Information Pack
Everything you need to know about the process that can help you to cultivate lasting connection in an increasingly disconnected world.
What is ACER Integration?
ACER Integration is a year-long process created by Dr Rosalind Watts to support deeper, lasting connection—to yourself, to others, and to nature. While the framework grew out of Dr Watts’ psychedelic research, participating in ACER Integration does not require any experience with psychedelic substances. This virtual, community-based process offers a holistic and supportive way to integrate life events, whatever your background.
The Twelve Trees framework we follow is based on various psychological concepts, which enables you to integrate life experiences, as well as altered states of consciousness, in a way that is supported and sustainable. ACER Integration is not therapy, or a substitute for therapy, but is a community rich in knowledge and wisdom where you can feel safe to explore your inner landscape.
Using tools like guided visualisation, meditation, peer-support sharing circles, and breathwork you will use the metaphor of nature to create deep, lasting shifts within whilst being held in community.
“ACER has enriched my life and created a network of support in ways that have been surprising and quite magical. I have always felt a reverence and connection to the natural world but the videos, practices, tree sharing circles and other ACER gatherings and materials have created a framework for aligning my own inner cycles with movement of the seasons. This has led to profound transformation. I would strongly recommend this program to anybody interested in deepening their connection with self, others and the world.”
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ACER stands for
A - Accept - accepting ourselves as we are, knowing that no state of Self is ever permanent. Being patient with our own internal seasons and processes and extending that same acceptance and patience to others.
C - Connect - connecting to who we are at our core and acknowledging that we are more than just individuals. We are part of a great interconnected web of life, and that this connection to others and to nature is a critical part of our own wellbeing.
E - Embody - honouring the innate wisdom of our body and working with both body and mind in tandem. Feeling our feelings, increasing our body literacy, listening to, and learning to trust, our body.
R - Restore - restoring to the cycles and patterns of nature. Trusting in the unfolding of seasons that exists within all of us, as it does around us.
ACER Integration Elements
Click the + to reveal further information about each element.
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Peer-led small sharing circles happen twice a month, at the start and the end of each month. Once after each Tree Journey and another to unpack and process each month's teachings.
The ACER Integration cycle is undertaken in community, so these opportunities to share as a collective are integral to the experience.
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Each month of the cycle will take inspiration from a different tree.
Using guided imagery and bespoke music, these Tree Journeys are designed to cultivate a greater connection to nature, to the self, and others.
As each month passes, participants are encouraged to become more aware of, and in tune with, the natural world. To learn new ways of applying and embodying the wisdom of the trees to stay grounded and rooted to who they are at the heart.
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The power of sharing growth experiences with others cannot be overstated. Humans are tribal creatures and we crave connection. Everyone taking part in the 12-month cycle does so collectively, communally and connectedly..
The ACER Integration community forum is a place where participants in the cycle can engage with each other. Here they can share ideas, knowledge and make friends.
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All participants will be part of the wider collective community. However, participants are placed in orchards of approximately 12 people. This enables participants to unpack and process in a smaller group if so desired.
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In addition to the Tree Journeys, there will be further guided meditations to keep participants anchored to the ACER Integration Cycle.
These meditations are a way to stay connected to the practice in a gentle, less directive way.
Participants can listen on the train to work or right before bed. These supplemental resources have been designed to fit into any participant’s daily life.
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During the 12-month cycle, Dr Watts, and the ACER team will provide monthly drop-in sessions where participants will learn various breathwork practices designed to help participants to go deeper into the cycle themes, as well as increase connectedness to the wider world.
These sessions support participants in connecting more deeply to mind and body and expanding this connection beyond the self.
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Every month participants have the opportunity to submit questions for Dr Watts and her team to answer live.
The focus will be on psychedelic integration to help those who have undergone a psychedelic journey to gain a greater insight into how and why integration is so necessary. However, questions on all topics are welcome.
The Twelve Trees
ACER Integration follows a process called The Twelve Trees. Each month is represented by a different tree and carries a different lesson.
We use the lens of nature within ACER Integration, remembering that we are nature and that we too have cycles and seasons we must honour.
Please watch the video to hear Dr Watts talk about the Twelve Trees Process.
Dr Rosalind Watts explains each of the 12 Tree archetypes in the 12 Tree framework.
Sample Calendar
Once you enter the ACER Integration community, on the first of each month, you will be provided with the Twelve Trees resources designed for that month. These will consist of a guided imagery Tree Journey, a video from Dr Watts, and journal prompts and suggestions for daily practice.
In addition to these materials, you will also have the opportunity to participate in virtual live sessions, which are outlined on the sample calendar below. Please see the key for an explination of each session.
This is just a sample schedule and is subject to change.
As you can see, we run the Sharing Circles at various times during the first and last week of the month. This is to ensure our global community has choices as to when they join these sessions. All times displayed are UK time but circles take place in the evenings in EST, AEST, and PT as well.
Calendar Key
Tree Journey Sharing Circle
Participants attend one of these each month in small groups of 8-10. Everyone in attendance listens to the month’s Tree Journey together and then shares any thoughts/reflections after. These are facilitated by trained facilitators.
Breathwork
These live drop-in sessions are held monthly and ACER participants can attend as many as they like. These are light-touch and designed to help participants build out a toolkit of somatic practices to complement the inner work being done in ACER Integration.
Drop-in Chat
Casual spaces participants can drop into to chat about whatever they like. Very informal.
Q&A
Monthly sessions hosted by Dr Watts and guests. Bring questions about psychedelic integration, or anything else relevant to your personal journey through ACER Integration.
Reflections Sharing Circles
Participants attend one of these each month in small groups of 8-10. Everyone in attendance looks back on the month and shares their thoughts/reflections to deepen their own understanding of the month’s lessons. These are facilitated by trained facilitators.
Breathwork Journey
These longer, 90 minute journeys take place during the eight annual festivals that mark the Eightfold Wheel of the Year. They present an opportunity to mark the occasion with a deeply intentional somatic practice.
ACER Dance
Here participants move their bodies to a 45-minute curated playlist created by Dr Watts to correspond to the month’s theme.
Dream Circle
ACER participants are invited to share a dream with the collective and our two resident Jungian dream enthusiasts.
Loud Cathartic Singing
Everyone’s on mute for these sessions where we sing to tone our vagus nerves, release energy, and be in community.
Mindful Creative Space
Participants can create something without words. Paint, draw, sculpt, knit, whatever comes.
Join us at a Live Event
Throughout the year we run both paid and free events, led by Dr Rosalind Watts, where you can experience some of the elements of ACER like our guided imagery tree journeys, tree films, sharing circles, breathwork, and more. Each event is unique and we’d love to connect with you in this way. You can find a schedule of upcoming events by pushing the button.
ACER Community Feedback
ACER Integration participant and Sharing Circle Facilitator, Nii shares insights about his ACER Integration experience.
ACER Integration participant, Meg, shares insights about her ACER Integration experience.
Dr Watts and Lee talk about what type of person might get the most out of ACER Integration.
Join the ACER Integration cycle
We open the ACER Integration cycle twice per year - once in October and once in April but you can apply at any time.
For each ACER Integration cycle, we offer a limited number of financially supported places to help make the programme accessible to those who need it. These places are in high demand and fill quickly.
To help sustain this offering, we’ve also added a pay it forward option—for those who are able to cover their own place at the standard rate and contribute toward a financially supported place for someone else.
Standard - £1,440 or split the yearly fee into three monthly payments of £520.
Financially Supported - £760
Pay it Forward - £2,200
Price is inclusive of VAT and a former clinical trial participant discount is available on request.
The roots of ACER Integration are in advocacy, which is why we offer reduced fees for those who have been through a psychedelic clinical trial.
Questions? Book a 30-minute Discovery Call
How to apply
We open the ACER Integration community twice a year - once in April and once in October—but you can apply at any time.
Please fill out the application form below, and we’ll be in touch about next steps.
Apply Now
We open the ACER Integration cycle twice per year - once in October and once in April but you can apply at any time.
The number of financially supported places is limited. Please check the box for financially supported places when you fill out the application form if you want to be considered for one of these places, and write a short paragraph as to why you need the additional support. We will review applications for financially supported places at the start of August and will contact you after they have been reviewed to let you know if your application has been successful..
FAQs
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No. ACER Integration is not in any way dependent on psychedelic use. While we welcome those who are integrating expanded states—including from psychedelics, breathwork, or deep spiritual experiences—the core of this work is about being in relationship with yourself, others, and the more-than-human world. Whether or not you’ve worked with psychedelics, the ACER Integration framework can support you and you’re very welcome here.
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This community has been designed for those wanting to connect more deeply with the self, others and nature. To work through individual life circumstances collectively.
It’s for anyone who wishes to actively and intentionally process experiences in life that have led to a profound shift in worldview and emotion, including life events such as bereavement, illness, career change, and also 'self development' events such as engaging in meditation, psychedelic therapy, and many other holistic health approaches.
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No, it is not. Although Dr. Watts has worked as a clinical psychologist, this program is fully educational in nature and must not be used as a substitute for psychological support.
Anyone joining the ACER Integration community must agree and acknowledge that the community is not providing health care, medical or nutritional therapy services, or attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any physical, mental or emotional issue, disease or condition.
The information provided in or through the ACER Integration materials is not intended to be a substitute for the professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment provided by your own health provider.
Always seek the advice of your own medical provider and/or mental health provider regarding any questions or concerns you have about your specific health before implementing any recommendations or suggestions from our materials.
If you have or suspect that you have a medical or mental health problem, contact your own medical provider or mental health provider expediently.
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Although integration is typically associated with psychedelic therapy, it is a beneficial practice for anyone looking to feel more connected to the world in which we live.
ACER Integration uses the lens of nature to take participants beyond what they know to contextualise and embody complex emotions and experiences.
Please watch this video to hear Dr Watts speak about this further.
ACER Integration FAQ Videos
ACER Integration is inspired from nature, and promotes harm reduction. ACER Integration builds tools and structures to foster connection to the self, others and the natural world. ACER Integration and its collaborators do not endorse the use of illegal substances. Illegal substances do not form part of the ACER Integration cycle.