LGBTQ Community Leaders Retreat

Henry Fields is one of Oregon's first state-licensed psilocybin facilitators and the founder of Inward Dive Hypnosis and Intuitive Counseling. He is also the founder of The Inward Dive Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to psychedelic support services for underserved communities, including individuals impacted by the criminal justice system. His facilitation style emphasizes deep listening, emotional honesty, nervous system awareness, and creating spaces where clients can reconnect with their own intuition, creativity, and inner authority.

Henry is especially passionate about preparation and integration, helping clients translate insight into meaningful changes in daily life and relationships. His approach differs from traditional self-improvement models focused primarily on striving or performance. Instead, he helps clients explore and gently release the tension, protective patterns, and internal constriction that can obscure the essential self.

His work is grounded in the belief that healing is not about becoming someone else, but uncovering who we are beneath years of conditioning, adaptation, and survival strategies. Inspired by Miles Davis' observation that "it takes a long time to play like yourself," Henry believes it can also take a long time to live as yourself.

Drawing from backgrounds in music, hypnosis, yoga, mindfulness, and addiction recovery, Henry brings a compassionate, non-judgmental presence to psychedelic work. Clients often describe him as deeply grounding, easy to talk to, and having a gift for helping people feel both safe and genuinely seen.

Mariah has been sitting with mushrooms and other plant medicines for over a decade. She holds reverence for the journey, deep trust in the client's inner healing intelligence, and a peaceful presence for others in the room. Her approach is client-centered. What is most important to her is that the client feels like they are being supported in a way that feels authentic to them.

Mariah graduated with an interdisciplinary studies degree from the University of Hawaii in Community-Based Healthcare. She was lucky to study relevant coursework such as Advanced Ethnobotany, Mycology, and Psychoactive Drug Plants. She is data/research informed and also draws from her experience in ceremonial settings that she participated in while in Peru and Hawaii.

Mariah is also a mother who will bring nurturing care to your journey. She gives consideration to many aspects of safety (physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual) to support overall wellbeing. Mariah warmly embraces people from all walks of life, welcoming all into a space of acceptance. She is honored to co-create a space with clients so they may comfortably navigate the depths of their consciousness.

Oscar Aleman is a first-generation Guatemalan American, Oregon-licensed psilocybin facilitator, certified personal trainer, and educator based in the Portland area. His work is guided by a deep interest in human growth, healing, and the connection between mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

Oscar completed his facilitator training through InnerTrek, one of Oregon's pioneering state-approved psilocybin training programs. Drawing from backgrounds in fitness coaching, education, and psychedelic facilitation, he brings a grounded, compassionate, and participant-centered approach to his work.

As the son of Guatemalan immigrants, Oscar values the importance of community, resilience, and increased accessibility. He is passionate about creating spaces where people feel safe to explore meaningful experiences, reconnect with themselves, and integrate insights into lasting positive change.

David Kahl is an executive coach, Oregon-licensed psilocybin facilitator, entrepreneur, and retreat leader. Before moving into this work, he spent more than two decades building businesses, including founding Fully, a company that grew from a startup into one of the largest digital furniture brands in the world before being acquired by Herman Miller in 2019.

Today, David works with leaders and individuals from a wide range of backgrounds through coaching, facilitation, and retreat experiences. His style is warm, grounded, and direct. He is less interested in offering answers than in creating the conditions where people can discover their own.

As a gay man, David knows firsthand that many LGBTQ+ people have spent parts of their lives learning how to adapt, fit in, stay safe, or manage the expectations of others. While those experiences can build resilience and strength, they can also leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves or from one another. Because of that, he cares deeply about creating spaces where people can show up more fully as they are.

For David, one of the most meaningful aspects of retreat work is the opportunity to heal and grow in community. While each participant brings their own story, there is something powerful about gathering with others who understand, at least in part, what it means to move through the world as LGBTQ+ people. His hope is that participants leave feeling more connected—to themselves, to one another, and to what matters most in their lives.

MEgan believes healing isn't a destination, it's a homecoming you keep choosing. She is the founder of Bodywise and creator of the BE ME Framework, a somatic roadmap to your authentic self. Weaving 36 years of experience in physical therapy, somatic psychology (Hakomi, IFS, RCS), and TRE® (Trauma Release Exercise), she brings a steady, attuned presence to facilitation, and a body-mind approach to preparation and integration. Her work empowers clients to tap their body's innate wisdom, cultivate the felt sense of safety to open to the medicine, the internal resource to meet what arises, and the embodied grounding to carry it into real, lived change.

Lisa Snyder is a state-licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon (and a natural-medicine facilitator in Colorado) and the founder of Liberadiate, offering trauma-informed psilocybin journeys and integration support.

A graduate of InnerTrek — the nation's first state-approved facilitator school — Lisa brings more than eighteen years of community building and healing advocacy to her work. Her path into this field began in her twenties after losing both parents to cancer, an experience that shaped her devotion to helping others find meaning in life's hardest moments.

She specializes in supporting people navigating grief, burnout, self-doubt, and life transitions, and works especially with LGBTQ+ adults, women, creatives, entrepreneurs, and neurodivergent individuals exploring authenticity and belonging. Her work is rooted in compassion, curiosity, and the courage to turn inward.

Danilo Escobar is an Oregon state-licensed psilocybin facilitator, educator, healthcare administrator, and musician. For more than a decade he has worked across the healthcare system — spanning psychiatry, behavioral health, mental health, and holistic medicine.

He offers legally regulated psilocybin facilitation for individuals, couples, and groups, along with microdosing support, ceremony, retreats, and workshops. His practice is grounded in a trauma-informed, culturally rich, and person-centered approach, creating safe and supportive containers for healing, self-discovery, and growth.

Wendy Cliff is an Interfaith Chaplain who's served in hospitals, retirement communities, a state prison, hospice, and trained & supported mentors in the foster care system. She holds a Certificate in Trauma and Spiritual Care that guides her work serving people who live with the impacts of various personal, collective, and environmental traumas. She's a graduate of Seminary of the Wild's two-year program where she immersed herself in environmentally based spirituality and practices. Her Master of Divinity and identity as an Episcopal priest are not enacted in traditional church settings, but are rather related to her love of how story, ritual, and tangible things can bring us closer to mystery and meaning. Serving on the board of an interfaith council in the Bay Area was one of the favorite roles she's ever had. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley's Center for the Science of Psychedelics facilitator training program, she's currently doing group and individual eco-spiritual direction sessions with people wanting to incorporate practices with the natural world in their spiritual journeys.

Tal Sharabi is a Licensed Professional Counselor (Oregon and Colorado) and one of the first cohort of state-licensed psilocybin facilitators in the country — she went on to teach the first class of government-licensed facilitators in the United States.

Through her practice, Interbeing Psychotherapy, she weaves together somatic, mindfulness-based, and trauma-attuned approaches, holding space at the pace each person's nervous system needs. A graduate of CIIS's Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies program and trained in MDMA-assisted therapy through MAPS and in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Tal brings more than two decades of mindfulness practice and a deep reverence for community, the earth, and the interconnection of all beings.

She was a featured speaker at TEDxPortland 2025 and serves as a lead educator at InnerTrek.

Seth Mehr, M.D., is a state-licensed psilocybin facilitator and the founder of Cascade Psychedelic Medicine. Board-certified in Emergency Medicine, he spent two decades as an emergency physician — with deep experience in medical and psychiatric emergencies and the safe administration of medicine — before dedicating himself to psychedelic care.

He served as the Health & Safety Director for InnerTrek's psilocybin service center and is a study physician on a clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for social anxiety. Seth came to this work after traditional treatments failed a member of his own family, and he brings particular attention to individualized medical safety, preparation, and care.

Keri Padon pairs somatic wisdom with expertise in psychedelic care. Her toolkit includes breath-led movement, nonviolent communication, and restorative justice practices that support nervous system regulation and help maintain equanimity. Warm, organized, and culturally attuned, Keri is a wonderful and foundational member of the Community Leaders Resilience Fund team.

A trauma-informed yoga teacher (E-RYT 200) and graduate of InnerTrek's Psychedelic Facilitation Training program, Keri managed the InnerTrek Service Center throughout its tenure, supporting facilitators and safeguarding client journeys. She now serves as Program Manager for the Community Leaders Resilience Fund.