Disrupting the Stories That Shape Us
Transforming Leadership by Confronting Race, Power, and the Narratives We Carry
A Collaborative Retreat Experience by Conscious Revolution, Riverbird Clinic, and Good Medicine Collective
Date: October 27-29, 2025
Location: Portland, Maine
Conscious Revolution: 10 Cottage Road, South Portland, Maine
Good Medicine Collective: 231 York Street, Portland, Maine
Cost:
$1,975 per person
Includes:
3 full retreat days:
Monday: Orienting to the Stories that Shape Us
Tuesday: Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Experience
Wednesday: Integration of the retreat experience
Meals:
Monday: Lunch & dinner
Tuesday: Light dinner only (due to fasting requirements for Ketamine session)
Wednesday: Lunch
Tiered pricing available:
Full sponsor $3950
Partial sponsor $2960
Full pay $1975
Member $1500
Partial support $990
Fully supported $0
Program Description:
This three-day retreat, brought to you in collaboration by Conscious Revolution, Riverbird Clinic invites leaders, visionaries, and change-makers ready to engage in the deep inner work required to lead in more inclusive, courageous, and heart-centered ways. This experience invites participants to look inward—not only to expand self-awareness and empathy, but to challenge and disrupt the stories we’ve inherited about leadership, power, identity, and equity.
Too often, conversations about equity remain at the surface—focused on external systems or polarizing stories while leaving internalized patterns untouched. This retreat offers a different path: one where inner transformation becomes the foundation for dismantling harmful narratives, and where leadership becomes a practice of ongoing self-inquiry, connection, and conscious disruption.
Through reflective exercises, somatic practices, group dialogue, and ketamine-assisted therapy, participants will explore how social conditioning, personal identity, and systemic inequities live within the body and mind. Together, we will uncover how these internalized stories shape how we lead, relate, and either uphold or interrupt dominant systems.
This retreat is not about getting it “right”—it’s about becoming more whole. By making space for curiosity, compassion, and discomfort, we create the conditions for lasting transformation—both personally and collectively.
Journey Within – Ketamine-Assisted Therapy at Riverbird
On day 2 of the retreat is a full-day, ketamine-assisted therapy session facilitated by Riverbird, part of the Good Medicine Collective in Portland. This experience is a powerful tool for personal and narrative disruption—helping participants move beyond rigid identity structures, conditioned beliefs, and deeply held emotional patterns.
Ketamine works by quieting the Default Mode Network—the part of the brain responsible for maintaining our sense of self and narrative continuity. When this network is quieted, it becomes possible to experience ourselves beyond the limiting stories we’ve inherited or internalized—stories shaped by systems of race, gender, class, and more.
In this expanded state of consciousness, participants can confront and soften long-held patterns of separation, protection, and control—opening space for healing, insight, and reintegration. This is the inner work that makes outer equity work authentic and potentially transformative.
Riverbird’s team will provide individualized clinical assessments, support throughout the session, and guided integration to help participants translate their experiences into conscious understanding and relational change.
What to Expect
Facilitated dialogue on equity, identity, and the inner stories we carry
Self-reflective and somatic practices to uncover and shift unconscious patterns
A full-day, professionally guided ketamine-assisted therapy session
Group integration sessions to translate personal insight into collective impact
Relational work around power, privilege, and leading with vulnerability
A supportive environment for deep work and authentic connection
Retreat Objectives
Participants will:
Explore how internalized narratives and identities influence leadership and connection
Use ketamine-assisted therapy as a tool to disrupt ingrained patterns and stories
Reflect on how systems of inequity shape both personal identity and leadership practice
Cultivate the emotional resilience and awareness needed for equity-centered leadership
Practice new ways of leading that prioritize healing, empathy, and relational integrity
Leave with a clearer sense of purpose, possibility, and the leadership legacy participants want to shape
General Schedule
September - Early October (Zoom): Individual intake session with one of the Riverbird clinicians. Once registered we will contact you with further details and to schedule the intake.
Monday October 6 at 7-830pm (Zoom): Group zoom orientation call with all Retreat facilitators and group members.
Monday October 27 at Conscious Revolution (beginning at 9am): Confronting the Narratives we Carry - Orienting Day, Group Lunch, and Group Dinner
Tuesday October 28 at Good Medicine Collective: Journey Within -Ketamine Assisted Therapy session and optional evening reflection space with light food
Wednesday October 29 at Good Medicine Collective (ending by 1pm): Overall retreat integration and closing lunch.
Lodging
Lodging is not included in the cost of this retreat. We are happy to help you find the perfect location to stay if you are visiting the area.
Group Size
Up to 10 people
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Conscious Revolution is a Benefit Corporation and a Certified B Corp. Your financial support is making an impact.
Most programs have a set fee. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. In the case of tiered pricing programs, you will see the below options when you go to purchase.
Full sponsor: I have the ability to pay 100% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees and sponsor 100% for someone else
Partial sponsor: I have the ability to pay 100% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees and sponsor 50% for someone else
Full payment: I have the ability to pay 100% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees
Partially supported payment: I have a financial hardship and I am the ability to pay 50% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees
Fully supported payment: I have a financial hardship and I am unable to contribute financially.
We ask you to consider: What is the right amount for you? What are your financial means? Can you offer more so another person can join offerings in the Conscious Leadership Community? The majority of the program fee goes to paying facilitators to compensate for their contributions. Excess funds, if any, support making our future programs and events accessible to all those who would like to attend regardless of their ability to pay.
We do not want anyone to be turned away due to lack of resources and we intend for our offerings to be accessible to all leaders. We are also committed to fostering a community that is diverse and balanced. Need-based scholarships are typically reserved for BIPOC, LGBTQ+ folks and applicants from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
We do our best to find agreeable solutions for all, and though we cannot accommodate every request, we will always do our best, so please let us know what you may need.
Facilitator
We’re excited to offer this new and timely experience for our community—one that feels deeply needed at this moment. This retreat is guided by a team of facilitators with a wide range of experience, coming together from Conscious Revolution, Riverbird Clinic, and the Good Medicine Collective. We’re united by a shared commitment to transforming ourselves, our organizations, and the systems we live within.