About this program
Facilitators
Course description
This highly experiential training will help you cultivate deeper grounding, openness and compassion so that you can be fully present to your clients’ journeys – and your own.
The embodied inquiry model provides a reliable framework for orienting yourself in the arc of the therapy, freeing up cognitive bandwidth to bring curiosity, non-judgment, and kindness to the investigation of whatever is arising in session. These foundational attitudes enhance your own compassion and resilience and helps to strengthen the therapeutic container for your client’s exploration.
By using this framework, you’ll be able to help your clients with:
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Better regulation of emotional states
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Separation from overwhelming emotions and repetitive thinking
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Increase in self-efficacy and ability to process learnings from psychedelic experiences
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Increased resilience in managing difficult emotions, sensations, and experiences
Time Commitments
- 4 hours of online pre-work (total)
- 4 hours per live session (via Zoom)
This course includes 12 hours of live sessions and 4 hours of online pre-work. Please see below for more information.
December 2023 Cohort
Time (PT): 9:00am-1:00pm PT
Time (ET): 12:00pm-4:00pm ET
Course access begins: Monday, November 20
Live session 1: Friday, December 1
Live session 2: Friday, December 8
Live session 3: Friday, December 15
Language: English
Instructors: Deanna and Devon
April 2024 Cohort
Time (PT): 8:30am-12:30pm PT
Time (ET): 11:30am-3:30pm ET
Course access begins: Monday, April 22
Live session 1: Monday, April 29
Live session 2: Monday, May 6
Live session 3: Monday, May 13
Language: English
Instructors: TBD
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course, however if psychedelic-assisted therapy is completely new for you or if this is the first training you are engaging in related to psychedelics, we highly recommend taking Fundamentals of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy prior to taking this course.
Content Overview
Please use the arrows below to learn more about what will be taught in each module.
Topics
• What is inquiry?
• Inquiry framework (method, embodiment, process)
• Psychological flexibility
• Demonstrations and practice exercises
Learning Outcomes
• Describe the underlying assumptions and attitudes of inquiry
• Utilize the 3 layers of inquiry at an introductory level
• Use the 3 Characteristics when engaged in the inquiry process
• Apply inquiry to challenging experiences to increase psychological flexibility, distress tolerance, and acceptance
Topics
• Applied neuroscience (trauma and psychedelic-assisted therapy)
• Trauma skills
• Inquiry skills
• Demonstrations and practice exercises
Learning Outcomes
• Identify the difference between narrative (secondary consciousness) and experiential self-referencing (primary consciousness) and difficult emotions
• Explain how an understanding of trauma neurobiology is essential to embodied inquiry
• Describe the threat response states of the nervous system threat as they relate to trauma and psychedelic-assisted therapy
• Apply embodied inquiry to present experience
Topics
• Case work
Learning Outcomes
• Apply the use of embodied inquiry within the context of IFS parts work at an introductory level
• Describe the intentions of embodied inquiry through the arc of psychedelic-assisted therapy (Preparation, Medicine, and Integration Sessions)
• Use inquiry to work with dysregulation
• Apply embodied inquiry to present experience
Learning Outcomes
After the course, you’ll be able to:
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Apply mindful and somatic inquiry skills at an introductory level.
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Describe the components of inquiry.
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Utilize inquiry skills to help clients process challenging experiences.
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Direct clients to mindfully attend and stay with experience using the body as a source of information and anchor for attention.
Disclaimer
The continuing professional development program in no way promotes, condones, or facilitates illegal activity, and is strictly for educational and harm reduction purposes only. Please be aware that certain psychedelic substances still remain illegal in many jurisdictions, including Canada. This program and the contents of this website do not constitute medical advice, and are not a substitute for professional medical advice and treatment.
FAQs
The embodied inquiry model provides a reliable framework for orienting yourself in the arc of the therapy, freeing up cognitive bandwidth to bring curiosity, non-judgment, and kindness to the investigation of whatever is arising in session. These foundational attitudes enhance your own compassion and resilience and helps to strengthen the therapeutic container for your client’s exploration.
Yes – Continuing Education (CE) accreditation will be available upon completion.
This course is not part of the certification pathway. This course will provide you with a comprehensive overview of an essential skill used in psychedelic-assisted therapy. Providers that are looking to do extensive work in this field should take this course to help master this skill as part of their toolkit to support clients.
You will need to be able to commit to live sessions each week, however we will be able to accommodate make up sessions if there’s a week you’ll be unable to make. Please email training@numinus.com if you have any special circumstances.
Unfortunately, recordings are not provided and used only for internal quality assurance purposes.
Yes, just be mindful of the time zones! Please also note that daylight savings time in North America typically comes into effect on different dates than some other parts of the world.
Please consult the Numinus Practictioner Training Policies for more information about our policies.
Yes, this course is recognized by the following organizations for continuing education credit.
Canadian Psychological Association
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
L’Ordre des psychologues du Québec
Numinus Wellness has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7360. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Numinus Wellness is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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