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Subtle Winds

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Subtle Winds is a facilitator training and transformative healing center based in Eugene, Oregon that offers psilocybin facilitator training, workshops, and community programs to prepare students for Oregon Health Authority certification. The organization emphasizes equitable access and training for historically marginalized communities.

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Blossom’s read

Subtle Winds appears to have been a genuinely local, mission-led Oregon training school rather than a glossy national brand: early, state-approved, and shaped by harm-reduction and access language, with an explicit focus on historically marginalised and low-income learners. Its facilitator programme is now closed, so in practical terms it sits more as an archived Oregon psilocybin training lineage and continuing-education shop than an active certification route. Best fit historically would have been people wanting a tightly Oregon-specific path into regulated facilitation, especially those drawn to community-minded, equity-forward training rather than a high-prestige academic model.

Who Subtle Winds is for

Historically, it best suited aspiring Oregon psilocybin facilitators, especially people from historically marginalised communities and those interested in community-based, harm-reduction-informed training. It is no longer accepting new facilitator-training enrolments, but now points learners towards workshops and CEU/CME offerings.

Prerequisites

The archived facilitator programme was aimed at people seeking Oregon psilocybin facilitator certification under the Oregon Health Authority. The site does not clearly state formal licensure prerequisites on the pages reviewed, but it did position the course around meeting Oregon’s regulated facilitator pathway and preparing students for certification.

Accreditation & recognition

Subtle Winds says its facilitator training was a state-approved, HECC licensed / OHA approved facilitator school and one of Oregon’s approved psilocybin facilitator training programmes. It now states that the facilitator school has closed, while continuing with workshops and CEU/CME offerings. No independent source reviewed here confirms CME/CE accreditation specifics for the current offerings.

Cost

Archived facilitator-training tuition was listed at $8,000, with a $25 non-refundable application fee, a $150 enrolment fee, and an advanced deposit of $850, plus additional costs for books, supplies, and food and lodging for three in-person weekends. The site also noted tuition would need to be paid by agreed deadlines and that certificates were withheld until financial obligations were met.

What you walk away with

Learners in the archived programme were intended to walk away prepared for Oregon psilocybin facilitator certification, with 169.5 total training hours including a 40-hour practicum. More broadly, the programme framed outcomes around practical facilitation skills, harm reduction, and working within Oregon’s regulated psilocybin services framework.

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