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An online educational program and resource offering interviews, manuals, and training materials from experienced psychedelic practitioners about holding space and best practices for psychedelic-assisted sessions. It provides audio/video presentations and a manual (edited by James Fadiman) as a free master class on psychedelic care.
The Guiding Presence sits in the field as an open, experience-led archive rather than a formal school. Its strength is lineage: a roll call of early psychedelic and transpersonal pioneers, plus practitioners with clinical and ceremonial experience, making it best for people who want grounded, historical, practice-based learning about presence, set and setting, and harm reduction rather than a credential-first pathway. It is especially useful for curious public learners and developing facilitators who want a broad, non-prescriptive master class in psychedelic care.
Best for people already interested in psychedelic support work, including aspiring facilitators, integration practitioners, and clinicians who want a wider view of how experienced guides hold space. It is less suited to learners looking for a tightly regulated clinical qualification or a supervised training pathway.
The programme says it assumes learners have had extensive experience with psychedelics. It does not publish a formal licence requirement or entry interview.
The Guiding Presence offers 4.5 hours of continuing education credit for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family counsellors, and nurses through R. Cassidy Seminars, with CE registration separate from the course fee. It is not presented as an accredited degree or a certification programme.
The full programme is described as $149 on the site, with a broader bundle of recorded material, presenters and written downloads included. A CE-only route is also offered, and the free manual can be downloaded separately.
Learners get a large recorded library of conversations, written materials, checklists and a manual on psychedelic session best practice. The practical outcome is stronger competency in screening, preparation, holding space, harm reduction, music use, ethics and meaning-making, rather than a formal qualification.
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