Bridging Worlds: Where Science Meets Spirit
An integrative training in psychedelic-assisted practice, ceremonial work, and trauma-informed group facilitation
Co-facilitated by Dr. Lauren Macdonald and Beáta Alföldi
With guest teachers, wisdom keepers, and ceremonial leaders
OVERVIEW
Bridging Worlds is a six-month experiential training for practitioners who feel called to work at the intersection of modern therapy, earth-centred practices, psychedelic work, and sacred-medicine ceremonies.
This training is designed to support and deepen the practice of guides, spaceholders, clinicians, shamanic practitioners, therapists, and group facilitators who feel called to support healing and transformation with sacred plant medicines in both clinical and ceremonial settings.
Together, we explore trauma-informed practice, clear ceremonial protocols, ethical and culturally respectful facilitation, and relational, embodied ways of holding space.
It is for those drawn to walk between worlds — bringing the structure of therapeutic practice together with the Sacred. Reconnecting the clinical with the ceremonial, the personal with the collective, and the human with the living wisdom of the Earth.
This training brings together:
Clinical psychedelic therapy, trauma‑informed care, and psychotherapeutic presence
Earth-centred practices, ceremonial frameworks, and ancestral wisdom traditions
Somatic practice, nervous system awareness, and embodied relational attunement
Group dynamics, communitas, and collective field awareness
Ethical awareness, intercultural integrity, and conscious reciprocity
Participants will move through twelve live teaching modules, supported by an in-person immersion in Peru’s Sacred Valley, where they will receive guided ceremonies with the ancestral medicines of Wachuma and Psilocybin, held by trained ceremonial facilitators.
Throughout the six months, participants will be invited to integrate their experience through reflective supervision and embodied practice.
Please note: this training is not a lineage-based apprenticeship and does not teach traditional Indigenous ceremony. It offers a contemporary pathway for facilitators to deepen their capacity to support expanded states safely and respectfully, without appropriating or replicating traditional forms.
This training is designed to deepen the quality and integrity of work within your existing scope of practice.
TRAINING STRUCTURE
August 2026 – January 2027
Format: Hybrid (Online + Peru Immersion)
Immersion: 25th Oct – 1st Nov 2026 (7 days)
Modules: 12 live online workshops (2 hours, fortnightly) on a Sunday
Cohort Size: 20 participants
Tuition: €6,500 (Early Bird €5,500 paid in full by 1 March 2026)
Scholarships: Available for under-represented applicants
Reciprocity: Percentage of tuition supports Indigenous-led and ecological initiatives
MODULES 1–6
(PRE-PERU IMMERSION)
Module 1 (9th August 2026) – Building the Bridge: Clinical, Somatic, Relational & Ceremonial Perspectives
Module 2 (23rd August 2026) – Shamanic Principles of Ceremony & the Living World
Module 3 (6th September 2026) – Trauma-Informed Facilitation & Somatic/Nervous-System
Module 4 (20th September 2026) – Walking Between Worlds: Clinical, Ceremonial & Cultural Frameworks for Altered States (Guest Panel)
Module 5 (4th October 2026) – Screening, Preparation & Therapeutic Frameworks
Module 6 (18 October 2026) – Ethics, Cultural Humility & Scope of Practice (Guest Panel)