12 Month Training Program
The Inner Compass: A Year of Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Practice
A year-long journey into Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Facilitation
For guides who want to walk this path with skill, humility and heart
What’s Included in the Year-Long Course
What’s Included: Monthly Live Sessions (4x per month):
♥ Core Teaching (90 min): Grounded, actionable training on trauma-informed skills.
♥ Guest Expert Session: Insight from leading voices in the field.
♥ “Focus on You” Case Study: Live peer consultation on real client challenges.
♥ Live Q&A: Bring your questions, doubts, and edge cases—we’ll meet them together.
Peer Working Sessions:
Connect monthly with a study partner to integrate material, apply concepts, and stay accountable.
This 12-month certification program is a deep initiation into the ethics, nuance, and nervous system wisdom needed to responsibly hold space in altered states.
Whether you’re a new or aspiring facilitator—or already holding space and craving stronger foundations—this program helps you lead with integrity, protect your clients (and yourself), and cultivate a practice that’s safe, ethical, and soul-aligned.
📜 Certification in Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Practice
A Closer Look at the Certificate Program
╬ Part 1: Foundations of Trauma-Informed Care
Understand how trauma lives in the body and how to build safety from first contact.
╬ Part 2: Recognizing and Preventing Harm
Avoid the common missteps that retraumatize clients in altered states.
╬ Part 3: Boundaries, Consent, and Power Dynamics
Learn to lead with clarity, navigate projection, and stay in right relationship.
╬ Part 4: Cult and Narcissistic Dynamics in Psychedelic Work
Spot coercive patterns early. Protect your clients and your own energy.
╬ Part 5: Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue: More than Self-Care
Learn how to tend to your nervous system as you hold space for others.
╬ Part 6: Mapping the Past, Guiding the Present: Using Genograms & Healing Modalities to Support Client Transformation
Helps explore patterns, Uncover transgenerational trauma and unconscious patterns in your clients’ lives.
╬ Part 7: The Role of the Body in Trauma and Healing
Explore how trauma shows up in the body—and how to gently support release.
╬ Part 8: Navigating Trauma Responses in Ceremony
Skillfully respond to freeze, fawn, flight, or fight in real time.
╬ 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
Understand your limits, when to refer out, and how to build your referral ecosystem.
Two additional topics:
🌿 Tending the Inner Garden (SoulCollage®)
🕊 Walking the Sacred Path (Living Ethics & Spiritual Discernment)
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
Includes access to all live sessions, recordings, resources, peer support, and optional discounted 1:1 coaching.
Recommended Options
Annual Membership
$2189/yr (includes a free month)
Includes everything above + one free month + a copy of Cathy’s book, So, What Happened to You?