Module 3

Core Facilitation Skills

Module 3

Core Facilitation Skills

“What people want from us isn’t to be advised, but to be seen, met, heard, and felt. And we can’t do that if our own instrument is lost in thought or preoccupied with some therapeutic agenda about what’s supposed to happen instead of taking in the human being in front of you. What we most need to give the people we work with in medicine and psychotherapy is the full dimensionality of our presence.”

–Simon et. al (2015)

Module Description

In this module, we will begin learning about core competencies for health professionals who deliver psychedelic-assisted therapy, building on the Numinus care model and the therapeutic relationship presented in Modules 1 and 2 respectively. We will focus on embodiment-oriented competencies, including embodied inquiry. We will discuss considerations for incorporating a therapeutic supportive touch with clients. Finally, we will look at psychological flexibility and internal family systems as they related to psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the role that psychedelic-assisted therapy plays as a brief intervention within the broader healing journey.

  2. Describe the ARC of psychedelic-assisted therapy and its components (including therapeutic concepts).

  3. Develop trust in inner healing intelligence.

  4. Use language and inquiry that support deepening a patient’s inner experience and innate healing capacity at an introductory level.

  5. Apply psychological flexibility to acceptance and commitment therapy, ACE model, and internal family systems.

  6. Embody mindfulness and psychological flexibility using the method of embodied inquiry.

  7. Discuss the value of health professionals to have spiritual intelligence, trust, and experience with altered states of consciousness.

References

Simon, R., Kabat-Zinn, J., Schwartz, R., Gottman, J., Gottman, J., Perel, E., Ackerman, D., and Siegel, D. (2015). The colors of tomorrow. Psychology Today. https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/39/the-colors-of-tomorrow