Teachers and Guest Speakers
Essence Education
Teachers
Our teachers/trainers are affiliated with the Essence Institute. Founded in 2019 by experienced mental healthcare professionals, our organization bridges the gap between psychological interventions and plant medicine. The Essence Institute has been a pioneer in offering personal and spiritual growth experiences in the Netherlands. We have supported about a thousand participants in their process of transformation and self-realisation, with profound results. Our psychedelic Retreats are 100% safe, legal and sacred.
Willem Fontijn (MSc)
Working in the Mental Health field for over 40 years and co-founder of Essence Institute. Headteacher for this entire Training. He is an experienced trainer of psychotherapy, author of peer-reviewed articles on psychotherapy, awareness, intimacy, and mindfulness.
Read morePaul Soons (Dr.)
Part of the Essence Team as Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. His contribution to this Training is the topic on Integration Psychedelic Experiences. He works for more than 35 years in mental health and is specialized in mindfulness and non-dual oriented therapies.
Read moreSanne de Burger
Working as a therapist/coach/trainer with a background as psychiatric nurse with over 17 years of experience in complex Mental Healthcare. In this Training she will be joining as Leadfacilitator. She started her own practise to support people in discovering and remembering their deepest, natural, primordial ground of being.
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Staff
To develop and organize this experiential learning program there is a team we call our Essence Education Staff Members. Because this Training is a complex program with different live-Modules, online activities, e-learning community platform etc. we need quite some organization, coordination and support.
William Wilson (MSc)
Founder of the Essence Institute (since 2019) William decided to bring with Essence Education this best practice to you. His contribution to this Training is Journeyleader, coordination for the complete program (development, intakes and the teachers) and facilitating the guest speakers.
Read morePriscilla Knip (1985)
Part of the Essence Team as Facilitator and in the Back-office team. Her contribution to this program is facilitating the Psychedelic Experience and she is part of the Education Team.
Read moreFelicia Fabriek (BA)
Part of the Essence Team as Facilitator and in the Back-office team. Her contribution to this program is the topic on indigenous cultures/ mystical experiences and she is part of the Education Team.
Read moreFardijah Treacher-Morley (MSc)
Fardijah is a practising psychedelic psychotherapist and assisting as Facilitator at the Essence Institute. Her contribution to this program is program development, content planning and she is part of the Education Team.
Read moreHannah Wilson (MSc)
Part of the Essence team as Back-Office. With a Master degree in Climate Studies, she is responsible for all the (e-) communication (on our platform Circle).
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Guest Speakers
We are privileged to work together with some of the influential people in the field of this psychedelic renaissance. Together they are a multidisciplinary contribution to our program to equip you with the state of the art knowledge and experience you need to move your existing practice forward with psychedelics.
Rick Doblin (Ph.D.)
Rick is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
Read moreBen Sessa (Dr.)
Ben is one of the first doctors to develop the field of contemporary psychedelic research in the UK, currently involved running the 'psychedelic' training program in Australia.
Read moreJan Ramaekers (Prof. Dr.)
Dr. Ramaekers works as a professor in psychopharmacology at Maastricht University
Read moreCelia Morgan (Prof.)
Celia joined the University of Exeter on a Chair in Psychopharmacology since 2015. She currently also holds an Honorary Readership at University College London.
Read moreDavid Luke (Dr)
David is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK and also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research.
Read moreMary-Jayne Rust
Mary-Jayne is an ecopsychologist and Jungian analyst. She has provided numerous publications.
Read moreMaria Papaspyrou (MSc)
Maria is an integrative psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and family constellations facilitator.
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