PSYCHEDELIC EDUCATION PROGRAM

access to knowledge

MAPS' Psychedelic Education Program provides access to knowledge about the history, methodology, and potential applications of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy not available through conventional educational channels. The Psychedelic Education Program is taught by leading experts in psychedelic science, psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic culture.

Whether you're:

• interested in eventually becoming a licensed psychedelic therapist
• applying insights from psychedelic therapy to your existing licensed practice
• connecting with others with similar interests
• or even if you're just curious

access to training

Participate in one of our workshops to enhance your knowledge of the principles and practice of psychedelic therapy.

Participation in the Psychedelic Education Program demonstrates your commitment to psychedelic education and subject-specific knowledge about psychedelics and psychedelic therapy.

Once MDMA is approved for use as a prescription medicine, participants will also have enhanced eligibility for work in the field of psychedelic research and therapy. Interested participants may also be eligible to work with MAPS on a Phase 3 clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.

Professional credit (Continuing Education/Continuing Medical Education) will be available in some workshops and seminars for qualifying medical practitioners. However, participation in the Psychedelic Education Program does not legally qualify you to work as a psychedelic therapist.

Some (but not all) of those who participate in the Psychedelic Education Program may be invited for additional training in our psychedelic therapist training study. Enrollment in this study is currently limited to individuals already involved in our MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research projects.

access to healing

As our research program expands to move ever closer towards approval of psychedelics as legal treatments, there will be more need for therapists trained in MAPS' approach to MDMA-assisted psychotherapy than ever before. Phase 3 of MAPS' research program—involving scores of therapists and over a dozen studies in multiple countries—will begin in 2015.

With research, training, dedication, and your participation, we can bring safe and effective psychedelic healing to those who need it most.

Join us for Psychedelic Education Program workshops and lectures at future events and be part of the promising field of psychedelic therapy.

To receive future announcements about the Psychedelic Education Program, please complete and return a Psychedelic Education Profile.

To learn more about our expanding MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research program, view our Research Prospectus.

MAPS PSYCHEDELIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
CORE COURSES

THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY
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An overview of historical and contemporary clinical psychedelic research, with an emphasis on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. Provides potential investigators, clinicians, and others a functional knowledge of basic clinical practices and research methodology, based on MAPS' Therapist Training Manual.

THE HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE
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A survey of the history and current status of psychedelic research, focusing on the scientific, clinical, spiritual, and other uses of psychedelics. Provides participants with in-depth knowledge of the variety of ways scientists and others have used psychedelics, from medicine and science to religion, cognition, and creativity.

PSYCHEDELIC NEUROSCIENCE
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An exploration of the latest advances in the scientific understanding of how psychedelics affect the brain, in terms that are accurate yet accessible. Topics will include what makes MDMA different from most other psychedelics, DMT and its role in the brain, new views on the receptor interactions of psychedelic agents, mechanisms of psychedelic-induced visuals, and up-to-date information on the potential neurophysiological harms and benefits of these fascinating compounds.

ELECTIVE COURSES

AYAHUASCA HEALING: MEDICAL, LEGAL, & CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
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A thorough overview of the various implications of the worldwide surge of interest in ayahuasca from medical, legal, and cultural perspectives. Addresses traditional as well as contemporary uses, completed and ongoing research, neurophysiological data, the relationship between religious and clinical uses of ayahuasca, new evidence about ayahuasca therapy for addiction, and much more.

DEFENDING PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE: THE WOMEN'S VISIONARY COUNCIL
Next Workshop: TBA
A discussion of the broad effects of psychedelic experiences and communities on the culture at large, addressing the ongoing influence of perspectives from psychedelic research and culture on medicine, art, technology, activism, and spiritual practice. Open to all interested participants, this workshop is co-presented by the Women's Visionary Council.

POTENTIAL FUTURE ELECTIVES