Small Doses. Big Shifts. One Blog.
Exploring the edge where purpose meets meaning, flow meets function, culture meets consciousness, sustainability meets performance, and nuance meets nervous system intelligence. This is the terrain where altered states become embodied traits—and transformation becomes your baseline.
Building Cultures of Flow, Purpose, and Momentum
Grit makes headlines, but it doesn’t sustain cultures. True motivation comes from flow—where clarity, curiosity, and purpose turn effort into momentum. At Dose Coach, we show leaders how to design environments where energy regenerates, not burns out, and where motivation becomes contagious.
Bending Without Breaking: How Psychedelics Train Us for a World in Flux
Six months ago, I found myself on my knees in the red clay of Costa Rica, learning a truth no leadership book could teach: adaptability isn’t a résumé skill—it’s the fulcrum between extinction and evolution. In today’s age of uncertainty, the old maps are burning, institutions are collapsing, and our nervous systems are overwhelmed. The question is no longer “How do I stay in control?” but “How do I let go faster?” Psychedelics like psilocybin offer a discipline in applied surrender—quieting the ego, boosting cross-hemispheric brain connectivity, and training real psychological flexibility. They help us loosen rigid identity loops, embody change, and cultivate resilience in chaos. Adaptability isn’t about grinding harder; it’s about attunement—to body, breath, and the unpredictable flow of life. The strongest trees aren’t the stiffest, but the ones that bend. And with the right context, psychedelics remind us how to bend without breaking.
Opening the Box: Schrödinger’s Cat, Psychedelics, and the Physics of Potential
Schrödinger’s cat isn’t just a physics puzzle - it’s a mirror for our own lives. Psychedelics and flow states can crack open the box of potential, forcing us to choose, act, and fully inhabit the present.
The Disenchanted Dose: Can the Third Wave Reclaim the Sacred?
Psychedelics can open the door to wonder - but without myth, ritual, and discernment, the sacred risks becoming just another consumable. The Third Wave must choose: more substances, more ceremonies… or more meaning.
Why We Need Myth, Ritual, and Story in the Psychedelic Age
Why We Need Myth, Ritual, and Story in the Psychedelic Age
Across history, the most transformative psychedelic experiences have never been just about the substance. From Soma in ancient Vedic hymns to ayahuasca in the Amazon and psilocybin in the mountains of Lesotho, every culture wove together three essential elements: molecule, myth, and a guiding steward. Remove one, and the sacrament unravels.
In today’s psychedelic renaissance, we risk losing this soul-scaffolding—turning powerful plant medicines into consumer products without the mythic frameworks, sacred rituals, and community containers that once made them transformative. Without story, we chase novelty. Without ritual, we’re just getting high. Without stewardship, we wander the underworld without a map home.
To create a lasting, ethical, and healing psychedelic culture, we must learn from ancient traditions without appropriating them—building our own rites of passage rooted in lineage, ethics, and integration. In the end, it’s not the psychedelic itself that makes the moment sacred—it’s the story we choose to tell about it.
Re-imagining Leadership: The Psychedelic Edge of Human Potential
Reimagining Leadership: The Psychedelic Edge of Human Potential isn’t about taking trips in boardrooms, it’s about rewiring the nervous system of leadership itself. As the old models crack under the weight of complexity, a new playbook is emerging: one built on presence over posturing, purpose over performance. Psychedelics, micro and macro, aren’t magic bullets, but they are powerful mirrors. They strip the ego, sharpen emotional intelligence, and tune leaders into the signal beneath the static. In a world drowning in strategy, this is a call for soul. Because the leaders we need now aren’t just smart - they’re awake.
The $50 Million Signal: Why Texas Just Redrew the Psychedelic Map
Texas just committed $50 million to ibogaine research—the largest publicly funded psychedelic initiative in history. This isn’t just policy. It’s paradigm. In a world wired for burnout, trauma loops, and chronic inflammation, ibogaine offers a hard reset—and microdosing offers a daily compass. Together, they could map the next frontier of neural repair, flow state performance, and human potential. This article unpacks what this moment means for psychedelics, neurogenesis, and the future of healing.
Flow States and the Future of Leadership: Riding the Edge of Purpose, Performance and Psychedelics
“Flow states are the engine room of high-impact leadership and the sweet spot where purpose meets performance. When in flow, creativity ignites, and the mind enters a state of deep coherence. This article explores how clear goals, neurochemical alignment, and micro-habits create the conditions for peak states. For leaders navigating complexity, this is the inner technology that turns presence into power.” - Gareth Kaatze
Microdosing 101: What Every Beginner Needs to Know
Explore how microdosing psilocybin and LSD can enhance focus, creativity, and emotional resilience—without the high. This beginner’s guide by Dose Coach breaks down the science of neuroplasticity, flow states, and brain optimization using structured microdosing protocols like the Stamets Stack. Whether you're seeking cognitive performance or personal transformation, this third-wave psychedelic approach offers a safe, effective, and research-backed way to upgrade your mind—one small dose at a time.
Psychedelic Coaching: Where Purpose Meets the Psyche
Psychedelic coaching isn’t therapy with a twist. It’s a new operating system for transformation.
Where therapy excavates the past, coaching architects the future. At Dose Coach, we guide high performers and deep seekers through the real work—assessment, preparation, and integration—not just to access altered states, but to live from them.
We don’t just help you touch truth. We teach you how to live it.
Learning How to Become: Why Flow, Microdosing, and Neurobiology Are the Future of Personal Transformation
“Most people think learning is about willpower. But real transformation doesn’t come from grinding harder—it comes from syncing with your nervous system. Flow states and microdosing don’t just make you feel good—they biologically prime you to become someone new. Faster learning. Deeper insight. Sustainable change. Welcome to the future of becoming.”
Grief, God, & Golden Teachers. A Coach Mentioned by Forbes, 45 Participants, and One Hell of a Week
"I didn’t come for healing. But those mushrooms had other plans. One minute I was in noble silence on a sunlit beach in Costa Rica, connecting to my mother through the wind. The next, I was four grams deep into a heroic dose of Golden Teachers, weeping to medicine songs under the stars, cracked wide open by grief, joy, and some ancient unbroken song that has been singing through humanity long before we knew how to sing it." - Gareth Kaatze
The Iceberg, the Ship, and the Course Correction
"Flow is not some magical state for the chosen few. It requires work. And it isn’t going to come to those who aren’t willing to dive in and do the deep, transformative work that is required to truly unlock it. Flow follows structural dynamics. It’s not about waiting for some mystical experience to strike—it’s about creating the right conditions and consciously shaping the path that leads us there. We are the architects of our flow."
— Flow Isn't for Us, It's for the Ones Who Are Willing to Do the Work: Reflections from My Week in Costa Rica with Paul F. Austin
Meet Gareth
Founder of Dose Coach | Flow Facilitator | Psychedelic Integration Guide
I’m Gareth Kaatze, a former commercial director turned transformational coach. I spent years crafting stories for brands and pay-per-view channels- until I realized the story I hadn’t written was my own.
Dose Coach was born at the intersection of burnout, breakthrough, and the sacred unknown.
Today, I guide leaders, creatives, and seekers through the science and soul of transformation, my coaching approach blends cutting-edge neuroscience, somatic wisdom, and mythic frameworks with real-world performance tools. Whether you’re seeking clarity in your leadership, energy in your body, or meaning in your life, I offer a map—and a mirror.
This blog is a field manual for the modern seeker, where science meets spirit, and peak states meet purpose. Here, we explore microdosing, flow, altered states, nervous system healing, masculine archetypes, leadership, and all things that wake us the f*ck up to who we’re meant to be.
Expect stories from the edge. Research from the frontier. Tools to help you unlock creativity, resilience, and the life that’s calling you underneath the noise.
You won’t find dogma here. Just practices, perspectives, and provocations that invite you to become more fully you.
