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Psychedelic Education: Insights, Advice, and Where to Start

April 26, 2024
Featuring: Johanna Hilla & Kyle Buller

In this episode, Kyle and Johanna catch up, interviewing each other about psychedelic education and what they’ve learned, the biggest challenges, and what advice they would give to anyone looking to get involved in the psychedelic field.

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In this episode, Kyle and Johanna catch up, interviewing each other about psychedelic education and what they’ve learned, the biggest challenges, and what advice they would give to anyone looking to get involved in the psychedelic field.

They discuss:

  • How sometimes it’s not about the substance: If you want to be a psychedelic therapist, do you see yourself doing therapy without the psychedelics?
  • How no part of education is exempt, and becoming truly psychedelically-competent can involve studying psychology, neuroscience, somatics, religion, history, etc.
  • How people’s experiences are evidence – it doesn’t have to come from a research study to be valid
  • The importance of figuring out what your gifts are and how you could best contribute to progress, and then finding the job that matches it

and more!

The next round of our year-long training program, Vital, begins in September, but for those who feel that may be too much of a commitment, our most popular course – the 9-week Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and Wellness Practitioners, LIVE – begins on May 8. Head to the Psychedelic Education Center for more details!

Links

Navigating Psychedelics For Clinicians and Wellness Practitioners: Live

Vitalpsychedelictraining.com

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Johanna Hilla

In this Episode

Johanna Hilla

Johanna Hilla is the Coordinator of Education and Training at Vital, and also a part-time Ph.D. candidate at the University of Exeter in Philosophy, (past: University of Groningen). She wrote her Master’s dissertation with Dr. Bernardo Nante on The Red Book. She has taught a course on the interlink between Depth Psychology and the psychedelic experience through Psychedelics Today. Her other interests include transpersonal psychology, ecopsychology, holotropic breathwork, process philosophy, and Western esotericism. She is on the board of the Dreamshadow Group, Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on transpersonal education and holotropic breathwork. Johanna lives in the countryside of Devon, UK.

Kyle Buller 2023

Kyle Buller

Kyle Buller is the Vice President of Education and Training and Co-Founder of Psychedelics Today. He earned his B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology from Burlington College, where he focused on studying the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness by exploring shamanism, Reiki, local medicinal plants and plant medicine, and holotropic breathwork. Kyle has been
studying breathwork since October 2010 with Lenny and Elizabeth Gibson of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork. Kyle earned his M.S. in clinical mental health counseling with an emphasis in somatic psychology. Kyle’s clinical background in mental health consists of working with at-risk teenagers in crisis and with individuals experiencing an early-episode of psychosis and providing counseling to undergraduate/graduate students in a university setting.

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