Be the Medicine
BEYOND PROTOCOL
The Sacred Foundations of Plant Medicine Work
A 12-week training for therapists, practitioners, and facilitators learning to integrate spiritual, relational, and Earth-based wisdom into plant medicine and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
August 26 - November 28, 2025
While much of the current conversation focuses on protocol and efficacy, we are here to centre the roots, the sacred, spiritual, relational dimensions that have always been at the heart of plant medicine work.
We believe the wisdom of Indigenous elders, lineage holders, and those walking this path in quiet integrity is not just relevant, but critical to holding these experiences safely and responsibly, and protecting these sacred medicines from exploitation. We are remembering how to carry medicine not just with knowledge, but with reverence. Not just for the self, but for the collective. Not just for healing, but for restoring right relationship - with the Earth, with the unseen, and with each other.
This course is a space for those who feel that pull. Who are ready to tend to the invisible foundations of this work with humility and care. To walk alongside those who have come before us, so we may carry this forward with grace, integrity, and spirit. This call is for you - the therapists, guides, artists, dreamers, and protectors- to help shape a future where psychedelic work is not only effective, but sacred.
...to initiation
The Invitation
Are you...
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a therapist, space holder, or facilitator seeking to root your entheogenic practice in spiritual, relational, and Earth-based wisdom?
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in clinical or professional training (PAT or equivalent) and wish to deepen your understanding of Indigenous worldviews, ceremony, and collective healing?
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called to this work and value integrity, prayer, humility, and the honouring of those who have walked this path before us?
The Calling...
The face of healing with plant medicine is changing rapidly, with the rise of psychedelic-assisted therapy reshaping how these medicines are understood and used. While we honour the progress being made in clinical spaces, we also recognise the importance of holding and protecting the older ways — the ceremonial, relational, and spiritual lineages that have kept this work alive for generations.
This course is part of our ongoing commitment to platform voices and wisdom that we believe are vital to the safe, ethical, and soulful continuation of this work.
Core Container
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12x online live sessions with a mix of teaching content, Q&A, exercises and practices
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Including 10 guest teachers and workshops
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August 28th - November 30th on Thursdays at 7-9pm BST
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Community platform to connect and collaborate with others
Additional support (included)
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2x one-to-one mentoring calls with Jeya and Kellie
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Weekly readings and teachings
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Abundant and alive online group with resources and opportunity for connection and collaboration
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3-year access to recordings of all the sessions
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Peer-to-peer support groups
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Ongoing alumni community
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Access to further learning with all the teachers on the course
This is not a certification program designed to accelerate your career as such— it’s an invitation into deeper integrity. A place to sit with humility and ask: How do I walk this path in service, not in ownership? What am I willing to unlearn to be in right relationship with this work?
If you're looking for depth over status, resonance over recognition, and a community of practitioners committed to walking gently, responsibly, and soulfully,
this course may be for you.
The Programme
Are you ready to register?
The Programme
Chapter 1 - Kellie & Jeya - Introduction and Anchoring -what to expect - building our altar, setting our framework, building our foundation to grow through this course.
Chapter 2 - Language of the Sacred with Jill Pettijohn invites us into the subtle art of speaking about mystical and non-ordinary states without reducing them to pathology or performance. Drawing from decades of experience as both a therapist and ceremonial practitioner, Jill guides us in cultivating language that honours the ineffable — helping us meet mystery with reverence, nuance, and presence, both in our personal journeys and when supporting others.
Chapter 3 - Humility and Unlearning with Liza Hita Liza will share her journey with cultivating these devoted relationships with humility, patience, and generosity, and how this is intertwined with clinical consciousness and our collective duty to serve. She will explore various processes of unlearning deeply ingrained entitlements that can hinder more profound understandings of plant medicines. Examining and experiencing our collective origin stories can mend generations of extractive practices and redirect and restore medicine sovereignty.
Chapter 4 - Indigenous relationships to land, self and community - Natalia Gianelli and Gustavo Fernandez By focusing on reciprocity as a way of life, we will explore the ways in which Indigenous people of all times and places have practiced relationship to the land and all the elements that create life. We will also speak about how colonization, displacement and assimilation have and continue to impact these knowledges and livelihoods. We will end by guiding and encouraging land acknowledgement and reconciliation for an aware, ethical and sustainable practice.
Chapter 5 - Ceremony as Safety with Jauni Nam Why ceremony creates the structures we need to practice energetic and psychological safety
Chapter 6 - Sacred Medicine: Peyote and Navajo Healing Traditions for Trauma Recovery with Alta Begay This workshop offers an introduction to the sacred role of peyote in Navajo (Diné) healing traditions, with a focus on its connection to trauma recovery. Rooted in Indigenous teachings and aligned with trauma-informed principles from Dr. James Gordon and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, this session explores how myth, ceremony, and community restore balance, coherence, and hope. Through a blend of lecture, Q&A, discussion, and guided reflection, participants will explore: The mythological origins of peyote in Navajo cosmology and its symbolic meaning in healing trauma The structure and therapeutic purpose of peyote ceremonies (without involving or endorsing peyote use) How elements of ceremony—such as rhythm, storytelling, prayer, and presence—parallel mind-body practices used in trauma healing Ways to respectfully integrate insights from Indigenous healing into personal and professional wellness practices
Chapter 7 - Cosmovisions with Metsa Nihue is an exploration of the worldviews that shape how we relate to life, spirit, and the unseen. Rooted in Indigenous wisdom, this session invites us to step outside the Western lens and into a relational, multidimensional understanding of reality. Metsa will guide us through the significance of cosmovision in plant medicine work — offering a foundation for how to hold space in a way that honours ancestral knowledge, animistic presence, and the sacred interconnectedness of all things.
Chapter 8 - Prayer and the Plant Medicine Field with Grandma Margaret Behan In this course, Grandmother Margaret guides participants into the heart of prayer—as structure, as safety, as sacred dialogue with Spirit. Her presence is one of grace, ancestral connection, and gentle power, reminding us that true healing begins when we return to right relationship with our roots, the land, and the great mystery that breathes through all things.
Chapter 9 - Decolonising Psychedelic Care with Alnoor Ladha is an invitation to look honestly at how power, privilege, and cultural appropriation show up in the psychedelic field. This session explores how we can move beyond extractive models of healing and into reciprocal, respectful relationship with the medicines, the lands they come from, and the lineages that have carried them. Together, we’ll reflect on what it means to honour source traditions, centre Indigenous voices, and walk with humility as stewards, and not owners of this sacred work.
Chapter 10 - Grief and Death with Zach Nusbaum This session will explore aspects of the current landscape in which most of us experience our grief and our relationship to death: a prevailingly materialistic and technological overculture that is often characterized by a disconnection from place/land/nature, a loss of intimate exposure to the dying process, and an absence of communal spaces of grieving. In this session we will ask questions such as: What has been lost amidst this ‘modern progress’? How do we support ourselves as facilitators to reestablish and strengthen conscious relationships to nature, death and grief? How can we bring this awakened reverence and deeper experiential knowledge into ceremonial and/or clinical spaces to more powerfully support another’s healing? What role can psychedelics and plant medicines play in preparing us for death and in assisting us in working with grief more holistically? And what do these medicines have to teach us about what is beyond death, and about our relationship to Mystery itself?
Chapter 11 - The Practitioners Compass with Natalia Gianelli Through a critical journey of the history of western mental health we will explore ways in which a decolonial perspective can benefit community care and mental health practice. By rising awareness around culture, privilege, diversity, historical trauma and appropriation, we will explore ways to develop a trauma informed practice of allyship, solidarity and appreciation.
Chapter 12 - Integration and Closing Ceremony with Kellie and Jeya Conclusion, ceremony, where do we go from here?
Our Teachers
Guest teachers are subject to change
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What you'll leave with...
This is not just a training — it’s an initiation. A return to the roots of this work, and an invitation to carry it forward with wisdom, humility, and strength.
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Understanding how ceremony, prayer, and energetic presence creates ethical safety in non-clinical settings
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Guidance from Indigenous elders and wisdom keepers
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Receive teachings from lineages that have held these medicines for generations, shared with consent, heart, and intention
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Relational and spiritual skills often left out of mainstream training
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Explore grief, death, cosmology, song, ritual, and Earth connection as essential aspects of integration and holding space
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Clarity on how to walk this path with integrity; understanding the difference between appropriation and alignment, and how to root your work in reverence rather than replication.
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A community of practitioners who care about walking gently and wisely
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Participate in peer triads, reflective dialogue, and optional in-person immersion with others on the same path
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Two 1:1 sessions to support your personal integration
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Tailored guidance to help you explore how to apply this work to your life, relationships, and vocation
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Can I get a refund after I have registered?We are happy to offer a 24 hour grace period for refunds upon registration, but we do not generally offer refunds beyond this point. We do however allow this credit to be taken into the following training course or put towards one of our in-person immersions if the course cannot be taken due to extenuating circumstances.
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Do I need to have personal experiences with Psychedelics or Psychotropic Medicines?No, whilst Clinical or facilitation experience is helpful, personal experience is not required —what is required is just an openness to spiritual, Indigenous and more traditional perspectives.
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Will we be working directly with plant medicines during the course?No, we are not working with plant medicines during this course and we are not advocating for the ingestion of plant medicine in anyway during this course.
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What makes this course different from other psychedelic training programs, like Third Wave or Synthesis Institute?Many existing psychedelic training programs focus primarily on clinical frameworks, personal optimisation, and therapeutic protocols. While these approaches can be valuable, they often centre Western psychological models and individual healing goals, and may unintentionally overlook or bypass the spiritual, ancestral, and communal dimensions of this work. Our course takes a fundamentally different approach. We believe that psychedelic healing is not just a clinical intervention — it is a sacred act. One that must be held with deep reverence, spiritual literacy, and respect for the Indigenous traditions that have stewarded these medicines for generations. Rather than relying on well-known “psychedelic influencers” or polished, commercialised content, this course is taught by Indigenous elders, ceremonialists, and therapists who live this work every day — often quietly, without platforms or branding. These are teachers rooted in prayer, land, and lineage, who offer hard-won wisdom not found in textbooks. This is not a certification program designed to accelerate your career as such— it’s an invitation into deeper integrity. A place to sit with humility and ask: How do I walk this path in service, not in ownership? What am I willing to unlearn to be in right relationship with this work? If you're looking for depth over status, resonance over recognition, and a community of practitioners committed to walking gently, responsibly, and soulfully, this course may be for you.
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What if I can’t attend the optional immersion in person?Many other training courses include an immersion which pushes the price of these trainings out of reach for most people. Our immersion is fully optional, and in no way required. You can opt to come to one of our immersions at another date later in the year. Future Immersions come with a 20% discount if you are course Alumni.
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What if I can't attend the weekly online sessions in real time?Though it is highly recommended to attend the weekly sessions in real time, it is possible to watch the recordings and catch up every week.
Reciprocity
Most profits go towards paying our teachers. 10% of our profits will be given directly to Indigenous communities and groups who are devoted to preserving ancestral plant wisdom, protecting ecosystems, and keeping prayer and ceremony alive for the healing of humanity and the Earth.
These stewards are not only guardians of sacred traditions but also active voices in restoring right relationship between people and planet. By supporting them, we honor the interconnectedness that lies at the heart of our work.