🌿 Group KAP Training: The Art of Communal Healing

Learn to Lead Transformational Group Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAP)
Online + In-Person Retreat | Jan 16–20, 2026 | Portland, OR

“The next Buddha will be a Sangha.” –– Thich Nhat Hanh

Why Do Medicine Work in Groups?

As we look at the current world crisis of trauma and division we are being invited to deepen our healing and consciousness work. Many indigenous and communal societies around the globe have been healing effectively in medicine groups for eons. Now more than ever, we are being asked as a society to remember the importance and power of shared healing. The healing and consciousness expanding effects of ketamine, like other healing medicines, is significantly magnified in group work. We are social beings by our very nature and our patients or clients who remain isolated and lonely will remain unhealthy. When guided skillfully, group KAP journeys are a powerful tool to help us all heal, step beyond ego defenses, accelerate our bonding, and realize the fundamental truth of our oneness.

Ketamine-assisted therapy is revolutionizing mental health care and group journeys are at the forefront of this evolution. Join teachers with years of experience leading groups for an immersive and experiential training to help you become a more effective group KAP leader.

The Trainers

The trainers have extensive experience in leading various groups including: T-groups, psychodynamic process groups, support groups, psychoeducational groups, and trauma groups. Topics of the groups that the trainers have led include: Veteran groups, Men’s groups, Women’s groups, Consciousness-focused groups, IFS/KAP training groups, psychodrama/KAP groups, Depth psychotherapy, Couple’s support groups, Single’s support and process groups, First Responder groups, Psychotherapist Process groups, Group Analysis, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy groups, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy training groups, On-line, and In-Person groups…..

Steve Rosonke, MD (he/him)

Dr. Steve Rosonke is the founder and medical director of Rainfall Medicine, a ketamine and consciousness center in Portland, Oregon. He was in the first-ever KAP training cohort in the US. He subsequently became a trainer in the field and has been leading group experiential KAP trainings for many years. He first taught with the Ketamine Training Center and then transitioned to collaborating with his dear friends at Polaris Insight Center to build their own unique and well-regarded KAP training program. He is passionate about the impact and necessity of group work to heal the collective. He also runs frequent healing groups and retreats from his own clinic at Rainfall. Additionally, he has spent the last 3 years studying psychedelic psychotherapy and shamanism with traditional indigenous healers in communal societies in Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Gabon. He has a particular interest in bridging psychedelic healing with consciousness work and spirituality.

Haim Weinberg, PhD (he/him)

Dr. Weinberg is a licensed psychologist in California (PSY 23243) & Israel, in private practice in Sacramento, California, as co-owner of the Sacramento Center for Psychotherapy (https://sacramentocenterforpsychotherapy.com/) with more than 40 years of experience. He is also a group analyst and Certified Group Psychotherapist. He is past President of the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy and the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society. Dr. Weinberg was the Academic Vice President of the Professional School of Psychology, where he created and coordinated an online doctoral program in group psychotherapy and marital therapy. He is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and of the International Group Psychotherapy Association, as well as a Distinguished Fellow of the Israeli Group Psychotherapy Association. He has received several awards, including the Harold Bernard Group Psychotherapy Training Award, the Ann Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Therapy and the Bob Klein Award for Social Responsibility. Dr. Weinberg has published books on Internet groups and about the Social Unconscious with 10 books, 24 book chapters and 55 articles to his name. His books were translated in China, Japan, Romania, South Korea, Czech Republic, and Israel. He has developed group therapy training groups in Asia, and is leading online training process groups for therapists around the world.

Veronika Gold, LMFT (she/her)

Veronika is a marriage and family therapist who specializes in the treatment of trauma, somatic work, energy medicine, and training of therapists. Veronika is a co-founder of Polaris Insight Center, and a lead trainer at the Polaris Insight Training Program and Rainfall Medicine Training Program. She was a Sub-Investigator and Co-therapist, educator, and mentor supervisor on the Lykos MDMA-Assisted Therapy Clinical Trials for the treatment of PTSD. Veronika has been trained through SUR (Czech Republic) in a 4-year intensive training (500 hours) in a group psychotherapy. She has been leading and co-leading therapy groups since 1999, and KAP groups, and KAP group retreats since 2018. Veronika has undergone multiple trainings in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including advanced training through the Ketamine Training Center and Kriya Institute, 5-MeO-DMT training through Fluence, psilocybin facilitator training through InnerTrack. She is a Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Certified EMDR therapist, Consultant, and a Realization Process Teacher.

Format

The online learning modules include twelve 2-hour sessions on six Mondays and six Thursdays from 9:30-11:30 am PST and a 5-day in-person experiential retreat in Portland, OR on January 16-20, 2026. See detailed dates below.

This training is for you if you are

A licensed therapist, psychiatrist, physician, chaplain, or clinical provider.
Already working with ketamine-assisted therapy and planning to incorporate group KAP.
Working with groups, interested in KAP, and wanting to integrate the two fields.
Seeking to deepen your own healing as well as your skillset to confidently hold space for group healing.
Ready to lead with integrity, presence, increased consciousness, and clinical excellence.

In this training, you will

Understand the science and safety behind ketamine-assisted therapy in group settings.
Learn specifics of group KAP intake, preparation, and integration processes.
Master the art of safe, ethical, and effective facilitation and holding space for collective transformation and individual insight.
Learn how to design and structure therapeutic and conscious group medicine containers.
Understand the important differences between typical group psychotherapy and consciousness-expanding medicine containers.
Gain wisdom in group dynamics and phenomena, safety and structure.
Increase your awareness of your own shadow and learn how to hold shadow in a group container.
Practice leading group journeys from start to finish in a safe environment with supportive teachers.

Embrace group consciousness practices to help us all step beyond barriers to connection, defenses, aversions, judgments, etc.
Learn the importance of your own healing to prepare for leading groups.
Expand somatic, psychospiritual, and transpersonal techniques for facilitation.
Understand and develop somatic practices and the use of touch in group KAP.
Understand power dynamics in consciousness-expanding medicine spaces.
Practice leading your own group KAP journeys in a safe and supervised setting.
Experience your own deep work with group KAP medicine journeys.

Prerequisites

Polaris Module 1 training or equivalent KAP introductory training
Filling out a retreat application.
Participate in medical and evaluation screening (acceptance to the training program depends on the results of the screening)
Prior KAP training beyond Module 1 is not required but recommended.
Prior KAP self-experience is not required but recommended.

In addition, you have conducted

20+ KAP sessions
Or
20+ group sessions with at least 2 different groups
Or
You have attended Polaris/Rainfall ketamine training retreat

Lead the next evolution of mental health care and collective healing. Become a confident, ethical, trauma-informed and consciousness-informed group leader to foster deep healing, connection and transformation through learning the art of communal KAP group facilitation.

To sign up or for more information contact Regine at regine@rainfallmedicine.com.

Location & Training Format

Online Component

Twelve 2-hour live sessions held via Zoom:
🗓 Mondays & Thursdays | ⏰ 9:30 – 11:30 AM PST

Session Fees

Total Fee: $4,750

Enrollment is now open but spots are limited to maintain group integrity and personalized instruction. Minimum number of participants is 10, maximum 24.

Full Training Schedule

October 2025 – February 2026
Detailed Schedule, online sessions are 9:30-11:30AM PST. In-person retreat starts at 8AM on Friday, and ends by 2PM on Tuesday.

DATE	DAY	TOPIC
10/13	Monday	Introduction. Why group therapy? Research about its efficacy. Therapeutic factors in groups.
10/23	Thursday	The group developmental stages. Conflict as a developmental stage. Introduction to trauma groups. Rupture and repair.
10/30	Thursday	Consciousness work, the importance of communal healing. Holding the Shadow. Countertransference.
11/13	Thursday	Selection of participants. Consent process. Creating a container, group agreements. Group-as-a-whole interventions. Different kinds of groups and different schools for leading groups.
11/20	Thursday	Preparing participants for the group. Self-care of clients, and self-care of therapists.
11/24	Monday	Group container, and how it works in psychedelic space. Compassion.
12/1	Monday	The scapegoat phenomenon and difficult patients in groups.
12/11	Thursday	Internal Process of Facilitator. Creating a functional collaboration for therapists. Co-leading groups.
12/18	Thursday	Embodiment and use of touch. How not to be a narcissistic cult leader. Ethical issues in group therapy.
1/5	Monday	Preparation for the retreat.
1/16–20	Fri–Tues	In-person retreat at The Heart of the Rose in Portland, OR
1/26	Monday	Integration
2/5	Thursday	Integration. Closing.

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When we overcome the stigma and judgment of addiction, mental illness, and trauma, we can treat ourselves and others with empathy and compassion. With less shame and blame, recovery from any type of affliction can happen more easily and we can move into a state of grace and wellbeing.