Psilocybin-Assisted Leadership Optimization Retreat in Aspen, CO (5 Nights)

SIGNATURE for Leadership Optimization

A 5-Day Executive Retreat to Achieve Your Arête (Your Highest Potential) in Leadership

SIGNATURE for Leadership Optimization is for executives already performing at a high level and ready to go beyond it. Arête is the ancient Greek concept of your highest embodied potential in service. This retreat is designed to help you access it.

Through a combination of executive coaching, psychotherapy, and the intentional use of psilocybin, we create the conditions for accelerated growth and transformation. A growing body of research shows that psychedelic compounds temporarily down-regulate the brain’s default mode network, quieting habitual patterns and opening a window of heightened neuroplasticity and synaptogenesis.

In this state, the brain forms new connections, often accompanied by a surge in creative ideation, insight, and breakthrough thinking. With the right structure, coaching, and integration, these shifts can translate into meaningful, sustained changes in how you think, lead, and perform.

This is not about recovery. It is about expansion.

Over five days, you will:

Increase clarity, decision velocity, and strategic precision
Expand creativity and breakthrough thinking
Enhance emotional intelligence and leadership capacity
Identify high-leverage opportunities for personal and business growth
Strengthen alignment, resilience, and sustained performance
You will do this alongside a small group of high-performing peers, leaders who operate at a high level and are committed to pushing beyond it. This is not a typical psychedelic retreat. In Aspen, on the Aspen Meadows campus of the Aspen Institute, you are immersed in an environment designed for the world’s top leaders to think, build, and evolve at the highest level, supported by world-class coaches, pristine nature, and five-star accommodations. There is nothing else like it.

Eligibility & Screening

All executives are welcome to apply.

Following your application, you will complete a live virtual medical and safety screening with Dr. Westergaard to ensure the experience is appropriate for you and to support your safety and outcomes.

Final confirmation of your placement will be provided after this assessment.

Important: For your well-being, this program is not suitable for individuals with Bipolar I, schizophrenia, or related schizoaffective conditions.