
GUARDIANS OF TRANSFORMATION
A 9-Day Immersive Retreat in Portugal
Explore Expanded States of Consciousness & Embody Presence-Centered Leadership™
23 - 31 MAY 2026 - Portugal
Are You Ready to Deepen Your Capacity to Hold Space—For Yourself and Others?
This 9-day immersive retreat is for the lifelong learners, the quiet leaders, the curious space holders, and those walking a path of personal growth, spiritual inquiry, and transformational service.
Whether you’re a coach, guide, therapist, teacher—or someone who others naturally turn to—you’re invited into a unique, in-person experience designed to awaken a more grounded, embodied version of your leadership.
You don’t need to be a “practitioner” to belong here.
You need to be someone committed to your own evolution.
Why This Retreat?
Throughout history, sacred leaders, healers, and ceremonial guides weren’t just trained—they were initiated. They lived through rituals, community rites, and direct mentorship that revealed who they truly were and how they were meant to serve.
In today's fast-paced, hyper-digital world, we are more disconnected than ever from this lineage of learning through embodiment.
This retreat offers a rare opportunity to return to that root.
We go beyond theoretical knowledge or psychedelic tourism. Here, you’ll engage in hands-on, in-body, in-community learning:
Real-time facilitation and reflection
Psilocybin ceremonies within a legal, supported setting
Somatic practices, ritual, and breathwork
A curriculum rooted in Presence-Centered Leadership™
A safe space to confront your edges and evolve
"Learning to 'sit' for ourselves and others is the cornerstone of cultivating our shared humanity. In doing so, we bridge the global disconnect that haunts our societies."- Natasja Pelgrom, Founder ATMW
What Makes This Different?
Many programs offer "certifications" or online immersions, but few offer this level of in-person, experiential training in sacred facilitation—especially within a legal, structured, and trauma-aware container.
Guardians of Transformation is not about becoming a facilitator. It’s about becoming someone who lives from embodied presence and supports others from a place of deep inner integrity.
If you do feel the call to guide others, this program offers essential tools, frameworks, and insights for integrating that path responsibly.
If you're simply curious to deepen your relationship with yourself and explore expanded states of consciousness with support—this is for you too.
Who Is This Retreat For?
This experience is ideal for:
Those who hold space informally (for friends, community, clients)
Coaches, therapists, teachers, caregivers, ceremonialists
Leaders seeking more depth, empathy, and presence in how they lead
Creatives, empaths, or sensitive individuals walking a spiritual path
Individuals curious about sacred psychedelic facilitation in a legal, guided setting
Practitioners seeking to deepen—not just certify—their embodiment of leadership
Personal development explorers ready to integrate leadership into their healing journey
You do not need a clinical background to attend. You do need a readiness to meet yourself fully.
What You’ll Receive
9 days of immersive, in-person guidance in a private retreat setting in Portugal
3 facilitated psilocybin ceremonies with full preparation and integration support
Daily rituals, breathwork, and reflection rooted in elemental wisdom
Peer-led facilitation and feedback using the PCL framework
Nature-based anchoring and space for personal contemplation
Post-retreat integration sessions and workbook
Personalized mentoring and community support
A digital certificate of completion (this is not a license to facilitate psychedelics)
This Is for You If:
✅ You’re tired of only “learning from the neck up” and want to embody your leadership
✅ You’re curious about guiding others, but want to explore the work from a grounded, ethical base
✅ You know that holding space starts with how you live, breathe, and meet your own edges
✅ You long for a community of depth, humility, and lived experience—not performance
✅ You’ve walked through initiations—burnout, grief, awakening—and feel the call to lead from what you’ve lived
✅ You want to build trust in yourself before ever holding space for someone else
Guardians of Transformation Immersive | Testimonial
Presence Centered-Leadership™
Presence-Centered Leadership™ (PCL) is an innovative method developed by founder of ATMW Natasja Pelgrom to guide practitioners through a transformative journey within a psilocybin retreat setting. This approach integrates principles from transpersonal practices, client-centered techniques, and situational leadership. PCL aims to foster profound personal and professional growth. Here’s an overview of what PCL entails:
What is Presence-Centered Leadership (PCL)?
Presence-Centered Leadership™ is a holistic approach that emphasizes the importance of being fully present in the moment, both for oneself and for others. This method is specifically tailored for practitioners who are committed to deepening their skills in space holding, transformational leadership, and therapeutic practice.
Key Components of PCL:
1. Situational Leadership and Development Levels:
PCL teaches practitioners how to adapt their leadership style based on the development level of the individual or group they are working with. This situational approach ensures that the support provided is appropriate and effective.
2. Recognize, Acknowledge, Explore:
Recognize: Identifying the current state and needs of the individual.
Acknowledge: Validating their experiences and emotions.
Explore: Delving deeper into their personal journey to uncover insights and foster growth.
3. Language of the Mind and Heart:
Practitioners learn to discern and utilize the appropriate language for different situations. This involves balancing cognitive (mind) language with emotional (heart) language to communicate effectively and empathetically.
4. Creating a Safe Container:
PCL emphasizes the importance of establishing a safe and supportive environment, or "container," where individuals can undergo transformative experiences. This includes setting clear boundaries, providing emotional safety, and maintaining a nurturing space for growth.
5. Harmonizing Inner Wisdom and Outer Action:
Practitioners are trained to first engage their yin state—focusing on the senses, dreaming, flow state, and intuition. Following this, they are encouraged to integrate their yang state—bringing in structure, intention, direction, and commitment. This balanced approach ensures a holistic and supportive leadership style.
6. Integrating Transpersonal and Shamanic Practices:
PCL incorporates transpersonal approaches, fostering experiences that transcend the individual ego and connect to a larger sense of spirituality and universal consciousness. It also includes shamanic practices, such as ritualistic ceremonies and nature-based healing methods, to facilitate deep personal transformation and spiritual growth.
The Journey of Presence-Centered Leadership:
In our 9-day psilocybin experiential retreat, practitioners will immerse themselves in the principles of PCL, experiencing firsthand the power of presence-centered leadership. Through a series of workshops, psilocybin ceremonies, and integration sessions, participants will develop the skills and insights necessary to lead with presence, empathy, and authenticity.
By the end of the retreat, practitioners will have a profound understanding of how to hold space for others, facilitate deep personal transformation, and embody the principles of Presence-Centered Leadership™ in their professional practice. This journey is not just about learning techniques, but about embodying a way of being that supports transformation and growth for all.
Full Package Pricing
€6,900
*early bird till Oct. 1st ‘25
*Installment plans are available, with an additional fee of €25 per installment.
23 - 31 MAY ‘26
This includes the all-expenses-paid 9-day in-person immersive
Intimate Immersive of 8 participants
Eight nights and nine days of private accommodation with shared bathroom.
Transportation to and from the local International airport
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this retreat, you will:
Understand how to hold space with presence, empathy, and attunement
Deepen your capacity to respond, not react—within ceremony and in life
Learn to read group dynamics and personal energetic fields
Practice ethical leadership and peer supervision models
Embody Presence-Centered Leadership™—in facilitation, conversation, and your life
Integrate psychedelic experiences into your path of service
Gain clarity on your next step as a leader, guide, or conscious contributor
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Acces to Fundamentals of Space Holding Course
5-week virtual self-paced program
Three group preparation and three group integration virtual calls
Access to high-end vitual coaching platform for support and ongoing learning
Access to special Masterclasses from top educators in the field of psychedelics and leadership
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Receive personalised roadmap created in collaboration with founder Natasja Pelgrom, and supportive sessions with lead facilitators.
Total of four private mentoring calls
Work towards a personal commitment and outcome
TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) treatment and teaching to better support somatic challenges
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Three Truffles containing psilocybin ceremonies (two as participant, one as sitter)
Cacao Ceremony
Rapéh Snuff (optional)
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Breathwork from circular breathing to relaxation practices
Rituals and workshops on self-leadership, and space holding
Important:
Not including travel, and insurance policies
ATMW alumni discounts are not applicable to this program.
Instalments payment is possible, there will be an additional fee required.
Pricing here does not include the 21% VAT, which depends on the country of residency and/or company status.
Read here our cancelation policies
Guardians of Transformation Immersive | Testimonial
Program Overview
Why:
To explore and embody deeper layers of space holding and leadership through self-inquiry, elemental connection, and lived practice. This immersive empowers participants to recognize and fully step into their identity as space holders—with confidence, clarity, and grounded presence.
How:
Through experiential learning, peer-led practices, ritual, group dynamics, and embodied integration. Accountability, self-direction, and open-ended inquiry form the foundation for transformational leadership.
What:
Participants engage in supervised facilitation, psilocybin ceremonies, breathwork, plant rituals, cohort-based feedback, and creative integration. The program is scaffolded by—Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Embodiment—and grounded in regenerative stewardship principles.
Your Teacher Allies
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PSILOCYBIN TEACHER
Psilocybin is the substance found in magic Mushrooms and Truffles that have shown to support your ongoing growth and healing. Their impact on culture has literally spanned human history. From the earliest cave paintings and shamanic traditions to modern religion, these fungi have helped to shape parts of our consciousness. Magic mushrooms and Psilocybin Truffles are non-toxic and have even been found to encourage neurogenesis (the growth of new brain cells.) We are inviting you to an opportunity to expose you to the wonders of this medicine as an assistant to your life journey and as a tool for the exploration of your Soul, Body, and Mind.
Once you start opening your eyes, history comes alive - like the stained glass windows in cathedrals in Europe that show Christ and his followers holding psilocybin mushrooms. All of this reminds us that ingesting psychotropic plants in the exploration of consciousness is nothing new at all.
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SACRED TOBACCO TEACHER
For centuries, sacred tobacco has been revered as a powerful plant teacher, used in ceremonial settings to bridge the "invisible" worlds and foster a deep connection between the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. Its essence holds the wisdom to guide, ground, and align us with our highest intentions.
In our ceremonies, we honor the traditional ways of working with sacred tobacco—not as a substance to be consumed, but as an offering and a tool for prayer and intention. Through guided rituals, sacred offerings, and deep presence, this plant teacher helps us anchor our intentions, call upon guidance, and create a safe and transformative container for personal and collective growth.
By engaging with sacred tobacco in its non-administrative form, participants can connect to its energy, exploring the profound teachings it offers without physical ingestion. This plant teacher serves as a bridge—a conduit for clarity, connection, and the manifestation of purpose.
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CACAO TEACHER
Pure cacao is used as a heart-opening medicine for people to safely experience awakening, revelation, and inner healing. It is also used to set intentions and once consumed, euphoric states are unlocked, negative emotions are released and we are able to connect to ourselves and the loving energy in our bodies. We work with the Ceremonial Cacao in all our retreat programs, it is a key component in the process. This medicine is one of the most powerful, gentle facilitators, teachers, and guides on the planet. Cacao opens the heart and allows for a deeper, authentic love-based connection with yourself, others, the world, and all of life. You will experience a Cacao ceremony that is specifically designed for psychedelic sharing, release and playfulness, and integration work. This journey is specifically focused to help you find clarity, and process some of the more confusing aspects of your experiences. Cacao is the perfect medicine to dive deep and integrate while remaining fully conscious and aware.
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BREATH TEACHER
We bring breathwork such as Transformational, Holotropic, or Circular Breathing, in all our programs, and this is a very deep therapeutic technique, in which one through accelerated and deepened breathing with an open mouth while lying down can reach access to his subconsciousness as well as enter into higher states of consciousness. During a breath session, all levels of our being are addressed. On the physical and mental level, it is a deep cleansing process. Emotions and body sensations can arise that are associated with unprocessed experiences and old traumas, which are stored in the muscles and in the cell consciousness and can be integrated and cured through breathing. On a spiritual level, one can open oneself to a transpersonal experience, perceive oneself as a spiritual being and receive deep insights into human potential.
Meet Our Leadership Team: Experts in Transformational Healing and Psychedelic-Assisted Care
As we prepare for the 9-day Presence-Centered Leadership™ retreat, we’re honored to introduce the team that will guide you on this transformative journey. Led by founder Natasja Pelgrom, alongside Jessica Grotfeldt and Henk Doller, this retreat brings together decades of experience in transformational healing, leadership, and psychedelic-assisted care.
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Founder, Creator of Presence-Centered Leadership™
Natasja Pelgrom is the visionary behind the Presence-Centered Leadership™ method, combining her deep understanding of metaphysical and neurological principles of transformation. As the creator of educational programs that bridge sacred work and personal transformation, Natasja is known for her ability to integrate ceremonial practices with a profound understanding of the anatomy of ceremonial work. Her work is focused on guiding practitioners to embody presence, integrity, and awareness in their leadership roles, ensuring that sacred and transformative experiences are held with deep care and understanding.
"Presence is the foundation of true leadership. In this retreat, we will explore how to embody presence while guiding others, creating space for profound transformation and healing."
Natasja’s leadership has inspired the development of this retreat, combining her wisdom and expertise into a method that nurtures both personal and professional growth for practitioners in the field.
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Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Nature-Based Healing
For more than 15 years, Jessica Grotfeldt has been dedicated to providing safe, effective, and meaningful access to transformational healing experiences. Jessica holds a master’s degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and as a lifelong student of ancient and shamanic healing practices, she has worked extensively alongside powerful medicine curanderos across South America and Mexico. She is the founder of Luz Eterna Retreats, where she has facilitated traditional healing ceremonies for Western women, blending ancient wisdom with modern integration techniques to support lasting change.
"Deep listening is at the core of my leadership. I use the elements to help clients connect with their inner wisdom and guide them toward lasting transformation."
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Testimonial:
"Working with Jessica was a turning point in my healing journey," says one participant. "Her approach, which combined deep listening and ancient healing practices, helped me achieve profound insights that have continued to unfold long after our work together." -
Executive Trainer & Facilitator
With over 26 years of experience in one-on-one guidance and 20 years in team leadership, Henk Doller brings a rich background in personal development and leadership. Henk holds a Bachelor's degree in HRM and has worked extensively in career and management development. In 2012, he was initiated into the Munay Ki healing system, an energy healing cosmology from the Andes. Since then, Henk has facilitated Ayahuasca and Truffle ceremonies, blending his Dutch roots with ancient shamanic wisdom.
"My role is to create a space where participants can fully experience their journey without interference. I believe that less is more, allowing clients to explore their transformation on their own terms."
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Testimonial:
"Henk’s ability to hold space with such calm and compassion has had a profound impact on my healing process," says one client. "He allows participants the space to fully experience their journey, and his non-judgmental approach makes him a truly exceptional facilitator."