Psilocybin group session for people living with cancer
Psilocybin group session for people living with cancer
Eerste Laurierdwarsstraat 2, 1016 NN Amsterdam, Netherlands
Up to 8 in group
Jan 28, 2027
Retreat Highlights
- Psilocybin program for people living with cancer
- Emphasis on safety, ethics, and clinical integrity
- In-depth preparation sessions
- Supported psilocybin group experience
- Structured integration sessions
- Calm, carefully chosen therapeutic setting
- Individualized and confidential care
- Focus on sustainable, embodied change
About this Retreat
Hello, I'm Evelien. I bridge medicine and spirituality, to rediscover the deeper meaning of health. In other words what it means to be alive.
From a young age I am curious about ways to relieve human suffering. This led me into the world of anesthesiology and pain medicine. Starting my career at the far end of life, treating life-threatening illnesses, taught me that health is far more than the absence of disease.
Over time, this path opened into a wider exploration of what it means to live fully. Alongside my medical training, I immersed myself in yoga, breathwork, psychedelics, and shamanic practices. These experiences opened my heart to the wholeness of life.
I'd love to get to know you, and explore health in the broadest sense together.
I am an ACT therapist with a master’s degree in sociology, working at the intersection of behavioral therapy, somatic awareness and psychedelic-assisted healing. My background includes somatic practices, neo-tantra and non-violent communication.
As a guide, I am here to serve: to support your inner knowing, sit with you in discomfort, and hold space for what is often avoided. Together with Evelien Hekkelman—anesthesiologist and psychedelic therapist—I co-run a practice in Amsterdam where we combine therapy with psilocybin-assisted sessions using truffles.
I support people in reconnecting with their bodies, restoring their life force, and deepening alignment with their values, relationships and sense of meaning.
Details of this retreat
A cancer diagnosis can take the ground from under your feet. We offer a small, closed group for people living with cancer: in treatment, after treatment, or living with it long term. Together we prepare, experience a one-day psilocybin session, and take time afterwards to make sense of what came up. A place to look at fear, uncertainty and what matters now, with others who know what that’s like.
The full program:
- Individual intake and medical screening (online or in person in Amsterdam)
- Group preparation session January 14th 2027 (online)
- Group psilocybin session 28 January 2027 (1 full day on site in Amsterdam)
- Individual integration session 29 January (online)
- Group integration session (online)
Why psilocybin and cancer?
Cancer changes more than your body. It can shake your sense of who you are, your relationships and your trust that things will be okay. Often that weight stays long after treatment ends.
We offer an invitation to pause, turn inward and reconnect, with yourself and with others who understand.
Psilocybin has been studied for people with cancer at Johns Hopkins and NYU, and more recently in group settings. Many participants described lasting shifts: less anxiety and low mood, and a renewed sense of meaning and connection. The research is still young, and everyone’s experience is their own.
This event is not a treatment or therapy. It is a carefully held group experience, with preparation together, a session day with psilocybin and time for integration afterwards..
The full program:
- Individual intake and medical screening (online or in person in Amsterdam)
- Group preparation session January 14th 2027 (online)
- Group psilocybin session 28 January 2027 (1 full day on site in Amsterdam)
- Individual integration session 29 January (online)
- Group integration session (online)
Why psilocybin and cancer?
Cancer changes more than your body. It can shake your sense of who you are, your relationships and your trust that things will be okay. Often that weight stays long after treatment ends.
We offer an invitation to pause, turn inward and reconnect, with yourself and with others who understand.
Psilocybin has been studied for people with cancer at Johns Hopkins and NYU, and more recently in group settings. Many participants described lasting shifts: less anxiety and low mood, and a renewed sense of meaning and connection. The research is still young, and everyone’s experience is their own.
This event is not a treatment or therapy. It is a carefully held group experience, with preparation together, a session day with psilocybin and time for integration afterwards..
Schedule
Our work together begins with an individual intake and preparation session to get to know you. We will conduct a medical screening, explore your intentions, and practice nervous system regulation techniques. This session is a space to connect, reflect, and set the stage for a safe and meaningful journey.
We will build further on your intention during the group preparation session, where we will also take time to getting to know the other participants and create a safe space to share. We will go over some practicalities for journey day.
During the guided psilocybin session, there will be two facilitators present throughout, providing compassionate support and guidance as you navigate your inner landscape. We will start the day grounding ourselves, and sharing our intention in the group. During the journey you will be encouraged to go within and stay as much introspective as possible. As the effect of the psilocybin wears off, there is room for creative forms of integration. Arts materials are supplied. We will end the day with a healthy soup while there is room to share your experience. We will make sure you are safe to go back to your accommodation.
We recommend you to keep the rest of the day and at least one day after the experience free to fully be with yourself, allowing the insights and experiences to gently unfold. The individual integration session will take place the day after the journey.
Two weeks later we come together as a group for the final integration session (online).
We will build further on your intention during the group preparation session, where we will also take time to getting to know the other participants and create a safe space to share. We will go over some practicalities for journey day.
During the guided psilocybin session, there will be two facilitators present throughout, providing compassionate support and guidance as you navigate your inner landscape. We will start the day grounding ourselves, and sharing our intention in the group. During the journey you will be encouraged to go within and stay as much introspective as possible. As the effect of the psilocybin wears off, there is room for creative forms of integration. Arts materials are supplied. We will end the day with a healthy soup while there is room to share your experience. We will make sure you are safe to go back to your accommodation.
We recommend you to keep the rest of the day and at least one day after the experience free to fully be with yourself, allowing the insights and experiences to gently unfold. The individual integration session will take place the day after the journey.
Two weeks later we come together as a group for the final integration session (online).
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
The Aliveness Practice, Eerste Laurierdwarsstraat 2, 1016 NN Amsterdam, Netherlands
Directions
1,7 km from Amsterdam Central Station. Short stroll from tram stop Westermarkt.
Accommodation
Program Price
What's Included
- The full program as described
- A warm, healthy vegetarian soup on the day of the psilocybin session
- Professional therapeutic guidance throughout the process
- A safe, calm, and intentionally held therapeutic setting
- Art materials
What's Not Included
- Accommodation
- Flights or other transportation
- Airport or local pickups
- Any meals outside of the provided dose day vegetarian meal
- Additional activities or excursions not listed in the program
- Personal expenses
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