Professional development and job education for psychedelic guides building private practice, local community, or collaborative clinical work. The program includes monthly cohort meetings, mentorship, and live trainings and community events.
Psychedelic Sitters School
English
1 year
Dragon Training™ Professional Development & Job Education is designed for psychedelic guides seeking to build and maintain a private practice, develop local psychedelic and Conscious Cannabis community, or prepare for paid roles with Psychedelics Sitters School and related collaborative clinical settings. The program is led by two Senior Dragon mentors and focuses on ongoing professional mentorship, community accountability, and facilitation skill development. It also addresses the legal, operational, and societal constraints of working as a professional, legal psychedelic guide. Program structure includes monthly cohort meetings, participation in live class recordings, and opportunities to join ongoing MM-sponsored Conscious Cannabis circles and other psychedelic events where space is available. The source also describes leadership training and job education sessions for clinical practitioners, PSS trainers, and non-clinical group facilitators.
Psychedelic guide training graduates and trainees seeking professional development, mentorship, and job education for private practice, community leadership, or collaborative clinical work.
Simple application with statement of intention, MMF membership, monthly tuition payment, completion of Psychedelic Guide Training (intensive and practicums), intention to continue through at least one Psychedelic Specialty, participation or completion in the Psychedelic Guide Credentialing Program, and updated participation and credentialing agreements.
Operating since 2012 as the training program of the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder, Colorado, Psychedelic Sitters School trains licensed clinicians and guides-in-training in Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy® across four medicines—cannabis, ketamine, psilocybin, and DMT—through in-person, hybrid, and online formats. Now in their 13th year with over 35 cohorts completed, they are one of the longest-running psychedelic guide training programs in the United States.
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