The Bridge Program is the threshold for experienced facilitators who feel called to serve as ministers of the Congregation for Sacred Practices. It is designed for entheogenic guides and facilitators ready to bring their work above-ground and into a religious context; to serve not only individuals, but a spiritual community; and to step into leadership within a sacramental order.

Many who join the Bridge come from psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, or the underground. They have deep experience in expanded states and a mature care for the soul. What they seek now is not more technique, but a more powerful container: a shared cosmology, a community of practice, and a ministerial identity rooted in sacrament, belonging, and service.

A Distinct Approach

CSP’s training is distinct in that it integrates:

• ceremony & sacrament
• spiritual development & psychology
• community & belonging
• initiation & integration
• ethics & supervision
• leadership & service

All within a religious and sacramental context grounded in the human capacity to heal and the impulse to awaken.

We honor the indigenous lineages, the clinical research, and the experience of the underground, which carried this work when institutions could not. We believe the time has come to bring the sacraments above-ground, in community, under the plausible legal protections of religious freedom, with formation equal to the responsibility of the work.

Who the Bridge Program is For

The Bridge is for working guides with substantial experience who feel a call to ministry and leadership. It is not a beginner training. It assumes facility with expanded states and a mature pastoral stance toward others.

Preference is given to candidates with spiritual maturity and significant lived experience.

Cohort Size & Calendar

Enrollment is limited to 12 participants to support discernment, intimacy, and supervision.

Calendar Sequence

Fall: The Awakening Path
Spring: The Embodied Minister
July: Bridge Residential Intensive & Licensure
Fall onward: Supervision (Group or Peer)

Applications are now open for the Fall 2026 Semester!
We’re excited to announce a new scholarship opportunity for our Training of Ministers and Bridge programs. If you or someone you know may be a good fit for the program but cost is an inhibiting factor, we’re now offering up to a 25% reduction in tuition. The scholarship application will be shared in program acceptance letters.

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The Ministerial Formation Year

All candidates for the Bridge Program begin with the Seminary’s year of foundational ministerial formation:

Fall — The Awakening Path (3 Units)

Fall 2026 Dates

• August 5th
• August 26th
• September 16th
• Residential Weekend: October 1-4
• October 14th
• November 4th
• November 18th
• December 9th
• December 16th

Single dates indicate class on a Wednesday afternoons via Zoom from 9a-12p PT / 12-3pm ET.

Additionally, there will be mandatory Practice Groups each Wednesday following live class meetings from 9-10:30 Pacific / 12-1:30pm Eastern.

Spring — The Embodied Minister (4 Units)

Spring 2027 Dates

• February 3rd
• February 17th
• Residential Weekend: March 4-7
• March 17th
• March 31st
• April 14th
• April 28th
• May 12th
• Residential Weekend: May 20-23

Single dates indicate class on Wednesday via Zoom from 9-11:30am PT / 12-2:30pm ET.

This year introduces the sacramental worldview of the Congregation and the ethos of the ministerial life. Participants engage in spiritual practice, cohort community, preparation and integration work, ethics, and the transition of identity from solo practice to a minister in a membership-oriented, religious container.

The Bridge: Vocational Discernment & Licensure

After these first two foundational semesters, Bridge candidates participate in a July Term intensive. Here the work becomes explicitly vocational. Participants learn the ecclesial and sacramental structure of CSP, the responsibilities of ministry, the transition from “guide” to “minister,” and chart their direction and contribution within CSP.

July — The Embodied Minister (4 Units)

July 2027 Dates

July 7th
Residential Weekend: July 14-18
July 21st
July 28th

Single dates indicate class on Wednesday via Zoom from 9-11:30am PT / 12-2:30pm ET.

Upon successful completion of The Awakening Path, The Embodied Minister, the July Term Intensive and faculty approval, participants are eligible to be licensed as either:

Assistant Ministers — serving members, carrying the sacraments with oversight, and entering Peer Supervision

Associate Ministers — serving as mentors, supervisors, ceremonial leaders, and stewards of the community

Licensure includes:

• Legally plausible RFRA protection for above-ground sacramental practice
• Risk management & supervision
• Practice support & infrastructure
• Ongoing formation through the Seminary
• Community membership & belonging
• Leadership pathways within the Congregation

Assistant Minister Track

• Full-time guiding/counseling practice
• Formal experiential training in facilitation
• 25+ solo ceremonies guided

Associate Minister Track

• Full-time guiding/counseling practice
• Formal experiential training in facilitation
• 150+ solo ceremonies guided
• Orientation toward mentoring, supervision, group ceremony, and stewardship of the community

Progression: Assistant → Associate

Assistant Ministers may discern a call to Associate Ministry once they have:

• built a full-time sacramental ministry
• gained substantial experience in the field
• and offered meaningful service to the Seminary or Congregation (e.g., committee service, faculty participation, group facilitation, mentoring, supervision, or organizational stewardship)

Associate Ministers serve as leaders of the community’s life and formation.