A curriculum focused on psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine facilitation for spiritual and psychotherapeutic care. It was grounded in inclusion, reciprocity, and respect, and combined scientific, ancestral, and communal perspectives.
The Ketamine Training Center
English
6 weeks
This curriculum teaches the competencies needed for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, with an emphasis on creating appropriate set and setting and supporting patients in non-ordinary states of consciousness. It covers intake and evaluation, patient preparation, facilitation skills, legal and practice-management issues, and the medical, psychotherapeutic, and spiritual interface during treatment. The training uses a collaborative model that brings together medical, psychological, and pastoral practitioners. It also addresses working with PTSD, ongoing trauma, life-threatening illness, concomitant medication, and collaboration with outside practitioners. Experiential learning is a required part of the program. Participants receive guided experience with ketamine using oral lozenge and intramuscular injection (IM), followed by dyadic session work and post-session integration. The curriculum includes follow-up virtual meetings 2-6 weeks after the workshop for supervision, feedback, and discussion of participant experiences.
Learners in a facilitated psychedelic certificate program, including participants preparing for psychedelic facilitation roles.
Participants are expected to have some familiarity with the skills used in KAP practice.
Founded by Phil Wolfson (author of The Ketamine Papers), the Ketamine Training Center is a San Anselmo, California pioneer in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training, offering 6-day immersive residential retreats that blend theoretical and experiential learning, awarding 30 AMA Category I CME credits. They have trained over 800 practitioners across the US in a collaborative model emphasizing the provider's personal ketamine experience.
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