The BCSP Certificate Program in Psychedelic Facilitation is a 9-month, 200-hour interdisciplinary training for advanced religious, spiritual-care, and healthcare professionals.
Berkeley University
English
40 hours
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.
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.
Designed for advanced professionals; the source does not specify formal entry requirements.
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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