Join the Director of Training and Research and Assistant Director for Community Care at Naropa University's Center for Psychedelic Studies to explore pathways to becoming a psychedelic care provider. The webinar is suitable for those seeking to begin a career in this area, as well as for therapists, physicians, chaplains, and other care providers interested in expanding their scope and expertise to include work with psychedelic medicines/entheogens. We will explore legal frameworks, including credentialing and will also discuss community use. This webinar may be useful for professionals wanting to compare and understand more about the variety of training programs offered in the psychedelic space.

The Natural Medicine Health Act was passed in Colorado by popular referendum in 11/2022. Since then, the Colorado state regulatory agencies have been hard at work creating the scaffolding for how the law will be operationalized. This initial seminar is a discussion of how the law is being implemented, and a look into the real-time process of psychedelic public policy creation as it attempts to balance the considerations or public, private, medical, cultural, geographic, and indigenous perspectives.

While modern science is starting to explore both spiritual and psychedelic experiences, they have long been a part of cultural practices and have been described for millennia. What is now necessary is a synthesis to bridge the worlds and bring all the aspects of spiritual and psychedelic experiences together under one metatheory. This webinar will attempt to create a proto-synthesis to serve as a foundation for the exploration in these areas going forward into the future.

Much like the way psychedelics challenge individual rigid worldviews, they are also challenge the conventional paradigms of modern medicine. Among the most important shifts which these catalysts call for is the understanding that the way in which we relate to our medicines is part of the medicine itself. While some of us are being reminded of this fact, indigenous peoples have not forgotten. In this webinar, Lakota spiritual leader, Wesley Black Elk, and psychedelic psychiatrist, Kylie House, M.D., will describe the way in which we relate to our “medicines,” better known as ceremony, gives us the direction and intent to come into alignment with the one true medicine: the healing intelligence that permeates our universe.