The Psychedelic Writing Retreat is a week-long journey for writers seeking personal transformation and a deeper connection with their creative spark. You will have the time and space to explore inner landscapes, reflect on your writing practice, and integrate your mystical experience among a small community of fellow writers. The retreat provides plenty of solo writing time combined with guided workshops and discussions.
The Psychedelic Writing Retreat might be a good fit if you:
A psychedelic journey can be profound and life-altering. The purpose of the retreat is to help you land softly afterward and channel new insights into your writing. Rather than packing your bags and slipping straight back into your old routine, you’ll be invited to slow down and integrate your experience in the company of other writers doing the same.
The goal isn’t to provide a quick fix for writer’s block (although that might certainly be one result). Instead, the retreat is about reshaping your relationship to creativity itself. As writers, our creative practice is woven into our lives and identities. This retreat offers a space to tend to that connection.
The retreat takes place in two parts
The Nature Temple (overnight):
A highly unique, well-established center for psychedelic truffle ceremonies.
Visit the Nature Temple website
The Makers Barn (5 nights)
A peaceful, grounded retreat location surrounded by wide-open landscapes.
Days 1-2: Arrival and Ceremony
We start the retreat at the Nature Temple. The day begins with orientation and intention-setting, followed by a professionally-facilitated psychedelic truffle ceremony. (For more information on the ceremony, please see the Nature Temple FAQ.) You will stay overnight. Before departing the Nature Temple, you will participate in a group integration circle with the facilitators.
Days 2-7: Writing and Integration
Next, we will move to the Makers Barn for the remainder of the retreat. The drive is roughly half an hour and transportation is provided. At the Makers Barn, you will have long stretches of solo writing time; group reflection and integration of the psychedelic experience; and optional activities, including yoga, pond swimming, hiking, and unwinding in the sauna or hot tub.
Midway through the retreat, there will be an entirely optional lower-dose truffle session. More information will be provided prior to the retreat.
Additional support is provided through an online pre-retreat information session and a post-retreat check-in.
Early bird price: €2,000 (must be paid in full before March 15th)
Standard price: €2,250
Deposit (required to secure booking): €800
The deposit is refundable within 14 days of booking. After that, it is non-refundable.
For more information on payment and registration, please see the FAQ.
Daniel DeRock
Founder and Retreat Coordinator
Daniel is a writer, editor, and book coach. His short fiction has won a Brave New Weird award from Tenebrous Press and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction awards. You can connect with him on Instagram @danny_thefictionalversion or through his author website. He is the founder of Flow State Editing and a co-founder of Icebreakers Lit, a magazine for collaborative writing. Daniel is currently pursuing training in psychedelic integration support through ICEERS. He’s passionate about the potential benefits of psychedelic experiences for creative growth and, likewise, the benefits of creative writing for psychedelic integration and healing.
Alexander Weinstein
Writing Workshop Facilitator
Alexander is the founder and Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collections, Universal Love and Children of the New World, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a best book of the year by NPR and Electric Literature. His fiction has appeared in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and Best American Experimental Writing. His short story, “Saying Goodbye to Yang,” was adapted as the film After Yang by A24 Films, and was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, and Barack Obama’s Best Films of 2022. He leads creative writing workshops around the world to help writers of all abilities and backgrounds access their voices, and has been studying with indigenous tribes and been part of sacred plant medicine ceremonies for the past twenty years.
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