and more.

MDMA, known as an empathogen, is a significantly different state of consciousness to work with, compared to the classic psychedelics. It opens one to the experience of emotional communion, oneness, and relatedness. It facilitates the reduction of anxiety and conditioned fear/stress responses within the nervous system. This hyper-processing, empathic and courageous state enables one to process and clear traumatic memories or imprints within the body. As the body remembers and returns to its natural regulated state of safety and security, the mind can reconnect and come back into the somatic vessel of the body. As the Mind (Masculine) and the Body (Feminine) come into harmony, the child of the Heart can open once more.

MDMA is an incredibly powerful tool for clearing, opening and softening the armoring that accumulates from the pain and woundings of living a human life. It also assists to prepare one for the more multi-dimensional and powerful action of the psychedelic frequencies.

THE PATHWAYS

Each person’s healing journey is unique. While all our Pathways consist of specific baseline components, they are appropriately tailored to an individual’s needs and stage of healing. We work within 3 streams of EDUCATE, INITIATE & ACTIVATE.

EDUCATE - Returning Home. Heal & Seal the Vessel.

• Access supportive information, practices, frameworks and tools
• Trust the de-construction and de-conditioning
• Reclaim your intuition and inner compass
• Walk the compassionate path of coming to Know Thyself
• Offer devotion and patient practice

INITIATE - Aligning to Authenticity. Death & Rebirth.

• Surrender and release old ways of being
• Open to new paradigms of reality
• Befriend the shadows and nurse the wounds
• Repair boundaries and restore safety
• Return to your true form
• Reclaim your authentic expression

ACTIVATE - Seeding Sovereignty. Empowerment & Purpose.

• Live congruently in thought, word and action
• Speak your truth from embodied presence
• Remember your unique gifts and passionate purpose
• Delight in your Divine Design
• Reclaim your sovereignty as co-creator of our reality

INTEGRATE - Applying Knowledge. Bridge the Worlds.

Fundamental to every stage of the work is Integration. As unique as each pathway is per individual, so is their integration. Integration is the patient process and practice of applying the insights, new knowledge and fresh perspective, and in many ways a new body, into everyday life.

The pillars of Integration work are:

REST & DIGEST                   NURTURE in NATURE

EXPRESS & CREATE          TRIBE & SERVICE

PATHWAY OFFERINGS
We offer 3 streams of individual work with psychedelics. The selection of the pathway that is most suited or appropriate for you is based on the background information and history gathered in our first Discovery Call.

Psychedelic-assisted MDMA Therapy

This is a pathway designed to provide a gentle yet impactful entry into working therapeutically with the altered states of consciousness accessible through the medicines of MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms (microdose). This is a focused and enhanced therapy session in which challenging inner content or shadow-work can be navigated with more ease, less fear and an open heart and mind.

Returning Home Pathway (Low/med dose Journey)

This is a pathway designed to provide a gentle yet powerful entry into journeying with psilocybin and MDMA, allowing for deeper inner exploration while being held in a strong and safe container. This pathway is ideal for those who are beginning their exploration of psychedelic states, or who have heightened sensitivity, a dysregulated nervous system, or compound layers of trauma.

Initiation/Activation Pathway (Med/high dose Journey)

This is a pathway designed for deeper journey-work and is intended for those who have had some prior experience with psychedelics, or for those who are wishing to do intensive and focused work to shift mental, emotional, physical, psychological or ancestral conditioning and dis-ease. Conditions like long-term depression, anxiety, addiction or (C)PTSD benefit from the value of a longer process such as this.

OTHER OFFERINGS

Recovery & Integration Container - Residential Retreats (3-6 weeks)

We create tailored med-long-term, phased, containers designed as an alternative to traditional rehab clinics. They consist of a variety of holistic modalities and a small team of practitioners that are selected specifically to match the client’s needs and requirements. We include support, education and pattern-disruption not only for the individual throughout this process but also for their family and potentially broader community systems. An important focus for these containers is appropriately designed and implemented bridging phases after the initial residential phase, to ensure the best opportunity for change and transformation to be integrated and applied into daily life and the continual evolution of the self.

Psychedelic Preparation & Integration - Community Hub

We offer a selection of individual & group offerings in support of both preparation & integration. These include:
Nature Walks & Vigils, Meditation Groups, Councils & Circle Dialogue, Integration Process Sessions, Sound & Silence Integration Journeys, Breathwork, TREⓇ, Creative Process Integration Workshops, Movement & Dance Sessions, Depth Therapy Sessions, Dragon Dreaming Project Design

Group Sound & Medicine Journeys

We offer day-time, low-dose medicine journeys with live sound, providing a safe, deep container for those wishing to experience a gentle entry into this type of work.

Urban Apothecary - Supplements & Microdosing

We offer a range of microdosing options as well as an apothecary of functional and medicinal supplements and gummies.

ABOUT THE FOUNDERS

Megan Hardy: Megan is a teacher, therapist, and guide who draws on a diversity of modalities and bodies of wisdom to support people through transition and transformation thresholds. Equipped with a multidimensional and multifaceted toolbox, she has a unique skill in mapping dis-ease and imbalance as manifested in one's pathologies, illnesses and addictions onto a tailored pathway of purification, deconstruction and reconfiguration. She compassionately and skillfully guides the therapeutic process, while equipping clients with the appropriate tools for self-regulation, self-reflection and congruent self navigation. She is a steady and wise companion to those who are called to walk the courageous journey of cyclic deconditioning and return to the authentic self. Megan is co-founder, pathway coordinator, core facilitator teacher and Mama Node of Mama Mycelia.

Kate Ferguson: Kate is a socio-cultural anthropologist and multi-disciplinary practitioner who channels her deep love and understanding of humanity into the work of social innovation, peacebuilding, holistic healing and radical re-imagination. After a decade of experience with psychedelics, Kate holds a steady energy of presence with clients, deep witnessing, checking in with what they might need, and giving them opportunities to lead their own process. Kate facilitates further personal growth for clients’ psychedelic regeneration with Dragon Dreaming Project Design, where clients bring their life-giving projects into the world. She is co-founder, ecosystem custodian and core facilitator of Mama Mycelia.