Synthesis Institute

04/09/2025

"All of us carry shadow elements —parts of ourselves hidden in darkness to protect us from pain... Until you bring them into light, they cause suffering— for yourself and others." — Rev. Norma Nakai Burton, MDiv

Join Rev. Norma Nakai Burton, MDiv and other leading psychedelic voices for a deep exploration of the relational challenges and accountability gaps in psychedelic care – and what it means to practice with integrity when the terrain is unpredictable, intimate, and charged with power.

You’re invited to join the third edition of Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals, Navigating the Depths, a complimentary live event series offering critical conversations, diverse perspectives, and practical approaches to navigating power dynamics, boundaries and consent, harm and repair, and the practitioner's inner life.

Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals: Navigating the Depths
Critical Conversations for Ethical Psychedelic Practice
📅 September 2, 5, 9 & 12, 2025 – LIVE

🔗 Register now at no charge via the link in bio.

04/09/2025

Scholarship applications are now open for our October 2025 Psychedelic Practitioner Core Training.

This 13-month program offers a research-informed, wisdom-rich, somatically aware, and relationally attuned approach to ethical psychedelic care.

It’s designed for those called to serve—those willing to engage in deep personal work and develop the skills needed to navigate this evolving field responsibly.

We recognize that access to psychedelic education is shaped by systems of privilege and oppression.

Offering scholarships is one way to support a more inclusive and equitable field of care.

We offer 25% and 50% tuition scholarships to support aspiring practitioners who face systemic and financial barriers to education.
Priority is given to applicants from historically marginalized communities, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those from the Global South.

✨ In recent cohorts, at least 30% of participants received a scholarship.

If this rewarding and challenging journey resonates with you, we warmly invite you to apply.

🗓 Scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis

💻 Applications take ~30 minutes + an admissions call

🔗 Apply via the link in bio.

www.psychedelicpractitionercoretraining.com

03/09/2025

02/09/2025

As psychedelic-assisted care expands, professional training often centers on ethics, safety, and protocol, but these frameworks are only as effective as the inner life of the practitioner who applies them.

Supporting others in states of deep vulnerability asks for ongoing connection to Self or Source, cultivated through ongoing attention to the inner life.

Without that grounding, even experienced guides can slip into burnout, blind spots, or spiritual bypass, subtly compromising the integrity of the container they hold.

What helps sustain this connection?
And what happens when it fades?

Join Rev. Norma Burton for a 75-minute live session exploring the inner architecture that supports ethical, resilient psychedelic practice.

We’ll explore:

✨ What spiritual practice means in the context of facilitation
✨ How spiritual neglect can compromise safety
✨ Ways to recognize and move beyond bypass
✨ Practices to sustain vitality and reduce burnout
✨ Orientations for walking an authentic inner path

👉Tending the Inner Flame - The Spiritual Life of the Practitioner

🗓Friday, September 9th, 2025
12 PM PT ❘ 3 PM ET ❘ 9 PM CET
🔗 Free access, open to all. Link in bio.

This session is part of Psych*delic Practitioner Fundamentals: Navigating the Depths — a free, four-part event series on ethical psychedelic care.

31/08/2025

"There is nothing to fear because we’re always supported by the earth, and we’re never alone on our journey." — Xochitl Ashe

Join and other leading psychedelic voices for a deep exploration of the relational challenges and accountability gaps in psychedelic care – and what it means to practice with integrity when the terrain is unpredictable, intimate, and charged with power.

You’re invited to join the third edition of Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals, Navigating the Depths, a complimentary live event series offering critical conversations, diverse perspectives, and practical approaches to navigating power dynamics, boundaries and consent, harm and repair, and the practitioner's inner life.

Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals: Navigating the Depths
Critical Conversations for Ethical Psychedelic Practice
📅 September 2, 5, 9 & 12, 2025 – LIVE

🔗 Register now at no charge via the link in bio.

29/08/2025

Since 2018, Synthesis Institute has supported over 1,100 individuals with legal truffle journeys offering a space to come home to themselves, connect more openly with others, and rediscover meaning in their lives.

Those who’ve walked this path often speak of a renewed sense of clarity, deep rest, and a sense of belonging they hadn’t felt in years.

Immersion is a 7-week arc of inner work that includes:

✨ 3 weeks of guided preparation
✨ A 5-day retreat with 2 truffle ceremonies
✨ 3 weeks of integration and support

Curious to experience it for yourself?

📅 Our next Immersion Retreat is October 7–11

🔗 To be considered, please complete the health screener through link in bio.
🔗If you are on the fence about high-dose psyche*delic work start by taking our Retreat Readiness Quiz through link in bio.

28/08/2025

Harm – whether overt misconduct, breaches of trust, or subtle misattunement – can and does occur in psychedelic spaces.

What happens next matters. A facilitator’s response can either reopen the possibility of trust or deepen the rupture.

Repair becomes possible when harm is named, accountability is embraced, and dialogue is held in community.

That’s why the second conversation in our Psych*delic Practitioner Fundamentals series will explore how repair can become a generative process: honoring those impacted, safeguarding the practitioner’s integrity, and strengthening the ethical foundation of the field.

Join Victor A. Cabral, MSW, LCSW, alongside for a critical conversation on the frameworks and practices needed to restore trust after harm has occurred.

This 75-minute live conversation will explore:

✨ Distinguishing between therapeutic discomfort and harm in psychedelic contexts

✨ Applying first-response strategies that lay the groundwork for meaningful repair

✨ Moving through shame without disengaging from the work

✨ Establishing community agreements and structures that maintain accountability over time

👉Repairing Harm: Accountability, Healing, and Moving Forward

🗓Friday, September 5th, 2025
12 PM PT ❘ 3 PM ET ❘ 9 PM CET

👉Access is free. Everybody is welcome.

🔗 Save your spot via the link in bio.

This session is part of Psych*delic Practitioner Fundamentals: Navigating the Depths — a free, four-part event series hosting critical conversations on ethical psychedelic care.

26/08/2025

"The challenge of integration is when you are in the spiritual realm, there’s quite a big gap between the harshness of reality and the elevated state that you’re in. What we’re trying to help people manifest this beauty and perfection they’ve experienced, because it can be really harsh to come back." — Anya Oleksiuk

Join .oleksiuk and other leading psychedelic voices for a deep exploration of the relational challenges and accountability gaps in psychedelic care – and what it means to practice with integrity when the terrain is unpredictable, intimate, and charged with power.

You’re invited to join the third edition of Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals, Navigating the Depths, a complimentary live event series offering critical conversations, diverse perspectives, and practical approaches to navigating power dynamics, boundaries and consent, harm and repair, and the practitioner's inner life.

Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals: Navigating the Depths
Critical Conversations for Ethical Psychedelic Practice
📅 September 2, 5, 9 & 12, 2025 – LIVE

🔗 Register now at no charge via the link in bio.

26/08/2025

"There is nothing to fear because we’re always supported by the earth and we’re never alone on our journey." — Xochitl Ashe

Join and other leading psychedelic voices for a deep exploration of the relational challenges and accountability gaps in psychedelic care – and what it means to practice with integrity when the terrain is unpredictable, intimate, and charged with power.

You’re invited to join the third edition of Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals, Navigating the Depths, a complimentary live event series offering critical conversations, diverse perspectives, and practical approaches to navigating power dynamics, boundaries and consent, harm and repair, and the practitioner's inner life.

Psyche*delic Practitioner Fundamentals: Navigating the Depths
Critical Conversations for Ethical Psychedelic Practice
📅 September 2, 5, 9 & 12, 2025 – LIVE

🔗 Register now at no charge via the link in bio.

24/08/2025

"Plant medicines are teachers. But only if we are willing to listen." — Robin Wall Kimmerer

🌱 The Synthesis Institute is a global leader in community-based psychedelic retreats, education, and professional training. Check out this month's free events through our link in bio.