Inner EDGE Travel Academy™ Psychedelic Facilitator Training
Learn the route.
Practice the work.
Explore what is included, how the training works, and the curriculum areas that prepare students to support the whole psychedelic journey.
More than information. A complete training environment.
Every part of the program is designed to help students move from learning the material to recognizing, practicing, and applying it.
200+ Hours of Training
Foundational education, live instruction, practice, reflection, and applied learning.
Live Zoom Instruction
Six-hour Saturday sessions led by the Academy’s Founding Psychedelic-Facilitator Instructors.
Complete Course Textbook
A structured reference that supports class learning and continued professional development.
Facilitator Simulator
An unlimited supply of realistic facilitator-consultation practice with interactive client archetypes.
Baggage Claim
The signature series for Psilo-Synthesis™—leveled-up integration through journaling, microdosing, and Get S.W.O.L.: Soul Workouts of Life.
Specialized Tracks
Focused learning for Veterans, Home Travelers, and Advanced Risk Management.
Practical Resources
Frameworks, tools, templates, and exercises designed for real-world application.
Applied Capstone
Scenario-based application, faculty feedback, and final evaluation of readiness.
Meet the Inner EDGE Facilitator Simulator.
Coursework builds knowledge. The Inner EDGE Facilitator Simulator supplies something a textbook cannot: an unlimited supply of realistic facilitator-consultation practice.
Students can enter consultations with distinct client archetypes again and again, learning to recognize what to listen for, what to ask, what not to say, and when a boundary or referral matters. Each consultation creates a safe place to practice, make mistakes, reflect, and try again before those skills are needed with a real client.
Students practice how to:
Designed for deep learning over time.
The Pilot Cohort combines live instruction, independent textbook study, simulator practice, integration exercises, and applied assignments throughout the program.
The complete learning journey
The sections below show the program’s intended progression while allowing individual lessons and activities to shift as the curriculum evolves.
Section 01Psychedelic Foundations & the Changing LandscapeBuild the language and context required for responsible practice.+
Students establish a shared foundation before moving into facilitator application.
- History, terminology, and major psychedelic substances
- Effects, duration, routes of administration, and common patterns of use
- Clinical, ceremonial, community, and naturalistic settings
- The evolving legal, cultural, and professional landscape
- Separating evidence, enthusiasm, mythology, and marketing
Section 02Ethics, Scope, Consent & Professional BoundariesUnderstand the responsibility that comes with the role.+
Students examine the ethical responsibilities and limits carried into facilitator relationships.
- Informed consent and traveler autonomy
- Power dynamics, touch, confidentiality, and dual relationships
- Scope of service and appropriate referrals
- Professional conduct, documentation, and accountability
- Working within applicable laws and professional requirements
Section 03The Psychedelic Travel ModelMap the whole journey before focusing on the flight.+
Students learn the proprietary Inner EDGE framework for understanding and planning the full journey.
- Preparation, takeoff, in-flight support, landing, and Baggage Claim
- The Navigator Check-In: Why, When, Where, What, How, and With Whom
- Traveler agency, expectations, intentions, and decision-making
- Matching the support plan to the traveler and setting
- Recognizing when the wisest travel decision is not to depart
Section 04Trauma-Informed & Culturally Responsive SupportSupport the person without reducing them to a diagnosis or story.+
Students develop a more responsive understanding of safety, identity, lived experience, and the nervous system.
- Trauma-informed principles and nervous-system awareness
- Emotional and psychological safety
- Cultural humility, identity, access, and lived experience
- Non-directive presence and avoiding imposed meaning
- Recognizing activation, dissociation, overwhelm, and support needs
Section 05Traveler Screening, Preparation & Flight PlanningBuild the conditions for a more informed journey.+
Students learn to recognize readiness, identify concerns, and help travelers prepare thoughtfully.
- Readiness, contraindications, medications, and referral considerations
- Mindset, setting, support systems, and realistic expectations
- Personalized preparation and harm-reduction planning
- Agreements, emergency information, and contingency plans
- Preparing self-directed travelers without providing or administering substances
Section 06In-Flight Support & Advanced Risk ManagementPractice grounded support when the route changes.+
Students practice observation, judgment, responsive support, and risk awareness.
- Non-directive presence, observation, and responsive support
- Navigating difficult, intense, or confusing experiences
- Environmental, physical, emotional, and interpersonal risk
- Escalation thresholds and emergency response
- Facilitator regulation, judgment, and post-event documentation
Section 07Baggage Claim Series: Psilo-Synthesis™Turn “something I did last summer” into a real work trip.+
Students move beyond a single post-journey conversation into Psilo-Synthesis™—leveled-up integration as continued growth.
- Psilo-Synthesis™ as the leveled-up integration framework
- Baggage Claim journaling and meaning-making
- Microdosing as maintenance within the Spiritual Dojo
- Get S.W.O.L.: Soul Work Outs of Life
- Full immersion in the traveler’s continued growth
Section 08Professional Application, Specialized Tracks & CapstoneDecide what to do with the training and demonstrate readiness.+
Students bring the full curriculum together through professional planning and applied evaluation.
- Travel Agent: preparation, education, harm reduction, and integration support
- Flight Attendant: in-person journey support
- Specialized tracks for Veterans, Home Travelers, and Advanced Risk Management
- Client experience, service design, documentation, and ethical business foundations
- Scenario application, capstone evaluation, feedback, and next-step planning
Education is not authorization. Better preparation still matters.
Inner EDGE Travel Academy™ provides professional facilitator education grounded in trustworthy information, harm reduction, risk management, ethical practice, preparation, traveler support, and integration. Completion of the Pilot Cohort does not bypass federal, state, or local laws, confer state licensure, or independently authorize graduates to provide psychedelic services.
One curriculum. Multiple applications.
Travel Agent and Flight Attendant are not separate tracks, licenses, job titles, or promises of employment. They illustrate how the same preparation, journey-support, and integration competencies may be applied in different settings. Graduates remain responsible for defining an appropriate scope and following the laws and professional requirements governing their work.
Preparation & Integration Support
Support self-directed travelers through education, flight planning, harm-reduction resources, and the Baggage Claim series for Psilo-Synthesis™.
In-Person Journey Support
Develop the presence, boundaries, protocols, and risk-management skills required to support the traveler during the journey.
Knowing is not the same as being ready.
Students move beyond content consumption through realistic client interactions, scenario work, structured reflection, skill application, faculty feedback, and final capstone evaluation.
Learn the route. Practice the work.
Support the whole journey.
The first real client should not be the first time you have practiced being a facilitator.