The Congregation for Sacred Practices offers a path to licensure as a minister for experienced, working entheogenic guides who are interested in holding medicine ceremonies and sacred practices above ground in a spiritual, religious context.

This seminar is a participatory workshop for working guides to re-vision their solo psychotherapeutic or medicine guiding practices into a communal, membership-oriented practice focused on healing and spiritual growth in both a spiritual and religious setting.

As a background context, the Congregation’s training program for new ministers is four years or more. Upon completion of Part 3, new graduates of the Congregation’s Training of Ministers are eligible to become Associate Ministers. Associate ministers serve as mentors, supervisors, group ceremonial facilitators, and organizational leaders. By the end of 2024, the Congregation’s Training of Ministers will have trained over 80 students through Part 2: Basics who will be licensed as Assistant Ministers with the Congregation.

For the Bridge Seminar, we are specifically in search of individuals with significant guiding experience and a leadership call to become Associate Ministers in the Congregation. In addition to joining a community of like minded medicine carriers that are themselves on a path of Awakening, the benefits of licensure for both Assistant and Associate Ministers are substantial and cover:

1) Working above ground protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

2) Practice support

3) Risk management

4) Community support

5) The opportunity to both give and receive ongoing education

6) Substantial tax and retirement advantages.

The Bridge Seminar is open to working guides who would like to become either Assistant or Associate Ministers in the Congregation. Applicants to the Bridge seminar should meet the following pre-requisites:

For those seeking to become Assistant Ministers and would begin Part 3: Mentoring & Supervision upon completion:

1) Currently working full time as a guide and counselor (spiritual director, coach, psychotherapist, etc)

2) Completed a formal, experiential training in medicine work

3) Guided at least 20 solo journeys for clients using our current sacraments

For those seeking to become Associate Ministers:

1) Currently working full time as a guide and counselor (spiritual director, coach, psychotherapist, etc)

2) Completed a formal, experiential training in medicine work Guided at least 150 solo journeys for clients using our current sacraments

3) In addition to continuing their solo practice, are interested in mentoring, supervising, facilitating group ceremonies, and/or organizational leadership

Preference will be given to candidates with more experience.

This training is distinct in the field in that it follows six key principles:

• Ethical, caring relationships as the core resource for healing and growth
• The requirement for extensive personal experience in assisting others in expanded states.
• A non-pathologizing, developmental approach to spiritual and psychological growth
• The focus on preparation and integration for the sacramental experience of the expanded state
• The intersection of ancient and indigenous wisdom, modern psychology, and emergent spirituality
• Unshakeable faith in both the impulse for growth as well as the human ability to heal