Training & Mentoring

 JOURNEY GUIDE TRAINING & MENTORING

Become a Sacred Plant Medicine Holder and Guide for Journeys with Sacred Mushroom (Psilocybin) Medicine 

Plant and earth medicines are returning from being “exiled” to support, deepen and co-facilitate our healing, allowing us to let go of what is in our way consciously or unconsciously and reconnect to who we truly are, so we feel more vibrant and whole, live more consciously and make aligned choices from a place of inner knowing.

This sacred medicine and the work of guiding others on a healing journey in a sacred and safe way to heal is so needed now. 

We have all witnessed how traditional therapies and Western medicine cannot access the depth of healing needed, especially when limiting beliefs, patterns and triggers are deeply ingrained from childhood or are pre-verbal (before 4 years old or in the womb), held in the subconscious and unconscious or handed down in ancestral lines.

In your practice as an energy healer, shamanic practitioner, herbalist or functional medicine practitioner, coach or therapist, you see that your clients, family and friends want to heal their inner wounds and release underlying stuck patterns, triggers and behaviors. 

They may have exhausted traditional methods and are seeking a path that reaches below surface symptoms to root or unconscious causes and creates new neural pathways that allow for more conscious choices and healthy responses, while enhancing creativity, joy and vitality.

This training includes theory, personal practice, mentoring and conversations about your direct experience, which is often missing from more clinical trainings, and provided what’s needed for you to hold sacred and safe healing journeys with sacred mushroom medicine with confidence and optimal results. 

Training candidates are asked to submit an application and will be interviewed. The application process ensures that this path is for you as it requires a level of capacity to hold sacred and safe space; deep listening and wisdom; emotional maturity and experience to address what comes up in journey sessions; and commitment to your own inner work and healing.

Next training offering in early 2025. Open for applications. Please contact Nicole for more information. 

Testimonial from a Training Graduate

Nicole’s guide training was a truly transformative experience. Her warm and open approach made it easy to delve into the depth and complexities of this powerful medicine.

The training modules were exceptionally well-laid-out, providing a comprehensive foundation of knowledge that enriched my understanding of psilocybin and its potential benefits.  Whether you’re a seasoned explorer or just beginning your journey with this medicine, Nicole’s program offers invaluable insights and practical tools.

Most importantly, Nicole’s training goes beyond simply acquiring information. She equips you with the skills and confidence to hold space for others during their own psilocybin experiences and for yourself. This ability to create a safe and supportive environment is crucial for maximizing the potential for personal growth and healing. —Srimanju Katragadda, Author, Psychedelic Integration Coach

Journey Guide Mentorship Path: Plant and Earth Medicines

You may already be a practitioner or guide with plant and earth medicines and feel that something fundamental is missing from your training or personal experience.

The training may have been clinical, theoretical and conceptual, providing the knowledge, but not the practice or shared conversations about direct experience and practices needed to hold healing journeys with clarity, embodied wisdom and confidence.

Be part of a path where you share your own direct experience in a safe and sacred container with mentors and community that understand right and sacred relationship with the medicine, how to hold safe and sacred space and optimize client and participant healing outcomes.

This path is for you if you want to

  • deepen your relationship with the medicine for your own highest healing
  • be in service to the medicine and your clients/participants
  • practice with the medicine under masterful guidance
  • understand what might show up—spectrum of possibilities–and how to hold space for it in session
  • explore how to work with a client’s need to be in control, resistance, anxiety, fear, blame and disappointment that get in the way of receiving the medicine’s message and healing
  • learn effective strategies, interventions and coaching to support clients in-session and post-session
  • be able to hold informative orientation, powerful intention setting and supportive integration sessions
  • receive insight into how to interpret the messages from the medicine
  • support your clients in opening to the most transformative and embodied healing outcomes from their sessions
  • share personal and client experiences and receive wise, embodied guidance and mentorship and session triage
  • if in group, be part of a community of plant and earth medicine practitioners who support each other and exchange learning and direct experience.

Benefits

  • feel more confident and self-assured working with clients
  • respond with ease and grace in the moment to client challenges
  • provide more powerful and empowering client sessions

The Path & the Work

1:1 Mentoring Sessions. Contact Nicole for an Exploration Call.

Group Virtual Sessions: details and to register here

PERSONAL PRACTICE PATH

Personal Practice Path with Sacred Plants: Cacao | Micro- or Low-dosing Mushroom Medicine | Dietas with Heart-Opening Plants

You may be new to plant medicine (psychoactive or psychedelic) and need guidance on how to be in right and sacred relationship or you may have already been working with these medicines casually or recreationally and want to be more intentional in your relationship, but don’t quite know how.

This path is for you if you want to

  • come into right relationship with one or more of these plant medicines for your own healing and if called, be in service to the medicine
  • set powerful intentions and work more intentionally with the medicine
  • receive the medicine with masterful guidance in daily practices and ceremony
  • understand what might show up—the possibilities for clarity and healing–and how to hold space for yourself
  • receive insight into how to interpret the messages from the medicine
  • open to the most transformative and embodied healing outcomes
  • share personal experiences and receive wise, embodied guidance and mentoring

Benefits

  • connect to a state of inner peace and calm
  • create a resource state you can return to when triggered
  • elevate your mood
  • enhance your creativity and productivity
  • be with all your emotions to feel joy again
  • feel supported in your daily life in all ways
  • feel held by the healing and supportive energy of the medicine as you do your inner work

The Path & the Work

1:1 Exploration Session to discuss your intention, choose the right medicine/s and design a path for you with individual or group coaching and resources along the way. Contact Nicole for an Exploration Call.

CACAO PRACTITIONER TRAINING & PRIVATE MENTORING

Power of Cacao: Practitioner Training. As Director of Course Design for Keith’s Cacao, I designed and co-developed this experiential training program for new and experienced Cacao Practitioners that shares detailed research, instructional videos and live classes about ceremonial cacao; history, myth and cultural awareness of cacao; science and nutritional benefits of cacao; and how to hold sacred and safe space. “Find your magic,” as Keith would say, and find out more here. 

Cacao Practitioner Mentoring Sessions  In these private 1:1 sessions, I offer in-depth wisdom and guidance on how to step into your power as a Cacao Practitioner and will answer all your burning questions about sharing cacao. Contact Nicole for more details.