Before the Retreat
- Application and cohort selection process
- Preparation calls
- Clinical screening
- Intention setting
- Confidential onboarding
- Leadership reflection exercises
Duration3 days
LocationAspen, CO
Group size4–12 Founder-CEOs
Pricing$6,000 per participant
DatesOctober 2–4, 2026
AvailabilityBy Invitation Only
- Duration3 days
- LocationAspen, CO
- Group size4–12 Founder-CEOs
- Pricing$6,000 per participant
- DatesOctober 2–4, 2026
- AvailabilityBy Invitation Only
3 daysDuration
Aspen, COLocation
4–12 Founder-CEOsGroup size
$6,000 per participantPricing
October 2–4, 2026Dates
By Invitation OnlyAvailability
Overview
The questions that matter most don’t get answered at your desk. Created by Althea and hosted in partnership with SANCTUM, this three-day private retreat is designed specifically for founder-CEOs who are already operating at a high level and want to go further by going deeper within. Most conversations around psilocybin today focus on therapy and mental health. This retreat is different. It is designed for leaders seeking greater clarity, perspective, and intentionality around why they are building, how they are leading, and who they are becoming in the process. Through a legal, medically supervised psilocybin experience, structured peer dialogue, executive coaching, somatic practices, nature immersion, and reflection, participants step away from the noise of ordinary life to reconnect with what matters most. Participants leave with renewed conviction, expanded perspective, and relationships with a peer cohort of founders who genuinely understand the unique challenges of leadership.
Who it's for
Founder-CEOs who…
- Desire to grow as leaders and widen their perspective.
- Are navigating a major decision or transition.
- Want greater clarity around identity, purpose, and direction.
- Are curious about consciousness and the deeper capacities of the mind.
- Feel the isolation that often accompanies leadership.
- Seek peers who understand what it means to carry a company.
- Want a structured, legal, and facilitated way to explore psilocybin in the context of being a CEO.
What you'll experience
The journey
Day 1 — Naming the Question
Participants arrive and disconnect from ordinary demands. Through guided conversation and structured inquiry, participants identify the deeper questions beneath strategic decisions, team dynamics, and future direction.
- Arrival and digital detox
- Group introductions and structured inquiry
- Identifying the deeper question beneath the surface
- Welcome dinner
Day 2 — Medicine Session
Morning preparation includes breathwork, partner inquiry, and reflective practices. The afternoon centers around a legal, professionally facilitated psilocybin experience at SANCTUM. The evening is quiet, intentional, and deeply held.
- Life review walk
- Partner inquiry and breathwork
- Professionally facilitated psilocybin experience at SANCTUM
- Quiet, held evening
Day 3 — Integration and the Roadmap Home
Participants engage in somatic integration, executive development workshops, and group sharing designed to translate insight into meaningful change.
- Somatic integration
- Executive development workshops
- Group sharing
- Accountability and implementation structures
Day 4 — Departure
Closing breakfast, ceremony, and departure, with continued support and accountability structures extending beyond the retreat.
- Closing breakfast and ceremony
- Departure by 11:00 AM
After the Retreat
- Post-retreat integration support
- Continued connection with the cohort
- Accountability structures
- Ongoing reflection and implementation practices
Your facilitators
Niko Skievaski
Host — CEO, Althea
Niko Skievaski is the CEO of Althea, Colorado's first licensed natural medicine healing center. His work spans technology, leadership, and human development.
Niko participates alongside the cohort as both host and founder-peer, bringing a grounded, peer-level presence to the experience.
Henry Winslow
Host — President, Althea
Henry Winslow is President of Althea, Colorado's first licensed natural medicine healing center.
Henry participates alongside the cohort as both host and peer-leader, supporting the retreat through breathwork, inquiry practices, and peer leadership.
Skippy Upton Mesirow
Facilitator
Skippy Mesirow is a public-service leader and strategist with more than 20 years of experience spanning presidential campaigns, statewide races, nonprofit leadership, and elected office.
He is the creator of The COURAGE Method™, a whole-human leadership framework that has trained more than 1,000 public leaders nationwide, and the host of the top-10% global Civic Courage Lab Podcast, featuring guests such as Byron Katie, David Allen, and Rick Doblin.
A psychedelic healing retreat in 2019 changed his life as he witnessed these treatments transform—and even save—others. Determined not to wait for federal action, he helped establish the nation's first municipal therapeutic model in Aspen and later served on Colorado's Natural Medicine Advisory Board, shaping the framework SANCTUM now operates under.
At SANCTUM, Skippy focuses on guests seeking leadership development, peak performance, and team optimization. He holds the strategic vision and relational gravity that enable SANCTUM to achieve peak excellence, creating a field of connection, coherence and transformation aligned with the Aspen Idea.
Ron Beller
Executive Coach
Ron Beller is a former Partner at Goldman Sachs and the founder of Peloton Partners, a billion-dollar hedge fund. He now coaches CEOs of fast-growing companies around the world.
He serves on the board of Resilient Pharmaceuticals (formerly Lykos), pursuing FDA approval for MDMA-assisted therapy, and is part of the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative.
Ron leads the executive development work inside Founder Cohort I, including life review, strategic reflection, and the 360 feedback process.
Great founders move effortlessly between execution and vision.
But the demands of leadership often leave little space to examine the questions that matter most. Over time, that lack of reflection carries a cost. Burnout, misalignment, and isolation are common consequences of building without sufficient distance and perspective.
Psilocybin possesses a rare quality particularly suited to founder development. By temporarily loosening the brain’s default patterns, it creates a window through which leaders can examine assumptions, identity, and direction from a distance ordinary life rarely affords.
This retreat exists for founders who take their own development as seriously as their company’s.
What's included
- Private lodging
- All meals
- Ground transportation
- Medicine session and clinical supervision
- Executive coaching and facilitation
- Breathwork and somatic practices
- Preparation calls
- Integration support following the retreat
- Nature experiences and reflective practices
- Confidential, highly curated peer community
Location & accommodation
Aspen + Snowmass Private Residences
Participants are hosted in carefully selected private residences in Snowmass and Aspen. Retreat experiences take place between the residences, the surrounding wilderness, and SANCTUM, Aspen’s licensed natural medicine healing center. The setting is intentionally designed to support privacy, reflection, and meaningful connection.
Private Room
Included
Private rooms are assigned according to cohort composition and arrival order. Preferences are accommodated whenever possible.
Semi-Private Room
Included
Semi-private accommodations are available and thoughtfully arranged to support both privacy and community. All lodging is included in retreat tuition.
Private Residence Spaces
Included
Retreat programming unfolds between multiple residences, SANCTUM, and the natural beauty of Aspen and Snowmass. Designed with discretion and confidentiality in mind, the environment allows participants to fully disconnect from ordinary demands and focus deeply on the work.
Getting here
Getting to SANCTUM is simple, with several airport and ground transportation options. The most direct route is flying into Aspen–Pitkin County Airport (ASE), located about 10–15 minutes from both your lodging and our center, and for retreat experiences inclusive of lodging, complimentary transportation to and from ASE is included. Guests may also fly into Denver International Airport (DEN), approximately a 3.5-hour drive, or Grand Junction Regional Airport (GJT), approximately a 2.5-hour drive, where rental cars and shuttle services are available at an additional cost. For those arriving by car, Aspen is accessible year-round via Highway 82 and, in summer months, via the scenic Independence Pass. Once you’re here, everything is intentionally walkable, supported by free local shuttles, so no vehicle is required during your stay.
Ready to begin?
This is an invite-only retreat. Submit your application and our team will be in touch.
