AYA Healing ONLINE COURSES
Trauma Informed Plant Medicine
- Online Training
Overview
Working with the sacred plant medicines (PM) and Ayahuasca can present with enormous psycho-spiritual challenges. Many come to heal and process traumatic experiences through the plant medicines, however, very few plant medicine facilitators, support workers, and integration therapists have training in the foundation and neuroscience of trauma approaches, and most do not know how to respond effectively to the various trauma imprints that arise before, during and after the ceremonial space.
Plant medicines have an enormous power to activate body, psyche, and spirit, releasing that which has been trapped in the unconscious into the light of awareness. However, this often happens ceremonial space in a way that happens too fast or too intensely, and repercussions could be re-traumatizing and even damaging. It requires a great deal of courage, experience, and bravery to navigate skillfully through the process, and, unfortunately, many are trauma survivors who do not have the inner resilience or the skills to do so. Similarly, Plant Medicine and Ayahuasca facilitators can also feel overwhelmed with a lack of resources and a grounded understanding of what to do when various trauma imprints arise, which could be harmful and neglectful to participants.
As Plant Medicine and Ayahuasca facilitators, we have an ethical duty of both responsibility and care to the participant’s health and wellbeing, both before, during, and after the ceremonial experience. In doing so, it is fundamental to upskill our understanding of trauma and the nervous system, and learning the best practices to respond effectively to the signs and symptoms of trauma when it arises.
This program is for individuals who are interested in or are currently facilitating healing spaces with the sacred indigenous and plant medicines. This may include Ayahuasca, Bufo, Kambo, Ibogaine, Wachuma, and Psilocybin. Individuals who are currently working, or interested in plant medicine integration work, as well as facilitation assistants, will also benefit from this workshop.
The 8-day Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Program is conducted in three modules which can be purchased as a package or separately. Participants who finish the entire program will be presented with a certificate by AYA Healing Retreats.
Join us in the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Online Program to change lives and hold safer spaces in the world for healing, growth and transformation.
This 85 hour training will provide you with the foundation you need to become trauma-informed as a plant medicine facilitator, expanding your somatic skills, and deepening interpersonal and emotional attunement to hold a healing space for yourself and others.
This newly revised 85 hour training is delivered over 3 modules. The program includes a combination of:
- Recorded workshops (40 hours) with Atira Tan and guest teachers
- Experiential practice cohort sessions (5 hours)
- Video lectures (20 hours)
- Q & A sessions (6 hours)
- Bonus Video demonstration sessions (4 hours)
- Trauma-informed masterclasses with Ayahuasca, Bufo and Psilocybin. (5 hours)
- Self-study (5 hours).
The course is designed to be worked through over 13 weeks, and all students who complete our certificate requirements will receive our certificate of completion.
“Ayahuasca can evoke direct but long-suppressed memories of trauma. It can also trigger emotional states and visions of horror and pain that are not direct recollections, but emotional imprints of trauma.”
GABOR MATE
As a Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitator, you’ll be able to:
- Reduce the risk of retraumatisation in participants.
- Recognise trauma imprints and identify signs of trauma in participants during the preparation, ceremonial and integration phases of plant medicine work.
- Create safe spaces and establish environments and facilitator-participant relationships that foster safety, trust and attunement.
- Understand trauma awareness based on neuroscience and somatic psychology.
- Posses knowledge of foundational principles of trauma and the nervous system to inform your facilitation approach.
- Skilfully navigate psycho-spiritual challenges in non-ordinary states, addressing them with sensitivity and expertise.
- Provide trauma-sensitive post-ceremony and integration support for trauma resolution.
- Communicate in a trauma-informed manner, which is compassionate and empathetic, ensuring safety in the interpersonal relationship.
- Support trauma survivors to build their inner resilience and “Window of Presence” through somatic resourcing.
- Uphold your ethical responsibility by prioritising the wellbeing and health of participants, both physically and psychologically.
- Respond resourcefully to various trauma imprints and nervous system patterns, employing somatic resourcing strategies that lead to repair and prevent re-traumatisation.
- Provide participants with psycho-education on trauma awareness, and support them in preparing for their ceremonial experience with mindfulness, somatic resources and support.
Module 1:
TRAUMA-INFORMED FACILITATION SKILLS IN CEREMONY
MODULE 1: KEY CORE CURRICULUM SUBJECTS
- Overview of Trauma and the Nervous System
- Working with the Polyvagal Theory in Non-Ordinary States.
- The different categories of trauma that show up frequently in altered states of consciousness.
- The Shamanic Paradigm vs Western Contemporary Paradigms of Trauma Recovery
- Understanding Soul Loss and Disassociation.
- Tips and Tools for mitigating the risk of re-traumatisation.
- Identifying nervous system patterns and presentations in clients.
- The Body is Key: Support the intelligence of the body for healing in non-ordinary states.
- The importance of Self-Regulation and Co-regulation.
- Essential somatic skills for safety, grounding and resourcing.
- Trauma-Informed Communication and relational skills.
- Using Somatic Touch as a resource.
- Consent, healthy boundaries and ethical responsibility.
- Your role as facilitator in each phase of the trauma-informed plant medicine paradigm.
- Working with Ayahuasca and important tips for facilitators.
Module 2:
TRAUMA-INFORMED ASSESSMENTS, SCREENING AND SOMATIC INTENTION SETTING
MODULE 2: KEY CORE CURRICULUM SUBJECTS
- The Principles of Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Screening and Assessment.
- The Process of the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Preparation Flow Chart.
- Assessing the Participant and their Trauma History.
- Medical Screening Template for Psychedelic Sessions & Retreats
- Choosing the applicant from a Trauma-Informed Lens
- Building the Relationship with trauma sensitivity
- Trauma-informed interpersonal and communication skills.
- Decision Making: Is this person the right fit for plant medicine?
- Trauma-Informed Psychedelic Preparation: Intention Setting for trauma healing.
- The Somatic Plant Medicine Intention Setting model.
- Building resilience and resources to increase the “Window of Presence”.
Module 3:
POST – CEREMONY AND INTEGRATION CARE
MODULE 3: KEY CORE CURRICULUM SUBJECTS
- An Introduction to Embodied Integration
- The Hero’s Journey: An Application to Trauma-Informed Integration
- The Objectives and Goals of Psychedelic Integration.
- Trauma-Informed Post-Ceremony Tips and Best Practices.
- Aspects of Self for Plant Medicine Integration
- Working with trauma imprints in post-ceremony care and integration.
- An introduction to Somatic Plant Medicine Integration approach.
- Post-Ceremony therapeutic care.
- Psychedelic Integration Document Templates
- Running an integration workshop.
- Working with groups in integration circles.
- Using art, metaphor and symbology in meaning-making in plant medicine integration.
- 3 Psychedelic Integration Categories.
FULL
PROGRAM
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9 Recorded video sessions which you will get to keep.
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85 hours of big group conferencing, recorded with lifetime access
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Your PDF manual & Access to our closed FB community group
PAYMENT
PLAN
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9 Recorded video sessions which you will get to keep.
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85 hours of big group conferencing, recorded with lifetime access
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Your PDF manual & Access to our closed FB community group
*This program can be taken as a self-paced learning experience. All live workshop videos are recorded and you have lifetime access to the content.
** Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking. Your booking is confirmation that you have read and agree to our terms and conditions.
*** Completion of the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Program is highly encouraged but not compulsory for this program.
**** Payment plans are available for eligible concession and unemployed students. Please email us at info@ayahealingretreats.com for more information.
YOUR TEACHER
Learn More About Atira:
A TED speaker, activist, somatic trauma specialist, #1 Best Selling Author, and yoga teacher & group facilitator, Atira Tan is a powerful agent of transformation and change.
She has touched the lives of thousands of women, men, and children in her 17 years of experience in various somatic and creative trauma recovery approaches.
Passionate about creating safer spaces through trauma-informed education, and bringing healing in the ‘shadowy’ areas of life, Atira has worked as a trauma-informed somatic plant medicine integration specialist in retreat centres such as the Temple of the Way of Light. She is currently the head of integration at AYA Healing Retreats.
OUR PROGRAMS CHANGE LIVES
We believe that every girl and woman deserves to determine her future. As part of our social change model, this training “pays it forward” to assist women and girls from Nepal & India who have experienced sex slavery and exploitation to receive COVID-19 relief food packs.
One student will sponsor ONE woman to receive relief food packs with our charity partner Art to Healing.
We would love for you to join us!
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