Heart of Healing IFS and Psychedelic Apprenticeship Training Program

Heal • Learn • Serve

Join a Small Cohort in Experiential Learning of
Consciousness Medicines and Healing Practices

The Heart of Healing Apprenticeship is a 12 Month Program featuring small group learning cohort and subgroup experiential retreats. Begin working with ketamine and cannabis now and be ready to work with MDMA and psilocybin as they are rescheduled and available. Ketamine and MDMA are the focus of this program.

Heart of Healing Apprenticeship is ideal for mental health professionals, therapists, coaches, spiritual directors, pastoral care clergy, medical specialists, and wellness practitioners seeking to add or enhance IFS and psychedelic knowledge and skill in their practice.

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Brief Overview of Heart of Healing Apprenticeship

The Heart of Healing Apprenticeship is an IFS rooted practice model for exploring expanded states of consciousness for healing and spiritual growth. We utilize a small cohort model (12 participant maximum) to ensure that each participant receives the attention and care needed to maximize their learning and healing potential. The central feature of the apprenticeship is experiential work with medicines and their supportive practices. The goal is to begin your journey in learning how to work with these expanded states; not merely learning about them.

  • We follow the wisdom of indigenous apprenticeship models of working with consciousness medicines by honoring the intention of healing before learning and learning before serving. Held within trusted community where each person is known, seen, heard, and valued as an active participant, we heal, learn, and grow together so that each of us lives with more authenticity and alignment.

 

  • As a community, we are committed to the continuation of our personal healing, learning, and growth journey. We acknowledge that our healing contributes to the healing of our community, our personal relationships and connections, and the world. We agree to bring our own journey into the container of the community and to ultimately take responsibility for the ways we show up in offering and receiving support.

 

  • We recognize that each medicine has their own personality and offers a unique quality for healing and full expression of our being. Medicines are not simply tools for growth; they are partners and hold valuable wisdom that they share with us. We acknowledge that each medicine requires a unique set of practices that align with the gifts offered by the medicines.

 

  • We understand that healing is a component of spiritual growth and full expression of life. The difficulties we encounter in our life point us to areas in our life that have constricted or blocked our innate wisdom and vitality. By healing what is blocked or disrupted, we gain increased access to our true nature.

 

  • We intention to cultivate the practices that are healing for our cultural context. While we accept wisdom from older lineages of working with consciousness medicines, we strive to do so in a way that honors the wisdom without appropriating the cultural practices. In all our practice, adopted or developed, we do so with training, right exchange, and acknowledgment.

 

  • We do this work with humility, courage, gratitude, and equanimity.

Curriculum

The curriculum is designed to cover standard areas of competency and to provide a shared infrastructure to support the primary work of the retreats.  Our standard areas of competency are in alliance with the core modules offered in similar training programs.  This provides a correspondence with others as we collectively enter into creating the standards of psychedelic assisted therapy as a practice and profession.

Unique to the Heart of Healing Apprenticeship program are the paradigms that inform how we engage in this form of healing care.  Central to this program is the Internal Family Systems model.  IFS is distinctive as a psychotherapy model in that it includes in it’s fundamentals an altered state of consciousness practice that has the potential to evolve into a spiritual practice.

Heart of Healing centers in IFS as an initial map of the Inner World and expands this terrain to deepen into somatic, spiritual, and consciousness practices for the healing of traumatic disruptions, cultivation of vital authenticity, and the evolution of spiritual development.  The expansion of the IFS model to attend to the dimensions of somatics and spirituality is essential for working with ketamine and MDMA—and other plant medicines through preparation and integration.  

Our curriculum is the integrative culmination of over 15 years of training and clinical practice as a trauma specialist.  As such, it includes contributions and expansions of material cultivated from:

  • Internal Family Systems
  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Trauma Care
  • Plant Medicine Ceremony/Apprenticeship
  • Various Movement Practices
  • Consciousness Breathwork
  • Applied Shamanism
  • Process Philosophy
  • Multi-Axial Therapy
  • Polyvagal Theory 
  • Spiritual Practices

 

Module 1: Core Competency

History of Consciousness Medicines

Ethics and Harm Reduction

Preparing Set and Setting

Integration models

Pharmacology and Mechanisms Of Action

Medical and Psychological Assessment

Module 2: Mapping the Terrain

Process Philosophy

Multi-Axial Therapy for Trauma and Resiliency

Trauma and Human Development

Polyvagal Theory and Threat Response Physiology

Consciousness in Threat and Safety

Module 3: IFS as a Psychedelic Practice

IFS as an Energetic System

Archeology and Dynamics of the Inner World

Self energy in IFS

Unburdening

IFS for Preparation and Integration

IFS as a Guiding Practice for KAP and MAP

Module 4: Deepening Skills 

Spirituality in Process

Tracking Activation and Burdens

Adaptive Informational Processing as a Map for Difficulty and Healing

Somatic Practices

Module 5: IFS and Other Energetic Beings (OEBs)

Working with Self Essence, guides, masters

Working with OEBs: Identification

Working with OEBs: Living relations

Working with OEBs: Ancestors and Psychopomp

Dates and Structure

March 2025 – March 2026

Prerequisite:

  • IFS Level 1 or equivalence.  For those unable to access IFS training with practice groups, please let me know to receive an alternative.

 

Online Group Learning:

  • 40 Weeks of Live-Online Learning
    • Mondays, 2 hours, Group Discussion/Didactic
    • Thursdays, 2 hours, Small group triad practice/Demos

         160 Total Online Hours

Group Learning Sessions require students to complete reading and/or viewing assignments.  Video selections include presentations by leaders in the psychedelic medicine field.

Three Retreats – 7 Days in United States

(Retreats are held in subgroups with a maximum of 4 participants.  Each participant will be one of the three groups.)

**Retreats are included in program cost and are not optional.  Retreat experiences are the core of the learning model.

Group 1

April 27- May 3, 2025

August 10-16, 2025

November 9-15, 2025

**Arrival and Departure time is 3:00 pm.  All retreats are residential.

Group 2

June 8-14, 2025

September 14-20, 2025

January 10-16, 2026

**Arrival and Departure time is 3:00 pm.  All retreats are residential.

Group 3

July 13-19, 2025

October 12-18, 2025

February 7-13, 2026

**Arrival and Departure time is 3:00 pm.  All retreats are residential.

Primary Training Team

Jennifer Baldwin, PhD, LPC

Founding Director and Teacher

Jennifer is a certified IFS therapist in private practice. She completed her initial IFS training in 2009, was certified in 2016, trained in Somatic IFS with Susan McConnell, and has trained directly with Dick Schwartz multiple times. She is an IFS Institute Approved Clinical Consultant with PA experience in Level 1 trainings. In addition to IFS, she is trained in Somatic Experiencing (SEP), EMDR, heart rate variability, neurofeedback, applied shamanism, sound therapies, breathwork, and multiple movement practices. She has apprenticed with a plant medicine Maestro in the Shipibo lineage. Jennifer completed her clinical training while in the midst of her doctoral work in Systematic Theology with an emphasis in Religion and Science. She was ordained in 2007, completed her doctorate in 2013, and has published five edited volumes and two monographs. She was trained in ketamine assisted psychotherapy in 2019 and MAPS MDMA assisted psychotherapy in 2021. She has facilitated ketamine enhanced IFS sessions since 2019, honing and refining protocols on the intersection of IFS and KAP. She is the primary developer of the Ketamine enhanced IFS (KIFS) training. While between writing projects, she is developing a “blueprint” for integrative trauma care that actively accounts for alterations or expansions of consciousness.

Laurie Chancey, MA

Executive Director and Teacher

Laurie is an IFS-Trained Psychedelic Integration Facilitator in a private coaching practice. Her areas of focus are Ketamine-enhanced IFS, spirituality, and addictive processes. Laurie was full-time faculty at a community college who taught sociology for 14 years, specializing in gender, race, and medical sociology. She received IFS Level 1 and Level 2 training from the IFS Institute in 2023 and is pursuing her certification in K-IFS. Laurie’s work is informed by her education in social systems and her experience facilitating inclusion for individuals of diverse social locations.

Pricing

Payment Plans

$15,450 payment plan with CC

$15,000 payment plan with bank transfer, check, cash

Pay in Full

$14,420 pay in full with CC

$14,000 pay in full with bank transfer, check, cash

Graduates of PAT programs (CIIS, Vital, IPI, Synthesis, etc.)

$12,360 pay with CC

$12,000 pay with bank transfer, check, cash

Initial Deposit Requirement

$3,500 non-refundable deposit upon acceptance (applied to total financial exchange)

$3,650 deposit paid by CC

Application fee

$250 non-refundable, applied to total financial exchange

Additional fees

  • Medical evaluation and ketamine prescription (referral will be provided)
  • Books
  • Travel expenses to retreat

 

Package Includes:

  • 12 months of weekly online didactic/learning and triad/demo sessions (152 hours)
  • 3  7-day subgroup retreats including:
    • Ceremony Sessions: Each participant will have an individual session held by the group. 
    • Preparation and Integration support
    • Experience holding space for expanded consciousness healing
    • Room and Board
  • Course videos and articles
  • Certificate of Completion
  • Certification as a Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Practitioner (requires additional steps within the program)

Does not cover the cost of travel; you will be responsible for your own flights

Deposit:

  • $3,650 CC ($3,500) non-refundable deposit due at the time of booking – after review of application and notification of acceptance. 

 

Payment Installments:

  • After paying the initial deposit, you may opt to pay the remaining balance over the course of 3 monthly payments.
  • All deposits due by Feb 15, 2025.

 

Refunds and Cancellations

Please note that all payments made towards the Heart of Healing Apprenticeship are non-refundable. By making a payment, you acknowledge and agree that no refunds will be issued for any reason. This policy is in place to ensure the commitment of all participants and to cover the costs associated with organizing the retreats.

Additionally, each payment reserves a spot in the retreat specifically for you, and we may not be able to fill the space upon cancellation. Your understanding and cooperation in this matter are greatly appreciated.ppl

How to Apply

To Apply

  1. Complete the Application Form
  2. Pay application fee
  3. Our team will reach out to you to schedule an initial conversation

 

Applications are being accepted for Heart of Healing Apprenticeship Training Program. Please note that all attendees will be spaceholders and must be familiar with the IFS process to the extent that they are capable of:

  • Recognizing when you are personally activated
  • Offering initial care to your parts
  • Unblending from activation
  • Access personal Self energy

 

Upon acceptance into the Heart of Healing Apprenticeship program, we will ask you to pay the initial, non-refundable deposit within 2 weeks of your acceptance date.

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