What is this training program?

This is a live, 4-week online training program on the Fundamentals of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies.

The course is designed to educate a broad range of medical and mental health professionals, those with lived experience and consumers on the science and clinical use of psychedelics.

This course will help you to stay on the cutting edge of these transformational treatments, and help you understand how these medicines will affect your practice, patience, families and communities.

Executive Summary of Learning Outcomes

• The science behind how psychedelics affect consciousness, and the how non-ordinary state-based therapies can let your clients achieve faster deeper, longer-lasting healing
• The historical context of how psychedelic substances were first synthesised and why they were banned for general use
• Specifically, how these substances are used to assist psychotherapy in a practical context
• The psycho-biological model of consciousness and how it will create a paradigm shift for all therapists when it eventually becomes mainstream
• How psychedelics can assist your clients in transcending their narrative self and overcome limiting beliefs and compulsive thought patterns 
• What to expect in the integration phase, and how to coach your clients through the shift in value system that can disorient them if not managed correctly
• Why traditional therapeutic approaches struggle to address underlying trauma, and why altered state-based approaches to therapy will be the gold standard of healing
• The little known role of psychedelics in human evolution 
• The current legal environment in Australia and how Mind Medicine Australia is advancing the field to ensure these treatments are accessible and available to those who are suffering

About Your Instructors:

Your instructors for this training program are Dr Tra-ill Dowie and Nigel Denning. They are leaders in their field and have decades of experience in teaching and clinical work. They have successfully managed to integrate the best practices from Eastern tradition into the Western scientific paradigm.

Dr Tra-ill Dowie

Dr Tra-ill Dowie holds dual PhDs in Psychiatry and Philosophy from Monash and Melbourne University respectively. He is a Chair of the Australian Counselling Institute and Head of Faculty of Ikon Institute Australia. Dr. Dowie brings an interdisciplinary approach to treating the human condition, that has taken him all over the globe. He has been mentored by the world's foremost experts in altered state based therapies.  

Tra-ill's frameworks for understanding the true nature of "mind" are bridging the gap between 'partial paradigms' and bringing a unified approach to treating mental health. 

Mr. Nigel Denning

Mr. Nigel Denning is the Director of the Integrative Psychology Clinic, and a pioneer in the domain of altered states therapy and psychedelic medicine. Nigel Denning has studied in Australia and overseas with many of the leaders in psychological research and is himself a pioneer in holotropic breath work, having worked with Stanislav Grof at the Esalen Institute in the United States.

Nigel's interdisciplinary approach to psychology has allowed him to help his patients achieve higher wellbeing and begin to truly thrive, because his work fosters their personal and professional development through enhanced cognitive performance.