Facilitator Training
Turn Knowledge Into Practice.
Plant Medicine University Facilitator Training is an immersive professional-development program for people preparing to support others before, during and after transformative and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Students receive structured education, the COMPASS Keys system, practical facilitator tools, live learning, experiential practice, professional community and an in-person intensive designed to move the material from theory into practice.
More Than a Course. A Facilitator Toolkit.
Students should leave Plant Medicine University with more than information about psychedelics. They should leave with a framework, practical tools and a deeper understanding of how to support the human being having the experience.
The COMPASS Keys System
Students learn PMU's whole-person COMPASS framework organized around Mind, Body, Emotion and Purpose. The system provides a repeatable structure for preparation, nervous-system regulation, facilitation, integration and long-term change.
COMPASS Client Diagnostic
Students receive access to a structured COMPASS Jotform diagnostic tool for use with clients within their professional scope. The tool helps practitioners explore the four COMPASS domains, identify areas requiring preparation or support, organize client conversations and recognize when referral to another professional may be appropriate.
Facilitator Resource Package
Students receive a practical digital library containing training videos, facilitator scripts, client preparation materials, preparation exercises and techniques, integration tools, nervous-system practices and facilitation resources. This is a working professional toolkit, not merely course downloads.
Prerecorded Sound Journey
Students receive a professionally designed prerecorded sound journey that can be used to practice principles of preparation, facilitation and integration without psychedelic medicine. This allows students to develop skills around environment, observation, presence, nervous-system awareness and integration in a controlled experiential setting.
Somatic Breathwork & Nervous-System Practices
Students learn grounded, body-based practices involving breath, rhythm, interoception, grounding, tension and nervous-system regulation. These techniques are intended to help students understand regulation personally and develop appropriate preparation and integration tools for their work with others.
Preparation & Integration
Students learn how to support the often-overlooked periods before and after transformative experiences. Training addresses intention, expectations, emotional readiness, environment, boundaries, nervous-system preparation, meaning-making and the translation of insight into sustainable changes in ordinary life.
Professional Development Takes Time.
PMU Facilitator Training is a nine-month core program — not a weekend certification. Students meet live on Zoom every Monday from 6:00–8:00 PM Eastern for approximately 80 hours of live online education.
Students may remain actively involved in the PMU learning community for a full 12 months at no additional tuition cost.
In-person learning is available on the first Friday of every month in Lewes, Delaware at 6:00 PM. A student retreat and intensive is also available for an additional materials fee, with lodging available at additional cost if needed. Students in New Mexico may participate in traditional ceremonial Lodge learning every Friday evening at 6:00 PM at the Church campus in the South Valley of Albuquerque with Tata Patricio Dominguez — approximately 20 hours of experiential learning per month, or up to 60 hours over three months.
PMU provides students with resources and information for locating practicum and supervised-learning opportunities for those who need or want additional supervised hours.
The purpose is not simply course completion. The purpose is professional formation.
Learn in Community.
Plant Medicine University is designed around an idea that traditional cultures have understood for generations: important knowledge develops through practice, relationship and community.
Students have opportunities for continued discussion, practice, case exploration, peer learning and mentorship throughout their participation in the program.
As the community grows, experienced students can remain connected, deepen their work and begin helping newer students understand and apply the COMPASS framework.
This creates an evolving professional community rather than a one-time educational transaction.
From Theory to Practice
The Facilitator Intensive
The program includes an in-person intensive weekend, offered at scheduled locations on either the East Coast or in the Southwest.
The intensive brings together the principles students have been studying throughout the program and moves them into experiential practice.
Students participate in structured journey work and facilitator practicum so they can understand the process from more than one perspective.
Participants have opportunities to experience a structured journey practice themselves and to practice supporting other members of the group. This allows students to explore preparation, environment, presence, observation, boundaries, regulation and integration from both sides of the facilitator relationship.
"You cannot learn presence from a PowerPoint."
The intensive is not the entire training. It is the experiential component of a much deeper professional-development program that students can participate in for up to a year.
Traditional Wisdom. Contemporary Practice.
The COMPASS Keys grew from decades of work spanning traditional knowledge, Plant Medicine, mind-body practices, nervous-system education, doctoral research and practical work with people navigating stress, trauma, transformation and non-ordinary states.
PMU does not attempt to manufacture shamans or reproduce Indigenous ceremony outside its cultural context.
Instead, students learn how enduring principles involving relationship, preparation, responsibility, rhythm, nature, community and integration can inform contemporary facilitator practice while maintaining respect for the traditions from which important parts of this knowledge emerged.
COMPASS translates these principles into an accessible framework for contemporary practitioners:
MIND • BODY • EMOTION • PURPOSE
The Care Continuum
Knowing What Is Not Your Job Is Part of the Training.
Responsible facilitation requires more than knowing how to support an experience. It requires understanding professional boundaries.
PMU students learn to recognize the difference between facilitation and activities that require medical, psychiatric, psychotherapeutic or other licensed professional expertise.
Students receive education around ethics, boundaries, referral, professional scope, participant protection and the developing regulatory landscape surrounding psychedelic facilitation.
Completion of PMU training does not automatically confer a state license, medical credential, psychotherapy license or authorization to administer controlled substances. Requirements vary by jurisdiction and professional role.
Founding Cohort Enrollment
$4,500
Total Program Tuition
Founding Cohort tuition includes the educational program, COMPASS Keys training, facilitator toolkit, COMPASS diagnostic, experiential resources, ongoing learning community, in-person intensive/practicum and participation in the program for up to one year.
$500 Deposit to Reserve Your Place
The $500 deposit reserves the student's place and is applied toward the $4,500 total program tuition.
Rolling Admissions Available
Not sure whether the program is right for you? Request a conversation before enrolling.
The Medicine Is Only Part of the Medicine.
The emerging field needs competent, grounded and good-hearted practitioners from many walks of life.
PMU Facilitator Training was created for people who want to understand not only extraordinary experiences, but the human beings having them: their nervous systems, histories, environments, relationships, vulnerabilities and capacity for lasting change.
"The medicine may open the door. A facilitator needs to understand what happens before, during and after someone walks through it."