Cultivating a grounded
psychedelic practice
Learn how to prepare for a psychedelic experience, navigate it with mindfulness, and bring what you learn into your life.
Founding pre-order. Start Microdosing Mindfully today. Fieldwork is made available in the same account by 31 March 2027.
We provide education, preparation and integration support. You are responsible for your medicine and for following the law where you live.
An approach to psychedelics rooted in mindfulness and ecology.
Seven parts, in order, at your own pace. Fieldwork starts with your own experience and reaches beyond it, to the people around you and the world you share. Each part closes with a question and something to put into practice.
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Orientation
Why Fieldwork exists and how it works. You begin with a question about your life rather than a goal, and you don't need a clear intention or a dramatic story. You start right where you are.
ReflectWhat in my life and in the world is asking for my attention?
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Psychedelics
What psychedelics are, how they differ, their risks, and when a decision needs a professional rather than a course. Then set, setting and support: how your body, the people around you, your culture and your surroundings shape an experience.
ReflectWhat shapes how I experience myself and the world?
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Grounding
Mindfulness meditation and conscious connected breathwork as core practices. Stabilizing attention, opening awareness, listening to your body, other people, and the living world. You practise all of it sober, well before any psychedelic experience.
ReflectWhat becomes noticeable when I slow down and pay attention?
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Preparation
Deciding whether now is the right time, uncovering a meaningful question or intention, understanding dose and intensity, choosing a sitter and agreeing how they will help, and setting up the space. Deciding to wait counts as a good outcome too.
ReflectWhy this, why now?
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Navigation
Applying mindfulness during a psychedelic experience, meeting difficulty, beauty and mystery alike, surrender without submission, and when to call for more help. You finish by writing a short guide to keep close during the experience, shared with your sitter if you choose to have one.
ReflectHow do I meet uncertainty, beauty, grief, and change?
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Integration
Rest and recovery first. Then a four-step integration cycle (feel, reflect, act, return) for working with images, meaning and emotions, and for turning a sense of unity and interconnection into care for real people and places.
ReflectWhat deserves my attention, and how might I respond with care?
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Practice
Developing a lifelong, nourishing relationship to psychedelics that is fully your own, centred on community, care for place and your limits. Then supporting others with humility, and knowing when to journey again, take a long break, or stop. It ends with a plan to revisit over the following months.
ReflectIntegration into what?
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Kept up to date
Revised as new research comes out, with guest lectures planned from researchers, clinicians and teachers across disciplines. Also planned, at extra cost: a printed Fieldwork Manual and in-person retreats where a group can practise together.
Updates included at no extra cost
We do not supply, handle, or administer any substance. In Canada we can point you to a trusted third party, but anything you buy is between you and them.
Partners & Collaborators
The foundations of a healthy psychedelic practice.
Written lessons with selected videos, guided practices, and reflection questions at the end of each part, with a community around them.
Lessons in seven parts
Written lessons, with video for selected ones, covering psychedelics and their risks, preparation, the experience itself, integration and the long term. Read them at your own pace and come back to them when you need to.
Guided practices
Guided audio practices to do sober, in ordinary life: breath and body awareness, conscious connected breathwork, mindful walking, open awareness, loving-kindness and more. Any of them can be shortened, adapted or skipped.
Putting it into practice
Each part ends with a short reflection or plan you keep in your own notebook, including a map of your relationships, a preparation plan, a one-page guide for the experience itself, an integration experiment, and a practice plan to revisit over the following three to six months.
Preparing the person beside you
How to choose a sitter, what to ask them, and what to agree in advance: touch and consent, privacy, what happens if they can't make it, and when to call for more help. A later lesson covers what you can and can't offer when a friend asks you for support.
Microdosing Mindfully available now
Our three-week, fifteen-lesson microdosing course opens the day you pre-order. It is also sold on its own for $99. Many people start with microdosing, and the course teaches it with the same approach as the rest of Fieldwork.
Community of practice
Psygaia's moderated community, where you keep working on integration between lessons. Our guides lead monthly integration and breathwork circles, you can ask questions whenever they come up, and each part has an optional prompt to talk through there. Discussing where to buy substances is not allowed. If you pre-order, you keep the community for life. People who buy after launch get 6 months of membership, then pay on a sliding scale from $5 a month, with $10 suggested.
Kept up to date
Fieldwork is revised as new research and better practice emerge, and every update and release is yours at no extra cost. That includes the guest lectures planned from researchers, clinicians and teachers across disciplines. A printed Fieldwork Manual and in-person retreats, where a group can practise together, are planned too, at extra cost.
Attention, people and place.
Every part works on all three, because in Psygaia's research they shape each other before, during and after an experience.
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Attention
Mindfulness practices, like meditation and breathwork, done sober in ordinary life. You learn to notice, to bring your attention back, to attune to sensation in the body, to hold thoughts and insights without taking them as facts, and to stay open to being wrong. It gives you something to rely on when an experience gets intense.
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People
The people around your practice before, during and after an experience: the person beside you, friends, community, and professionals where they are needed. You learn to ask for care, set boundaries, listen and take feedback, and to notice how a teacher's or a group's expectations can shape what you experience.
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Place
The places and living things your life depends on. It starts with a familiar place you return to throughout the program, a park, a tree, even the view from a window. Then you ask how attention and connection might become care, such as learning that place's history or joining people already looking after it.
In one clinical trial, dosing sessions were 78% silence. Participants said they were helped by presence, reassurance and knowing someone steady was available, rather than by the provider directing the experience. Support still matters, and during a session it mostly means a steady person in the room. So Fieldwork teaches you to choose and brief the person who will be there, and puts most of its weight on the weeks before and after.
See the research
In a published analysis of its psilocybin trial for PTSD, Compass Pathways measured how much of each dosing session was actually filled with speech. 78% of it was silence.
Asked what helped, participants named reassurance, validation and simply knowing someone steady was available. They did not point to anything the provider actively did to steer the experience.
What it doesn't show. The clinical trial had 22 participants with PTSD. Each was given 25 mg of COMP360 and supported by trained providers following a formal protocol. It tells us what helpful support looked like in those hours. It does not tell us that a prepared friend can stand in for a clinician, and we don't claim it does.
Post-hoc analysis of an open-label Phase 2 trial of COMP360 psilocybin for PTSD, Journal of Psychopharmacology, Compass Pathways, 2026.
Fieldwork is for you if…
Most people who come to us have been curious for a long time. They want to do it well, with support around them.
Pre-order for $199 →- You're preparing for a psychedelic experience and want a careful, structured way to approach it.
- You've had experiences before and want to integrate them, or approach the next one differently.
- You haven't decided whether to journey at all, and want to decide with good information. Deciding not to is a valid outcome, and you never have to take anything to finish the program.
- You want a thoughtful, ongoing practice that fits your relationships, the places you live and the rest of your life.
- You want structure, honesty, and community, and you're ready to take your time.
You're looking for a quick protocol, a guaranteed outcome, just a supplier, a qualification to sit for other people, or a replacement for acute mental-health care. If you want one-to-one support from a guide, that's coaching, and you can book our guides by the hour.
We don't integrate alone.
Most people integrate on their own: a little journalling, a few insights, then back to normal life. The Psygaia Framework treats healing as reconnection: repairing your relationships with your body, the people closest to you, your work, and the living world you are part of.
Everyone who pre-orders gets lifetime membership of Psygaia's Circle, which includes monthly integration and breathwork circles led by Louis and other guides, and a moderated place to ask any and all questions. After launch, Fieldwork will include 6 months of membership, then a sliding scale for membership from $5 a month, with $10 suggested.
Each part of Fieldwork ends with an optional prompt to discuss there. Sharing is always your choice: you can work privately and still finish the program.
What students said about Microdosing Mindfully.
I loved this microdosing course. Not only did it provide practical instructions on how to microdose, but it gave me a lot of tools for how to process emotions, negative beliefs, and anything else that might come up. It's a really well-rounded course created with a lot of forethought and care.
As someone with anxiety, the emphasis on safety and reflection made all the difference. I felt contained rather than pushed. I'm grateful for this course and its mindful, intentional approach.
This course and community helped me slow down and notice how subtle my responses actually were. I stopped trying to 'get something' from microdosing and started listening.
I really enjoyed this microdosing course. It helped me learn how to combine microdosing with meditation to facilitate awareness, healing, and deeper focus. The course felt comprehensive and the community is great.
The most comprehensive microdosing course I've taken. Also, Psygaia's Circle is a special community to be a part of.
Louis Belleau, MA
As founder of Psygaia, Louis has spent years working directly with people navigating psychedelic experiences — building this program around what he observed them genuinely needing, not just what the literature recommends. He holds an MA in Psychedelics & Consciousness Studies from the University of Ottawa, an interdisciplinary background in Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies from McGill, and is a certified yoga and breathwork teacher.
Louis created Fieldwork in response to a gap he observed in psychedelic education — where technical protocols dominate, and the reflective, relational work that makes psychedelic experiences genuinely meaningful gets lost.
The field also lacks an ecological, systems-based perspective on psychedelics and their effects on consciousness and health. For Louis, psychedelics are more than clinical interventions or therapy tools: they are ecological molecules within ecological networks, recognised by many cultures as teachers and sacraments.
More about Louis →-
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Guest lectures are planned for later releases, from Psygaia's advisory board and other researchers, clinicians and teachers. Meet the board →
Careful by design.
Risks come first
Risks, health history and medication come in the second part, before any planning, along with when a decision needs a doctor or prescriber rather than a course. The readiness lessons say plainly when not to go ahead, and treat that as a valid outcome. Breathwork has risks of its own: skip conscious connected breathwork if you are pregnant or have a heart condition, high blood pressure, epilepsy, glaucoma or a history of psychosis, and ask a doctor if you are unsure.
Clear about what is known
The lessons keep research findings, theory, personal interpretation and values apart, and say which is which. That includes Psygaia's own ecological hypothesis, which is taught as a hypothesis.
At your pace, on your terms
Every practice can be shortened, adapted or skipped, with your eyes open, sitting or moving. Sharing is optional, and private work counts as taking part.
Honest about scope
We support wellbeing and growth. We don't diagnose, treat, or cure, and we never supply, handle, or administer substances. In Canada we can point you to a trusted third party, and you buy from them directly. Finishing the program doesn't mean you are ready to take psychedelics, or qualified to sit for someone else.
Begin your practice today.
- Pre-order
One payment of $199. Microdosing Mindfully and the community open straight away.
- Start with Microdosing Mindfully
Three weeks, fifteen lessons, at your own pace. It is the part of Fieldwork that is ready now.
- Fieldwork opens
By 31 March 2027, in the same account, with nothing more to pay. We'll email you the day it does.
$199USD
Save $100Founding price, paid once. $299 from launch.
- Microdosing Mindfully available now (sold alone for $99)
- Lifetime membership of Psygaia's Circle available now
- Fieldwork's first release by 31 March 2027
- Every later release and update
Full refund until launch, and 14 days after Proceeds support the Foundation
Not ready to pay? Leave your email and we'll tell you when Fieldwork opens.
Honest answers.
What people ask before they pre-order.
When does Fieldwork open?
By 31 March 2027. The curriculum is being written now. When it is ready it appears in the same account you pre-ordered with, and we email you the day it opens.
The first release is the whole program: written lessons with selected videos, guided audio practices, and a reflection or plan at the end of each part. It keeps being revised as research and practice move on, and guest lectures are planned for later releases. All of that is included. A printed Fieldwork Manual and in-person retreats are planned as well, at extra cost.
What do I get when I pre-order?
Microdosing Mindfully, our three-week microdosing course, and lifetime membership of Psygaia's community. Both open the day you pay.
Fieldwork itself opens by 31 March 2027, and every later release and update is included at no extra cost. The founding price is $199; from launch it will be $299.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. You can ask for a full refund at any time before Fieldwork opens, and for 14 days after it opens. Email hello@psygaia.org and we will refund it, no questions asked.
Where did Microdosing Mindfully go?
Microdosing Mindfully is now part of Fieldwork. A founding pre-order includes the course, and you can start it the day you pay.
I already bought Microdosing Mindfully. Does anything change?
No. You keep the course and your lifetime community membership.
Is there a guide? Do I get 1:1 support?
Not in the program. Fieldwork is self-paced. You get the lessons, the guided practices and the community. There is no private guide assigned to you and no phone line on your session day.
You won't be alone. The program teaches you to choose and brief the person beside you, and our guides moderate the community.
If you want one-to-one support, you can book our guides at $125 an hour, or $100 an hour for four hours or more. You can take the program and book just an hour or two with a guide around your session.
Which substances is this built for?
Psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, is the main example throughout, and most of the research we draw on studied it. The program also covers how LSD, mescaline and DMT or ayahuasca differ.
The method applies to other substances too. Careful screening, weeks of preparation, someone steady in the room, and structured integration afterwards stay much the same from one substance to the next, but the risks differ. Ayahuasca brings MAOI interactions and rarely suits a session at home. MDMA and ketamine are not classical psychedelics, and each carries its own risks.
Is this legal?
Fieldwork itself is legal. It is education, preparation and integration material, and none of it involves supplying or administering any substance.
The substances themselves remain controlled in most countries, including Canada. You are always responsible for understanding and following the law where you live.
So where does the medicine come from?
Not from us. We do not supply it, handle it, or administer it, and nothing you take ever passes through us.
If you are in Canada, we can point you to a trusted third party once you are enrolled. You buy from them directly, and what they send you is their responsibility, not ours.
They deliver in Canada only. Outside Canada we have nobody to point you to. You can still take the program, because the preparation and integration work the same anywhere. You are responsible for finding a source and for following the law where you live.
What if I am on antidepressants or other medication?
This is covered early in the program. SSRIs, MAOIs, lithium and a number of other medications interact with psychedelics in ways that range from blunting the experience to being dangerous.
The curriculum gives you evidence-informed guidance, and for some medications that guidance is to avoid psychedelics while you are taking them. Never change prescribed medication without talking to your prescriber. If your situation is complicated, talk to a clinician.
What happens if my session gets difficult?
Difficult moments are common, and often a normal part of the experience. The Navigation part covers meeting them: slowing down, coming back to your body and the room, asking for what you need, and recognising when you need more help than you have. You rehearse it sober beforehand, with your sitter if you have one.
There is no guide on call, so the preparation is essential.
Who actually sits with me?
Someone you already trust: a partner, sibling, or close friend. We do not send a stranger into your home and we do not expect you to find a professional.
The program shows you how to choose them and what to agree in advance. Trust and goodwill matter, but they don't make someone competent, so you also talk through their experience, their limits and when they would call for help. They are not a clinician.
What if I do not have anyone to sit with me?
This is the most common worry we hear, and it is usually easier to solve than it seems. The person does not have to be your closest friend, or anyone who has done this before. They need to be steady and willing, and someone you can be yourself around. Most people who think it through find two or three people they had not considered.
The curriculum covers in detail who to ask and how to ask them. We strongly recommend having someone with you, especially the first time or at a higher dose. If you go ahead without a sitter, your preparation still covers who knows your plans, who you can reach, and what would make you call for help.
Do I need previous psychedelic experience?
No. It is written for beginners and for people with experience. You never have to take a psychedelic to finish it, and if you haven't had an experience yet, a worked example takes you through the integration lessons until you have your own.
Why not just read about this and do it myself?
You can read about each piece, and our free guides on How To Use Psychedelics cover a lot of it. Fieldwork is the only place that puts the pieces together: mindfulness as the core skill, support built before you need it, and integration that reaches into your relationships and the places you live.
Each part then asks you to put it into practice in your own life, with a reflection or plan you keep. This is the step people most often skip when they work alone.
Is Fieldwork therapy?
No. It is a structured education, preparation and integration program. It is not psychotherapy or medical treatment, it does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it is not a substitute for mental-health care.
If you are in acute distress or crisis, please contact a crisis line or a mental-health professional instead.
Go in prepared.
You won't find this assembled anywhere else. Fieldwork teaches the Psygaia Framework — psychedelics as ecological and relational, with mindfulness as the core method.
Microdosing Mindfully today · Fieldwork by 31 March 2027 · Full refund until launch · You are responsible for your medicine and for following the law where you live