PENSUM

This program is a three-year-long hybrid residential and online training with an hour intensity of 1.200 hours divided into six semesters. Each semester has a series of online modules and one residential intensive.

NON RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM

Each semester is usually divided into four or five modules, each with a duration of eight to ten weeks.  The program includes work in the online learning platform, forum interactions, a weekly webinar, complimentary reading, practical exercises, and meetings with the tutors. Webinars will be led live by experts in the psychedelic field, but a recording will be stored in the learning environment for a short period of time for all students who were unable to attend the live webinar or who would like to watch it again. There will also be online tutor meetings once in a while to prepare students before modules, provide support and follow up between classes, and support with integration after residential intensives.

INTENSIVES

The other half of the program (600 hours) is committed to experiential work in our intensives: dietas, initiations, and pilgrimages. Half of the intensives are focused on experiential transpersonal therapy, the other half take place in indigenous territories: Cofan reservations in the Amazon, a Bwiti village in Gabon, and Wirikuta the peyote pilgrimage site in Mexico.

TRANSPERSONAL RETREATS

Half of the intensives are retreats dedicated to experiential psychotherapy where students will have the opportunity to do personal work, healing, and self-knowledge while at the same time learning first hand from expert psychotherapists while they work with amplified states of consciousness, psychedelics (respecting local laws), bodywork, gestalt, family constellations, and meditation. We have one ten-day transpersonal retreat each year for a total of three throughout the program.

In these retreats, students will have the opportunity to work on their personal journeys, descend into the dark, murky dredge of their own emotions and challenges and heal, while learning important tools and methods of transpersonal psychotherapy.  By working on themselves and learning the basics of transpersonal psychology, students will have sufficient experience and knowledge to guide and accompany other people's therapeutic processes. 

During these retreats, students will also have the opportunity to practice the tools and methods learned with their peers while being supervised by experienced transpersonal psychotherapists; understanding that apart from personal transformation, supervised hands-on practice is the best way to really acquire knowledge in the therapeutic field.

PILGRIMAGES

The other half of the intensives consist of pilgrimages to indigenous territories where students will begin to build relationships with authentic psychedelic communities and elders while learning from their shamanic traditions and power plants. We are usually received as locals as we have been developing relationships with these communities for many years. They have all gifted us tribal land inside their reservations where we have built small retreat houses and have held pilgrimages and retreats of this sort many times. In this training, we will have one pilgrimage per year interspersed with the transpersonal retreats. Although most of the time will be spent learning from the shamanic practitioners and journeying with them through the nights, there will also be psycho-therapy classes throughout the day.

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Through years of conversation with the political leaders and spiritual elders of these communities, the intensives in these territories are carefully designed to give voice to what these traditions want to show to the world, respecting and honoring their traditional ways.

CERTIFICATION

For many generations, lineage and supervision by the elders have been the main procedure of certification for psychedelic medicine. For this reason, we have gathered some of the main pioneers and experts in modern psychedelic therapy; and because western psychedelic therapy is very young, we have also gathered the most respected elders and social leaders of three root psychedelic traditions. We have also committed one entire semester to clinical supervision, and facilitate supervised hands-on practice since the second semester. 

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Additionally, upon completion of the program students will receive a certificate for 1,200 hours in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy, and will be granted a simplified application procedure for the  EUROTAS Certificate for Transpersonal Psychotherapy (ECTP).

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We intend to continue to stay up to speed on legal changes in different countries and jurisdictions to maximize compliance with other accrediting standards around the world as they emerge.

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EUROTAS 

The European Transpersonal Association (EUROTAS) was founded in 1984 during the first Transpersonal Conference in Brussels. Among the departments hosted by Eurotas, is the European Society of Transpersonal Psychotherapy (ESTP), which is focused on the development and promotion of high standards of transpersonal psychotherapy. From this department, Eurotas grants the Accreditation of Transpersonal Institutes and the Certificate of Transpersonal Psychotherapy. Our training program is designed to be accredited by Eurotas, in this way our graduated students can apply for the certification by Direct Award.