For professionals who want to understand this work at its most rigorous.
A 3-HOUR LIVE COMPLIMENTARY WORKSHOP
Workshop Synopsis
Contemporary psychedelic practice calls for practitioners able to navigate across the frontiers of any single discipline. Through real practice scenarios, you will discover the interdisciplinary skills, competencies, and qualities that support well-rounded, safe, and ethical practice across preparation, medicine session, and integration - and begin to locate where your own orientation, strengths, and developmental edges live within this work.
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Program Overview
As Psychedelics Enter Mainstream Care, the Question of What Well-Rounded Practice Looks Like Has Never Been More Urgent.
Both research and lived experience increasingly demonstrate that the practitioner is an active participant in shaping the conditions through which a psychedelic experience is held, understood, and integrated.
Yet there is no field-wide consensus on what constitutes well-rounded, effective practice.
Contemporary psychedelic care draws simultaneously from multiple disciplines - clinical science, trauma-informed care, spiritual traditions, Indigenous lineage, somatic practice, relational psychology, and lived human experience.
The psychedelic practitioner is asked to move beyond the boundaries of any single discipline and develop the capacity to hold all of these dimensions simultaneously, as one integrated presence.
Many practitioners, however, enter this field through one particular perspective — whether clinical, scientific, or through spirituality, nature, and contemplative practice. Each perspective brings important strengths. A one-dimensional orientation creates gaps where the practitioner encounters dimensions of the experience they are not equipped to hold - shaping the quality of the therapeutic container and the outcomes participants experience.
If you recognise your own entry point in any of these perspectives, this workshop is designed for you.
aspiring practitioners asking:
What does it take to guide these experiences effectively?
What skills and competencies does this work require beyond what I already bring?
How might integrating this modality into my existing practice look?
In practice, this shows up as a clinician feeling unprepared for the spiritual or existential dimensions that emerge in a session. A spiritually-oriented facilitator not recognising psychological or physiological contraindications. A somatic practitioner encountering the limits of their framework when working with the ineffable, meaning-making dimensions of the work.
Through real practitioner scenarios, this workshop explores what an integrated, well-rounded practice asks of practitioners - and helps you locate where your own orientation, strengths, and developmental edges live within this
What You'll Learn
Exploring What Whole Practice Looks Like
Skilled psychedelic facilitation rests on a range of capacities that extend well beyond any single discipline. Drawing from our faculty's lived experience across Preparation, Medicine Session, and
Integration, this workshop opens a window into what well-rounded practice looks like across the embodied, relational, cognitive, and sacred dimensions of the work — and invites you to consider where your own orientation, strengths, and developmental edges live within it.
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Who This Workshop Is For
Designed for those exploring working professionally with psychedelics and seeking a more rigorous understanding of what this work entails
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Therapists and mental health professionals
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Coaches and facilitators
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Medical and healthcare practitioners
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Spiritual care providers
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Somatic practitioners
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Professionals exploring a future in psychedelics
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Conference Materials
Complimentary Access
Lifetime Access
Integration Session
Guided by Synthesis Learning Facilitators, this 75-minute session gathers participants in small, facilitated breakout groups, offering a taste of the reflective, relational learning at the heart of our Practitioner Training.
Open to all registered participants. Details will be shared via email.
Secure Your Complimentary Seat
Thursday, July 9th, 2026
9 a.m. PDT | 12 p.m. EDT | 5 p.m. BST
About The Synthesis Institute
With over 500 practiocioners since 2021
and 1100 participants throhg legal retreats since 2018,
Synthesis approaches practitioner development
as a lifelong process of cultivating
- humility
- self-awareness
- relational capacity
- and ethical responsibility.
Our programs integrate scientific rigour with embodied practice and experiential learning to support well-rounded practitioners capable of working responsibly within the complexity of non-ordinary states.
This workshop is offered at no charge as a contribution to the field and to the standard of practice we believe it requires for psychedelics to meaningfully integrate into mainstream care.