At The Synthesis Institute, we believe that to have full integrity and complete confidence in the safety and effectiveness of your work as a facilitator, your commitment to your own practice and inner transformation must be an ongoing priority.
What will differentiate you from graduates of other psychedelic training programs is that you will understand the science and current best practices, AND you will develop personal practices and professional support networks that will help you grow into a flexible, compassionate, collaborative, effective, co-creative facilitator.
In addition, our small group learning approach of approximately eight to 10 participants per learning facilitator allows you to be held with the level of compassion, care, and courage that the world needs you, as a practitioner, to embody.
This journey is not just about professional development. It also answers the call for an integrated, comprehensive approach to working with psychedelics, one that awakens your potential so you can serve others and catalyze the greater awakening the psychedelic renaissance offers.
In the Psychedelic Practitioner Core Training you will:
- Develop a foundational understanding of the fundamentals of guiding a safe and ethical psychedelic journey—from screening to integration
- Gain an awareness of relevant clinical research and evidence-based best practices
- Broaden your understanding of well-established and emerging wisdom / traditional approaches
- Become aware of your capacity to hold space for the wide range of experiences that can present themselves on a psychedelic journey, including identifying the limits of your current capabilities and the opportunities for further personal and professional growth
- Establish a consistent personal practice and commitment to self-care and self-reflection
- Assemble a toolkit of professional skills that allow you to hold space for others to grow and change
- Build a support network of peers as well as connection to The Synthesis Institute and our international professional community
- Recognize your own internal prejudices and unconscious biases and learn to create culturally sensitive and trauma-informed containers
- Deepen your understanding of the ethical questions around cultural appropriation, extractivism, restorative justice, and generative reciprocity
Please be aware that earning a completion certificate for the Psychedelic Practitioner Core Training does not authorize you to lead or facilitate psychedelic journeys. As local regulations and legislation are developing and changing rapidly, make sure to follow the laws pertaining to your place of residence. Discover more about what a completion certificate allows for here.
