Bodhi Academy is honored to serve as the professional training partner for
Open:Minds Expo
Denver, Colorado
November 23-24, 2024
Register now for this intensive weekend training for practitioners with the Bodhi Academy faculty at the nation’s first psychedelic expo for consumers!
A 6-Month Certification Program for Doctors, Nurses, Clinical Counselors, Psychologists, Coaches, and Wellness Providers
Psilocybin services will play a key role in the future of emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. Our training program is designed to support professionals to safely and effectively incorporate psilocybin facilitation into their existing practice, and to master the art and science of natural medicines.
If you have experience in the healing arts or work as a professional in the psychological, healthcare, or wellness industries as a therapist, counselor, coach, addictions specialist, doctor, or nurse, and you are contemplating integrating psychedelic healing into your practice our comprehensive training program will support you to assist your clients or patients who are seeking support in this field.
These potent medicines hold the potential for a revolutionary shift in health and wellbeing as they can evoke transformative change. As a leader in your profession, you are in the best position to step into the expanding field of psychedelic support. Psychedelics are opening up a new arena of conscious exploration.
People are seeking the psilocybin experience now that legal systems have been created in Oregon and Colorado and legalization efforts are underway in many other states. Many of them need a deeper level of support as they are trying to heal long term depression, trauma, addiction, and other complex challenges. These seekers need the support that clinical professionals, coaches, and other healing practitioners can provide when they have received high quality training in psychedelic harm reduction and evidence-based methods for psilocybin facilitation.
What Sets Us Apart
Our program offers an in-depth curriculum that meets and exceeds legal state standards for licensure. The curriculum perfectly balances the wisdom of traditional consciousness-based uses of the sacred mushroom with leading edge research and clinical applications. Our practicum program alone provides 100 hours of in-depth, supervised, direct care training in individual and group preparation, administration, and integration practices and 50 hours of consultation and mentoring with the faculty. The program includes:
150 hours of video and live synchronous training
Bi-weekly integration sessions with faculty
A wealth of clinical and academic articles that have been carefully curated to cover all of the important elements of psychedelic care
Supervised practicum sessions
Regular assessments throughout the program
Sample forms you can use to launch your practice
Specialty training in creating programs and retreats
Faculty hours for one-to-one consultations
Guest faculty presentations from leading experts in psilocybin
Exclusive content derived from hands-on experience in delivering legal psilocybin services
Case studies of a variety of client presentations and experiences
Live role play and demonstration sessions
Focus on clinically proven, evidence-based psychedelic harm reduction methods and techniques
100-hour supervised practicum training
The latest clinical research findings
Tools and techniques for preparation, facilitation, and integration, including indigenous and clinical approaches
Training in depth coaching with special focus on integral consciousness theory
And much more!
Taught by Facilitators for Facilitators
Bodhi Academy’s faculty are leading experts in the field of psilocybin services. They helped build the nation’s first legal system in Oregon based on their combined decades of experience and expertise in supporting the use of natural psychoactive medicines. Our training team members were among the first in the world to receive state licensure in psilocybin facilitation. Since the launch of legal access programs in Oregon and Colorado, they have delivered more than 80 professionally guided journeys to individual, couples, and groups with special focus on trauma resolution, addiction recovery, emotional healing of grief and loss, and cultivating peak, mystical experiences for lasting change.
Tradition Meets Science: We respect the ancestral traditions of natural plant and fungi medicines in ceremonial contexts. We skillfully blend this ancient wisdom with compelling research and clinical practices to inform best practice for psychedelic healing
Direct Care Skills: Our focus is on empowering our students with hands-on skills, proven harm reduction strategies, and in-depth knowledge to ensure your clients’ safety and enhance therapeutic outcomes
Diverse and Inclusive Learning: We train a wide range of professional practitioners with experience in medical, clinical, personal growth, and holistic wellness care. Our program is designed to help you take your practice to the next level by incorporating psilocybin services.
Hands-On Synchronous Training and Practicum Experience: Our comprehensive approach gives you the opportunity to practice with fellow students in live role plays and at a practicum retreat that offers the opportunity to work facilitate psilocybin sessions in individual and group settings. You will master client preparation, dose and strain considerations, set and setting, co-facilitation and team facilitation, individual and group administration, and integration skills with the guidance and supervision of our experienced faculty.
Get Ready for the Future of Wellness and Clinical Practice: Completing your training with Bodhi Academy ensures that you will be ready to provide the highest quality of care for the many people who are already and will be seeking relief with psilocybin. Become a leader at the forefront of this emerging field by enrolling in Bodhi Academy.
In-Person Practicum Retreat
You’ll gather at a stunning retreat location for the administration portion of your practicum. At the retreat, you’ll practice individual and group administration and retreat-based integration sessions with the guidance and support of supervisory faculty.
You have the option to experience psilocybin as a student-client and receive facilitation services from members of your training cohort. If you do not wish to consume psilocybin, other modalities for inducing non-ordinary states can be substituted such as sound therapy. Micro- and midi-dose options are also available. You’ll have the opportunity to attend daily debriefing, supervision, and mentoring sessions with the practicum supervisors.
Enrollment opens soon!
Enrollment opens in November 2024 for the next training cohort scheduled to begin March 2025. Join our list now to receive notifications of upcoming information sessions with the program director and faculty where you can learn more about Bodhi Academy’s renowned
