Events & Retreats

Unlearn who you had to become.
A unique evening of emotional childhood regression. Come in your pajamas and return to the child you were before you learned who to be.

Most of us were shaped long before we could choose. The ways we learned to be good, quiet, strong or useful still run our lives. Psychedelics open a window where the mind is softer and more flexible. Unbecoming uses that window to meet the child underneath, feel what they couldn't, and remember what they loved.

The evening

• Arrival. Pajamas on, phones off. We open the circle and settle in.
• Before Words. A guided musical regression of play, sound and silence, as the body remembers being small.
• Meeting the Child. In pairs, holding your childhood photo, you speak as your younger self and are truly heard.
• The Swallowed Feelings. Wonder, sadness, anger, fear, joy. The feelings you learned to swallow, finally given an outlet.
• The Deep Journey. Eye masks on, lying down, a medically supervised psychedelic journey carried by music.
• Landing. Crayons and paper, a sharing circle, and something warm before you go.

The medicine
Medical-grade, held with care. The deep journey uses medical-grade psychedelic injectables, administered by a physician, Dr. Andrew Brandeis, who stays with the group all evening. Everything is explained on your discovery call, and you can say no to any part of the night, at any time.

Your hosts

• Valérie Fortin, facilitator. Somatic practitioner and guide specializing in childhood conditioning and inner child work. Accompanying psychedelic integration since 2020, and a weekly volunteer on Fireside Project's psychedelic peer support line.
• Dr. Andrew Brandeis, physician. Licensed physician with experience in urgent care, complex chronic illness and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Chief Medical Officer at OK Capsule and author of Pillars, Science and Other Profitable Lies.

You've already done the work.
You know yourself. You've sat with your patterns, named things most people never look at.
And yet, there's still something.
A reaction you can't quite explain. A pattern that keeps showing up.
A part of you that still braces, shuts down, or aches in silence.

This group is not a starting point.
It's a space to go further than you've been able to go alone.

Why do this in a group?
Something changes when you feel it in front of other people.
The group creates a mirror. It activates relational wounds that solo work simply cannot reach, and that's exactly where the work happens.

Being seen in your truth, without performing, without protecting yourself : it's an experience that reorganizes something deep in the nervous system.
The group also lets you realize you are not alone, not in your pain, not in your patterns, not in your search.
And that recognition? It frees something.

What we'll explore together :

• The protective mechanisms inherited from childhood
• Relational wounds and how they get re-activated in the present
• Somatic work : how the body carries memory
• Nervous system regulation
• Inner repair and the relationship to your inner child
• The power of mutual witnessing

There is something about not doing this alone.
Witnessing each other opens the heart, cracks our defenses.
It takes courage. It takes vulnerability.
But being seen in your truth, without having to hide anything : that is profoundly transformative.