PROGRAMS & SUPPORT

Group Work: Find The Others!

Learn the Art of
“Serious Fun”

As described in Charles Wininger’s book, “Listening to Ecstasy — The Transformative Power of MDMA,” in years past, Charles and his wife Shelley hosted dozens of gatherings using MDMA in NYC. The sense of belonging and the lasting friendships that resulted from these meaningful experiences have been a source of strength, joy and healing for the participants. Over time, an expanding circle of love, gratitude and generosity has developed. This stands in stark contrast—as well as an antidote—to a culture where alienation and loneliness are rampant.

Charles shares the best practices he has honed over twenty years and outlines the crucial fine points that maximize the chances for a day of healing, bliss and kinship that many who participate declare to be a highlight of their life.

Falling somewhere in between the hedonistic abandon of the rave scene, and the clinical protocols for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, Charles has referred to this middle path as “serious fun.”

What You’ll Learn

Creating the Container

With our help, you’ll develop a preparation process to help participants feel safe and ready for their journey. You’ll create a “set” and a “setting” that will invite playfulness, profundity, vulnerability and resource-activation.

Developing Ceremony

We’ll share some simple, secular, time-honored rituals to enhance your group’s experience. You’ll learn how to facilitate participants’ engagement with stillness, movement, creativity and, most of all, each other.

Building Community

After the group experience, community-building strategies and tools can support their ongoing engagement long after the experience comes to an end. This can strengthen their bonds and create lasting relationships.

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Testimonials

  • "An experience ahead of its time, and above all, a great privilege. A safe place where people of all kinds can share their humanity."

    Lucas F.

  • "The gathering helped me to understand that, when we're talking about creating relationships in community, giving and receiving affection is a starting point, not an end point."

    António R.

  • "I feel that parts of myself are being accepted, at the very same time that I'm discovering them - or even before. The construction of something unexpected, profound, and good."

    João G.

  • "It brought me the feeling of belonging to a community. I found a group of people with so much will to connect, and to make all of this a bit more light and beautiful."

    Ana F.

  • "A reencounter with myself, with my own authenticity and wisdom. A family that accepted me, with whom I feel at home. A place of play, profundity and love."

    Silvia P.

  • "Confirmation of the certainty that, even in the midst of all the complexity of life, it's possible to find those people who understand us, love us, and help us to shine."

    – Carlos F.

  • "An explosion of feelings, of colors, of everything that's always here inside. It's incredible, divine, painful, brilliant, everything all at the same time... the promise of something new."

    – Daniel P.

  • "It was a fantastic experience of touching emotional openness, in an expanded group of people. Resuming in three words: union, harmony, love."

    – Susana U.

  • "I think about the experience often, unprompted and regularly. The place, the people, and the alchemy of the moment. An emotional peak."

    – Arlen M.

  • "It was a unique experience (to be repeated!), which allowed me to absorb an unforgettable reality, opening the doors to acceptance, vulnerability, and love."

    – Rita G.

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