Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program (2022 – 2025)
A nine-month professional certificate from UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics, designed for advanced professionals preparing to support psychedelic care. The program included interdisciplinary instruction, in-person modules, online small-group meetings, and an optional practicum for some licensure pat
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The Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program ran from 2022 to 2025 as an interdisciplinary training program incubated by UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics in partnership with the Berkeley School of Education. The page states that its history is preserved and will no longer be actively updated, effective July 1, 2025. The program was designed for advanced religious, spiritual care, and healthcare professionals, including people working in chaplaincy, ministry, medicine, nursing, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and social work, as well as practitioners trained in traditional plant medicine lineages. It also offered financial assistance to qualified applicants from historically underserved communities and those committed to serving them. The nine-month, 200-hour program included 160 instructional hours delivered mostly in person across seven three- to five-day modules, plus monthly online small-group meetings and JEDI panels. An optional 40-hour hands-on practicum was available for students pursuing licensure as psilocybin facilitators in Oregon or Colorado.
Who is this for?
Advanced religious, spiritual care, and healthcare professionals, including chaplains, ministers, clinicians, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and practitioners from traditional plant medicine lineages with community support.
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Designed for advanced professionals in chaplaincy, ministry, medicine, nursing, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and social work, or those trained in traditional plant medicine lineages with community support.
About the Provider
UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP), founded in September 2020 by a multidisciplinary faculty group including neuroscientist Michael Silver and author Michael Pollan, conducting psilocybin research into cognition, perception, emotion, and their neural bases in the human brain. BCSP's four pillars of basic science, journalism, culture, and community have established it as a leading interdisciplinary hub for psychedelic research and public engagement, producing The Microdose newsletter and a global clinical trials map.
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- FormatHybrid
- Lifecycle statusNo New Dates
- SkillsFacilitationPsychotherapyPsilocybin TherapyEthicspsychedelic facilitationspiritual carepsychotherapeutic methodsclinical science and researchjustice, equity, diversity, and inclusionsomatic awarenesscontemplative practicereciprocity and ecological awarenessancestral entheogenic traditionscontiguous with traditional plant medicine lineages
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Competencies this course teaches
Clinical competencies from the Blossom competency map that reference this course as a teaching source.
- Justice, diversity, and inclusion practiceCultural Humility
- Supporting diverse spiritual and community contextsCultural Humility
- Cultural humility, Indigenous respect, and equity-oriented careEthics and Boundaries
- Reciprocity and ecological awarenessEthics and Boundaries
- Contemplative practice supportPsychological Support and Psychotherapy
- Ethical psychedelic facilitationSafety and Basic Knowledge
- General psychedelic-assisted practice skillsSafety and Basic Knowledge
- Mindfulness, intention-setting, set and setting, and somatic presenceSafety and Basic Knowledge
- Psychedelic research literacy and evidence appraisalSafety and Basic Knowledge
- Psychotherapeutic facilitation methodsSetting Management
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