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Naropa University

Naropa University is a Boulder, Colorado Buddhist-inspired private university founded in 1974 that emerged as a national leader in psychedelic education through its Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies (NCPS) and undergraduate Psychedelic Studies Minor. The NCPS separated in late 2024 to become the independent Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts, while Naropa continues to offer its contemplative-approach psychedelic studies minor and transpersonal psychology graduate programs.

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Blossom’s read

Naropa is a serious, lineage-rooted outlier in psychedelic education: more contemplative and ethics-led than clinical-industrial, with a strong Buddhist-inspired institutional identity and a history of transpersonal psychology. Its psychedelic offering was credible and unusually well-connected to the field, with names tied to MAPS and clinical trial work, but the centre that powered the certificates has now spun out into the independent Memoru centre. That makes Naropa best understood as an academic home for people who value contemplative practice, theory, and professional formation, rather than a purely technical training shop.

Who Naropa University is for

Best suited to undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals who want a contemplative, psychology-informed route into psychedelic studies or therapy. It will likely appeal more to reflective, ethically minded learners than to people wanting a purely pragmatic facilitator bootcamp.

Prerequisites

For the undergraduate Psychedelic Studies Minor, no special licensure is stated, but it is an undergraduate minor and therefore for enrolled students. For the Psilocybin Facilitator Training certificate, it is designed for adult-use psilocybin facilitation under state regulatory models; the source does not state universal licensure prerequisites, though it is framed around legal facilitation training and practicum supervision.

Accreditation & recognition

Naropa University is institutionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and Naropa says this has been the case since 1986. Naropa’s Psilocybin Facilitator Training was described by Naropa as one of the first fully state-approved training programmes under Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Act regulations, and Naropa says it is approved by the Oregon Health Authority and Colorado DORA. The university’s Colorado certification transferred to Memoru after the 2024 separation, with Oregon transfer in process.

Cost

Naropa’s own site gives general tuition of $750 to $1,090 per credit for academic credit, and another page lists undergraduate tuition at $815 to $1,190 per credit depending on programme. The Psilocybin Facilitator Training page does not give a single headline price in the snippet captured, but it does say travel and lodging are not included in practicum cost. Specific certificate pricing was not clearly surfaced in the sources reviewed.

What you walk away with

Learners can walk away with an undergraduate minor in Psychedelic Studies, a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies, or a Psilocybin Facilitator Training certificate, depending on the route. The curriculum aims to build grounding in transpersonal psychology, ethics, harm reduction, psychedelic-assisted therapy models, and, for the facilitator track, supervised practicum skills for legal psilocybin facilitation.

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Psilocybin Therapy (1)Facilitation & Guiding (1)Harm Reduction (1)Clinical & Medical (1)

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Psilocybin Facilitator Training Certificate Program

By Naropa University

Naropa University’s Psilocybin Facilitator Training Certificate is a state-approved program for people preparing to work as psilocybin facilitators in Colorado and Oregon. It is described as training for facilitators rather than a general introduction to psychedelics.

Source lists: Estimated 122.5 hours

Delivery: Online + Portland, United States

No medicine self-experience listed

40 hours
Professional
Price on request
Psilocybin TherapyFacilitation & Guiding

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