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A collaborative course · Live online professional education
Effectively Manage Spiritual Emergency
A practical training for psychedelic and plant medicine guides.
A co-presented training from Psychedelic Education Center and Integrative Mental Health University, exploring how guides can recognize spiritual emergency, respond with care, assess risk, and support integration with practical judgment.
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Integration.Education for complex experiences
Why this training matters
When the experience becomes overwhelming, the response matters.
Psychedelic and other non-ordinary states can bring profound material to the surface. Sometimes, the experience continues well beyond the session and affects daily functioning, relationships, or safety.
This training explores how to distinguish an intense experience from situations that warrant consultation, referral, or more immediate intervention.
Live course time emphasizes case presentations, discussion, reflection, and practical decision-making. Preparatory materials support the foundational theory.
Course outcomes
Grow your capacity to navigate complex states.
Explore foundational knowledge and practical choices for supporting people through spiritual emergencies.
Notice the warning signs
Assess behavioral, emotional, somatic, cognitive, and contextual cues without overstepping professional scope.
Choose supportive action
Consider grounding, orienting, containment, environmental adjustments, consultation, and escalation.
Practice attunement
Work with non-imposing language, consent, body-based awareness, and relational support.
Honor meaning carefully
Identify power dynamics, suggestibility, and the risks of imposing metaphysical interpretations.
Coordinate ongoing care
Support integration, daily functioning, and communication with family and care professionals.
Know your limits
Examine personal biases and recognize when a situation calls for referral, a change of approach, or emergency care.
Curriculum
Explore the proposed curriculum.
01Foundations: Spiritual Emergency in Psychedelic Contexts
02Recognition & Risk Differentiation
03Real-Time Intervention Skills
04Somatic & Relational Support
05Ethics, Power, Suggestibility & Meaning
06Screening, Preparation & Prevention
07When the Experience Does Not End
08Integration, Family & Collaborative Care
09Practitioner Self-Awareness, Escalation & Practicum
* Please note that curriculum is subject to change.
Course partners
A shared commitment to thoughtful support.
This collaborative course brings together perspectives on spiritual emergence, psychedelic education, harm reduction, and responsible responses to difficult experiences.
Psychedelics Today / PEC
Psychedelics Today explores the science, philosophy, and practice of psychedelics. Its Psychedelic Education Center provides education for practitioners and people seeking grounded understanding and harm-reduction skills.
Explore Psychedelics Today ↗IMHU
Integrative Mental Health University offers education and professional training focused on spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, and whole-person mental health care.
Explore IMHU ↗Meet the educators
Learn from experienced voices.
Emma Bragdon, PhD
Founder of Integrative Mental Health University and a long-time educator in spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency. Her work spans training, writing, and transpersonal psychology.
Kyle Buller, MS, LPC
Co-founder of Psychedelics Today and a professional counselor with a background in somatic psychology, psychedelic integration, and supporting people navigating non-ordinary states.
Tuition & enrollment
Invest in the skills to support complex experiences.
Learn to recognize, respond to, and integrate challenging spiritual and psychedelic experiences through live, practical education.
Course at a glance
- 9 live modules
- 18 hours of instruction
- Online learning
Co-presented by Psychedelics Today’s Psychedelic Education Center and Integrative Mental Health University (IMHU). Registration and course access are managed through PEC.
Frequently asked
Questions before enrolling?
Who is offering this course?
The course is co-branded by Psychedelic Education Center / Psychedelics Today and Integrative Mental Health University (IMHU). Registration, payment, and access are through PEC. Teaching assignments and course details will be confirmed before launch.
Who is this course designed for?
This training is intended for psychedelic and plant medicine guides and other support professionals looking to build confidence around extreme states during or following psychedelic experiences. It is not a course that licenses psychotherapy or medical practice.
What are the dates and format?
PEC will confirm the next course dates, live-session times, attendance expectations, and access details before enrollment opens.
What does tuition cost?
Tuition and any promotional pricing will be set by Psychedelic Education Center. Please refer to the PEC enrollment page when the course launches.
Are continuing education credits available?
Continuing education availability, provider approvals, eligibility, and any additional fees have not yet been confirmed for PEC’s version of this course.
Where does enrollment take place?
Registration, payment, and course access will be managed by Psychedelic Education Center. Enrollment buttons will open the PEC course or checkout page.
Will this qualify me as a licensed psychedelic therapist?
No. The course is educational and focused on harm reduction, recognition, support, and appropriate referral. It does not confer a professional license or authorize clinical practice beyond your scope.
Be prepared when someone needs your support.
Learn to recognize spiritual emergency, respond with clarity and compassion, and navigate challenging psychedelic experiences with greater confidence.
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