Wounded Healers Institute is introducing our experiential learning to help those heal from educational, institutional, developmental and attachment, betrayal, spiritual, religious, and existential traumas that are often the root causes and the more pronounced unresolved traumas that often accommany quantifiable trauma and stress-related conditions.
WHI School offers an education in emotional intelligence (EI) through social engagement, social skill building, imaginal exposure, enhanced bracketing techniques, and social orientation. People need to learn healing through experiential repair. We educate on healing so more healing is happening. With Dr. Adam at the helm, join him for the kind of education that you wish you had and forgot that you wanted.
Members and students join us for recreating the conditioning of maintaining a balanced life through our course and gym structure. Through our process of conditioning healing and recovery principles into your life. Like the Heimlich Maneuver, we are educating everyone on psychological healing and the basics of memory reconsolidation. Our approach recognizes that industrialized education, psychological and societal parenting failures, systematic failure to produce moral development due to unidentified addictions. We offer an individual path for those learners who either reject the corporatized education programing and training that governmental policies have promoted. We decondition the training so one can get the education that they need to be a morally developed adult through learning healing.
We have a “meet and greet” with our weekly Tea Time with Dr. Adam (Public Office Hours).
In our WHI Library, you will find our unfiltered published works that have not been published publicly. They are what our blogs were turned into with AI and Dr. Adam finalizing and editing. These works represent our path of becoming a wounded healer ourselves. As an academic and research institution, we hold our knowledge sacred and is publicly available to those who are willing to support our work and efforts. See WHI Library for more details.
To explore the WHI School for more: HERE
Education and Training Program: To enroll in any training or educational aspect of the program, prospective participants must submit an application and undergo an initial interview to assess suitability. The application requires an essay, paper, or poem articulating the applicant’s “wounded healer’s story.” This qualitative process is considered a significant component, aiming to educate participants in developing their implicit dissociative process to reduce their “addiction to our reality” and to facilitate healing from developmental traumas, normative dissociation patterns, and universal addictions. Prior to engaging in training, attendees are oriented towards the ADM through prerequisite coursework and mental training. The explicit focus on “experiential scaffolding,” “state-dependent learning,” and “mindful dissociation” indicates that PWH aims to fundamentally alter an individual’s relationship with their internal states and memories. This moves beyond mere cognitive or behavioral modification towards a deeper, somatic, and spiritual transformation, aligning with the concept of “positive addictions” by re-channeling ingrained patterns towards beneficial, self-healing processes.
For more on our work and cause, consider following or signing up for newsletter or our work at woundedhealersinstitute.org or donating to our cause: HERE.
When my children had to leave school as a result of legal immaturity and societal dependence, I, Dr. Adam, started to create this qualitatively-dominant, creatively-inspired, research-based, and psychedelic-based online school and institution for everyone, based on dissociative learning and the results of our life’s work. Housed at WHI, our life’s work spans the ages and the cosmos and then back again.
Welcome to Wounded Healers Institute where our experiential qualitative re-education on development, life and death, and health wealth exceeds their quantitative education. By attending WHI school you can get the qualitative education that they could not give you. Learn about history, philosophy, psychology, religions, poetry, by adding our experiential learning to your existing program. We are educational healers who do the studying with you and bringing what you are learning to to the world. Trying to create structure in your life? Our school is supportive of your changing educational needs. We offer the social classes that other schools forgot to offer…
WHI offers homeroom, study hall, recess, field trips, and recovery community… where learning healing becomes addictive…
This is particularly helpful for those who are looking to condition conscious structure to their life and with other people doing the same thing.
WHI School is also good for those looking to heal from developmental, educational, institutional, betrayal, moral, intergenerational, and existential trauma.
WHI School is also good for those doing homeschool and looking for a classroom experience.
WHI school is good for parents who are looking to learn about development, human lifespan, and topics of health and wellness.
WHI is good for professionals who need added structure and to learn to manage their free time better.
WHI school is good for the gifted and those looking for high performance outcomes.
Instead of AI (Artificial Intelligence, even though we do educate in AI), we also use EI (Emotional Intelligence), which is based in our lived experience.
WHI offers online discussion classes and activities for people looking for support getting through the day, while they are doing their psychedelic healing. Our WHI School offers people a low cost option to learning what they cannot teach in school. Dr. Adam’s qualitative and experiential learning style is an opportunity for those who have not been successful in traditional school and are able to know that they need more connection, information, dialog, discourse, and a new approach to learning that industrialized and institutionalized educational systems cannot directly offer. The forgotten the citizens, WHI and Dr. Adam stand to educate everyone on healing, recovery, repair, and what it means to know what healing is because you have lived it.
Dr. Adam (PhD) is a modern day healer, educator, visionary, philosopher poet, artist, psychedelic researcher, and recovery advocate. He uses his experiential educational approach (Path of the Wounded Healer) to help those who have dissociative profiles learn what they did not get at school. His educational approach is healing in of itself. He has also created a homeschooling program for exploring and learning about different states consciousness and how to “heal thyselves”. With a full spectrum education, our hope is that more people will be able to learn about the historical context of dissociation and states of awareness where we are as a society, where we are going, and why. We use our qualitative methods to provide experiential learning opportunities that are also healing and profound. He has educational experience in the study of psychology, history, philosophy, sociology, science, music, art, integrative medicine, memory learning, and psychedelic care.
WHI programming, Dr. Adam offers participants the opportunity to experience their learning by taking the Path of the Wounded Healer adventure and joining with our growing WHI community. Donation-based School.
Our School Daily Schedule is posted in the first lesson in this class.
Our Public Schedule: woundedhealersinstitute.org/whi-calendar/
Our Training Calendar: woundedhealersinstitute.org/training-schedule/
All WHI members must complete the MASA ($500) (1x), be FULL WHI membership ($200 a year) process to attend WHI classes, support, or education. See here for more details: HERE and complete our Orientation Process: HERE … then for the cost of a gym membership a month ($100 a month), WHI members can continue their educational pursuits and career goals with us.
Specific Topic Classes: (Topics classes include creative arts, study hall, homeroom, gym, recess, and field trips!)
Lived Experience Support Classes for those in need can be found: HERE
PWH Tea Time (Office Hours): 12-1 EST Tuesday’s (weekly): HERE
Dr. Adam also created programming a counter their version of a drug education (D.A.R.E.) and a system that can sell a “non-addictive opiate” to an educated population (e.g., prescribers) that sold it (banking and legal) to a trusting and caring citizenry.
For more on our work and cause, consider following or signing up for newsletter or our work at woundedhealersinstitute.org or donating to our cause: HERE.
References
O’Brien, A. (2023a). Addiction as Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Addictive State. International University of Graduate Studies. (Dissertation). Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023b). Memory Reconsolidation in Psychedelics Therapy. In Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023c). Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024a). Healer and Healing: The Re-Education of the Healer and Healing Professions as an Advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024e). Path of the Wounded Healers for Thrivers: Perfectionism, Altruism, and Ambition Addictions; Re-education and training manual for Abusers, Activists, Batterers, Bullies, Enablers, Killers, Narcissists, Offenders, Parents, Perpetrators, and Warriors. Re-Education and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025). American Made Addiction Recovery: a healer’s journey through professional recovery. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025a). American Made Addiction Recovery: a healer’s journey through professional recovery. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025b). Applied Recovery: Post-War on Drugs, Post-COVID, and What Recovery Culture and Citizens Require Moving Forward. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025c). Recovering Recovery: How Psychedelic Science Is Ending the War on Drugs. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
*This is for informational and educational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional.