ACER
Acceptance
Connection
Embodiment
Restore
Allow me to introduce Dr. Rosalind "‘Ros’ Watts, founder & developer of the ACER Community for training Integration Specialists in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy.
Having completed the first year of ACER training, I am considered an “elder” and 2024 will be the second year of being a part of the ACER Community. My plans are to alert people to the value of the ACER training and since it is a “peer to peer” build, anyone can apply.
Let’s talk about psychedelics and self-care. One of my favorite topics. How I got started…
Allow me to introduce Dr. Rosalind ‘Ros’ Watts. The founder of the ACER Community which stands for: Acceptance, Connection, Embodiment, and Restore. After completing her first year of training, the maiden voyage of endowing us with her massive experience with psychedelic assisted therapy, I am entering year two with the ACER Community as an “elder.” There are essential tools needed if a person is to maintain the benefits of plant medicine (or even antidepressants).
The ACER Program promotes cultivating a deeper relationship with nature + community building or “US” consciousness + studying the Tree of Life Celtic traditions + Breathwork & lots of sharing when time allows.
Allow me to introduce you to my favorite collaborator, Integration Specialist April Rains of Guided Tripping which is a group practice of seasoned trip guides located in Amsterdam.
April’s story
From an early age, psychedelics and my own inquisitive nature sculpted the person I am today. People find my warm, open, grounded personality and my sense of humor safe and nurturing. My background of naturally rising into the role of den mother to friends experimenting with substances (especially after my own bad trip which made psychedelic research and safety a calling in life) and the years I’ve spent participating in and facilitating Authentic Relating have coalesced into my practice. As a trip guide, empathy is most important to me. People love the sense that I’m really there with them, wherever they are. They are comforted by my presence and my way of reframing what is happening.
I use the modalities of authentic relating, Shadow Work, Embodiment, Internal Family Systems, trauma-informed voice dialogue, inverse dream interpretation and visualization, and guidance from the study of astrophysics and biology. Along with guiding sessions, I’m an integration specialist and offer ongoing integration coaching as well as micro-dose coaching. Personally, I engage in therapeutic psychedelic practice, research and analytical thinking, dance, circling, and the happy knowledge that we ain’t got it all figured out.
The SELF (as defined in IFS)
“One of the assumptions of Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Therapy is that everyone has a “Self”. In essence, the Self is who
we truly are, with all our Parts separate. The Self is characterized
by what IFS calls the 8C’s: compassion, curiosity, clarity,
creativity, calm, confidence, courage, and connectedness.
As opposed to many other models, IFS holds that everyone has
access to these qualities at their core, and they don’t need to be
created or built by the therapy. The IFS process assists in
excavating these qualities inherent in the Self so they can shine
through and lead the individual’s internal system. The Self
also knows how to heal and be there for all Parts of ourselves.”
Allow me to introduce you to Dr. Tori Olds. She will introduce you to Internal Family Systems (IFS). She’s one of my & April’s favorite educators. IFS is an important player with learning how to integrate change and maintaining benefit from plant medicine (or life lessons in general).