Sacred Breakthrough uses psilocybin-containing truffles, also known as sclerotia. They contain psilocybin and psilocin, the compounds responsible for the psychedelic experience. Psilocybin truffles are legally available in the Netherlands and are openly sold through Dutch smartshops. Within Sacred Breakthrough, however, the psychedelic experience is only one part of a much broader journey involving preparation, carefully supported experiences, and structured integration.

Sacred Breakthrough is a developmental and integration-focused programme. It is not medical, psychiatric, or psychological treatment, and we do not diagnose conditions or provide clinical symptom management. Rather, the journey creates space to explore underlying patterns and adaptations that may have developed through difficult, overwhelming, or depriving experiences, including how these may continue to shape identity, relationships, emotional and embodied responses, life choices, and spiritual or existential meaning. It does not replace appropriate professional healthcare, and no particular outcome can be guaranteed.

Your openness during screening is an important part of keeping the experience appropriate for you. Please share complete and accurate information about relevant physical and psychological health, medications, supplements, previous psychedelic experiences, and any professional care you are currently receiving. Please also tell us if anything important changes before the retreat. Never discontinue or change prescribed medication without consulting the healthcare professional responsible for your care.

You do not need to arrive composed or know exactly what will emerge. If emotions you have carried quietly for a long time begin to surface, you are welcome to feel and express them at your own pace. Our role is to offer a calm, non-judgmental environment where you can be with what arises without pressure, and later explore how those experiences may be meaningfully integrated into your life. You are never expected to force an emotional release, insight, memory, or particular kind of psychedelic experience. You remain the primary authority on your own experience. We do not impose interpretations or tell you what your experience should mean. We also understand that you do not know us yet, and trust should not be assumed. Your complimentary initial consultation gives you an opportunity to meet us, ask questions openly, understand how we work, and explore whether you feel comfortable undertaking a deeply personal journey with us.

Your autonomy and personal boundaries remain important throughout the journey. Supportive touch is optional, discussed in advance, and always requires consent. You may change your mind, ask for space, or withdraw consent at any time. To protect the safety and integrity of your experience, our practitioners maintain a clear professional commitment that no interaction with participants is romantic or sexual in nature.

What you share during preparation, the retreat, and integration is treated as confidential. Participants are expected to extend the same respect to one another. Another participant's identity, personal story, photographs, recordings, or experiences must not be shared without their explicit permission.

No.

Some people come because they want to move beyond relationship wounds, difficult experiences, or patterns that continue to affect their lives. Others come because they want to grow, thrive, deepen their relationships, reconnect with themselves, find greater groundedness or inner peace, or explore meaning and spirituality. You do not need to arrive with something that needs fixing. What matters is that there is something meaningful you would like to explore or move toward.

Not necessarily.

A previous diagnosis or period of psychological difficulty does not automatically determine whether Sacred Breakthrough is suitable for you. We consider your current wellbeing, history, stability, medication, support system, and individual circumstances. In some situations, we may also suggest involving an existing healthcare professional before deciding together whether proceeding is appropriate.

Possibly. Taking medication does not automatically exclude you.

Please tell us what you are taking during screening. We can help identify where possible interactions or other considerations may need to be discussed with the clinician responsible for your medication.

If reducing, discontinuing, or changing prescribed medication is ever being considered, this must be discussed and managed with your prescribing healthcare professional. We will never ask you to stop prescribed medication independently in order to attend the retreat.

Yes, with your permission.

Where it supports safe and informed decision-making, we are happy to communicate with your physician, psychiatrist, neurologist, therapist, or another relevant professional involved in your care.

We are comfortable working alongside the professional support you already have.

We do not pursue extremely high or so-called heroic doses.

Our approach is gradual and individually considered. We begin conservatively with a very small amount to observe your individual response before moving, where appropriate, toward a carefully considered working dose.

More intense does not automatically mean more valuable. The intention is to create conditions for meaningful exploration while maintaining appropriate support and safety.

Psilocybin generally produces changes in perception, emotion, attention, bodily awareness, or sense of self, but each person experiences it differently.

Some people experience vivid imagery or visual phenomena. Others experience the process primarily through emotions, memories, bodily sensations, perspectives, relationships, or shifts in meaning.

A highly visual experience is not necessary for the experience to be meaningful.

Usually, yes.

A psilocybin experience is not the same as being unconscious, anaesthetised, or physically paralysed. There may be periods when you naturally want to lie still, close your eyes, or remain deeply inward, but people are generally able to communicate needs and respond to their surroundings.

During your individual ceremonies, your practitioner remains available to communicate with and support you throughout the experience.

Your ordinary sense of time, identity, perception, or control may temporarily change. That is part of entering an altered state of consciousness.

It does not normally mean becoming completely unconscious or disconnected from your surroundings throughout the experience.

Preparation helps you understand these possibilities beforehand, and you are accompanied so that you are not expected to navigate the experience alone.

The acute psychedelic state is temporary.

The main effects of psilocybin typically unfold over several hours, often around four to six hours, although timing and intensity vary between individuals. You may continue to feel reflective, emotionally open, tired, or sensitive afterwards, which is why ceremony days allow time for rest and integration.

Remaining permanently in the acute psychedelic state is not the expected pharmacological course.

No.

During an individual ceremony, you receive one-to-one accompaniment. Your practitioner remains available throughout the experience.
There may be moments when you naturally want silence or inward space, but this is different from being left to manage the experience by yourself.

Strong emotions can arise, and they do not automatically mean that something has gone wrong.

Fear, grief, anger, love, vulnerability, sadness, or emotions you may have held back for a long time can sometimes surface.

You do not need to suppress these emotions for our comfort. We have created the retreat environment so you can feel and express what arises at your own pace, while your practitioner remains present, calm, and non-judgmental.

No.

There is no requirement to retrieve a memory, relive an event, cry, experience catharsis, or uncover a hidden trauma.

We trust your innate capacity to move toward what is most meaningful and relevant for you in the experience. Our role is to help you navigate what arises and later integrate it in ways that are useful and meaningful in your life.

That is completely okay.

A meaningful experience does not have to involve visions, mystical states, dramatic emotional releases, or one enormous life-changing realization.

Sometimes the most important movement is quieter: recognising an old pattern sooner, experiencing yourself differently, feeling more compassion, seeing a relationship from another perspective, or discovering that another way of responding may be possible.

There is no particular experience you are expected to achieve.

No.

We may help you explore what an image, emotion, memory, sensation, insight, or experience means to you, but we do not impose an interpretation.

We believe in your innate capacity to guide you toward what is most relevant and valuable within your experience. Our role is to help you navigate what emerges and support you in integrating it meaningfully into your life.

No. Sacred Breakthrough does not require or promote any particular religious, spiritual, or philosophical belief system.

You may come with a strong faith or spiritual practice, an entirely secular worldview, uncertainty about spirituality, or no spiritual belief at all.

Your worldview is welcome. If spiritual or existential material becomes meaningful during your experience, we are comfortable exploring and integrating it within your own belief system, without judgment and without imposing ours.

Yes.

Your autonomy remains important throughout the journey. You can decline an optional activity, change a boundary, ask for space, or decide before a ceremony that you do not wish to take psilocybin.

Once psilocybin has been taken, its effects cannot simply be switched off immediately. If you become uncomfortable during the experience, your practitioner remains with you and supports you while the effects naturally subside.

Available research indicates that psilocybin has a favourable safety profile when used with appropriate screening, preparation, setting, and support.

Temporary effects can include nausea, headache, anxiety, changes in blood pressure or heart rate, and periods of emotional intensity.

In a large survey involving more than 9,000 recent psilocybin mushroom users, approximately 0.2% reported seeking emergency medical treatment during the previous year, estimated at around 0.06% per use event. Research conducted in carefully screened and supported settings has similarly reported serious adverse events as uncommon.

Rare persistent perceptual effects, sometimes described as Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD), have also been reported. This is different from remembering, reflecting upon, or continuing to integrate a meaningful experience.

This is why we take screening, dose, set and setting, preparation, and practitioner accompaniment seriously.

No ongoing psilocybin use is required as part of Sacred Breakthrough.

Psilocybin is considered to have low abuse potential and is not known to produce physical dependence or a withdrawal syndrome.

You are not expected to begin microdosing, regularly repeat psychedelic experiences, or continue taking psilocybin in order to maintain what you gained.

After the retreat, the emphasis moves toward integration, bringing what was meaningful into your relationships, choices, behaviours, inner life, and everyday way of living.

No.

You are welcome to participate in group spaces without disclosing anything you would prefer to keep private.

Some people naturally feel comfortable sharing. Others need silence, privacy, or time before putting something into words. Both are respected.
Vulnerability is invited, never demanded.

Yes.

You can attend with someone important to you, but each person still enters Sacred Breakthrough as an individual participant with their own journey.

Even when you are exploring something connected to the relationship itself, each person's emotions, boundaries, ceremonies, insights, and integration remain their own.

This is also why we generally recommend individual rooms, even for people attending together. There may be moments when you want closeness and others when one or both of you simply need private space.

Contemporary clinical and research models of psychedelic-assisted work consistently include preparation before the psychedelic experience and integration afterwards.

Preparation helps establish trust, clarify intentions, understand relevant patterns and history, discuss expectations and boundaries, and help you approach an altered state with greater readiness.

Integration is the process of understanding what emerged and considering how insights, emotions, perspectives, or experiences might translate into your relationships, choices, habits, identity, and everyday life.

Preparation helps you enter the experience thoughtfully. Integration helps you decide what is worth carrying forward.

You do not need to understand everything immediately.

Some experiences feel clear very quickly. Others unfold gradually through emotions, memories, dreams, bodily responses, conversations, or changing perspectives over the following days and weeks.

This is one of the reasons integration continues after you leave the Netherlands. You have a structured space to explore what is emerging rather than being left alone to make sense of it.

Not at all.

The consultation is an opportunity for both of us to explore fit.

You can ask questions, discuss concerns, tell us what is bringing you here, and get a sense of who we are and how we work. We will also consider whether Sacred Breakthrough appears appropriate for you.

If either you or we feel that this is not the right journey, there is no obligation to continue.

We keep the core programme investment consistent across participants rather than changing the price according to personal categories.

Published Early Commitment and Shared Accommodation rates are available according to their respective conditions.

This allows us to provide the same level of preparation, practitioner time, accommodation, retreat support, and integration to every participant.

We would rather you join Sacred Breakthrough when the timing is right for you.

We do not recommend compromising essential financial responsibilities, taking on unsustainable debt, or placing yourself under significant financial strain in order to attend.

There will be future opportunities. Personal growth should not begin by creating a new source of financial stress.