Week by week, so that nothing here is a surprise. The journey itself is a few hours and belongs to a licensed provider in a place where it is legal. Everything else is us.
Screening first, and it is real. Before anything else, the psychologist takes a full history: psychiatric, family, medical, medication. Some answers end the process, and we say so on the first day rather than the last. See the risks for what they are. If you are on medication, the question of what to do about it belongs to the doctor who prescribed it — not to us, and not to a retreat.
Then the logotherapy. Frankl's first question is not what do you want from this? but what is being asked of you? — what, in your actual life, is waiting to be done, loved, or borne. Preparation is four to six sessions of that question, written down. By the end you have a page in your own words that says why you are going and what you will be responsible for when you get back. The facilitator carries a copy on the day.
The people at home. We ask who will know, who will collect you, and who you will talk to in the first week back. If the answer is no one, that is a preparation problem to solve before travel, not after.
The place and the provider. We help you choose a jurisdiction and a licensed provider, and we deal with the provider's own intake. The provider decides what happens in their room, under their law. We do not.
Some people finish preparation and decide not to go — because the screening said no, or because the writing found that the thing waiting to be done did not need a journey at all. We count that as the work succeeding.
A Thai facilitator travels with you. Their job is to be the safe person: someone who knows your page, has sat with you for weeks, and is in the building — with you, or in the next room, as the provider's rules allow — for the whole day and the night after.
What the facilitator does: travels, waits, listens, keeps you fed and warm afterward, writes down what you say in the first hours while it is still vivid, and gets you home.
What the facilitator does not do: supply, hold, prepare, dose, or advise on any substance; interpret your experience; act as a therapist; take you anywhere the law does not allow. A facilitator who is asked to do any of these will refuse and will tell us.
The provider is a licensed service in a jurisdiction where this is legal — the list, with the law. What happens under their roof is governed by their rules and their staff. Our facilitator is your person in that setting, not theirs.
This is the part the industry skips and the part logotherapy was built for. Frankl's whole method points away from the inner experience and toward the world: meaning is not something you feel, it is something you do — a task, a person, a stance under what cannot be changed. A large experience can show you a great deal. It cannot do any of it for you.
Integration is six to eight sessions over roughly three months, with the logotherapist and with the psychologist as needed:
It is not a plan for the next journey. If the first thing someone wants to talk about afterward is going again, that is the conversation we have — and the answer is usually the ordinary Tuesday.
Our fee covers preparation, the facilitator's time and travel, and integration. It does not include your own travel, the licensed provider's fee, or anything the provider supplies — those you pay to them, directly, in their country, under their rules. We will tell you the number when we have talked and know what your case needs; write and ask.
From the first email to the three-month check is usually five to six months. We take few clients at a time, because three people are around each one.