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Psychedelic Training & Retreats
Psilocybin Mushroom Facilitator Training
Psilocybin Mushroom Journey Facilitator Training for Clinical and Wellness Practitioners
Elemental's mushroom journey facilitator program is a DORA Approved Facilitator Natural Medicine Training Program based in Colorado. Our 150-hour facilitator program combines online and in-person experiential opportunities to support your exploration of education, experience, and ethics for embodied practice as a mushroom journey guide.
Elemental's Mushroom Journey Facilitator Program involves:
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80 hours of online synchronous and asynchronous curriculum, study groups, and live calls
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70 hours of in-person education for clinical and wellness tracks, including:
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3-night in-person Elementals of the Psilocybin Mushroom Journey
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3-night in-person Deepening your Psilocybin Mushroom Practice
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Single-day, in-person Practice Circles for supervised practice hours
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Ongoing virtual consultation groups or individual mentorship
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Applications for the Spring 2025 Cohort for Mushroom Journey Facilitators' Training are Now Closed
We are thrilled to have received many well-qualified applications for the spring 2025 cohort and are unable to accept more at this time. Please join the interest list to be the first notified when the application period for our fall 2025 cohort opens. Or, watch for applications to open in January 2025 for Elemental's Advanced Pathway.​
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About Elemental's Mushroom Journey Facilitator Program
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Elemental’s psilocybin mushroom journey facilitator training program aims to bridge conventional clinical paradigms and practice with safe, ethical, and respectful psycho spiritual psychedelic work. At Elemental, we place a high value on ethical and competent psychedelic care and we strive to create safe spaces for providers who are passionate about their role as stewards and custodians to deepen their personal relationship within this emerging field.
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Full clinical and full wellness program options are approved to meet the 150 hours of educational content as outlined in the training program requirements of Colorado’s Natural Medicine Rules. Alongside these required objectives, Elemental’s psilocybin mushroom journey facilitator training particularly emphasizes these skills and objectives:
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Ability to sit and “be with” a range of client/participant experiences during a medicine session
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Cultivating a sense of deep personal relationship with one’s own inner landscape and the mushroom journey space
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Embodied experience with non-appropriative ceremony and the importance of creating well-held containers
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Internalizing the ethics surrounding psychedelic care, risks, power, and avoiding harm
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A high bar of integrity as members of psychedelic medicine community
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A deep sense of respect for the awe, mystery, and animate forces that natural medicine work is held within
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A deep sense of the responsibility of custodianship for clients/participants, to the social movements that facilitator work is connected to, and to the land that we reside on
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How does Elemental's Mushroom Journey Facilitator Program differ between clinical and wellness (non-clinical) practitioner tracks?
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Non-clinical or wellness practitioners include individuals from a variety of backgrounds in the health, wellness, or healing arts including yoga instructors, life coaches, massage therapists, meditation teachers, doulas, energy workers, reiki practitioners, and CNA’s, EMT’s, and RNs.
Elemental's clinical track is designed for licensed therapists, social workers, nurse practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other licensed clinicians in the health or mental health fields.
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The clinical track includes all of the essential competencies and embodied practices of psilocybin mushroom journey training with particular attention to the context of clinical work.
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Elemental also offers advanced pathways for practitioners with prior completed training in psychedelic-assisted therapies and who want to study alongside other more experienced practitioners. Our advanced track also offers a viable pathway for practitioners with years of prior facilitation experience to obtain accelerated licensure. Read more here in our program overview about 2025 dates and the application process for advanced practitioners.
Spring 2025 Details for Mushroom Journey Facilitators' Training
​​Our Spring 2025 mushroom journey facilitator training takes place over approximately 5 months. Each week, students will engage readings, podcasts, and recorded talks, alongside weekly live calls with training faculty and special guests.
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Students will have the opportunity to connect in community through several in-person gatherings , including:
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a two-day kick-off gathering to meet the faculty and jumpstart our educational program together, March 28 and 29, 2025
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our Elementals retreat, with two date options to choose from, April 3-6 or April 24-27, 2025, in Lyons, CO​
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our Deepening your Practice retreat, with two date options to choose from, May 8-11 or July 25-28, 2025,​ in Lyons, CO​
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a one-day closing gathering, August 15, 2025
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Elemental's Mushroom Journey Facilitator Program details:
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This program includes 150 educational hours, aligned with the learning objectives required in Colorado for facilitators licensing, and the opportunity for students to go on to complete 40 hours of in-person supervised practice. Program cost for spring 2025 is $7,500 for students completing the full 150 hours for original licensure in Colorado. (Program cost includes everything students need to complete the 150 hour educational program, except for lodging and meals at in-person retreat weekends).
For students with prior completed training in psychedelic therapy, accelerated program options are available. Elemental's Advanced Pathway is designed for individuals who have completed prior formal training in a psychedelic-assisted therapy or facilitation, who have completed substantially equivalent educational coursework, and/or who have ample prior experience with psilocybin mushroom journey facilitation specifically. Individuals may have completed training in another psychedelic-assisted therapy modality (e.g., MDMA-assisted therapy), but have gaps in their training related to facilitating psilocybin mushroom sessions specifically. Alternatively, individuals may have been practicing as a natural medicine guide or space holder for at least the past two years prior to the regulated access program in Colorado, but have gaps in didactic training related to the rules and ethics of Colorado’s regulated program. Elemental’s Advanced Pathway provides 50 hours of hybrid education on ethics and rules for accelerated facilitators and an in-person practice weekend.
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After students complete educational hours and the additional 40 hours of supervised practice, Colorado law requires another 50 hours of individual or group consultation before granting full licensure to natural medicine facilitators. Elemental offers ongoing virtual group consultation to meet this requirement at an affordable cost or individual mentorship for those seeking more in-depth, personalized study.
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Sample Faculty and Guests
Transformational Life Coach
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Therapist
Clinical Director at Elemental
The Emerald podcast
The Luminous Guide
What Makes Elemental's Mushroom Journey Facilitator Program Unique?
As a women-led, Colorado-based organization, Elemental provides a unique pathway into mushroom medicine work. Elemental offers:
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Small cohorts and intimate in-person gatherings for powerful group containers
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Faculty who are highly experienced with mushroom medicine, and who bridge worlds of clinical practice, spiritual practice, and the wisdom of mushroom medicine
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A focus on personal relationship with mushroom medicine as a foundation for developing your own unique gifts within this work
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Faculty who have been at the forefront of emerging practice, policy, and community-building in fungi and psychedelic medicine for many years right here in Colorado
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A slow and steady approach to deepening our practices, based on repeated and prolonged engagement with mushroom medicine, and stewarded within a community of people holding good boundaries, mutual respect, and lots of compassion
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If you are interested in joining us for a future cohort, tell us a little about yourself by clicking the Interest List button below.
