Why am I doing this?
About background & network
Hi,
My name is Jani and I have been a psychedelic guide since the fall of 2022, and enjoy this calling immensely.
I feel it is an honor to be allowed to be present when people get the opportunity to "meet themselves for real", perhaps for the first time in their lives.
My approach is quite simple: to offer a genuine, warm and non-judgmental presence so that you feel safe to be EXACTLY who you are. I feel that most people don't have the opportunity to experience this in the stressed and busy world we live in today.
I place great emphasis on preparation and I believe that this is precisely what has made the processes with my clients successful and meaningful. To prepare the intention, to discuss set and setting, to carefully go through history regarding medications and different forms of previous therapy processes, and together go through (and perhaps limit) expectations are the most important elements and common denominators in my processes.
With an academic background in psychology, I have always worked to SEE and HEAR the individual and identify their unique challenges. For the past 10 years, through various roles (coach, mentor, learning and development manager, team and leadership developer, organizational consultant, etc) I have helped people find their driving forces and develop their self-awareness. After that, we have been able to design their lives according to their specific circumstances so that they will be able to perform at their peak and feel their best.
My curiosity about the world has taken me to over 70 countries and the most important thing this globetrotting life has taught me can be summed up like this: regardless of nationality, religion, culture or history, deep down we are just brothers and sisters trying to find answers to the same questions, with the common desire to be seen, heard and accepted for the unique individuals we are so that we can rest in a sense of acceptance.
I love to create a non-judgmental space where we both can be present. I like to meet people in a genuine, empathetic and respectful way, but at the same time with humor and a lightness of being. I am well-read, experienced, and have a genuine interest in philosophy, psychology and spirituality, as well as an unwavering belief in mankind and the human potential.
I am the sole actor within 4000 Veckor, but in my network I have psychologists with deep understanding and interest in psychedelic substances. If you would ever feel that you need to initiate a therapeutic process with a licensed psychologist, that is of course something we can arrange.
Outside world & present tense
Many of us feel that we are searching for answers in a turbulent and broken world. Technology connects us like never before, while we are more disconnected than ever. Both from ourselves and others. We spend pretty much all of our time stressing around to survive instead of truly LIVING. We've filled our lives with things, our calendars with activities, and our social media with friends, but feel emptier than ever inside. (If this doesn't apply to you, then congratulations on successfully hacking the system.) So we try to calm the worry, fear and anxiety by abusing numbing agents like work, shopping, alcohol, Netflix, sugar, sex, food, etc, and hope that some well-intentioned self-development book will help us stumble upon some sort of meaning out there somewhere.
But maybe that is exactly the problem? "Out there."
The ongoing global psychedelic renaissance testifies to the fact that there are more and more of us every day who have tried to find the answer "out there", but then have had to capitulate to what we have heard all our lives but somehow did not believe, ie. that healing does not come from without but from within. The fact that we now also understand that we can get closer to the answers that are within ourselves in just a few hours will of course make more and more people curious about these magical, but at the same time not completely risk-free, means known as psychedelics.
I want to give these seekers a safe environment with an experienced guide where they can satisfy their curiosity, so that they can then integrate the experience into their lives, begin to heal themselves, create more meaningful lives, and become even healthier people.
I do this because it is a concrete way to start creating a better world.
"Optimal lives are designed, not discovered."
- James Clear
About me & past tense
In 2016 I was not feeling well.
I was - outwardly seen - a well-functioning, forward-leaning, alert and reasonably happy person in the middle of my career. But I felt stress, I felt frustration, and I felt an emptiness.
This can't be what it's all about?
Finally I heard about an amazing man named Gabor Maté who talked about how we all carry traumas from when we were little, and how it wasn't our fault that we carry these pains around, and that it's no wonder that we constantly have the feeling of paddling upstream and never get to rest.
In my case, my traumas and Complex PTSD expressed themselves in the feeling that I was always in a hurry "somewhere". I had trouble relaxing, I became more and more irritable and judgmental, and I felt like I could never trust my gut. I started meditating - which was great - and looked for solutions in various biohacks in diet, sleep, exercise, etc. These things made a lot of sense and helped me with my health, but I still felt like they were only taking care of the "shell". I was also frustrated by how slowly I was making progress, and talking to others didn't help because they usually just gave advice instead of truly listening to me, making me not feel heard.
Finally, my search led me to discover psychedelics, and then I ended up devouring all the information I could find (books, studies, documentaries, interviews, articles, etc) about these amazing substances so I could learn more. When I then read that you make as much progress in 2 psilocybin sessions as 50 times with a psychologist, it became crystal clear to me what I needed to do and that it was the path to my healing.
The rest, as they say, is history...