Are you interested in learning how to skilfully navigate trauma imprints in plant medicine and psychedelic facilitation?

Feeling the desire to step up in your facilitation skills by being more trauma aware and leading with sensitivity, safety, and care?

Or maybe you’re a trauma survivor who is wanting to heal trauma through sacred plant medicines and seeking empowerment and freedom.

Perhaps you’re seeking to walk your path of heart to become a trauma-informed plant medicine facilitator, being in service with the highest impeccability and integrity in your community.

If so, AYA Healing Retreat’s 3 months Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation Program may be the right training program for you to build a solid foundation in understanding how to navigate through trauma imprints with skill, compassion and attunement, create safety protocols and guidelines for your community and deepen your understanding in providing trauma-sensitive integration.

This unique and specialized annual online program will provide you with vital and essential trauma-informed facilitation tools, tips, resources and a strong foundation in somatic-based trauma recovery approaches to support others in their plant medicine and psychedelic journeys towards wholeness, healing, and integration.

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 will be 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.