Fusing Science and Ancient Tradition for the Next Generation of Modern Facilitators
The VulCon Way
Psychedelics and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (NOSC) Facilitators Certification
Psychedelics and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (NOSC) Facilitators Certification
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Spring Session Coming!
The VulCon Way is now accepting new students. Interested in learning more about the VulCon?
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
Science + Sacred
In today's landscape, where non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC) training programs tend to specialize narrowly in either the clinical or shamanic frameworks for healing with psychedelics, the VulCon Way multidisciplinary certification, offers our students a unique educational pathway that integrates clinical approaches with ancient, cross-cultural frameworks from the elements and our ancestors.
The VulCon Way caters to both licensed and unlicensed professionals, offering a comprehensive education that melds clinical and traditional approaches to facilitation. Our VulCoaches and VulCounselors excel in their ability to integrate clinically driven safety and trauma-informed protocols with a deep respect for the ancient wisdom and practices of our ancestors.
Through this comprehensive education, VulCon-trained practitioners emerge uniquely equipped to bridge the gap between the scientific and the spiritual, offering a holistic and profoundly transformative approach towards NOSC and psychedelics facilitation.
The VulCon Way caters to both licensed and unlicensed professionals, offering a comprehensive education that melds clinical and traditional approaches to facilitation. Our VulCoaches and VulCounselors excel in their ability to integrate clinically driven safety and trauma-informed protocols with a deep respect for the ancient wisdom and practices of our ancestors.
Through this comprehensive education, VulCon-trained practitioners emerge uniquely equipped to bridge the gap between the scientific and the spiritual, offering a holistic and profoundly transformative approach towards NOSC and psychedelics facilitation.
Hybrid + Engaging Education
The VulCon educational journey is designed to blend online and in-person learning, combining pre-recorded classes, bi-monthly live virtual sessions, and hands-on, in-person training through immersive retreats. This approach equips our students with the skills and knowledge needed to offer the highest standards of care to their clients and communities. For our advanced facilitators, we also provide opportunities for continuous development, including supervision by licensed professionals, group practicums, and ongoing support from peers and the community, ensuring they have the resources to grow and evolve in their facilitation roles.
Competence + Confidence
By earning the VulCon Way Certification in Psychedelics/NOSC states, our graduates increase proficiency in trauma-informed care, enabling them to deliver more holistic services to individuals and groups. They gain deep knowledge of the best practices for NOSC spaces, focusing on preparation and integration techniques. This education includes beginning through advanced counseling and coaching skills, with a strong emphasis on enhanced safety protocols. As a result, our facilitators are equipped with both the confidence and competence to provide the highest level of care.
VulCon Praise
"Embarking on The VulCon Way journey has profoundly enriched my ability to serve others on their path to healing. Through this program, I've experienced a remarkable personal and professional transformation as a facilitator. My heart has expanded in countless, unexpected ways, opening me to new depths of compassion and understanding.
Corin and Mandi form an extraordinary team, combining their extensive expertise in both clinical training and ceremony. Their approach is refreshingly inclusive and non-dogmatic, making the journey accessible to all.
The program is a perfect fit for anyone seeking to guide others through non-ordinary states of consciousness with integrity and care. I wholeheartedly recommend The VulCon Way to anyone eager to bring the transformative magic of healing to others in a balanced, safe and fun manner."
Corin and Mandi form an extraordinary team, combining their extensive expertise in both clinical training and ceremony. Their approach is refreshingly inclusive and non-dogmatic, making the journey accessible to all.
The program is a perfect fit for anyone seeking to guide others through non-ordinary states of consciousness with integrity and care. I wholeheartedly recommend The VulCon Way to anyone eager to bring the transformative magic of healing to others in a balanced, safe and fun manner."
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AMBER MAIER
Soul Alignment Coach
Our Muses...
Grandmammy Vulture and GRANDPAPPY Condor, whose spirits bring never-ending transformation, hysterical laughter, creativity, wisdom, healing, childlike wonder, and protection to the VulCon Way community.
Our Emerging Facilitators
The VulCon Way attracts students from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. While some come with a strong clinical foundation, others bring rich experiences from spiritual, traditional, and ceremonial facilitation. Regardless of their starting point, all share a keen interest in enhancing their understanding and safety practices within both clinical and ceremonial dimensions of psychedelics and other NOSC facilitation. They are united by a fascination with the sacred, traditional, and ceremonial origins of psychedelic medicine and facilitation.
We honor the individuality of our facilitators and work to help each member cultivate their unique style in facilitating NOSC sessions. This honoring allows our emerging practitioners to develop specialized tools necessary to provide the most well-rounded, safe, and sacred experiences for their clients and communities to experience long-lasting and potent healing transformations.
We honor the individuality of our facilitators and work to help each member cultivate their unique style in facilitating NOSC sessions. This honoring allows our emerging practitioners to develop specialized tools necessary to provide the most well-rounded, safe, and sacred experiences for their clients and communities to experience long-lasting and potent healing transformations.
VulCon Praise
"The insight and knowledge I have gained from the VulCon Mentorship program have been profound, deeply moving, and completely necessary for ANYONE who is called to serve from a place of sacred leadership. Working in the NOSC space in any capacity, without the foundation and fundamentals that the Vulcon Mentorship provides, is profoundly irresponsible and doesn't honor the sacred work that this is.
The curriculum is anchored in the vibrant history of those who have come before us but also weaves in the relevant and current requirements of the present through the seasoned and real-life experience of the VulCon mentors. It can be deeply challenging, and purposefully so.
The VulCon mentors have masterfully built a bridge between the deeply complex history and tools of the past and the current structure we must work within to provide a responsible, safe, and nurturing experience for both the practitioners and clients we seek to serve.
This program has given me the confidence to move forward with the work I am called to do. It has further deepened my understanding and need for continual introspection, "gut-checking," and relationship with this work to ensure I stay in alignment with the sacred leader I strive to be."
The curriculum is anchored in the vibrant history of those who have come before us but also weaves in the relevant and current requirements of the present through the seasoned and real-life experience of the VulCon mentors. It can be deeply challenging, and purposefully so.
The VulCon mentors have masterfully built a bridge between the deeply complex history and tools of the past and the current structure we must work within to provide a responsible, safe, and nurturing experience for both the practitioners and clients we seek to serve.
This program has given me the confidence to move forward with the work I am called to do. It has further deepened my understanding and need for continual introspection, "gut-checking," and relationship with this work to ensure I stay in alignment with the sacred leader I strive to be."
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SHARAY LARSEN
Marketing and Technology Consultant
Spring Session Coming!
The VulCon Way is now accepting new students. Interested in learning more about the VulCon?
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
The VulCon Way is now accepting new students. Interested in learning more about the VulCon?
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
VulCon Praise
"I found my way to psychedelic medicine by way of extreme heartbreak, grief, and loss. I was in a very dark place and losing hope of finding my way out. There is no way I could have imagined the transformation that has happened in my life because I opened myself up to this unknown path.
Like most paths in life, we must do a lot of sifting through muck and mediocrity to find the gems. VulCon is truly that gem. Mandi and Corin are brilliant, genuine, clever as hell, mediocre twerkers, and wise beyond their years. They have really built something amazing based on their education and years of experience. Also, there’s a lot of bird stuff. A LOT.
They have created an amazing training program for the psychedelic medicine world that is extremely professional and filled with love. The combination of
online courses, never ending homework, and hands-on training have been perfect. I feel like I’m truly gaining the skills I need to enter the psychedelic medicine world and make a difference."
Like most paths in life, we must do a lot of sifting through muck and mediocrity to find the gems. VulCon is truly that gem. Mandi and Corin are brilliant, genuine, clever as hell, mediocre twerkers, and wise beyond their years. They have really built something amazing based on their education and years of experience. Also, there’s a lot of bird stuff. A LOT.
They have created an amazing training program for the psychedelic medicine world that is extremely professional and filled with love. The combination of
online courses, never ending homework, and hands-on training have been perfect. I feel like I’m truly gaining the skills I need to enter the psychedelic medicine world and make a difference."
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APRIL GORDON
CIMS | Business Development Director
The VulCon Way Curriculum
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PREPARATION MODULES
3 Months of Bi-Monthy Live Online Learning + Pre-Recorded Videos
Module 1: Foundations in Psychedelics and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
Introduction to the VulCon Way world of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC) facilitation. This module explores the historical, indigenous, ethical, and legal dimensions of this constantly evolving field, providing students with a solid foundation in understanding the diverse history and the complexities of providing safe and responsible guidance in this realm.
Module 2: Clinical Foundations of Psychedelics and NOSC Facilitation
This module equips students with the essential clinical skills and knowledge to assess and prepare clients for their journey into psychedelics and non-ordinary states. It emphasizes safety, ethics, effective pre-assessment/ assessment techniques, intuition, and includes setting expectations, touch standards and potential mental health concerns and contraindications. This module helps to ensure that students can create a secure, clinically informed, supportive environment for their clients, with primary focus on harm reduction and client suitability.
This module also weaves in preparatory skills for holding the sacred elements of the NOSC/psychedelic journey.
This module also weaves in preparatory skills for holding the sacred elements of the NOSC/psychedelic journey.
Module 3: Foundational VulCon Counseling Skills in Psychedelics and NOSC States
Learn foundational, professional and clinical VulCoaching and VulCounseling skills required to guide participants through both safe and sacred transformative spaces of psychedelics and NOSC experiences. This module equips students to navigate the unique and sometimes challenging landscapes of psychedelics and NOSC sessions in order to provide effective participant support. By providing these fundamental techniques of coaching and counseling skills for psychedelics facilitation, students are armed with the unique skill-sets that best support their participants in feeling safe and seen, in order to receive deeply transformative and soulful care.
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CEREMONY MODULES
3 Months of Bi-Monthly Classes + In-Person Nature Immersion Retreat
Module 4: Foundations of Animism, Ancestral Wisdom, Ceremony and the Science of Psychedelics
This module delves into the sacred and ceremonial aspects of working with psychedelics and NOSC. It explores various ancient and cross-cultural elements of ceremony including rituals, practices, sacred allyship, nature-based practices, intuition, sound, and other tools that support the student in facilitating authentic, sacred, and transformative experiences.
Students will also delve deep into the science behind sacred medicines, gaining a profound understanding of their healing potentials. This rigorous educational journey covers everything from pharmacology to the historical and cultural contexts of these substances, ensuring that our learners not only grasp the theoretical aspects but also understand the practical applications of this knowledge. By integrating this scientific insight with sacred space facilitation techniques, our program empowers students to confidently apply their learning in creating and managing sacred spaces. This comprehensive approach ensures that our facilitators are well-equipped to guide others through transformative experiences, bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science.
Students will also delve deep into the science behind sacred medicines, gaining a profound understanding of their healing potentials. This rigorous educational journey covers everything from pharmacology to the historical and cultural contexts of these substances, ensuring that our learners not only grasp the theoretical aspects but also understand the practical applications of this knowledge. By integrating this scientific insight with sacred space facilitation techniques, our program empowers students to confidently apply their learning in creating and managing sacred spaces. This comprehensive approach ensures that our facilitators are well-equipped to guide others through transformative experiences, bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science.
Our In-Person Nature Immersion in Mount Shasta, CA
Also during module 4, our students will participate in a VulCon nature immersion retreat. Where they will have a unique opportunity for hands-on learning through dyad work, engaging in one-on-one exchanges to deepen their understanding and practical skills in holding sacred space. Guided by trained professionals who expertly blend clinical knowledge with intuitive and sacred practices, participants are immersed in a transformative environment that encourages personal growth and learning. These in-person gatherings allow for direct experience and application of sacred space facilitation, supported by the serene backdrop of nature and sacred Mount Shasta. This immersive approach ensures that each student gains the confidence and competence to apply both clinical and intuitive guidance in creating a sacred, healing atmosphere. Our program is designed to not only impart knowledge but also to foster a deep, experiential wisdom that students can carry forward into their own NOSC practices.
By the end of this module, students will have increased practice, knowledge and skills required to create powerful and meaningful sacred ceremonies for themselves and their clients.
Modules 1-4 wrap the first phases of our training in six months.
Those who wish to continue with the VulCon may enter the apprenticeship phases of our certification process.
Also during module 4, our students will participate in a VulCon nature immersion retreat. Where they will have a unique opportunity for hands-on learning through dyad work, engaging in one-on-one exchanges to deepen their understanding and practical skills in holding sacred space. Guided by trained professionals who expertly blend clinical knowledge with intuitive and sacred practices, participants are immersed in a transformative environment that encourages personal growth and learning. These in-person gatherings allow for direct experience and application of sacred space facilitation, supported by the serene backdrop of nature and sacred Mount Shasta. This immersive approach ensures that each student gains the confidence and competence to apply both clinical and intuitive guidance in creating a sacred, healing atmosphere. Our program is designed to not only impart knowledge but also to foster a deep, experiential wisdom that students can carry forward into their own NOSC practices.
By the end of this module, students will have increased practice, knowledge and skills required to create powerful and meaningful sacred ceremonies for themselves and their clients.
Modules 1-4 wrap the first phases of our training in six months.
Those who wish to continue with the VulCon may enter the apprenticeship phases of our certification process.
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APPRENTICESHIP MODULES
Module 5: Immersion Experiences Ongoing - Personal Growth and Medicine Immersion Experiences
Module 5 is self paced, for those who choose to continue on the VulCon Way journey toward apprenticeship/internship. This module may be completed alongside aforementioned trainings, and may also continue through the following modules. It is customizable to allow students to meet individual requirements for course completion.
The Medicine Immersion component is a crucial part of our training program. Through hands-on learning in natural settings, as well as group and individual ceremonies, students gain a comprehensive insight into the medicines and their transformative effects.
This module includes students’ accumulation of group and personalized one-on-one experiences focused on medicine and nature immersion. These sessions offer profound and impactful learning opportunities and can be co-created with one or both your instructors and will be explained further once enrolled.
The Medicine Immersion component is a crucial part of our training program. Through hands-on learning in natural settings, as well as group and individual ceremonies, students gain a comprehensive insight into the medicines and their transformative effects.
This module includes students’ accumulation of group and personalized one-on-one experiences focused on medicine and nature immersion. These sessions offer profound and impactful learning opportunities and can be co-created with one or both your instructors and will be explained further once enrolled.
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CEREMONY + INTEGRATION MODULES
Module 6: Level I NOSC and Psychedelics Integration Coaching Course - 2 Months Online
This module equips facilitators with essential skills and tools for effective integration coaching after NOSC and psychedelic sessions. Over eight weeks, facilitators will learn to help clients reflect on their experiences, tackle challenges, and embrace growth opportunities.
Our VulCoaches and VulCounselors in training will learn key points of integration practice including; techniques for enhancing post-session reflections, frameworks to help clients process, deepen, and apply insights and lessons, and strategies for integrating these insights into daily life, improving well-being, relationships, and personal growth.
Facilitators will gain the confidence and ability to create a supportive environment that promotes both immediate improvements and long-term development for their clients.
Our VulCoaches and VulCounselors in training will learn key points of integration practice including; techniques for enhancing post-session reflections, frameworks to help clients process, deepen, and apply insights and lessons, and strategies for integrating these insights into daily life, improving well-being, relationships, and personal growth.
Facilitators will gain the confidence and ability to create a supportive environment that promotes both immediate improvements and long-term development for their clients.
Module 7: Group Ceremony Skills and Level II Integration Coaching Course - 3-Month Online Plus In-Person Retreat
This module will teach students about the essential skills necessary to facilitate group ceremonies. As well, students will obtain deeper knowledge in advanced integration coaching techniques, following the VulCon Way methodology.
Group Ceremony Skills Training Highlights
Participants will obtain knowledge surrounding group psychology and dynamics in a ceremonial context. We will cover key differences in pre-screening, assessment and safety for groups vs. individual NOSC spaces. Additionally, our students will be provided with information regarding critical safety protocols for group settings as well as strategies to build group cohesion, authenticity and how to handle conflicts within the group. This part of the training will also include techniques to help students manage disruptive participants the VulCon Way. Education and intuitive practices will also be offered in order for our students to feel supported in discovering ceremonial practices that enhance support and healing.
These skills will be practiced at our second in person nature immersion retreat and in group constructs.
Level II Integration Coaching Highlights
During this part of the module, our VulCoaches and VulCounselors in training will learn the following:
Group Ceremony Skills Training Highlights
Participants will obtain knowledge surrounding group psychology and dynamics in a ceremonial context. We will cover key differences in pre-screening, assessment and safety for groups vs. individual NOSC spaces. Additionally, our students will be provided with information regarding critical safety protocols for group settings as well as strategies to build group cohesion, authenticity and how to handle conflicts within the group. This part of the training will also include techniques to help students manage disruptive participants the VulCon Way. Education and intuitive practices will also be offered in order for our students to feel supported in discovering ceremonial practices that enhance support and healing.
These skills will be practiced at our second in person nature immersion retreat and in group constructs.
Level II Integration Coaching Highlights
During this part of the module, our VulCoaches and VulCounselors in training will learn the following:
- How to navigate post-ceremony group dynamics, intermediate methods for tackling both individual participant and group challenges
- Utilizing these methods to foster positive change
- Skills development practices to create collective sense of acceptance, deepening understanding of healing and connection
- How to foster heart-centered communities that address and heal familial and societal traumas, and build trust and healthy relationships.
Module 7 is designed to equip facilitators with the confidence, skills, and knowledge to successfully facilitate group NOSC and psychedelic ceremonies. In addition, intermediate integration coaching skills will be offered to help facilitators to creating a safe, supportive, and transformative environment for both themselves and for their participants, during and after ceremony.
Module 8: Shadowing, Supervision and Final Immersion Retreat
Module 8 wraps up the first and second phases of our foundational program, with increased focus on putting your skills into action. During this retreat, you’ll have the chance to gain more practice facilitating sessions, both one-on-one and in groups, with the guidance and supervision of experienced mentors.
Students will get safe hands-on, and supervised experience with non-students, and will apply what they’ve learned by facilitating sessions, with options to bring a friend for one-on-one practice or participate in group facilitation. Students will receive personalized feedback and advice from seasoned professionals to refine their techniques.
By the end of Module 8 and the final immersion retreat, our students will find themselves more confident in their abilities to prepare for, facilitate and provide integration work for their participants in NOSC sessions, with deeper understanding of the importance of ethical practices. Thus, increasing their readiness to apply their skills in various NOSC settings.
Community Project: Engage in a community project to apply your skills in a real-world context.
Students will get safe hands-on, and supervised experience with non-students, and will apply what they’ve learned by facilitating sessions, with options to bring a friend for one-on-one practice or participate in group facilitation. Students will receive personalized feedback and advice from seasoned professionals to refine their techniques.
By the end of Module 8 and the final immersion retreat, our students will find themselves more confident in their abilities to prepare for, facilitate and provide integration work for their participants in NOSC sessions, with deeper understanding of the importance of ethical practices. Thus, increasing their readiness to apply their skills in various NOSC settings.
Community Project: Engage in a community project to apply your skills in a real-world context.
Module 9: Ongoing Supervision, Consultation, and Other NOSC Protocols - Elevate Your Journey to Becoming a VulCoach, VulCounselor or Associate Luminary
Module 9 offers a unique blend of supervision, consultation, and practical application through various NOSC protocols. Our supervisors offer support and ongoing training, assisting students in continuing to nurture and refine their unique tools, methods and facilitation skills. This module is specifically designed for those on the path to becoming Associate Luminaries or VulCoaches, providing a critical stepping stone towards achieving full Luminary or VulCounselor status.
As you continue to shadow and receive ongoing supervision, you'll have the option to engage in take-home NOSC protocols to work with your own participants.
As you continue to shadow and receive ongoing supervision, you'll have the option to engage in take-home NOSC protocols to work with your own participants.
Spring Session Coming!
The VulCon Way is now accepting new students. Interested in learning more about the VulCon?
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
The VulCon Way is now accepting new students. Interested in learning more about the VulCon?
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
VulCon Praise
"It is evident that Corin and Mandi are preparing people to be conscientious and ethical as the foundation to operating in the NOSC field. VulCon training spans from the broad to the specific, from the ancient to the contemporary.
It includes materialistic aspects and the animistic, considers the internal psyche and the heart of community, and asks us to deeply explore relationship and responsibility. The magic really takes off as we cultivate our connection and awareness to the allies and I look forward to seeing where it goes from here."
It includes materialistic aspects and the animistic, considers the internal psyche and the heart of community, and asks us to deeply explore relationship and responsibility. The magic really takes off as we cultivate our connection and awareness to the allies and I look forward to seeing where it goes from here."
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AUTUMN LEIGH BAYLISS
Art Therapist and Luminary
Meet Your Instructors and Mystresses of Ceremony, Mandi and Corin.
Corin Grillo, MA, LMFT is a Marriage and Family Therapist, an internationally renowned Transformational Leader, Author, and Educator. Her roots are from Puerto Rico, while her Chicana side hails from East Los Angeles.
She graduated from UCLA in Cultural Anthropology, and received her Master’s Degree in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. She has also trained with California Institute of Integrated Studies and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (MAPS).
Her passion for cross-cultural indigenous studies began in undergraduate school, as did her passion for psychology, ritual, and altered states of consciousness.
After years of supporting clients as a traditional psychotherapist, her career transitioned to facilitating and mentoring others in intuitive healing, ritual, and ceremony. This transition was ignited by a mystical experience that put her in direct relationship with her guides and angels. This profound event led her to shamanic, ceremonial, and plant medicine work which deepened her relationship with the intelligences of the natural world, the ancestral world, and the allies of the spiritual realms.
For over a decade, Corin has led ceremonial retreats and has educated coaches, healers, nurses, doctors, and therapists in sacred leadership. She supports both practitioners and non-practitioners in exploring, opening, and expanding their intuitive senses, natural healing abilities, and creating an authentic relationship with spirit through ritual, ceremony, and nature-based immersions.
She graduated from UCLA in Cultural Anthropology, and received her Master’s Degree in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. She has also trained with California Institute of Integrated Studies and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (MAPS).
Her passion for cross-cultural indigenous studies began in undergraduate school, as did her passion for psychology, ritual, and altered states of consciousness.
After years of supporting clients as a traditional psychotherapist, her career transitioned to facilitating and mentoring others in intuitive healing, ritual, and ceremony. This transition was ignited by a mystical experience that put her in direct relationship with her guides and angels. This profound event led her to shamanic, ceremonial, and plant medicine work which deepened her relationship with the intelligences of the natural world, the ancestral world, and the allies of the spiritual realms.
For over a decade, Corin has led ceremonial retreats and has educated coaches, healers, nurses, doctors, and therapists in sacred leadership. She supports both practitioners and non-practitioners in exploring, opening, and expanding their intuitive senses, natural healing abilities, and creating an authentic relationship with spirit through ritual, ceremony, and nature-based immersions.
Because of her far-reaching work, Corin has been featured as an expert on Gaia and countless other syndicated media outlets, radio shows, and podcasts all over the world.
She is a co-founder and Chief Luminary with the aWake Community, a non-dogmatic, inclusive registered church that actively works to deconstruct toxic patriarchal religious harm, and offers its community members a safe, non-judgemental, organic pathway to explore sacred communion with their authentic self, and the divinity and healing power of nature, the ancestors, and plant sacraments.
She is also the proprietor of Casa Condor, a retreat center in the sacred lands of Mount Shasta, California which is the primary sanctuary of the aWake Community.
She is a co-founder and Chief Luminary with the aWake Community, a non-dogmatic, inclusive registered church that actively works to deconstruct toxic patriarchal religious harm, and offers its community members a safe, non-judgemental, organic pathway to explore sacred communion with their authentic self, and the divinity and healing power of nature, the ancestors, and plant sacraments.
She is also the proprietor of Casa Condor, a retreat center in the sacred lands of Mount Shasta, California which is the primary sanctuary of the aWake Community.
Mandi Stevenson, LMFT is a seasoned professional who seamlessly blends psychology with holistic healing practices. With a background in Modern Dance (B.F.A.) and a Counseling Psychology degree (M.A.) from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Mandi brings a wealth of experience to her work.
She began her career in private practice, helping clients ranging from children to couples, and addressing various issues including domestic violence and substance abuse. In 2014, she shifted her focus to specialize in assisting adults with substance dependence and mental wellness concerns. Throughout her career, Mandi has excelled in various roles, from primary therapist to clinical director, spanning residential, intensive outpatient, and outpatient treatment programs. Her innovation extends to startup initiatives, where she developed multiple clinical treatment protocols.
Today, Mandi operates a thriving private practice, with expertise in trauma-informed care, substance use dependence, and integration work post Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness experiences. She's presented at multiple conferences on psychedelics and research and co-teaches courses on the interplay of Alchemy and Shamanism practices.
Mandi's impressive training includes EMDR certification, completion of the California Institute of Integral Studies' program for Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapies and Research, and ongoing studies in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and neurofeedback. Her deep interest in Shamanic Witchcraft, particularly Aromatics, reflects her commitment to holistic healing and spiritual exploration.
She began her career in private practice, helping clients ranging from children to couples, and addressing various issues including domestic violence and substance abuse. In 2014, she shifted her focus to specialize in assisting adults with substance dependence and mental wellness concerns. Throughout her career, Mandi has excelled in various roles, from primary therapist to clinical director, spanning residential, intensive outpatient, and outpatient treatment programs. Her innovation extends to startup initiatives, where she developed multiple clinical treatment protocols.
Today, Mandi operates a thriving private practice, with expertise in trauma-informed care, substance use dependence, and integration work post Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness experiences. She's presented at multiple conferences on psychedelics and research and co-teaches courses on the interplay of Alchemy and Shamanism practices.
Mandi's impressive training includes EMDR certification, completion of the California Institute of Integral Studies' program for Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapies and Research, and ongoing studies in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and neurofeedback. Her deep interest in Shamanic Witchcraft, particularly Aromatics, reflects her commitment to holistic healing and spiritual exploration.
Beyond her clinical work, Mandi is a co-founder and Chief Luminary of the aWake Community, a non-dogmatic registered church dedicated to deconstructing harmful religious norms. This community provides a safe space for exploring sacred connections with the self, nature, alchemy, and ancestral roots.
With a profound understanding of the human psyche and Alchemy, Mandi is passionately devoted to guiding individuals on their wellness journey. Her approach is grounded in depth psychology and an integrative framework, ensuring each person's unique path is embraced and celebrated.
With a profound understanding of the human psyche and Alchemy, Mandi is passionately devoted to guiding individuals on their wellness journey. Her approach is grounded in depth psychology and an integrative framework, ensuring each person's unique path is embraced and celebrated.
Spring Session Coming!
The VulCon Way is now accepting new students. Interested in learning more about the VulCon?
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
The VulCon Way is now accepting new students. Interested in learning more about the VulCon?
First Step: Submit the Inquiry Form Below.
Disclaimer: VulCon, LLC is committed to responsible education and does not endorse or encourage unlawful conduct. The intent behind the training sessions offered by VulCon is purely educational, aimed at reducing harm and promoting safety. It is important to note that the use of certain psychedelic substances remains illegal within various jurisdictions worldwide. By choosing to participate in any of VulCon's training programs, participants acknowledge and accept that VulCon, LLC disclaims any liability for any actions taken by participants.