BEYOND PROTOCOL • 6 MONTH ONLINE TRAINING COURSE

Plant Medicine Education Rooted in Ceremony, Reciprocity and Integrity

A modern mystery school for therapists, facilitators, and seekers. Beyond Protocol invites you into a deeper understanding and embodied connection with entheogenic healing — held by Indigenous wisdom, spiritual practice, relational care, and ethical service.

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⏱️ EARLY BIRD PRICE ENDS IN:

INDIGENOUS TRANSMISSIONS

ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS

COLLECTIVE LIBERATION

DECOLONISED THINKING

RECIPROCITY

ANIMISM

INDIGENOUS TRANSMISSIONS ✦ ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS ✦ COLLECTIVE LIBERATION ✦ DECOLONISED THINKING ✦ RECIPROCITY ✦ ANIMISM ✦

The Sacred Foundations of Plant Medicine Work

BEYOND PROTOCOL


A 6-month online training for therapists, practitioners, and facilitators who feel the call to hold plant medicine and psychedelic-assisted work with reverence, humility, and spiritual depth. This is not another credential to add to your Linkedin. It is a living study — rooted in ceremony, reciprocity, Indigenous wisdom, prayer, ethics, and the unseen dimensions of healing.

Are you ready to learn what everyone should know before sitting with plant medicine - let alone guiding another?

CLEAR RESONANCE

This training program is intentionally built for anyone - even if you have no prior experience - as long as you are ready to enter this work with reverence, respect, and integrity. We hold our cohorts to high standards, not of experience, but of character: a sincere willingness to face yourself, learn deeply, and walk this path with honesty.

Active Facilitators & Guides

Called to remember the heart of this work = learning to hold space with humility, listen deeply, and return to the roots of relational care.

Therapists & Clinicians

Wanting to set down the clinical lens and step into the spiritual, somatic, and ceremonial foundations of plant medicine work - learning to trust the heart as much as the training.

Community Custodians

Dedicated to building sacred, protective containers rooted in clean boundaries, pure ethics, reciprocity, and above all, a living relationship with the heart of the work.

Beyond Protocol Journey Timeline

YOUR BEYOND PROTOCOL JOURNEY

3 September 2026
Cohort commencement
Every Second Thursday
Live teaching, dialogue & reflection
12 Live Integration Sessions
In-depth learning through discussion, sharing and knowledge exchange by engaging with the topics of the previous weeks
11 Wisdom Keepers
Learning across traditions & lineages
Community of Practice
Growing in relationship alongside a dedicated cohort
12 Live Chapters
Exploring ceremony, reciprocity & ethical practice

Lineage Integrity

Connect deeply with traditional wisdom structures. We foster real, deep reciprocal relationships with elder wisdom keepers and indigenous practitioners, moving far beyond superficial extraction.

Indigenous Honor & Ethics

Dedicated support to native-run preservation initiatives. We structure actual financial allocations to indigenous communities into our program budgets.

Humility & Unlearning

Coming to this work with empty hands and a willing heart. We unlearn the need to master, own, or extract. Instead, we learn to see through Indigenous eyes - understanding that humility is not weakness, but the very ground of right relationship.

Beyond Protocol

MASTERY COHORT

A six-month exploration of reciprocity, Indigenous wisdom and ethical stewardship for those called to walk alongside sacred medicines.

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Animism

Seeing the living world as alive — soul in everything. Entheogens as portals into a world that has always been speaking.

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Ritual Embodiment

Weaving daily ritual, prayer and embodied practice into ordinary life — becoming the container, not just stepping into it.

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Ecological Reciprocity

Giving back to the land, the plants and the more-than-human world. True reciprocity includes the soil, rivers and generations to come.

Your Enrolment Into Beyond Protocol Includes

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

✓ 12 Live Chapters

✓ 11 Wisdom Keepers

✓ Monthly Integration Circles

✓ Community of Practice

✓ Session Recordings

✓ Learning Resources

✓ 3 Years Continued Access

✓ Optional Spain Gathering Pathway

✓ Reciprocity Contribution Built Into Tuition

OUR TEACHERS 

Learn From An Extraordinary Faculty

Bringing together Indigenous knowledge keepers, researchers, therapists and practitioners from around the world.

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.

INVESTMENT

Flexible payment options and scholarship places are available to support accessibility.

Enrol Now For Beyond Protocol

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GBP 1,500.00
  • Starts: Mid January 2027

  • Early Bird Savings: Sign up before 30th June and save £450

  • Duration: 6 Months

  • Format: Online learning journey with live sessions

  • Live Teaching: Bi-weekly live calls on Thursdays

  • Curriculum: 12 Chapters delivered across six months

  • Learn From: 11 wisdom keepers, Indigenous leaders, researchers, therapists and practitioners from around the world

  • Explore: Reciprocity, ethical stewardship, integration, community and the cultural contexts that shape entheogenic practice

  • Includes: Monthly Integration Circles

  • Access: Three years of continued access to programme materials

  • Community: Join a global cohort exploring the sacred foundations of plant medicine work together.

Open Scholarship

£550 ~ £1000 supported place

Available for students, BIPOC applicants and those experiencing financial hardship. *Applications are reviewed before payment is requested.

Beyond Protocol | Reserve Your Place With A FLEXIBLE PAYMENT PLAN | £500 deposit & monthly instalments
GBP 500.00
  • Starts: 3 September 2026

  • Payment Plan: Secure your place with £500 deposit & monthly instalments

  • Duration: 6 Months

  • Format: Online learning journey with live sessions

  • Live Teaching: Bi-weekly live calls on Thursdays

  • Curriculum: 12 Chapters delivered across six months

  • Learn From: 11 wisdom keepers, Indigenous leaders, researchers, therapists and practitioners from around the world

  • Explore: Reciprocity, ethical stewardship, integration, community and the cultural contexts that shape entheogenic practice

  • Includes: Monthly Integration Circles

  • Access: Three years of continued access to programme materials

  • Community: Join a global cohort exploring the sacred foundations of plant medicine work together.

Honouring The Lineages Of This Work

This programme is committed to practices of reciprocity. A portion of proceeds supports Indigenous communities and initiatives working to protect both cultural wisdom and the natural world.
For those who feel called, additional contributions can be made through our Pay It Forward Fund, helping to support scholarship places and community-led initiatives.

THE PROGRAMME

12 Chapters
From Initiation to Integration

THURSDAYS BIWEEKLY · 1.30-3.30 pm EST/ 6.30-8.30 BST
14 JANUARY TO 14 JULY 2027

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.

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MEET OUR AMBASSADORS

Decolonize the mind ➰
The esoteric art of leading from depth

Continue The Journey In Person

Following the 6-month online programme, join us in Spain for the Spring Collective Prayer for the Liberation of All Beings. A space to deepen connection, honour the learning and gather in community.

Reflections From Our Community

This is not a 'how to run a ceremony' course, and yet it is also just that. We cannot heal with medicine alone, or with prescribed instruction, but with collective wisdom.

Victoria B.
Psychotherapist

I've received deep wisdom from the speakers on this course. There is no simple solution offered, instead a courageous inquiry into plant medicine, its practices and its outcomes, where not knowing is as valuable as knowing.

Peter B.
Programme Participant

My experience has exceeded my expectations. Indigenous teachers share hard-to-find wisdom from direct experience as healers in a wounded world, reminding us that healing lives within justice, community and the interdependence of individual and collective care.

Tema O.
Author & Activist

As a licensed therapist with formal training in psychedelic therapy, Be The Medicine offered me a rare and meaningful opportunity to unlearn some of the assumptions that come with clinical training. The programme gently but powerfully re-centred the sacred, relational and ancestral roots of this work—reminding me that these medicines have long existed within traditions of reverence, community and deep listening. Rather than approaching the experience through a purely clinical lens, I was invited to step back into humility and remember that our role is not to "own" this work, but to honour and steward it with care.

Jessie A.
Therapist

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.

Join The September 2026 Cohort

Become part of a growing international community exploring healing, reciprocity and collective care.