Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, and Compassion: What Clinicians Need to Know About Non-Ordinary States

AN ONLINE COURSE
with Dr. Ronald D. Siegel

Ever since Freud, psychotherapists have worked with non-ordinary states such as dreams, hypnosis, and free association to explore and heal the heart and mind.

In the past decade mindfulness and compassion practices have become mainstream tools, while more recently research on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) has mushroomed. Psychedelics, often combined with insights from mindfulness and compassion practices, now offer not only possible breakthrough treatments for PTSD, depression, addictions, and end-of-life anxiety, but provide new insights into the nature of psychological distress and mechanisms of healing.

What can clinicians learn from these developments? What can they teach us about the neurobiology of human suffering and flourishing? How can they inform our psychotherapeutic practice?

In this 5-session course, you’ll learn practical tools and techniques derived from mindfulness and compassion-oriented treatment and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to help clients with a wide-array of disorders. We’ll explore ways to help clients integrate split-off traumatic memories, open their hearts, embrace vulnerability, surrender to the flow of ever-changing experience, move from isolation to deep connection with people and nature, appreciate the unreliable fluidity of thought, and find meaning in everyday moments.

You’ll learn how to use mindfulness and self-compassion practices along with other techniques to harness these healing mechanisms, and you’ll learn about their dangers and contraindications. You’ll also gain the knowledge all therapists now need to help clients who might be experimenting with psychedelics on their own to minimize harm and to integrate and grow from their experiences.

You will learn:

The history of non-ordinary states in psychotherapy
To identify the common elements in a wide variety of psychological disorders
An overview of evidence for efficacy and mechanisms of action in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

How mindfulness practices work to resolve psychological distress
The role of compassion, and self-compassion in psychotherapeutic progress
What the neurobiology of meditation and psychedelics teach us about psychological suffering and flourishing

The role of transpersonal or “mystical” experience in both mindfulness-informed and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
Practical ways to introduce the transformative elements of mindfulness and compassion-informed, and psychedelic-assisted sessions into other forms of psychotherapy
Contraindications for inducing various non-ordinary states in psychotherapy

Session 1:

History of non-ordinary states in psychotherapy; Common factors in psychopathology and their antidotes

Session 2:

Origins and effects of different psychedelic agents; History of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP); Cautions and contraindications; Structuring PAP

Session 3:

What are mindfulness practices and how do they work?; Fitting practices to individuals

Session 4:

Compassion: What is it really?; Avoiding empathy fatigue; Synergies among mindfulness, compassion, & psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

Session 5:

The role of transpersonal or mystical experience in therapeutic change; Discovering the extraordinary gift of being ordinary

Faculty Bio

Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time, at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for over 35 years. A long-time student of mindfulness meditation, he serves on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and the faculties of the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at the Cambridge Health Alliance and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches internationally about mind-body medicine and the application of mindfulness and compassion practices in psychotherapy and other fields. Dr. Siegel is a mentor at the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research at CIIS and serves as subject matter expert-consultant and co-host for the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Global Summit.

Course testimonials:

Dr. Siegel's high levels of empathy and creativity and down to earth and entertaining personality was delightful and inspiring.

New ways to help clients with depression and anxiety. This seminar I do think fines tunes it more than I have been utilizing in my practice.

I appreciate Dr. Siegel’s authenticity and being human during this presentation. It brought comfort and helped with creative ideas as I listened and learned.

Dr. Siegel was charming and knowledgeable. The presentation was well thought out and organized. I was able to follow easily. I loved the examples he shared. Thank you!

Dr. Siegel is an excellent presenter, he presents in an orderly and understandable way -- small wonder with all that mindfulness practice!

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