Tripping: The Inner Journey Edition
As corporate travel gears back up, here's how to take a different kind of trip, plus new ways to empower your business
Not every trip is about packing a bag: discover these two executive-health voyages of discovery without leaving B.C.
BRAIN TRAINING CAMP
Whistler-based wearable neurotechnology company Sens.ai is making the neurofeedback training used by top athletes and executives more accessible. Its headset (around US$1,000) stimulates alpha, gamma, theta and SMR brainwaves. Sens.ai claims that by using neurofeedback training for 20 minutes, three times a week, over eight weeks, users can expect enhanced calm, sleep, creativity and concentration. A study showed 19-percent faster thinking speed, 16-percent better accuracy in timed tasks requiring classification, decision making and physical response, and 12-percent faster physical reaction time. The company raised half a million U.S. dollars from early adopters through an Indiegogo campaign last year, and with a production run in progress, “we will go into a more traditional direct-to-consumer sales process” in Q2 of 2022, says CMO Kevin Corkum.
LOCAL (PSYCHEDELIC) TRIP
Visiting the new Vancouver location of Field Trip Health could be a transformational journey. “We provide ketamineassisted therapies to people who need them to help improve their mental health and well-being,” says executive chair Ronan Levy. “Our clients tend to be corporate executives who recognize that their mental health and well-being are essential for not only their happiness, but also their performance.”
A pioneer in evidencebased, medically supervised, psychedelic-assisted therapy, Canadian company Field
Trip opened its first clinic in Toronto and now has nine North American locations, plus one in Amsterdam, and dozens more planned by 2024. The Vancouver outlet is its first to include alternative therapy spaces where local healers can also offer services.