Grow as a practitioner,
one teaching at a time.
Learning, like ceremonies and integration, takes time, presence, and practice. These offerings are thought to provide you with practical, specialized training, one live webinar at a time. Show up, be present, and walk away complete, without any modules piling up waiting for the attention you promised.
(This means no replay nesting in some corner of your inbox. You'll thank us later.)
NEXT LIVE: JUNE 10th | 12-2pm (Perú)
NEXT LIVE: JUNE 24th | 12-2pm (Perú)
NEXT LIVE: JUNE 17th | 12-2pm (Perú)
NEXT LIVE: JULY 1st | 12-2pm (Perú)
Price Tiers
This work is too important to live behind a paywall.
The ethics, safety, and self-care of psychedelic practitioners are essential. Access to high-quality training and support shouldn't be a luxury. Gatekeeping it only continues the extraction from the very communities, traditions, and plants this work draws from.
At the same time, bringing you the best mentors and highest quality teaching has real costs. We're transparent about that.
All tiers receive the same full experience.
We warmly invite you to be honest with yourself about where you land. If you're in a position to give a little more, beyond your own immediate needs, your contribution directly supports what continues to be built here, and is genuinely appreciated.
And if you feel the call to join us at the WOTH retreat this August, there's a way to make these workshops count toward it. More on that below.
Show up, learn something real, grow your peer network, and leave a bit wiser.
Seed $35
Everything above, plus the quiet satisfaction of knowing your contribution helps this garden keep growing.
Bloom $55
For those with the capacity to give a little more and help us build something lasting together.
Harvest $75
SPECIAL OFFER IF YOU JOIN WOTH RETREAT:
If you BLOOM or HARVEST across the full series your entire investment comes straight off your Wisdom Of The Holders retreat fee, whether you're joining us locally or from abroad. Join us in the Sacred Valley this August 20–29 and the workshops will have paid for themselves. 🥔
About Haramara Sal Sanctuary
Haramara Sal Sanctuary (2023) are Fernanda Baraybar, Cristina Pezo, Daphne Davidson, and Juliana Arango, practitioners and survivors who witnessed firsthand the silence surrounding spiritual abuse.
This community-rooted initiative based in Sacred Valley (Perú) emerged as a response to a deep need for safety, clarity, and support within spiritual spaces. They offer guidance, resources, and compassionate understanding to anyone navigating harm, confusion, or power imbalance in their spiritual journey.
Through advocacy, community connection, and grounded spiritual care, Haramara aims to ensure that every individual can walk their path with confidence, protection, and authentic belonging.
Identifying Spiritual Abuse
With Haramara Sal Sanctuary
In times of openness and vulnerability, the capacity to discern safe space from harmful influence is essential. This workshop explores how spiritual abuse manifests within ceremonial and facilitation contexts, from subtle psychological and emotional dynamics to non-verbal and energetic forms of manipulation.
You will examine the characteristics of cult-like teachings, the effects of manipulation on the psyche, and the unseen forces present in astrally sensitive spaces.
Facilitators and participants alike will leave with a clearer framework for recognizing these patterns and practical tools for creating and sustaining truly safe, grounded spaces.
Key Takeaways:
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Tools to cultivate and strengthen personal discernment
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Gain a deeper understanding of how manipulation affects the psyche
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Recognize subtle forms of manipulation in ceremony and astral spaces
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Energetic tools for protection and safety in your practice
Next Live: JUNE 10th
12-2pm (Perú) | 7-9pm (CET) |10-12pm (PDT)
About Dr Sandra Dreisbach
Ethicist and Specialist in Psychedelic and Consciousness Ethics
MA, PhD in Philosophy
Sandra's work is rooted in a profound sense of service. She is a prominent figure in Psychedelic Ethics, Education, Leadership and Community Advocacy.
She serves as the leader for EPIC (Ethical Psychedelic International Community), hosts the podcast Inner Source, and is author of the book Dancing at the Edge of Darkness.
Sandra has acted as Ethics Advisor for Nectara, Ethics Director for World Psychedelics Day 6/20, and led the Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society.
With a lifelong interest in human diversity and underrepresented collectives, she brings a grounded, heart-led approach with particular care for the lived reality of neurodivergence in both participants and practitioners.
Rupture & Repair
With Dr Sandra Dreisbach
Whether between facilitators, participants or in the therapeutic alliance between practitioner and client, interpersonal difficulties happen.
In a space as sensitive as plant medicine ceremonies, the smallest relational tear or friction can give way to an unrepairable rupture. Even if it occurs between two people, it will ripple out to the rest of the team and the general container.
However, rupture isn't a sign of failure, it's just one of the many occupational realities to expect in ceremonial spaceholding. The question is whether you're equipped to meet it from a place of professional integrity, structured know-how, and true repair.
This workshop will help you build a bridge of understanding without bypassing accountability, informed by hands-on experience at EPIC (Ethical Psychedelic International Community), led by Dr Sandra Dreisbach, and where practitioners navigating exactly these situations come for ethical guidance and debriefing support.
This is set and setting too. The relational field between the people in your space and the people holding it is part of the container. Tending it is a facilitation duty.
Key Takeaways:
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Practical guidance to identifying and addressing rupture
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A clear framework for moving from facts to ethical assessment to repair
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Language and tools for the conversations most practitioners dread having
Next Live: JUNE 17th
12-2pm (Perú) | 7-9pm (CET) |10-12pm (PDT)
About Mijal Schmidt
Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst
MA in Psychoanalysis, MA in Musicology
With a decade of experience working with psychedelics and specializing in psychedelic preparation and integration, Mijal is currently a Psychedelic Integration Therapist and Clinical Consultant for leading organizations in the field, including ICEERS and Nectara.
She is the founder and former director of the clinical intervention organization, Lazo y Voz, coordinating diverse interdisciplinary treatment teams, recognized for her work in therapeutic accompaniment and crisis intervention for individuals with complex, mixed diagnoses, including psychotic and autistic spectrum and affective disorders.
She currently directs Ikarar, a platform for psychedelic work. She also offers online workshops through different psychedelic care platforms, such as Entheonation.
The First Filter
With Mijal Schmidt
Every time someone enters your medicine space, you're making a consequential call, often with incomplete information and the full weight of that responsibility on your shoulders.
Most of us rely on intake forms, a conversation, and field-based intuition. These matter, but they are not always enough. When something unexpected happens (and in this kind of work, it will) the question is rarely whether you cared or tried. It's whether you had the right framework to see what was coming.
This workshop gives you that framework:
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Grounded in clinical evidence
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Designed for real-world practice
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Informed by tradition
In two hours, you'll walk away with a professionally designed screening framework, built on internationally recognized diagnostic criteria, calibrated against the most current findings from leading psychedelic research institutions, and made to be used without a clinical degree.
This is not a course on clinical diagnosis. You are not being asked to become a therapist. You are being given a professional tool to help you know who shouldn't be there before they arrive.
You will know which risk indicators to look for, how to organize what you find, and how to make the call with clarity instead of anxiety.
Key Takeaways:
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A concrete screening instrument you can apply immediately
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A clear logic for interpreting what you find, so red flags don't rely on gut feeling
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The grounded confidence that comes from knowing your judgment is backed by something solid
Next Live: JUNE 24th
12-2pm (Perú) | 7-9pm (CET) |10-12pm (PDT)
About Bárbara Espina
Psychologist, Plant Medicine Practitioner, and Arts-Based Educator
MA in Applied Theatre in Community Contexts
Bárbara's work sits at the crossroads of mental health, plant medicines, community care, and arts-based education, with over a decade of experience across nonprofit, institutional, and community settings.
Specialising in psychedelic integration support, her practice is informed by long-term study of the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition, ceremonial spaceholding, and ongoing engagement with international initiatives educating and advocating for ethical and responsible practices, such as ICEERS.
She's founder of SERT (Spiritual Emergency Response Team), a community-oriented initiative based in Sacred Valley (Perú), offering on-the-ground psychedelic care and spiritual crisis response.
Her projects Once Upon A Ceremony (2024) and Wisdom of the Holders retreat (2026) offer theatre-making and storytelling dynamics as tools and contexts for participants and facilitators to engage in critical thinking, ethics, and accountability in plant medicine spaces.
Facilitator's Post-Honeymoon Crash
With Bárbara Espina
Like all relationships, the one you have with your facilitation practice also goes through stages.
The beginning of this path is just that: the beginning. The call, the visions, the sense of purpose. One runs freely on this until the actual professional responsibility hits, and something in you changes because of it.
A tough case.
A group dynamic you didn't feel safe or equipped to confront.
A moment in ceremony that reframed everything.
A participant whose process stayed with you long after.
A realisation about your own limitations that arrived at the worst possible time.
Other people's stories, other people's pain, other people's unravelling, and your own somewhere there too.
Crash.
The honeymoon ends... And the Hero's Journey, the truly committed path, begins.
Your professional capacity now officially starts opening up.
You go from "how do I do this?" to "what am I actually responsible for here? Can I hold this? Is this even sustainable?"
And this threshold crossing doesn't happen just once. It keeps returning in different forms, at different depths, each time the work asks more of you than you were previously prepared to give.
This workshop is not about waking anyone up. That moment belongs to each person, in their own time, in their own way. This is about honoring and reconnecting to one of yours with fresh eyes.
This is an invitation to unpack and integrate among peers this natural step in maturing as a spaceholder, and to see for yourself how far you've actually come, and what it still has to teach you.
And you will be doing by using the Hero's Journey as a framework to revisit what cracked open, tend to anything that never got properly held, and reclaim the parts of that crossing that still have something to give you.
Key Takeaways:
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Share your story and learn from others' experiences.
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A space to start integrating any lingering details still having power over you.
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A renewed sense of personal ethics, boundaries, values, and capacity.
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Storytelling-based integration tools for yourself and those you support.