VISION
PSYCHEDELIC REVOLUTION BEGINS IN PSYCHEDELIC EDUCATION
We focus on personal experience, supervised hands-on practice, and self-knowledge through personal transformation.
Our serious and profound hybrid residential-online three-year curriculum has an hour intensity of 1.400 hours plus dissertation (for those in the MA or PhD pathways). We emphasize in therapeutic models of integrative psychotherapy, knowledge and healing interventions from shamanic lineages and mystical traditions, and insights from modern psychedelic medicine research. The Psychedelic Therapy Training is a non-profit project from AWE Foundation.
We offer a Master of Arts in Psychedelic Therapy and a PhD in Psychedelic Studies through our partnership with Ubiquity University.
Half of the program (700 hours) is dedicated to online immersions led by respected leaders and pioneers in the psychedelic and therapeutic fields, alongside teachers deeply rooted in Indigenous wisdom traditions. The remaining half is devoted to experiential learning through in-person intensives, including retreats, initiations, and pilgrimages.
Retreat intensives focus on experiential and embodied therapeutic work, while pilgrimage intensives take place in Indigenous territories, offering students the opportunity to learn directly within living cultural contexts. These pilgrimages may include time in the A’i-Cofan territory in the Amazon, a Massango/Babongo village in Africa, Wirikuta—the sacred peyote pilgrimage site in Mexico—and the Yawanawá territory in Brazil.
INDIGENOUS
WISDOM
INTEGRATIVE
PSYCHOTHERAPY
PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE
AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY, ENTHEOGENIC ORIGINS, AND PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE
RESIDENTIAL
INTENSIVES
Students will attend two 11-day intensives each year for a total of six intensives throughout the three-year program.
The intensive-retreats are dedicated to experiential therapies where students will have the opportunity to do personal healing work and develop self-knowledge, while at the same time learning firsthand from experienced teachers while they work with non-ordinary states of consciousness, psychedelics, bodywork, gestalt, family constellations, and meditation, for example.
The intensive-pilgrimages are powerful journeys to indigenous territories where students can begin to build relationships with authentic mystical communities and elders while learning from their shamanic traditions and power plants. In these places, we are received as locals as we have been developing relationships with these communities for many years. Many have gifted us tribal land inside their reservations where we have built small community houses which accommodate our students during their pilgrimage.
Through years of conversation with the political leaders and spiritual elders of these communities, the pilgrimages in these territories are carefully designed to give voice to what these traditions want to show to the world. Therefore, it is essential that we arrive to their lands and learn from their ways with the utmost respect, sensitivity and care.
ONLINE
IMMERSIONS
The online portion of the program involves three immersions / pathways. The online immersions will be divided into two components: theoretical teaching classes and experiential workshop classes.
The teaching classes will be led by educators with vast experience in different fields of knowledge around psychedelic research, gestalt psychotherapy, death and grief work, madness and mysticism, systems theory, sexuality, embodiment and eros, and cross-cultural indigenous and ancestral perspectives. The online learning process will involve 700 work hours, and students are expected to dedicate around 7 hours a week to their study. Within each module, there will be a 2-hour theoretical lecture each week with the teachers, plus complimentary readings, homework assignments, and interaction with peers on the online learning platform.
The workshop classes will be guided by skillful facilitators who will dynamically support students into an experiential and embodied process of self-discovery, which compliments the theoretical learning component of the program. Students will be required to actively participate in an interactive learning environment, where they can develop their awareness, access their creativity, and engage hands-on to learn new tools, as well as to deepen their practice through direct experience.
ONLINE PATHWAYS &
IN-PERSON INTENSIVES
Students begin with an Introduction to the training program, followed by their first core pathway. Depending on the sequence offered for each cohort, this may be Entheogenic Origins, Integrative Psychotherapy, or Psychedelic Medicine; the order will vary from cohort to cohort. The program culminates in a Supervision Portion, in which students complete the Therapy Track. Throughout the training, participants also have access to a range of engaging and enriching Elective Workshops that complement and deepen their learning.
Intro​
Comparative Mysticism & Transpersonal Psychology
Jorge Ferrrer
Enneagram & Characterology
Jorge Llano
Encuadre
Beatriz Vega
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Introduction to the Pathways​
Lila Vega
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Psychedelic Medicine
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Screening and Preparation
Ben Malcolm
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Crisis & Care
Helen Loshny & Lila Vegas
Healing with Psychedelics (LSD)
Javier Charme
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Healing with Psychedelics (MDMA)
Genesse Herzberg
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Healing with Psychedelics (KETAMINE)
Pamela Kryskow
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Workshop: Supervision
Josh Peck & Eliza Philpott
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Entheogenic
Origins
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Entheogenic Shamanisms
Susana Bustos
Ethnopharmacognosy
Shanehui, Rogelio & Miguel
Intercultural Perspectives on Indigenous Wisdom
Victor Quispe, Stacey Gallagher
Healing with Entheogens (AYAHUASCA)
Anja Loizaga-Velder
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Healing with Entheogens (MUSHROOMS)
Osiris Huautla, Inti Garflor
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Workshop: Indigenous Wisdom - A Path of the Heart
Mark Gowland & Yaqui Rodriguez
Integrative
Psychotherapy
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Understanding the flow and interruption to awareness
Steve Vinay Gunther
Suppressive, Expressive and Integrative Techniques
Beatriz Vega
Integrative Techniques ||
Beatriz Vegas
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Un-Walking Trauma
Michela Grece
Dreamwork
Jorge Llano
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Workshop: Therapeutic Process
Mar Alzate & Guests
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Social Practice & Supervision
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Once an Ecstatic Mysticism student has completed the pathways and intensives required, they will move on to the supervision stage, where they will embark on the therapy track. Students will engage in 100 hours of clinical practice with real patients, under the supervision of an expert. They will also participate in group therapy and will have access to psychedelic clinics and centres partnered with AWE to carry out their social practice.
Elective Workshops
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Throughout their training, students will have access to a diverse range of elective workshops designed to complement and deepen their learning pathways. Based on interest and availability, students may choose to participate in workshops exploring themes such as Birth & Motherhood, Sexual Yoga, Wild Mind, Shamanism: An Ancestral Door to the Mystery, and many other intriguing areas of inquiry and experiential exploration.
NOESIS
11 days - Mexico
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Our first mandatory transpersonal retreat incorporates enneagram and self-knowledge, gestalt, authentic movement, 5 rhythms, breathwork, core shamanism, and experiential dynamics around the inner healer, the triune brain, and love. There will be ample opportunities to have first-hand experience with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and group work.
SIA THECI
Ai-Cofan reservation
11 days - Sucumbíos, Ecuador
The Cofan people are an ancestral indigenous tribe native to the Sucumbíos and Putumayo amazon regions of northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. They are experts in the knowledge of yage (ayahuasca). This pilgrimage takes part within two of their reservations in the jungle where we are able to have access to the oldest and most knowledgeable shamans of their tribe which never travel outside the jungle. It is not a private-western-influenced retreat center, we are welcomed by the whole community inside their villages and houses. They are offering students teachings and seven high-dose yagé ceremonies run by their most respected elders:
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Taita Albertino Lucitante
Taita Atiambi-ai
Taita Querubin Queta
Grandmother Maria Toiquema
Grandmother Tntn Lucitante
Taita Tiberio Lucitante
Taita David Queta
Taita Gonzalo Criollo
...and support from the whole community
THE SERPENT'S
ECSTASY
11 days - Mexico
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This retreat is focused on the serpent power and the Goddess. It will be explored through archetypal shamanism focused on the Serpent Goddess, ecstatic African wisdom and possession trance states, tantra and kundalini practices, feminism, and therapeutic work around the reptilian brain, the instinct, wildness, and taboo.
WIRIKUTA
11 days - Wirikuta, Mexico
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Wirikuta is the main pilgrimage site for the Wixaritari-Huichol people. Each year hundreds of Huichol pilgrims journey to Wirikuta in search of the sacred peyote. Students will quest for vision in this sacred territory and perform mitote ceremonies with Huichol elders.
The Wixáritari identify the peyote with the deer and undertake an annual hunt with arrow and bow to obtain the Híkuri (Peyote). In Wixárica cosmogenesis it is in this place where the sun was born, Wirikuta is the center of the world, the place of the ancestor gods, the place where the sacred life of the tribe originates.
THE MIRROR
11 days - Mexico
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This retreat explores links between psychedelic medicine, meditation practices, and oriental philosophies; particularly Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, and Dzogchen. Most of the retreat is in silent meditation, including the psychedelic sessions.
IBOGA
INITIATION
15 days - Gabon, Africa
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The Bwiti community in Mimongo is a mixture of Pygmaea, Massango, and Mitsogo shamans. They will offer us three initiation ceremonies: Initiation into Mabandji (possession trance), Missoku (consultation and healing), and Dissoumba (Bwiti). Students will be able to initiate in one of the three paths that they choose, and learn from the others as observers. The village is two days into the jungle from Libreville the capital city (where the airport is) and each initiation will last many days, for this reason, this intensive has a duration of at least 15-20 days.
