Early estimates suggest that the market could generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually, driven by demand for services at licensed healing centers, facilitator training programs, and the potential cultivation and manufacturing of psychedelic products. The state’s progressive regulatory framework, ...
As exciting as it is to have the first buds of legal psychedelic therapy sprouting, we cannot confuse a certificate from a 6-month-long facilitator program with a decades-long (or centuries-long) lineage and system of apprenticeship, and we should deeply heed the words of our elders as brou...
Currently, I am also a lead facilitator for retreats and group ceremonies, a Board Member of theGather Well Ethics Committee, Study Group Facilitator for Psychedelics Today (Vital Training in Psychedelic Therapy), and mentor of the Conscious Tripping Program for women. ...
For this reason, Dr. Watts believes that a person seeking to work as a psychedelics facilitator in any capacity should have a proven track record as a “safe pair of hands” when guiding people in vulnerable states. To work in the field, says Dr. Watts, “one’s mission should be to ...
Ψ ∞ Slide Abstract: 5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (acronymized as 5-MeO-DMT) issui generisamong the numerous naturally occurring psychoactive substances due to its unparalleled ego-dissolving effects which can culminate in a state of nondual consciousness that is phenomenologically similar to tran...
"Certain people are amazing at what they do, and school might not be the pathway for them," one facilitator told me. Still, many service center owners and facilitators feel that additional credentials or training would be useful. One of my interviewees suggested that some courses in the ...
During a particularly intense moment in the ceremony, I felt a surge of anxiety [...] I remembered one of the [strategies] I had been told by [a facilitator]. I visualised myself as a tree, with the roots spreading deep into the earth, grounding me literally into the floor, making ...
We talked to Stacia Butterfield, a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator with nearly two decades of experience through Grof Transpersonal Training, to learn what goes into a Holotropic Breathwork workshop and what people can expect to get out of the technique. ...