Start2Finish DIY Psychedelic Integration Circle

Start2Finish DIY Psychedelic Integration Circle: Workshop & Leadership Course by Altered States Integration gives anyone the skills needed to create community around psychedelics through providing integration support groups.

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Course Description

Start2Finish DIY Psychedelic Integration Circle is an 8-week course that takes you from start to finish in creating a psychedelic integration support group in your area. This course gives students the skills, tools, and templates necessary to become support group facilitators.

The course will cover topics such as ethical space holding, setting the group tone, managing difficult group members, booking locations and advertising events, leading mindfulness exercises, leaving room for the magic, and more. Through mentoring sessions, interactive group discussions, and process-driven assignments, participants will gain the confidence to host their own psychedelic integration support group.

You will learn:

  • What is Bwiti?
  • Roles in Bwiti initiation/treatment
  • Instruments in Bwiti: ngombe, mogongo
  • What is an Nganga
    • Maboundi/Yombo
    • Maboundi/Yombo
  • Sustainability/reciprocity

You will learn:

  • History of the Fang tradition
  • Dissumba vs. Dissumba Fang
  • Ombwiri/Mbumbayano Fang
  • The kambo
  • State of Fang Bwiti in Gabon
  • Impact of Westerners coming to work with the sacred wood

You will learn:

  • History of the Missoko tradition
  • Various branches of Missoko initiation:
    • Miobe/Mioba
    • Ngonde Na Dipuma
    • Sengedia
  • The impact of logging on the tradition
  • What the future of Bwiti could look like in Gabon

You will learn:

  • History of Dissumba
  • Various branches of Dissumba initiation:
    • Abanji/Mabanji
    • Ilombo
    • Ombwiri
    • Ombudi
    • Loro
  • The ngombe (sacred harp)
  • Healing rituals involved in her tradition
  • Training to serve the wood
    • What does it involve?
    • How long does it take?

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Tatayo

Instructor

About Instructor

Tatayo (“Fruit of the Wind”) first arrived in Gabon in 1971 at the age of 21 and became a Gabonese citizen. In 1979, he became the first white person to be initiated into the Bwiti Fang tradition in Gabon. In 1994, he was initiated into the Misokko tradition. As a guide for numerous expeditions and missions, including those of National Geographic, the BBC, and others, Tatayo is considered to have “opened the door” to westerners in Gabon.

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Please see below for start and finish dates/times. This course is currently being offered live and dates/times will change throughout the year.

$271

Early Bird

$461

This course includes

  • Lectures 8
  • Duration 9 Weeks
  • Skills All levels
  • Language English
  • Availability Cohort
  • Certificate No
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