Nurse Jo & Friends @ Hypogeum in Holland

With a golden thread of care and safety, running throughout our offering. We will provide you with person centred support to help minimise risk, and maximise the potential benefits of your psychedelic experience.

From your initial contact, Nurse Jo and her highly experienced team, will guide you through every stage of your Hypogeum journey.  Starting with a connection call, with Jo, to see if this experience is a good fit for you.

This will be followed by a comprehensive  screening  process, overseen by Nurse Jo who has extensive experience in the psychedelic space, within research and naturalistic environments.

Once onboard, based on the information provided in your screening form, an appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team will arrange an online, individual session with you.  Here you will discuss your individual needs, desires and intentions for this potentially transformative experience. 

Mother's House, Weert, really is a home from home.  Consequently, it is the only venue Nurse Jo uses in the Netherlands.

The warm, caring, beautiful, environment at Mother's House, is the perfect setting to explore the psychedelic experience.  

Mother's House is comfortable, clean and well equipped. The food is delicious and plentiful. The hot tub, sauna and shop are a welcome addition to the facilities.

Easy to get to by public transport, Mother's House is situated within a rural area, with private woodlands, which are utilised during the retreat.

Tamara & other Dutch speaking team  members at Mother's House,  provide a level of hospitality and care that is second to none.  

Tamara is a competent psychedelic space holder,  in her own right.  Having  trained with various teachers and  tribes within the Amazon., who she has deep reciprocal relationships with.

Jo considers Tamara, her team,  house and food, to very much be part of the wider medicine of her work.

Full assistance with travel plans and transfers from Weert station, to Mothers House will be provided. 

Nurse Jo and her team are expert in helping people to feel safe and loved, within a short amount of time.  Believing there is a direct correlation between the levels of trust and safety a participant feels prior to any experience and the eventual outcomes,

Nurse Jo and the team provide will extensive, pre- retreat support to help you navigate your potentially profound experience.  

Once at Mother's House, the experienced, multidisciplinary team will facilitate a wide range of head, heart and body based activities. These will help you to prepare for, and meet, your psychedelic experience.

Nurse Jo is widely regarded as one of the leaders in the field of western, group psychedelic ceremony facilitation

An expert care coordinator of thirty years.  Jo and her experienced, multidisciplinary team, will curate an exquisite, bespoke retreat programme, for you and your fellow travellers, to meet your psychedelic experience safely & meaningfully.  

 Jo is proud and extremely grateful to be able to work with, and coordinate, an established team. Who are all competent space holders in their own right.

Working with high ratios of facilitators to participants, the multidisciplinary team has expertise in many modalities and schools of thought.  Including Western Medicine, Psychedelic Research, Body based practices (Tai Chi, QiGong Yoga),  Nursing, Hypnotherapy,  Counselling, Shamanism, Occultism, Breathwork, Meditation , Eye Movement, Desensitisation & Reprocessing Therapy,  Music, Art &  Nature based therapies and much more.

Drawing on a wide range of trainings and experiences. Jo is well known for her ability to create environments that are optimal for potentially transformational group psychedelic experiences.

Lovingly referred to as "The Cosmic DJ".

Jo is highly respected for her unmatched ability to attune to the dynamics of the participant group, and that of the trajectory of Psilocybin experience, to create the perfect musical backdrop for any ceremony or dosing session..

Jo curates a bespoke playlist for event.   She is also able to respond musically, in the moment, in response, to what is going in the room, in a way that is unrivalled, and central to the felt experience and outcomes of those in her care.

In recognition of this ability, experience and attention to detail and care.  Jo was recently asked to curate the playlist for the Psilocybin for Opioid Use Disorder Study, at The Centre For Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London. One of the leading psychedelic research centres in the world. 

The psychedelic ceremony day will be followed by a full day of body, mind  & land based integration activities.  These will help you to integrate your psychedelic experience.

Following the retreat you will receive integration support, including a post retreat 1:1 session and a whole group zoom meeting.

The participants and crew will provide ongoing encouragement and support to each other. in what is always a vibrant social media group.