Psychedelic Sitter and harm reduction Training

Psychedelic

Sitter Training

In person and virtual

Salt Lake City

355 N 300 W ste 1, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Applications now open!

Training Details

Virtual Lectures only

$375 ($75 deposit required)

Schedule:

TBD

Virtual Lectures & in-person ketamine experiential

$1000 ($150 deposit required)

Virtual Prep Session : one week before training

Schedule:

TBD

Curriculum Overview

Background and Foundational Information

  • History of psychedelics and healing

  • Medical history of ketamine

  • Important historical research

    Basics of Psychedelic Medicine Preparation

  • Mindset and setting

  • Techniques to use during preparation sessions

  • Understanding the importance of music

  • The importance of developing and maintaining a self care practice

    Psychedelic Sitter Guidelines

  • Defining and understanding the role of a psychedelic sitter

  • Learning how to support someone in a non ordinary state

  • Ethics of working with non ordinary states

  • Understanding therapeutic touch

  • The “difficult” journey and how to support in challenging experiences

  • Knowing when and how to ask for help during a session

Business of Psychedelic Medicine

  • Appropriate roles and ways to support

  • Best practices for working in teams

  • Scope of practice and risk assessment

Professional and Personal Development

  • Creating community and collaboration

  • Ongoing supervision and education

  • Importance of giving back, reciprocity

  • Continued personal healing

  • Personal experience with sublingual ketamine

Psychedelic Medicine Integration

  • Defining integration and why it is important

  • Learn techniques and tools to support integration for your clients

  • Practice sitting with someone in a non ordinary state

  • Integration work with partners and in the group setting

The Team

Curriculum Overview

We believe it is crucial to have personal experience with the psychedelic medicine you are using with clients, in order to fully understand what your client may go through, and in order to provide meaningful support and safety. As a result, our training involves experiential sessions, which will enable all participants to be on both sides of the healing experience.

Our training also has a strong emphasis on ethics, which is of the utmost importance when working in these vulnerable states. We also recognize and accept that there are multiple ways to work with ketamine, which can be beneficial, as long as ethics are upheld. It is important to be familiar with the different techniques, styles, and protocols and to determine which way works best for you.

We choose to work in a relation style, because we believe a large part of the healing experience happens in relationship and because of this we will encourage and foster relationship within our training group. Please be prepared to be in relationship during this training, be fully present, be open to sharing, and be opening to learning more about yourself.

We believe in community and collaboration and encourage participants of all backgrounds (who have a license) to apply to our training. We all bring different skills, knowledge and experience to the table and we want to learn from all of you as well!