Working draft, September 2026. Voice: an opening in "we," then Gina's story in "I." Gregory named as partner. Target length about 800 words. Bracketed notes mark details only Gina (or Gregory) can supply.
About Cultivate Santa Fe
The greater vision of Cultivate is Psychedelic Integration reimagined, re-humanized. Cultivate Santa Fe is the birthplace of a modern village of people whose psychedelic experiences have opened up big questions about how to live in the aftermath of those insights and initiations, and who want to work those questions out through a broader constellation of modalities and resources, alongside others doing the same. Some people come to connect with just the right practitioner, others for circles and workshops, and all of it is welcome. We gather here in Santa Fe for one-on-one deep dives and for circles and workshops, with practitioners who have spent years in this work, and are devoted to the long arc of one’s healing from the inside out. You can come to us a day or a week after your first or next psychedelic experience, or years later, with none of it sorted out yet. A psychedelic experience initiates you into a lifetime of coming to know your true self. We hope that you will let yourself be known a little, and that you keep showing up for yourself with devotion and compassion.
How this began
In 2026, our founder, Gina, was sitting in an online meeting of other psychedelic society leaders from around the world when a well-known international teacher of psychedelic integration began presenting the platform they had built for doing integration work online. Even though it was engaging and artful, and the design of their system had the potential to go deep, Gina had a visceral response, rejecting what she felt was the addition of yet another intimate experience held in physical separation, on a screen. As a community leader, she put her foot down right then and committed to creating the alternative: a place where people are with each other in person, across a wide range of modalities, all focused on the long arc of healing that a first psychedelic experience sets in motion.
In Gina’s own words: I've guided expanded states of consciousness for groups and individuals since 2012, and since 2018 I've worked with psychedelic healing specifically, preparing people for their sessions, being with them through the experience itself, and helping them integrate what surfaced afterward. In my early years we rarely gathered online. Then 2020 came, most of us moved our lives onto screens, and much of this work moved with us as we normalized our new reality.
I see a purpose in that turn. Online, a great many of us dipped our toes, and then our feet, into our inner worlds, by taking classes, being guided into new territory inside of us, sometimes sharing emotionally about ourselves. Because of this new exposure far more people are tending to their inner healing work now than when I began. Along the way, though, we quickly lost touch with the in-depth relational experience every person needs in order to heal: sitting across from someone who sees you, and staying close to them over months or years as we evolve. Now that we are more familiar with what’s living inside of us, it's time to come back together in person for the deeper work, which means walking through life alongside others who are just as devoted to healing and to expanding their consciousness.
By the time I committed to building Cultivate, I had served the people I worked with in their explorations of healing and psychedelic integration for years, and I recognized the limits of what one guide can do. Someone who has had a psychedelic experience has been initiated into an awakening that continues for the rest of their life. No single practitioner can stay with them through all of it, and what surfaces over those years calls for many kinds of care. The right equation, as I've come to understand it, calls for many healers, each bringing their own presence, gifts, wisdom, intuitive insight, and skill in somatic healing, all attending to one person as that person comes to know themselves as an enduring spirit in a physical body with a limited lifespan in the here and now, and supporting them in becoming as conscious, whole, and integrated as they can in the remaining years they live.
Why Santa Fe?
Santa Fe is a special place, uniquely suited to be the place where Cultivate breaks ground. Here, we are held by a potent land with a rich and dramatic history. There is a theme of resilience in the people here, whether they have lived here for seven generations, or just arrived last year. There’s something that draws or keeps you, and that magnetism is widely acknowledged. Deep inner work is possible here, and increasingly, we find that people long to be in community. Cultivate brings these together.
The Modern Village
Families rarely sit down to a nightly meal together the way earlier generations did, and few of us feel safe enough to reveal our true selves or what we're struggling with. Cultivate is our answer: a modern village here in Santa Fe, where people whose psychedelic experiences opened them up can be known by one another and help build it together. [Link: read more about our philosophy]
Gregory
[Partner bio, about 125 words: how you met, his background, what he brings to Cultivate. He could write three or four sentences in his own words.]
Meet a practitioner, or come to a gathering
If any of this sounds like what you've been actively seeking, or privately longing for, please follow your intuition and take the next step. There are many ways into Cultivate, so we’ll help you find one that feels like you. Maybe that will mean finding a practitioner to work one-on-one with you in the deeper terrain of what you’re navigating in your mind or body. Possibly the way in for you is to participate in a circle session, by engaging or simply listening, and noticing what it's like to be among people who understand where you've been.
Get involved
Cultivate is a grand collaboration. We will build this village together, with practitioners and participants from every background, who share the intention of soulful living. What brings each of us here is our own experience with psychedelic medicine. We all share that, no matter where we are on the spectrum of the level of exploration and integration.
Reach out to set a time to connect with us to learn more about Cultivate, or start your facilitator application here.
Still needed
- Year of the online meeting
- Why Santa Fe
- The modern village (full section moved to Philosophy (draft); short version kept here)
- Gregory's bio
- Decision: non-members can attend events for a drop-in fee (September 27). Check the closing sections reflect this.