12 Month Training Program
The Inner Compass: A Year of Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Practice
What’s Included in the Year-Long Course
Weekly Events
Each month, the training includes a 90-minute core presentation, a guest expert session, a live Q&A, and a “Focus on You” case study discussion led by a volunteer student. This structure blends education, expert insight, real-time support, and peer learning to foster ethical, trauma-informed psychedelic practice.
Working sessions
Students will have the opportunity to pair with a peer each month to review course material, share insights, and collaborate on applying concepts to their own practice. These partnerships foster deeper integration, mutual support, and community connection throughout the training.
A Closer Look at the Certificate Program
╬ Part 1: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Care
Understand trauma’s impact on the nervous system, healing relationships, and how to build a safe container from the start.
╬ Part 2: Recognizing and Preventing Harm
Spot red flags, avoid re-traumatization, and understand how trauma can surface in psychedelic spaces.
╬ Part 3: Boundaries, Consent, and Power Dynamics
Learn ethical boundaries, how to center consent, and navigate complex facilitator-client dynamics.
╬ Part 4: Cult and Narcissistic Dynamics in Psychedelic Work
Identify subtle manipulations, coercive dynamics, and how to protect clients (and yourself) from harm.
╬ Part 5: Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue: More than Self-Care
Foundational training to help practitioners recognize, understand, prevent and cope with the effects of vicarious trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue in themselves and their work.
╬ Part 6: Use a Genogram to map your client’s history Helps explore patterns, identify potential sources of stress and uncover insights into past events that might be impacting the present.
╬ Part 7: The Role of the Body in Trauma and Healing
Explore how trauma lives in the body, why somatic awareness matters in psychedelic states, and how to gently support embodied healing.
╬ Part 8: Navigating Trauma Responses in Ceremony
Learn to recognize fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses during sessions—and how to respond skillfully with grounding, co-regulation, and compassion.
╬ Part 9: Cultural Humility & Collective Trauma
Understand the impact of cultural, racial, and historical trauma, and learn to facilitate with greater awareness, inclusivity, and humility.
╬ Part 10: The Limits of Your Scope & When to Refer
Clarify your role, avoid overstepping, and build a strong referral network for situations beyond your expertise or training.
Two additional topics:
Tending the Inner Garden: Preparing and Integrating with SoulCollage®
Walking the Sacred Path: Ethics as a Living Practice
What You’ll Receive
Sacred Tools for Holding Space with Integrity and Grace
Wisdom-Based Practices – Guided tools for preparation, ceremony, and integration rooted in compassion, presence, and deep listening
Rituals of Safety – Protocols to create safe energetic and relational containers for every phase of the journey
Grounding & Regulation Techniques – Embodied practices to anchor yourself and your clients in moments of intensity or emotional overwhelm
Guides for Ethical Preparation – Spiritually attuned methods for readying clients—mind, body, and soul—for expanded states of consciousness
Spiritual Discernment Tools – Clarity practices to help you recognize coercive dynamics, misuse of power, or energetic entanglement
Integration Templates – Soul-centered reflection practices to help clients find meaning, direction, and healing after their journey
Language of Boundaries – Caring, yet firm communication tools that preserve mutual respect and autonomy
Living Ethics Framework – A sacred, trauma-informed code of conduct that keeps you aligned with humility, transparency, and care
Teachings on Right Relationship – Deep inquiry into the roles we play, the energies we carry, and how to walk this path without causing harm
Support Along the Way – A community of practice, live teachings, and spiritual companionship as you deepen your service
Monthly Membership
$199/mo
Access to 4 sessions, monthly, all resources and handouts, opportunity for reduced rate one-on-one coaching with Cathy.
Recommended Membership Plans
Annual Membership
$2189/yr (includes a free month)
Complete payment for the first cohort (beginning January, 2026) and receive an additional 10% off and free copy of Cathy’s book, So, What Happened to You?