Course Provider
Chacruna is a nonprofit psychedelic education and advocacy platform based in the United States with global reach through online publishing, courses, conferences, and multilingual programming. Its work centers on psychedelic plant medicines, ethics, cultural justice, reciprocity, and Indigenous knowledge, with content and activities aimed at researchers, clinicians, educators, policy audiences, and the broader public. The organization says it bridges ceremony and science and makes academic knowledge more accessible through public-facing education. Chacruna plays an explicit role in psychedelic justice and policy-adjacent advocacy by foregrounding cultural context, equity, and protection of sacred plants and traditions. Current documented initiatives include the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas, which supports community-led Indigenous projects, the Psychedelic Culture conference, the bilingual Chacruna Latinoamérica platform, and courses on diversity, culture, social justice, ceremony, ethics, and reciprocity. These activities make it a potential partner for researchers, clinicians, funders, and policy groups seeking cultural consultation, educational programming, and community-centered collaboration.
Chacruna is best understood as a values-led, intellectually serious public education provider rather than a narrow skills school. Its standing in the field rests on Bia Labate’s academic lineage, a visible publishing and conference footprint, and a consistent emphasis on reciprocity, Indigenous knowledge, ethics, and justice. It will suit people who want culturally grounded psychedelic education with a policy and research edge, especially those working at the intersection of ceremony, science, and public discourse.
It best suits therapists, facilitators, researchers, students, chaplains, community religious leaders, and others interested in psychedelic ethics, culture, and Indigenous reciprocity. It is also a fit for curious members of the public who want accessible, non-clinical education.
Chacruna does not publish a single universal entry requirement. Some offerings are aimed at people already facilitating or assisting in ceremonies, while others welcome a broader mixed audience including students, religious leaders, psychotherapists, clinicians, and people with genuine interest and experience in the field.
Selected courses offer CE credits, but credit approval is course-specific. The Diversity, Culture and Social Justice in Psychedelics course lists 16 CE credits, and the Science of Psychedelic Healing course lists CE credits as pending approval. Chacruna also partners with the University of Ottawa on the Diversity, Culture and Social Justice course, and that course is described as satisfying a multicultural prerequisite for students in Ottawa’s Master’s programme in Psychedelics and Consciousness Studies.
Pricing varies by programme. Recent course prices include $700 USD for Diversity, Culture and Social Justice in Psychedelics, $700 USD for The Science of Psychedelic Healing, $950 for Ayahuasca Healing, Science and Indigenous Knowledge, $500 for Psychedelics 101 for Community Religious Leaders, and $4,000 for the Certificate in Ceremony, Ethics & Reciprocity. Membership can reduce or waive access costs for events, courses, workshops, and conferences.
Learners walk away with public-facing education in psychedelic science, ethics, culture, reciprocity, and justice. Some courses offer a Chacruna certificate of completion, while the ceremony and ethics certificate is framed as foundational education for safer, more ethical practice rather than a licence or formal clinical qualification.
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Programs linked directly to this provider in the Blossom course dataset.
By Chacruna
A course on plant medicine facilitation, integration, and ethics. It focuses on foundational concepts for working with plant medicine experiences and supporting integration responsibly.
By Chacruna
Queering Psychedelics: Intersectionality, Healing, Spirituality and Liberation is a Chacruna course focused on queer and intersectional perspectives in psychedelic work. It addresses healing, spirituality, and liberation through a social and cultural lens.
By Chacruna
Chacruna is hiring a Courses Coordinator to support its courses program and related operations. The role appears focused on coordinating course logistics and administration rather than delivering course instruction.
By Chacruna
Course on the foundations of plant medicine facilitation, integration, and ethics. It appears to cover core principles for working with plant medicine experiences and the responsibilities of facilitation.
By Chacruna
Reducing the Impact of Bias on Therapy, Education, & Training is an interactive workshop that introduces participants to the concept of implicit bias, including what it is, why it happens, and how it affects our interactions with others
By Chacruna
The Roots of Psychedelic Therapy course offered by the Chacruna Institute is an introduction to the foundations of the use of sacred plants. Through lectures, students will explore topics such as shamanism in Amazonia, peyote use among the Wixárika, psilocybin use among the Mazatec, and iboga in Afr
By Chacruna
This article examines the history of psychedelic medicine being used in conversion therapy and the ongoing harms of heteronormative assumptions in psychedelic science. It outlines the need for LGBTQ-affirmative psychedelic therapy and identifies key areas for change in clinical practice and training.
By Chacruna
Course on ayahuasca healing, science, and Indigenous knowledge that examines global ayahuasca use, traditional Amazonian healing, psychotherapy, clinical research, conservation, and legal frameworks. It combines recorded lectures with live Zoom discussion sessions.
By Chacruna
Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Production in Psychedelic Science is a course that aims to examine a wide range of critical issues and perspectives in psychedelic science, equipping students with a broader and more integrated understanding of how research is conducted across a variety of settings
By Chacruna
Diversity, Culture and Social Justice in Psychedelics introduces students to basic concepts around psychedelics and justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (JEDI). The goal of the course is to explore how psychedelics influence and are influenced by factors such as social justice, privilege, and d
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