Psychedelic Training & Retreats

Psilocybin Mushroom Facilitator Training

Psilocybin Mushroom Journey Facilitator Training for Clinical and Wellness Practitioners

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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:

80 hours of online synchronous and asynchronous curriculum, study groups, and live calls
70 hours of in-person education for clinical and wellness tracks, including:
3-night in-person Elementals of the Psilocybin Mushroom Journey
3-night in-person Deepening your Psilocybin Mushroom Practice
Single-day, in-person Practice Circles for supervised practice hours
Ongoing virtual consultation groups or individual mentorship

Applications for the Fall 2025 Cohort are Now Being Accepted

We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting applications on a rolling basis for the fall 2025 cohort that begins in October 2025. Or, if our spring 2026 cohort that starts in March 2026 works better for you, you may apply now and select the option to defer in your application. Download the program overview to get full details on dates, fees, program values, and more!

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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:

Small cohorts and intimate in-person gatherings for powerful group containers
Faculty who are highly experienced with mushroom medicine, and who bridge worlds of clinical practice, spiritual practice, and the wisdom of mushroom medicine
A focus on personal relationship with mushroom medicine as a foundation for developing your own unique gifts within this work
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
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

If you are interested in joining us for a future cohort, apply now for fall 2025 or select to defer your application to spring 2026.

Elemental's Mushroom Journey Facilitator Program Objectives

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.

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:

Ability to sit and “be with” a range of client/participant experiences during a medicine session
Cultivating a sense of deep personal relationship with one’s own inner landscape and the mushroom journey space
Embodied experience with non-appropriative ceremony and the importance of creating well-held containers
Internalizing the ethics surrounding psychedelic care, risks, power, and avoiding harm
A high bar of integrity as members of psychedelic medicine community
A deep sense of respect for the awe, mystery, and animate forces that natural medicine work is held within
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

How does Elemental's Mushroom Journey Facilitator Program differ between clinical and wellness (non-clinical) practitioner tracks?

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.

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.

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.

Fall 2025 Details for Mushroom Journey Facilitators' Training

Our Fall 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.

Students will have the opportunity to connect in community through several in-person gatherings , including:

a two-day kick-off gathering to meet the faculty and jumpstart our educational program together, October 9 and 10, 2025
our Elementals retreat, with multiple date options to choose from in October-November 2025 in Lyons, CO
our Deepening your Practice retreat, with two date options to choose from, in February 2026, in Lyons, CO
a one-day closing gathering, March 13, 2026

This program includes 150 educational hours, aligned with the learning objectives required in Colorado for facilitators licensing, and up to 20 hours of practicum as part of the built-in practice retreats. Program cost includes everything students need to complete the 150 hour educational program and 20 hours of practicum, except for lodging and meals at in-person retreat weekends. Students may then go on to complete the remaining 20 hours of required practicum with us through additional single day intensives scheduled in March and April of 2026.

After students complete educational hours and all 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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