Beyond the Experience: Integration

Gerónimo Tejedor is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in trauma and dissociation, who also works as an organizational consultant. He has been trained in various contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches, including EMDR and DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting), and is a specialist in relational psychology. He holds a master’s degree in Bonds, Families, and Sociocultural Diversity; his transdisciplinary thesis explores the relationships between humans and ayahuasca from a decolonized perspective, examining the interspecies connections that emerge and their modes of integration.
For more than 30 years, he has been connected to the world of Master Plants. His work focuses on the regeneration and revaluation of the knowledge of Indigenous peoples of South America, fostering a critical, contextualized, and respectful dialogue between different ways of knowing. Within this framework, he develops transdisciplinary practices and research that link psychotherapeutic clinical work and co-visions of processes related to experiences with Master Plants and psychedelics, in conversation with Indigenous epistemologies, decolonial studies, and integration practices. His work seeks to build bridges across knowledge systems and disciplinary fields, creating new forms of understanding, accompaniment, and care.

Mijal Schmidt is a clinical psychologist specializing in crisis intervention, hospital clinical psychology, and therapeutic accompaniment. She has extensive experience working with complex, mixed diagnoses including people with psychotic disorders, autism, PTSD, affective disorders, and others. She founded and directed the Lazo y Voz clinical intervention organization and coordinated various interdisciplinary teams treating patients and families.

For 10 years she has been working with master plants and as an integrator of psychedelic experiences from a clinical perspective. Through her master’s degree in musicology, she has investigated the power of sacred songs (ikaros) and studied their transmission in the liminal space of interspecies communication.

Marc Aixalà is the Lead Faculty at the Integration Training in ICEERS’ Academy. Marc is a telecommunication engineer and psychologist with post degree studies in Integrative Psychotherapy, and Strategic Therapy, and is trained in the therapeutic use of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and in MDMA assisted-psychotherapy for PTSD. Marc works as a psychotherapist in Barcelona, is a holotropic breathwork facilitator, and a member of the staff for Grof Transpersonal Training. He has facilitated breathwork workshops in Barcelona, Switzerland, Romania, Israel and Slovenia and is conducting research into its therapeutic applications. He has also been a team leader and trainer at the Kosmicare psychedelic harm reduction service at the Boom Festival.

Ninawa Pai da Mata is a prominent spiritual leader of the Huni Kuin People and lives in Novo Futuro Village, within the Kaxinawá Indigenous Territory of the Humaitá River, in the municipality of Tarauacá, Acre. As a Huni Kuin leader, Ninawa has been a key figure in the revitalization of the Hãtxa Kuin language and serves as a teacher of his people’s sacred diets.

He is the author of many sacred prayers and a pioneering figure in conducting Huni Kuin spiritual ceremonies with the Forest Medicines outside Brazil. In addition to leading the renowned Eskawatã Kayawai Festival, he has participated in the Indigenous Ayahuasca Conferences since their first edition, contributing to dialogue and the strengthening of Indigenous traditions.