JULY 9 - DECEMBER 17, 2026​ 

Beyond Protocol

The Sacred Foundations of Plant Medicine Work

A 6-month online training for therapists, practitioners, and facilitators learning to integrate spiritual, animist, relational, and Earth-based wisdom into plant medicine and psychedelic-assisted therapy.

If you're looking for depth over status, resonance over recognition and a community of practitioners committed to walking gently, responsibly, and soulfully, this course is for you.

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THE INVITATION

Are you called to this work?

  • A therapist, space holder, or facilitator seeking to root your entheogenic practice in spiritual, relational, and Earth-based wisdom?


  • In clinical or professional training (PAT or equivalent) and wish to deepen your understanding of Indigenous worldviews, ceremony, and collective healing?


  • Called to this work and value integrity, prayer, humility, and the honouring of those who have walked this path before us?


This call is for you - the therapists, guides, artists, dreamers, and protectors, to help shape a future where entheogenic work is not only effective, but sacred.

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THE CALLING

While much of the current conversation focuses on protocol and efficacy, we are here to centre the roots.

The face of healing with plant medicine is changing rapidly, with the rise of psychedelic-assisted therapy reshaping how these medicines are understood and used. While we honour the progress being made in clinical spaces, we also recognise the importance of holding and protecting the older ways — the ceremonial, relational, and spiritual lineages that have kept this work alive for generations.

We believe the wisdom of Indigenous elders, lineage holders, and those walking this path in quiet integrity is not just relevant, but critical to holding these experiences safely and responsibly, and protecting these sacred medicines from exploitation.

This course is part of our ongoing commitment to platform voices and wisdom that we believe are vital to the safe, ethical, and soulful continuation of this work.

WHAT YOU WILL LEAVE WITH

This is not just a training, it's an initiation. A return to the roots of this work and an invitation to carry it forward with wisdom, humility, and strength.

01: Ceremony as Safety

Understanding how ceremony, prayer, and energetic presence create ethical safety in non-clinical settings

02: Ancestral Guidance

Teachings from lineages that have held these medicines for generations, shared with consent, heart, and intention

03: Relational & Spiritual Skills

Grief, death, cosmology, song, ritual, and Earth connection as essential aspects of integration and holding space — often left out of mainstream training

04: Integrity in Practice

Clarity on how to walk this path with integrity; understanding the difference between appropriation and alignment, and how to root your work in reverence rather than replication

05: Community

A community of practitioners who care about walking gently and wisely — peer triads, reflective dialogue, and optional in-person immersion

06: Personal Support

Monthly guided group integration sessions, with tailored guidance to help you explore how to apply this work to your life, relationships, and vocation. One-on-ones with Jeya or Kellie upon request.

THE CONTAINER

6 Months of
Living Study

  • 11 guest teachers and workshops


  • Biweekly Thursdays at 1:30-3:30 EST


  • 12x online live sessions with a mix of teaching content, Q&A, exercises and practices


  • Abundant and alive online group with resources and opportunities for connection and collaboration


  • Monthly structured group integration sessions

  • Optional 1-1s available with Kellie and Jeya

  • Weekly readings and teachings

  • 3-year access to recordings of all the sessions

  • Access to further learning with all the teachers on the course

  • Ongoing alumni community

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT {included}


This is not a certification program designed to accelerate your career as such — it's an invitation into deeper integrity. A place to sit with humility and ask: How do I walk this path in service, not in ownership?

THE PROGRAMME

12 Chapters
From Initiation to Integration

THURSDAYS BIWEEKLY · 1.30-3.30 pm EST
JULY 9– DECEMBER 17, 2026

01

Introduction and Anchoring

What to expect — building our altar, setting our framework, building our foundation to grow through this course. Meeting one another and understanding how we will collaborate through this journey together.

02

Language of the Sacred

Invites us into the subtle art of speaking about mystical and non-ordinary states without reducing them to pathology or performance. Jill guides us in cultivating language that honours the ineffable — helping us meet mystery with reverence, nuance, and presence, both in our personal journeys and when supporting others.

03

Humility and Unlearning

Liza will share her journey with cultivating these devoted relationships with humility, patience, and generosity, and how this is intertwined with clinical consciousness and our collective duty to serve. She will explore various processes of unlearning deeply ingrained entitlements that can hinder more profound understandings of plant medicines.

04

Indigenous Relationships to Land, Self and Community

By focusing on reciprocity as a way of life, we will explore the ways in which Indigenous people of all times and places have practiced relationship to the land and all the elements that create life. We will end by guiding and encouraging land acknowledgement and reconciliation for an aware, ethical and sustainable practice.

05

Ceremony as Safety

Ceremony is safety - Why ceremony creates the structures we need to practice energetic and psychological safety. Why and how harm is caused without these structures, and how we can strengthen our practice by understanding this technology.

06

Sacred Medicine: Peyote and Navajo Healing Traditions for Trauma Recovery

An introduction to the sacred role of peyote in Navajo (Diné) healing traditions, with a focus on its connection to trauma recovery. This session explores how myth, ceremony, and community restore balance, coherence, and hope.

07

Cosmovisions

An exploration of the worldviews that shape how we relate to life, spirit, and the unseen. Rooted in Indigenous wisdom, this session invites us to step outside the Western lens and into a relational, multidimensional understanding of reality.

08

Prayer and the Plant Medicine Field

Grandmother Margaret guides participants into the heart of prayer — as structure, as safety, as sacred dialogue with Spirit. Her presence is one of grace, ancestral connection, and gentle power, reminding us that true healing begins when we return to right relationship with our roots, the land, and the great mystery that breathes through all things.

09

Connecting to Our Indigenous Heart and Lands

A journey through Druidry, Paganism, and the deep history of sacrament in Western European lands—and what it means to reclaim indigeneity by cultivating practice within the living landscapes we call home.

10

Grief and Death

Exploring our collective relationship to death and grief — how do we support ourselves as facilitators to reestablish and strengthen conscious relationships to nature, death and grief? What role can psychedelics and plant medicines play in preparing us for death and in assisting us in working with grief more holistically?

11

Decolonising Psychedelic Care

n invitation to look honestly at how power, privilege, and cultural appropriation show up in the psychedelic field. Together, we'll reflect on what it means to honour source traditions, centre Indigenous voices, and walk with humility as stewards, and not owners of this sacred work.

12

Conclusion, Integration and Closing Ceremony

Where do we go from here? What do mentorship pathways look like? Going forth and establishing our future accountability. Looking at our future commitments.

We are remembering how to carry medicine not just with knowledge, but with reverence. Not just for the self, but for the collective. Not just for healing, but for restoring right relationship - with the Earth, with the unseen and with each other.

OUR TEACHERS 

Wisdom Keepers
& Lineage Holders

Guest teachers are subject to change

Grandma Margaret Behan

Grandma Margaret Behan

A member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. A lifelong ceremonialist, dance leader, artist, poet, and healer.

Jill Pettijohn

Jill Pettijohn

A beacon of transformation in the realm of nutritional health and culinary arts, a celebrated food shaman.

Zachary Nusbaum

Zachary Nusbaum

A long-time student of plant medicines, death, grief, and the ways in which these can connect us more deeply to the Mystery of life.

Dr Alta Piechowski-Begay

Dr. Alta Piechowski-Begay

Founder & Chairperson at the Hozho Voices of Healing Center. A proud Diné (Navajo) woman, School Psychologist, Counselor, and Indigenous Healing Advocate.

Natalia Gianella

Natalia Gianella

22 years as a community organizer, advocate, family counselor and case coordinator, specialising in immigration, human trafficking and child welfare.

Gustavo Fernandez

Gustavo Fernandez

Father, husband, artist, culture bearer and community leader. A professional chef with over 25 years advocating for Indigenous people through food.

Liza Hita

Liza Hita

A decolonial and liberatory clinician and scholar committed to ecological care, exploring the sociocultural imaginary relationally.

Juani Naum

Juani Naum

Walking the path of plant medicine for over 23 years, beginning within a spiritual tradition in Brazil.

Charlotte Duerr James

Charlotte Duerr James

a healing justice facilitator and ceremonial practitioner of Afro-Caribbean and Germanic lineage. She founded New Old Ways, a learning space blending ancestral wisdom, psychedelic ritual, and collective liberation.

Metsa Nihue

Metsa Nihue

An internationally known healer specialising in traditional Amazonian lineages, trained for fifteen years under the guidance of Quechua-Lamistas, Aguarunas, and Shipibo peoples.

Philip Carr-Gomm

Philip Carr-Gomm

A psychologist, psychotherapist, author, and former leader of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. His work integrates psychology and spirituality.

READY TO BEGIN?

Are you feeling called
to explore this work?

Book a 20-minute call to go over your questions
and find out if this course is a fit for you.

INVESTMENT

Enroll for
Beyond Protocol

JULY 9 - DECEMBER 17, 2026

Course only

Early bird

£1,950

Offer ends 1 June 2026

£2,400

Standard price, pay in full.

Course + Costa Rica immersion

Early bird

£4,750

Offer ends 1 June 2026

£4,950

January immersion included, pay in full.

Payment plan

£500 deposit

Remainder spread over monthly instalments.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Information on scholarship places for BIPOC, indigenous and people facing financial hardship - will be added soon

RECIPROCITY

Whilst most profits go towards paying our teachers, creating this course and running it. 10% of our profits will be given directly to Indigenous communities and groups who are devoted to preserving ancestral plant wisdom, protecting ecosystems, and keeping prayer and ceremony alive for the healing of humanity and the Earth.

These stewards are not only guardians of sacred traditions but also active voices in restoring right relationship between people and planet. By supporting them, we honor the interconnectedness that lies at the heart of our work.

FAQs

Many existing programs focus primarily on clinical frameworks, personal optimisation, and therapeutic protocols — often centring Western psychological models. This course is taught by Indigenous elders, ceremonialists, and therapists who live this work every day — often quietly, without platforms or branding. These are teachers rooted in prayer, land, and lineage, who offer hard-won wisdom not found in textbooks.

What makes this different from other psychedelic training programs?

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Do I need personal experience with plant medicines?

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No — whilst clinical or facilitation experience is helpful, personal experience is not required. What is required is just an openness to spiritual, Indigenous and more traditional perspectives.


During our online portion of the class we will not be working directly with plant medicine. We will be working directly with plant medicines during the immersive retreats and gatherings we run, these are subject to application and screening forms being accepted.

Will we be working directly with plant medicines during the course?

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What if I can't attend the weekly online sessions in real time?

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Though it is highly recommended to attend the weekly sessions in real time, it is possible to watch the recordings and catch up every week.


Can I get a refund after I have enrolled?

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We are happy to offer a 24 hour grace period for refunds upon enrollment, but we do not generally offer refunds beyond this point. We do however allow this credit to be taken into the following training course or put towards one of our in-person immersions if the course cannot be taken due to extenuating circumstances.