Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program (2022 – 2025)

The Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program was incubated by UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics in partnership with the UC Berkeley School of Education. The program information is preserved for historical reference and is no longer actively updated as of July 1, 2025. The certificate was designed for advanced religious, spiritual care, and healthcare professionals, including people working in chaplaincy, ministry, medicine, nursing, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, social work, and traditional plant medicine lineages. It also encouraged applicants from Indigenous and other marginalized communities, and offered financial assistance to qualified applicants. The nine-month, 200-hour professional preparation program included 160 instructional hours delivered across seven three- to five-day modules, most of them in person, plus monthly online small-group meetings and JEDI panels. An optional 40-hour practicum was available for students seeking licensure as a psilocybin facilitator in Oregon or Colorado. The curriculum addressed spiritual care, ancestral entheogenic traditions, clinical science and research, psychotherapeutic methods, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, contemplative practice, ethics, reciprocity and ecological awareness, and somatic awareness.