Certificate Program in Psychedelic Facilitation
The BCSP Certificate Program in Psychedelic Facilitation is a 9-month, 200-hour interdisciplinary training for advanced religious, spiritual-care, and healthcare professionals.
Course Overview
The Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program provides interdisciplinary training for advanced professionals in fields such as chaplaincy, medicine, mental health, and social work. The program emphasizes spiritual care, ancestral traditions, equity, and access, preparing facilitators to work with diverse faith traditions and Indigenous communities. The 200-hour curriculum includes 160 instructional hours—delivered through in-person modules and online meetings—and a 40-hour practicum. Training covers nine core domains, including clinical science, psychotherapeutic methods, ethics, and somatic awareness. The program has been recognized as an Oregon facilitating training course.
Who is this for?
Advanced religious, spiritual-care, and healthcare professionals, including those in chaplaincy, ministry, medicine, nursing, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and social work, as well as traditional plant medicine lineage holders.
Prerequisites
Designed for advanced professionals; the source does not specify formal entry requirements.
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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- Price$12,000
- FormatHybrid
- Lifecycle statusNo New Dates
- Skillsspiritual carepsychotherapeutic methodsentheogenic traditionsclinical sciencediversityequityinclusioncontemplative scienceethicsreciprocityecological awarenesspsychedelic facilitationpositionalitycultural sensitivityservice
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