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About Our Trainings
We have arranged with PeerPoint to provide a certificate of training, which will go out to each participant after the conclusion of each training. This will provide 30 AMA Category I credits, which apply to medical practitioners and therapists—acceptable to licensing boards in over 40 states. Do confirm this with your Board if you have a question about this. Embedded in our fee structure for CE is $150 and is included in your tuition.
We look forward to being with you in profound learning, experiential, and connecting events that continue to move KAP forward and support our developing practices.
You will learn and enjoy yourselves. We look forward to being with you.
BIPOC Scholarship.
Upcoming Trainings
For 2027, KTC a new program, “The Whole K,” Bishop’s Ranch in Sonoma is March 7-12, 2027. Our Dharma K 5.0—our 5th Annual—will be held at Menla May 25th to 30th. “The Whole K,” at Menla in the Catskills of NY on June 1-6. Registration will open in September. Stay tuned!
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The Ketmine Training Center and Clinica Synaptic are pleased to announce our 3rd Annual Barcelona Training and Retreat Event
Join us in Barcelona for "The Complete KAP Experience" – October 2026
October 15-23, 2026
We are delighted to announce that tickets are now officially available for a landmark event we are co-organizing through the Ketamine Research Foundation in partnership with Clinica Synaptica: The Complete KAP Experience in Barcelona.
This is more than just a conference; it is a deep dive into the clinical and soulful practice of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. This collaboration brings together the best of our US-based research and the pioneering clinical work being done in Europe.
The program includes:
- October 15th | Intensive Fundamentals Workshop: An immersive day for practitioners to master the essentials of KAP, featuring a private tour of Clinica Synaptica’s facilities.
- October 16th-17th | The 1st KAP International Association Summit: A high-level scientific congress. We will be joined by world-class experts including Celia Morgan, Chris Timmerman, Lowan Stewart, and Marc Aixalà to discuss the future of the field, from neurobiology to public health integration.
- KAP Experiential Retreat: I will be personally leading an immersive, deep-dive retreat where we will explore the heart of the KAP experience, focusing on personal transformation and the sacred nature of the therapeutic journey.
- Setting the Standard for Europe: This gathering represents a critical opportunity to define and uphold high-quality clinical standards at a time of rapid KAP expansion across Europe, ensuring the field grows with integrity and expertise.
I look forward to seeing many of you in Barcelona as we continue to evolve this practice together and connect the global KAP community in one of the world’s most vibrant cities.
Early bird registration is now open:
The Ketmine Training Center and Clinica Synaptic are pleased to announce our 3rd Annual Barcelona Training and Retreat Event
We are Excited to Present Our 4th Annual Advanced Sharing For KAP Practitioners At Our Beloved Menla Retreat Center in the Catskills
November 30th -December 5th, 2026 Monday 4 PM to Saturday 12 noon
OUR ALL STAR LEADERSHIP GROUP INCLUDES PHIL WOLFSON, PETER CORBETT, BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, LICIA SKY, BILL RICHARDS AND BRIAN RICHARDS
MARK BRAUNSTEIN IS OUR MEDICAL PROVIDER and LEADER
WITH HAMILTON MORRIS AND DALI SAMES
Themes for this Year include:
Architecting the KAP Methodology and Fundamentals of Integrating the Ketamine Experience
The Therapeutics of the Low Dose Psychorevelation Format
New Strategies for Treatment of Anxiety, PTSD, Insomnia and Relationships
The emerging science of ketamine and psychedelic medicines
Ketamine Use and Abuse—Prevention and Treatment
Ketamine for PMDD and Women’s Well-being
Ketamine and the Spirit—Mindfulness, Meditation, Living Life Well and Fully
Clinical decision making in the grey zones.
Complex cases the changing landscape of integration work
Adapting the KAP model to the new medicines as they come into practice—MDMA and Psilocybin
Ketamine and Life threatening Illness
–and what you as practitioners offer to the program and your interests.
The Advanced Sharing Retreat is open to KPA and others who have attended different KAP trainings and who have at least begun to practice KAP. Attendance is limited to enable the experiential to occur with intensity and sharing.
We will include group experiences—psychorevelation low dose group morning sessions and higher dose afternoons—all IM
We will begin with Licia Sky and her Expanded Awareness somatics program
Our program is formed with attendees in a process of mutual interests. We will be soliciting your input into the program.
We expect sessions potentially to include: Successes and Failures; Case Presentations as Consultations; Case Videos, Practice Issues; Working in Groups; Couples; Adolescents; Our Various Methodologies; KAP and Sex Therapy; Ketamine and Emerging Psychedelics; Diversity, Identity and Culture; Commercialization and Where We Are Heading; Expanded Awareness and Movement in KAP; Trauma and KAP; Update on Science; Ketamine Abuse and Misuse, Meditation, Rituals and the Ketamine Experience-and other topics as we bring them to our attention.
We would conduct the program within a contemplative practice set.
Please see this as an opportunity to expand our connections and skillful means. Please see this as an opportunity to come together as a community of devoted practitioners. We are committed to sharing and fun. All of our trainings and events have created kindness and affection. We welcome your application and attendance.
We are providing 30 Credits of CEs under the Fundamentals Training Rubric which is how we obtain them for you. In addition to full participation in Advanced Sharing activities, we will be having daily lunch time CE specific meetings, These will be focused on practical KAP issues; practice building; case discussions; new applications for ketamine and KAP; neuroscience discussion; and integrating methodologies into KAP. The cost of the CEs is included in the tuition.
BIPOC Scholarships and limited reductions in fees will be processed on request and dependent on registration as we are a non-profit organization.
Participants will be requested to provide their suggestions for topics and their potential offerings to add to the scheduling. Zoom sessions will precede the event for planning and participation. Our intention is to have a sharing that elevates all of our practices conceptually, methodologically ,spiritually, and practically. And to support the growth and development of the KAP community of practitioners, and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.
Please apply now as there is large interest in the event based on the results of our survey.
Tuition:
$3,000 – for non-prescribers
$3,500 for prescribers
Scholarships potentially available after ascertainment of enrollment. BIPOC support available after acceptance of application.
Room and board separate at additional cost payable to Menla
Room reservation is made directly through Menla after acceptance to the program. The Menla Link will be provided at that time.
Our Faculty
Phil Wolfson, MD Director
Gita Vaid, MD
Monica Winsor
Daniel Ahlers
Peter Corbett
Licia Sky
Bessel van der Kolk
David Dansky
Mark Braunstein
Julissa Vasquez
Ben McCauley
Heather Hart Kennedy
Ron Siegel
With Contributions from:
Jason Wallach
Robert Thurman
Dali Sames
Hamilton Mars
Charles Perkel
Will Hamilton
Lisa Sherman
…and others
Testimonials
Latest News & Publications
Lucid News - Awakening a Broad and Critical Understanding of Ketamine
The Ketamine Research Foundation and its practitioner authors share our article for awakening a broad and critical understanding of the spectrum of benefits and hazards of ketamine’s use. As practitioners we are exposed to and probe the personal bases for ketamine’s extraordinary positive value to allay human suffering and for its dependence. We offer this work to increase knowledge about ketamine and ketamine assisted psychotherapy and to further compassionate awareness to individual susceptibilities and experiences. Our article is long and intricate in order to provide a full view. And in Memory of Ken Jordan, who honored us with his deeply thoughtful editing, this as his last contribution.
Dr. Phil Wolfson Featured In Oprah Daily Articles
There are a series of articles featuring the work of Dr. Phil Wolfson that recently appeared in the Oprah Daily magazine. Click below to read the articles.
Psychedelic Methodologies and The Impregnable Value of the Subjective—A New and Evolving Approach
Phil Wolfson and Gita Vaid of the Ketamine Research Foundation are pleased to
announce their KAP paper available now.
The Pharmacokinetics Of Ketamine In The Breast Milk Of Lactating Women
Abstract: There is no available data on the secretion and concentration of ketamine and its metabolites in breastmilk. There are statements in the literature made as to the safety…
THE NEW YORKER Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?
The mind-altering drug has been shown to help people suffering from anxiety and depression. But how it helps, who it will serve, and who will profit are open questions.
About us
The Ketamine Training Center (KTC) has been presenting our Fundamentals Training for over 4 years with more than 800 participants in our 5–6-day experiential programs. Practitioners represent the spectrum of licensed prescribers, psychotherapists, and clergy—with an international presence.
Our programs begin with on-line sessions preceding the in-person presence at our extraordinary residential retreat centers east, west, and abroad. Non-denominational ritual, yoga and meditation are voluntary component parts of our sessions in conformity with the use of ketamine as an alternative and psychedelic medicine. We are the evolving methodological ground for the expanding therapeutic use of alternative medicines–alternative to conventional Pharma and psychiatry.
Essential to the provision of mind-altering medicines is personal experience with them.
In the context of our 30-40 participant trainings, practitioners are exposed to a broad range of experiences facilitating awareness both personally and in the evolving communities of our trainings— and then in the follow-up sessions that continue cohesion and communication. Our Ketamine Psychotherapy Associates membership program furthers the development of practitioners, practices, and therapeutics with consistent input, support and benefits that build competency, cohesion, awareness, and program.
The Fundamentals Training is rich in awakening movement and emotion in each of us with our Expanded Awareness and Sharing. Low dose psycholytic small groups, presentations on ketamine neuroscience by the renowned Jason Wallach, therapeutic strategies, mindfulness, trauma often with Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky, psychodynamics, IFS, gestalt, psychedelic medicine therapeutics, and much more are woven into our programs.
Our Leadership Group will vary in composition and will include Phil Wolfson, author of The Ketamine Papers. Group experiences of our methods for administering sublingual lozenges and intramuscular injections of ketamine are a fundamental part of the experience, with early competency development in these forms of administration—in the two roles or sitter/therapist and recipient.
We welcome your interest, applications, and presence!