PSYCHEDELIC-ASSISTED THERAPY TRAINING

7-day on Country immersion

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Bundjalung Country| Northern Rivers

April 5th to April 11th 2027

This 7-day, live-in, fully catered, residential training is designed for therapists and emerging psychedelic-assisted therapists in clinical psychedelic assisted therapy who are seeking something deeper.

Nestled in the lush rainforest of the Byron Bay Hinterland at Avana Byron, this retreat-style training invites you into a different way of learning.

Grounded in both clinical practice and Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, this training offers an alternative to the dominant models currently shaping psychedelic-assisted therapy, reflecting a growing shift toward more relational, and culturally responsive approaches, with IPAT at the forefront of this work in Australia.

We work through a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, weaving together Western clinical frameworks with Indigenous knowledge systems, without collapsing one into the other. In doing so, we respect both, bringing them into right relationship as a bridge toward more connected, accountable, and culturally responsive pathways forward within Australia’s psychedelic therapy landscape.

You will receive the necessary foundations for psychedelic-assisted therapy within the Australian context, while also engaging the cultural, relational, and spiritual layers that are often left out of mainstream trainings, alongside clear pathways for how to responsibly integrate this deeper, embodied learning into clinical practice.

What You Will Experience

  • Creating safety within clinical and relational contexts.

  • Working with Social and Emotional Wellbeing frameworks grounded in Indigenous perspectives.

  • Practising spiritual, energetic, and somatic (embodied) awareness within therapeutic spaces.

  • Engaging in earth connection practices, with Country as lead facilitator.

  • Participating in experiential components including a guided breathwork day led by Australian Breathwork Association registered trainers, alongside role plays.

  • Understanding integration as a lifelong, relational process rather than a one-off intervention.

  • Translating embodied, relational and cultural learnings into safe, ethical, and effective clinical practice.

    Decolonised Learning Format

  • Experiential, embodied, and somatic practice.

  • Group process and collective reflection.

  • Time on Country and connection with the natural world.

  • Integration woven alongside applied clinical skill development.

  • Bridging embodied learning with clinical application in ways that maintain integrity, safety, and accountability.

    Who This Training Is For

  • Psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors

  • Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers

  • Therapists who provide psychedelic integration supports

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers.

  • Practitioners seeking a relational, ethical, and culturally grounded approach to clinical PAT.

Who This Training Is NOT For

  • Persons who are working or planning to work in illegal or underground settings

  • Persons who have a general interest in psychedelics but are not working in a profession that provides a parthway to providing clinical psychedelic assisted therapies

This is an opportunity to deepen your practice in a way that honours both ancient wisdom traditions and contemporary therapeutic approaches.

To learn not just how to do the work,
but how to be in right relationship with it.

This training is an answer to those who feel called into a deeper relationship with clinical psychedelic therapy work.

As part of a growing movement toward more grounded, relational, and culturally responsive psychedelic therapy practice in Australia, with IPAT continuing to lead and shape this work.

Location:

Avana Byron, Wilsons Creek,

Byron Bay Hinterland

Dates:

April 5th- April 11th 2027

Investment:

$5,990

Payment terms:

$500 deposit required upon acceptance of application

50% payment required by direct deposit November 30th 2026

Payment in full required by direct deposit January 30th 2027

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Cancellation policy

Training is subject to minimum numbers of attendees and will be confirmed 30 days prior.

If the event of a reschedule, you will have the option for a refund or to have your place transferred to the new dates.

Our cancellation policy reflects that we are a small business and have entered into agreement with suppliers, therefore refunds will take into account costs incurred.

60+ days cancellation- full refund minus deposit

31-59 days- 50% refund

<30 days notice- no refunds

Accreditation

In Australia, psychedelic-assisted therapists require psychedelic-assisted therapy training as per the TGA guidelines, however Australia does not have accredited programs or training standards. There is no established governing body that accredits psychedelic-assisted therapy training, or organisations running accredited training programs. Currently, psychedelic-assisted therapists require psychedelic-assisted therapy training as per the TGA guidelines. Our training may provide you with CPD points for your professional development- speak to your professional body about whether this applies to you.

Disclaimer

IPAT does not endorse engaging in illegal activities. This training is for education purposes for persons who have an interest in working in the the clinical application of psychedelic-assisted therapy only

Our Training Team

Jem Stone

Co-founder/ Director IPAT, cultural consultant, We Al-Li trainer, Wayapa Wuurrk trainer, Rebirthing Breathwork trainer. Psychedelic-assisted therapist.

A/Prof. Dr. Carlie Atkinson

Director IPAT, Social Worker, Chief Investigator, researcher, CEO We Al-Li.

Dr. Bianca Sebben

Clinical Psychologist, Co-founder/ Director IPAT, supervisor, psychedelic integration specialist.

PLUS a variety of guest facilitators online and in person

Learning Outcomes

1. Introduction to Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

  • Understanding the history of psychedelic assisted therapy and different psychedelic compounds

  • Exploration of current and historical research

  • Understanding of common frameworks utilised in the western context and their similarities and differences with Indigenous worldviews and perspectives

  • Knowledge of traditional plant medicine practices held by original Indigenous knowledge holders

2. Creating Safe and Sacred Space

  • Understanding ceremony within clinical contexts

  • Working with energy, intention, and presence

  • Developing skills in safe containment and spiritual hygiene

  • Cultivating facilitation, leadership, and service

3. Ethical Right Relationship

  • Embodied understanding of right relationship in therapeutic and cultural contexts

  • Developing cultural humility and self- location

  • Exploring privilege, responsibility, and reciprocity in healing work

4. Earth Connection

  • Grounding, preparation, and integration through connection with the natural world

  • Understanding Country as lead facilitator

  • Practices for self and collective care

  • Embodied reciprocity with Country and cosmos

5. Trauma Informed Facilitation

  • Develop a greater understanding of the ongoing impact of colonisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

  • Understand principles for creating safe enough spaces

  • Improve competency in working with groups and communities in distress

  • Understanding Indigenous perspectives to trauma informed care

6. Preparation and Integration

  • Understanding preparation as an embodied way of being, not just a task

  • Integration as a life long process

  • Community oriented approaches to integration

  • Working skillfully with distressing experiences and post psychedelic difficulties

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