In recent times, there has been an increase of boundary violations (physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and spiritual) occurring in plant medicine ceremonies due to the lack of healthy facilitation boundaries. Psychedelic experiences can open up the psyches of individuals, making participants more susceptible to influences.
Healthy boundaries, and being able to safeguard the psychic space of a ceremony can mitigate the impact of negative, unhelpful and at times, harmful suggestions, conversations, or energies.
This trauma-informed masterclass focuses on sharing tips and tools for plant medicine facilitators to uphold healthy boundaries, as well as the pivotal role of ‘spirit-centred’ protection with facilitating psychedelic sessions.
In this self-paced 90 mins. masterclass, Trina and Atira share an essential understanding of a ‘spirit-centred’ framework, providing you with strategies and tools to create a safe and secure environment conducive to positive therapeutic outcomes, with a focus on protection for all involved.
Joining Atira as a guest is Trina Lucas, a Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialist, founder of The Spiritual Healing Sanctuary, and a one-to-one spiritual healer and mentor. Trina is a passionate advocate of placing spirit at the centre of health and wellness and has spent over 26 years running her Spiritual Healing Practice in Melbourne, Australia.
Your Facilitators…
Trina Joy Lucas
Medical Intuitive, Spiritual Healer & Teacher at Spirit Based Therapies
Atira Tan
Somatic Trauma Specialist & Educator, Head of Integration, AYA Healing Retreats
“This trauma-informed plant medicine facilitation course has put language and science to the most important aspects of my work in ways I never could. This training empowered me to create safer, more integrated, and more compassionate healing containers for myself, the healers I work with, and of course our participants. I now feel that anyone working to facilitate healing of any kind should be trauma-informed as a foundational part of their approach. In fact, as we face the mounting challenges of today’s world, I feel we can’t afford to be.”
– Lara Charlotte, Co-Founder of Garden of Dreams, New Zealand.
THE POWER OF ‘SPIRIT CENTRED’ TRAUMA-INFORMED
PLANT MEDICINE FACILITATION
SAFEGUARDING PSYCHEDELIC SESSIONS
Trauma-informed ‘Spirit Centred’ facilitation taps into an essential structure in your energy body called the “Source Connection Channel”.
Activation of this channel ensures the practitioner of spirit medicine can adequately call their spirit to the forefront of their body in order to (1) meet in intimacy and safety with the spirit of the earth as it is expressed in the energetic properties of the medicinal plant, and (2) ensure the spirit of the client is called in service to meet and guide receptivity of the medicine.
The pathway to deep and sustained personal transformation often requires challenging stubborn and powerful blocks of unseen lower vibrational energy to emerge for clearing. Such energies can inadvertently complicate the therapeutic process.
Spirit is the most intelligent force available to us all when it comes to gracefully navigating these well-established patterns in need of transformational change.
Safeguarding Trauma-informed ‘spirit centred’ Psychedelic Sessions is therefore essential for facilitation, and our 90 mins. self-paced masterclass covers the following topics:
1. Spirit Connection: Discovering why and how to synergise and centre the spirit of the client, the earth, the plant medicine and the facilitator in practice.
2. Protection of Client, Facilitator, and the Therapeutic Relationship: Emphasizing the importance of putting ‘spirit first’ to safeguard the therapeutic journey.
3. Navigating the Spirit Realms: A framework for understanding the interconnectedness of spirit, soul, the universe, earth and humanity with an emphasis on the power of the client as a co-creator of their reality.
4. Anatomy of the Source Connection Channel: Examining the structure, function, and importance of this channel in the practice of ‘spirit-centred’ medicine.
5. Spiritual Hygiene Fundamentals: Introducing practices to maintain balance and integration between your spirit, soul, human, and earthly realities within you as the facilitator.
6. Powerful Activation: of the Source Connection Channel that you can return to over and over.
7. A Simple Tool: for maintaining the health of your Source Connection Channel.
8. How Spirit Heals: An essential yet simple understanding of what is consciousness and how human and spirit consciousness differ.
9. Understanding and Dealing with Lower Vibrational Energies: Recognizing and addressing the challenges posed by these energies in the therapeutic process.
By incorporating trauma-informed ‘spirit centred’ principles into facilitation, you will understand how you as a facilitator can work within a bigger picture framework of relationships between spirit, earth, humanity and the greater material universe.
Our 90 mins. Self-Paced Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Masterclass provides bite-sized tools and resources for facilitators to cultivate their trauma sensitivity and develop an awareness of ‘spirit centred’ principles of facilitation.
DETAILS & INVESTMENT
Our 90 minutes Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Masterclass: Safeguarding Psychedelic Sessions is available to watch as a recording. Your package comes with the following:
– The 90 mins Live Zoom workshop recording
– The 90 mins audio recording to download
– Your PDF manual on trauma-informed tips and tools, along with helpful protocols for Safeguarding Psychedelic Sessions.
“Participating in this training gave me profound insight into what I’m doing as a ceremony guide and integration & microdosing coach, illuminating areas where I can grow, and strengthen & expanding my toolbox of resources, practices, processes, protocols, and tools I already have, to be able to support people in their healing journeys even better.
Atira carries a strong and very clear vision of the importance of having a trauma-informed approach and awareness when working in this rapidly growing field of plant medicine & psychedelic-assisted therapies. Being in her presence and receiving her teachings was super inspiring and motivating to keep showing up for this special and very much-needed work.”
– JUAN MANUEL BURGOS, Microdosing & Integration Coach, Argentina.
“This program’s deep dive into the realms of living impeccable service has been nothing short of life-changing.
I remembered so much about the nervous system, about my life, about my purpose, about the bridges between paradigms and the collective trauma on the Earth. I was deeply warmed, inspired, challenged, and excited by the entire experience.
Atira transmits genuine, care, curiosity, understanding, and expertise. She is devoted to providing safe spaces for people to heal and her life’s work is a testimony to her wisdom. This body of work is a must for all.”
– MELE MAI, Art Therapist & Facilitator, Australia.
YOUR TEACHERS
Passionate about creating safer spaces for everybody, and bringing healing and awareness in the “shadowy” areas of life, Atira has worked as a trauma-informed integration specialist in retreat centers such as the Temple of the Way of Light and is currently the head of integration at AYA Healing Retreats.
Atira has mapped the trauma recovery of hundreds of PM participants in her private practice as an integration trauma specialist and co-facilitates Trauma-informed and Somatic Experiencing Plant Medicine retreats and dietas in Peru with AYA Healing Retreats. She is also the pioneer and founder of the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Program, of which has over 150 graduates in 2 years.
She possesses an MA in Art Therapy, has a background in Transpersonal Art Therapy and Holistic Counselling, and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, amongst decades of training in various other trauma-informed approaches.
Atira has also worked for over a decade internationally in community organizations and international development as a consultant, clinician, and supervisor, as well as an educator in non-for-profit settings. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, researching the effectiveness of somatic and creative trauma recovery interventions for sex-trafficked survivors in Asia. Atira also has presented at numerous conferences alongside Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Pat Ogden, and Dr. Gabor Mate, just to name a few.
The CEO and Founder of Art to Healing, an Australian charity which supports the recovery of child sex slaves, Atira has also initiated international women’s health, art therapy, and trauma-informed programs for women and girls who have experienced sex slavery and exploitation internationally for the past 15 years.
Pre-COVID, Atira taught workshops, retreats & teacher trainings in 4 continents around the globe including Australia, Europe, Asia, and South America. She specializes in supporting women, men, and children, particularly those who have experienced sexual abuse to recover from trauma, in groups & individually in her private practice and international development settings as a trauma specialist through the embodied somatic psychologies and other holistic approaches.
A Bachelor of Health Science with Honours in Traditional Chinese Medicine coupled with Trina awakening psychic talents to communicate with a team of Healing Spirits has given Trina a deep understanding of the broader spiritual underpinnings of the human body and psyche.
It is Trina’s mission to use her expertise to educate the world on the science of spiritual healing, bringing a truly holistic approach to medicine to focus on exceptional outcomes for clients.
Trina runs courses, a membership-based group, “The Spiritual Healing Sanctuary ”, and offers one-to-one spiritual healing and mentor sessions online and in person.
Trina’s message is simple: “Your spirit is a powerful agent of change. Be the gift to self and others the world needs – body, mind and soul.”
“What a life-changing experience. This training is a true treasure of knowledge and wisdom and shared with a caring and loving presence.
The depth of insights into a variety of tools to create safer spaces is the most I have ever experienced in any training. However, besides the theoretical teachings, what touched me the most was how the space was held in such safety and care and naturally became the soil for our personal softening into the journey.
And with that, we were able to truly experience the effect of a teacher who fully embodies what she teaches. And that is a priceless gift I will benefit from for the rest of my life.”
– FLORIANNE WOLFHART, Trauma-Informed Coach & Breathwork Facilitator, The Netherlands
“My mind and heart are in deep amazement and gratitude as I apply all that I learned in the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine workshop.
I highly recommend this course/workshop, not only to those who are interested in the relationship between trauma and plant medicine but anyone who is curious about understanding human relational patterns to self and society. Atira shares in-depth knowledge and expertise of trauma studies and this work is much needed in the world.”
– ELIZABETH GOTTWALD, Kambo Facilitator & Photographer, USA
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