Note: Our psychodynamic fundamentals program begins in April 2025 (it is asynchronously-released once a week) and the Core Curriculum begins in September 2025. Both sub-courses are required to graduate from our Psychedelic Facilitator Training Program.
This comprehensive program is approximately 250 course-hours, and we pride ourselves in being the most comprehensive training program available. Our program contains academic and experiential coursework in contemporary research, psychotherapeutic perspectives, traditional and indigenous plant medicine wisdom, historical context, and mindfulness training. We believe each of these topics is fundamental to ethical and responsible psychedelic practice.
This training program is for clinicians, students, and other devoted, curious individuals to understand the literature and practice of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including the use of ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin in the therapeutic setting.
Each week, you are expected to attend a two hour lecture, a 1-hour study group, and to read 5 to 6 articles and be ready to discuss them, and there will be short writing assignments as well for reflection. We expect total time you will need to spend per week on this class to be approximately 10 hours.
This course is experiential in nature, and we will be offering various opportunities to experience breathwork and non-ordinary meditative states during this course—via guided sessions during the Zoom meetings—and asking participants to reflect on these experiences.
Class meets Tuesdays 4-6 p.m. PT/7-9 p.m. ET with a second option of Saturdays 9-11AM ET. The program starts on April 15th, 2025. Accountability groups will take place on Thursday or Saturday, at a variety of times (you can choose). You will receive a certificate of completion from SoundMind at the end of this course if you fulfill all of the course requirements.
All students need to complete a 6-day experiential practicum training in order to receive a certificate, and you have 2 years from the end of the course to complete the practicum experience. If you don't complete a practicum, you will receive a transcript of completion of the online course.
*Please note that for each cohort, topics and guest speakers may change. The list on our website is the list of people who rotate in for teaching. Not everyone will appear in each cohort.
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