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Companywide Ketamine Retreats Are Silicon Valley’s Latest Perk
Giving new meaning to “work trip.”
Office pingpong tables and nap pods are so 2010s. Now forward-thinking startups are getting their employees together for injections of a dissociative psychedelic, Bloomberg reports. Companies such as Entrepreneurs Awakening offer “1-on-1 Psychedelic-assisted Executive Coaching programs as well as our group Amazon Ayahuasca Mastermind Program that includes 12 days in Peru.”
Psychedelic-assisted therapy has shown promising clinical benefits for people with PTSD and depression, and some progressive companies have added ketamine benefits to their healthcare plans (provider Enthea is onboarding more than 100 of them this year). But experts don’t recommend it for either recreational use or as a first stop on the mental health journey.
As for making it an official offsite with coworkers? Maybe we’ll just stick to the occasional happy hour at the pub downstairs.
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