Looking to learn memory reconsolidation methods (like EMDR Healing, Brainspotting, and Mindful Meditation), Psychedelic Care and work healing into your life, approach, and practice from people who have been there and come back?
Are you hoping to improve your knowledge on what it means to be a trauma healer?
Looking to learn how to utilize therapeutic dissociation or enhanced bracketing research techniques to develop your researcher mind?
Are you looking to learn more about trauma, dissociation, and the Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) and The Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH)?
Well, this is the place to start or restart your wounded healer journey…
Are you someone who is looking for direction and understanding in life both personally and professionally?
Do you wish to gain foundational knowledge on universal healing to establish yourself as a modern professional Healer?
We typically have 3 categories of people who are contacting us… (If you are looking to do WHI School, Positive Parenting Programming, Anger Management, Dissociative Learning, Expressive Arts, and Performance Enhancement (sports/academic), please fill out the initial contact form HERE and we will be in contact.
HONORARY MEMBERSHIP:
1) For people who are looking for Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) psycho-education on the Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) to satisfy their personal or professional curiosity. Join the Newsletter to become an Honorary Member. We offer our FREE ADM introductory class HERE. Enjoy our Blogs. On this path, you can attend workshops, events, support meetings, and online classes after signing up for them. This path is for individuals, sponsors, parents, caretakers, organizations, communities, professionals from other disciplines, or informed citizens looking to understand our path or stance the state of affairs, why we believe it to be important, and educate everyone on how to implement these solutions into your life. Let us know that you would want or need more guidance by attending our weekly to support your learning PWH Tea Time live orientation class (Terms and conditions apply). (More Details: HERE).
Ready to Join as the FULL Membership and to start the Path of the Wounded Healer:
2) For people or professionals looking to become more aware with meditation, trauma resolution, and psychedelic care to heal and become proficient in their craft by directly learning from us, we offer our Path of the Wounded Healers for professionals, self-help members, recovery communities, organizations, corporations, and companies. We create a personalized and individualized educational path to healing (1:1 educational experiences). These request fit more of our personal trainer and healing, coaching, or consulting models of service (includes access to personal trainers and healers, support classes, coaching, healing plans, and events). Fill out the initial contact form HERE (get a free phone call to answer any questions you might have) or to start your intake (HERE) and healing journey with us. We will be in contact within a few days to see if this is right for you and to possibly schedule your MASA.
3) For practicing professionals or clinicians looking to be educated, (re)educated, trained, or looking to join our work (ADM, PWH, and WHI)… Our re-education and training program is outlined below. See the chart below to see the path before you… If agreeable, use our admissions process outlined below…
Welcome to Wounded Healers Institute Admissions!
The Healer Program, primarily articulated as the Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) Education and Training Program by the Wounded Healers Institute (WHI), is a specialized re-education curriculum. This program is fundamentally rooted in the qualitative lived experience and aims to train individuals—including licensed professionals, self-help sponsors, parents, and informed citizens—to embody the role of a Healer.
Our mottos are “Doctor, heal thyself… and we are willing to take you with us” or “Take it to the medicine” or “Take it to the meeting area”. We see that “The collective unconscious is our teacher” and “We are addicted to creating balance in the world.” “We are here to bring you back to now.”
Our elevator pitch is: “We are a mental health gym and spa” or the longer version “We are a mental health gym that supports people in healing their developmental traumas, normative dissociation, and universal addictions. We educate on our model to help you strengthen your resolve and to keep you the best provider you can be.
Foundational Philosophy and Purpose
Our educational program walks you through the basics of becoming a professional Healer, which is supported by our research-focused Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM). We also provide training in the Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) which is experiential, embodying, and empowering! We are teaching how to utilize psychedelics, meditation, and wellness principles to support psychedelic integration and trauma healing.
We teach the Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA), trauma resolution methods with meditation and healing audio companions, to help build resiliency with our Principles of Conditioning. We train in therapeutic dissociation with Mindful Dissociation and help all participants learn and master memory reconsolidation for developmental trauma, normative dissociation, and universal addictions. At our more advanced paths, we explore our Enhanced Bracketing Techniques to help enhance your performance.
Our admissions process is for anyone looking to gain our knowledge, healing relationship, or the recognition of being a Healer. In the Wounded Healer’s educational program, we are educating and training on how to utilize trauma resolution methods of EMDR, Brainspotting, and Psychedelic Care (Path of the Wounded Healer) into your existing practice, life, and possibly establish yourself as a Healer. The definition of healing and healer has been illusive throughout human history, but it is now time to reclaim this title.
The core purpose of the WHI’s programming is to address significant gaps in conventional psychological and medical models, particularly concerning trauma, dissociation, and addiction.
Key Objectives:
- Re-education through Transformation: The program is designed to re-educate people on the true nature of healing, teaching universal principles of healing. It facilitates a personal and professional transformation, helping participants emerge as the Wounded Healer they are intended to be.
- Universal Healing Modality: The training teaches people to heal using adaptive dissociation or mindful dissociation through spiritual practices, regulation of the body and mind, and the conscious use of psychedelic medicines.
- Preparation for Mortality: A profound distinction of the training is its focus on preparation for death—whether physical, psychological, spiritual, or metaphysical—as a natural part of life. Healers are trained to help individuals transition and face the inevitability of death with compassion and equanimity.
- Advocation over Vocation: The program emphasizes that Healing is an advocation—a calling born from lived experience and moral duty—rather than merely a job or vocation. It advocates for the right to self-healing as an inalienable birthright.
The PWH program serves as the first recovery-based, dissociation-informed psychedelic care program grounded in the Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) research.
Eligibility and Admission
The training is open to anyone looking to gain knowledge, a healing relationship, or recognition as a Healer. This includes professionals, artists, veterans, first responders, and informed citizens.
Admissions Process Components:
- Application: Submission of an application, include a written essay, artwork, or video outlining the applicant’s “Wounded Healer Journey”. (500 words, 5 minutes or less)(email: [email protected])
- MASA Interview: A required Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA) interview with Dr. Adam. This interview serves to gauge the applicant’s re-education needs and qualitative process. Licensed professionals holding valid licenses in our trainings are exempt from the fee for the interview, as indicated in specific trainings.
- Requirements: Participants must be 21 or older to participate with THC, but those 18 and younger can participate using CBD. Individuals under 21 with a medical license may use THC. Participants must affirm their physical, psychological, and spiritual fitness to participate safely and must be ready to engage in their own transformational process.
The WHI also offers various membership paths to support ongoing maintenance healing, performance enhancement, and spiritual growth, which can be likened to a mental health gym and spa (Posttraumatic Growth Gym/Spa). The training emphasizes that education is “detraining” or “undiagnosing”, that sets people free from conditioning, rhetoric, and storytelling, contrasting sharply with traditional training models.
This admissions process outlines our educational and training programs. Centered on the Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) and the Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) for both personal and professional development.
The organization targets three main groups: 1) those seeking general psycho-education and coaching on addiction and trauma (ADM), 2) citizens and professionals looking to enhance their skills in areas like trauma resolution, meditation, and psychedelic integration (PWH Healing), and 3) clinicians interested in joining their team (PWH).
Key educational training components include utilizing therapeutic dissociation (Mindful Dissociation), mastering memory reconsolidation, and learning assessment tools like the Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA), often with an emphasis on experiential and embodying practices that incorporate psychedelics and mindfulness into your life and profession. Ultimately, the program aims to help individuals reclaim the title of “Healer” by providing specialized knowledge and practical skills for addressing developmental trauma, navigating dissociative experiences, and universal addictions. * For those with clinical licenses, WHI offers educational support and trainings to help you be better able to implement these services into your care, but ultimately your scope of practice is determined by the law and you will want to check with them as to what is right for you to do. Feel free to forward our blogs to them.
- Application: HERE
- Qualitative Essay: Submit a paper, essay, poem, or video outlining your personal “Wounded Healer Journey”. We invite your qualitative process into our own.
- MASA Interview (Required for PWH): MASA interview with Dr. Adam is required for the Path of the Wounded Healer educational and training services. This screening and assessment determine your needs. (*in-person can include qEEG) (*Required for Path of the Wounded Healer Education)(**Not needed for those who hold valid Professional Licenses and are taking trainings. ***required for donation-based services)
- Fee range: $500-$1,000 (can include qEEG (in person only), AI Output, and Clinical Review with you).
- Acceptance: Upon acceptance, further details will be provided.”
*Criteria for acceptance is unconscious informed consent, psychological awareness of self, level of moral development, stage of recovery, and clinical appropriateness.”
Core Training Concepts and Skills
The PWH is a dissociation-focused, transtheoretical wellness phase model of care that supports ongoing healing for normative and pathological ranges of trauma, dissociation, and addiction. The foundational framework relies on the discovery that the physical body is the psychological unconscious.
Through experiential discourse, self-work, regulation, and preventative regulation measures, we help you solidify the Wounded Healer that you are or were meant to become. We help you develop and sharpen your therapeutic dissociation skills by creating a qualitative learning environment to let you explore consciousness and unconsciousness with cannabis products, meditation, breathwork, and creative expression. We educate on navigating dissociative states or altered states of consciousness and how to activate innate states of healing. All human beings have access to these healing states.
Training focuses on developing specific qualitative skills essential for the professional Healer:
- Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM): Participants gain foundational knowledge of the ADM, which posits that addiction is trauma-related dissociation. The program uses this model to screen and assess for normative ranges of trauma, dissociation, and universal addictions.
- Memory Reconsolidation (MR): MR is psychological healing, often referred to as trauma memory healing. The training helps participants master MR for developmental trauma, normative dissociation, and universal addictions. Psychedelic journeying is viewed as a form of memory reconsolidation.
- Mindful Dissociation and Therapeutic Dissociation: Participants are taught how to utilize dissociative states of awareness, known as Mindful Dissociation, to activate innate states of healing. The program cultivates skills in Therapeutic Dissociation—a state of empathy where the Healer dissociates to support the healing of others.
- Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA): MASA is a scripted qualitative approach used for screening and assessing degrees of conscious awareness, unconscious access, moral development, dissociation range, and stage of universal addiction and recovery in both providers and clients. It is utilized to obtain “unconscious informed consent” before treatment or medicine use.
- Neurobiodynamic Neutrality: This is defined as the co-presence of dual attention and dual attunement, established as a primary healing state of consciousness within the dissociation-informed approach.
- Psychedelic Care and Integration: The training includes education on working with altered states of consciousness, using breathwork, meditation, and cannabis products or other psychedelics as they become legal. PWH is a harm reduction approach to help people create healthy relationships with these substances.
- Addressing Undiagnosable Addictions: The program specifically focuses on healing conditions not formally recognized in the DSM, particularly perfectionism, altruism, and ambition addictions.
Program Structure and Phases
The PWH Training Program is structured as a phase model, integrating established trauma and recovery frameworks. It follows a progression mirroring the Consensus Model of Trauma Treatment (Cloitre et al., 2012) and the Stages of Change (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983).
| PWH Phase | Consensus Model Phase | Stages of Change | Primary Focus/Goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| PWH 1: Regulation | Stabilization | Pre/Contemplation/Preparation | Orientation, understanding ADM/PWH, practicing mindful dissociation, neurobio-dynamic neutrality, and learning MASA. |
| PWH 2: Memory Reconsolidation | Memory Resolution | Action | Resolving addiction and traumatic memories, attachment repair, and addressing developmental traumas and toxic shame. |
| PWH 3: Maintenance | Maintenance | Maintenance | Advanced application, memory expansion, establishing a recovery identity, and preparing for life/death realities. |
| PWH 4: Professional Enhancement | Professional Transformation | N/A | Integrating personal transformation with professional identity, enhanced bracketing techniques, advocacy, and business model development. |
The training environment is experiential, utilizing scaffolding and conditioning to help unconscious states learn how to navigate states of healing and dissociation. Training sessions may include the option of taking cannabis products where legal, as a means of state-dependent learning.
WHI Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) Training Program:
| Program | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 |
| PWH 1 Regulation Topics: 1. Mindful Dissociation/ 2. Neurobio- Dynamic 3. Therapeutic Dissociation |
1) Opening Orientation ADM/PWH 2) Breath 3) States of Healing 4) Informed-Care | 1) Meeting Area w UIC & Hx taking 2) MR 3) Breath /CBD 4) ASC and Psychedelics | 1) Meeting Area script 2) Two containers | 1) Meeting Area w/ Bulk Blink | 1) Self-care 2) Skill building/ Conditioning. Resiliency Building. Review. Closing Ceremony. |
| PWH 2 Topics: 1. Care Planning 2. Memory Work |
Opening Orientation/ Review. ADM/PWH Resetting Orientation/ Affect Circuits | PWH Script 1) Develop Tx/Inter-gen 2) Normative Dissociation 3) Universal Addictions | Parts Self-Work Toxic Shame | Healthy Shame Positive Psychology Recovery | 1) Self-care 2) Skill building/ Conditioning. Resiliency Building. Review. Closing Ceremony |
| PWH 3 Topics: 1. Advanced Memory Work 2. PTG/ Dissociative Lands 3. Recovery |
Opening Orientation/ Review PWH Psychedelic Care | Clinical Dissociation and Addiction Disorders | Advanced Aspects of Dissociative and Addiction Memory | PTG/Spa Recovery Memory Network | 1) Self-care 2) Skill building/ Conditioning. Resiliency Building. Review. Closing Ceremony. |
| PWH 4: Rabbit Hole Consultation EBT, CIT, and AC Path |
Opening Orientation/ PWH and Consultation | Consultation EBT | Rabbit Hole Into the night | Rabbit Hole | 1) Self-care 2) Skill building/ Conditioning. Performance Enhancement. Review. Closing Ceremony. |
ASC = Altered-States of Consciousness – AC = Approved Consultant – CIT = Consultant in Training – EBT = Enhanced Bracketing Techniques – MR = Memory Reconsolidation – PTG = Posttraumatic Gym/Spa – UIC = Unconscious Informed Consent
Certification and Professional Development Program
| PWH Trained | Complete PWH 1 and PWH 2 | 3-hours of individual and 10 hours of group. | Participated in all practicums | In good standing with WHI and policies. | PTG membership available for $500 |
| PWH Certification | Complete PWH1&2&3 Application $150 | 6 hours of individual or 30 hours of group consult over the course of PWH1-3* *5 yr limit | 200 hours session time | LOR At the end of PWH3 in Final Interview w/ Adam | Maintain Active PTG Membership $200 yr w/ active solos and volunteering |
| Consultant- In- Training | Complete PWH 4 | 6 hours of individual/ 10 group consultations | 100 Hours session time | Final Interview w/ Adam | Maintain Active PTG Membership $200 yr |
| Approved Consultant | Complete CIT Application $150 | 6 hours of individual/ 10 hours of group consultations | 100 hours session time | Needs WHI Approval | Maintain Active Rabbit Hole Membership $200 year |
| Train- The- Trainer/ Adjunct Faculty | N/A Complete AC | Shadow 1 Round of PWH 1-2 | 50 hours of training time | Needs WHI Approval Final Interview w/ Adam | Maintain Active Rabbit Hole Membership $200 year |
| PWH Faculty | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Maintain Active Rabbit Hole Membership $200 year |
| PWH Senior Faculty | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | NA |
*Please review and research the whole page before applying.*.