In recent times, there has been an increase in boundary violations (physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and spiritual) in plant-medicine ceremonies due to a lack of clear, healthy facilitation boundaries. Psychedelic experiences can open people up on many levels, making participants more susceptible to external influence.
Clear boundaries and the ability to safeguard the ceremonial and energetic space can significantly reduce the impact of negative, unhelpful and potentially harmful suggestions, dynamics or energies.
This trauma-informed masterclass offers practical tools and guidance for plant-medicine facilitators to uphold healthy boundaries, while exploring the pivotal role of spirit-centred protection in psychedelic work.
In this self-paced, 90-minute masterclass, Trina and Atira share a grounded “spirit-centred” framework, providing strategies and tools to create a safe and secure environment that supports positive therapeutic outcomes and protection for everyone involved.
Joining Atira as a guest is Trina Lucas, a Traditional Chinese Medicine specialist, founder of The Spiritual Healing Sanctuary, and one-to-one spiritual healer and mentor. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Trina has spent more than 26 years running her spiritual healing practice and is a passionate advocate for placing spirit at the centre of health and wellbeing.
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 the energy body called the “Source Connection Channel”.
Activation of this channel supports the practitioner of spirit medicine to call their spirit to the forefront of the 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) invite the spirit of the client to meet and guide their receptivity to the medicine.
The pathway to deep and sustained personal transformation often requires stubborn, dense blocks of unseen lower-vibrational energy to surface for clearing. These energies can complicate the therapeutic process if they are not recognised and safely held.
Spirit is the most intelligent force available to us when it comes to navigating entrenched patterns that are ready for transformational change.
Safeguarding trauma-informed, spirit-centred psychedelic sessions is therefore essential for facilitation, and this 90-minute self-paced masterclass covers the following topics:
- Spirit connection: Why and how to centre the spirit of the client, the earth, the plant medicine and the facilitator in practice.
- Protection of client, facilitator and the therapeutic relationship: The importance of putting spirit first to safeguard the therapeutic journey.
- 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.
- Anatomy of the Source Connection Channel: The structure, function and importance of this channel in spirit-centred medicine.
- Spiritual hygiene fundamentals: Practices to maintain balance and integration between spirit, soul, human and earthly realities within you as the facilitator.
- Powerful activation: A guided activation of the Source Connection Channel that you can return to again and again.
- A simple tool: A practical method for maintaining the health of your Source Connection Channel.
- How spirit heals: A clear understanding of consciousness and how human and spirit consciousness differ.
- Lower-vibrational energies: How to recognise and work with these energies when they arise in the therapeutic process.
By incorporating trauma-informed, spirit-centred principles into facilitation, you’ll learn how to work within a wider relational field that includes spirit, earth, humanity and the material universe.
This 90-minute self-paced Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Masterclass offers practical tools and resources for facilitators to deepen their trauma sensitivity and develop an awareness of spirit-centred principles of facilitation.
DETAILS & INVESTMENT
Our 90-minute Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Masterclass: Safeguarding Psychedelic Sessions is available to watch as a recording. Your purchase includes:
– The 90-minute live Zoom workshop recording
– The 90-minute audio recording to download
– A PDF manual with trauma-informed tips and tools, plus practical 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 everyone and bringing healing and awareness to the “shadow” areas of life, Atira has worked as a trauma-informed integration specialist in retreat centres such as Temple of the Way of Light and is currently Head of Integration at AYA Healing Retreats.
Atira has mapped the trauma-recovery journeys of hundreds of plant-medicine 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 Facilitator Program, which has graduated more than 150 students in two years.
She holds an MA in Art Therapy, has a background in Transpersonal Art Therapy and Holistic Counselling, and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, alongside decades of training in other trauma-informed approaches.
For more than a decade, Atira has also worked internationally in community organisations and international development as a consultant, clinician, supervisor and educator in non-profit settings. She is currently a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, researching the effectiveness of somatic and creative trauma-recovery interventions for sex-trafficked survivors in Asia. She has presented at numerous conferences alongside Dr Peter Levine, Dr Stephen Porges, Dr Pat Ogden and Dr Gabor Maté.
As CEO and Founder of Art to Healing, an Australian charity that supports the recovery of children who have experienced sex slavery and exploitation, Atira has initiated international women’s health, art-therapy and trauma-informed programmes for women and girls across the Asia–Pacific region for more than 15 years.
Before COVID-19, Atira taught workshops, retreats and teacher trainings on four continents, including Australia, Europe, Asia and South America. She specialises in supporting women, men and children — particularly those who have experienced sexual abuse — to recover from trauma in both group settings and one-to-one work, drawing on embodied somatic psychologies and other holistic approaches.
With a Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) in Traditional Chinese Medicine and awakened psychic abilities to communicate with a team of healing spirits, Trina brings a deep understanding of the spiritual foundations of the human body and psyche.
Her mission is to use this expertise to educate the world on the science of spiritual healing, offering a truly holistic approach to medicine that focuses on exceptional outcomes for clients.
Trina runs courses, a membership-based community, The Spiritual Healing Sanctuary, and offers one-to-one spiritual healing and mentoring sessions both 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
