With a high demand for psychedelic facilitators, Cybin Inc. has launched the first free online course – EMBARK Open Access – providing a foundational training course for psychedelic facilitation.
EMBARK Open Access is the first and only free massive open online course (MOOC) that offers psychedelic facilitation training for healthcare professionals and people interested in offering psychological support.
Cybin CEO, Doug Drysdale, commented: “As we continue to work toward our mission to revolutionise mental healthcare, we are committed to supporting the entire ecosystem.
“By offering a cost-free facilitator training programme, we hope to promote accessible, scalable, and most importantly, ethical psychological support during psychedelic-assisted therapy with the underlying goal of providing new and innovative treatment options for people suffering from mental health conditions.”
EMBARK’s faculty have created a series of 12 video-based training modules and accompanying exercises on the EMBARK model.
Participants will receive a Record of Completion, which may serve as a bridge for facilitators to be enrolled in the future EMBARK Training Programmes and potential participation in future Cybin-sponsored clinical studies.
Dr Alex Belser, EMBARK’s co-creator and Cybin’s Chief Clinical Officer, stated: “We are facing a bottleneck in psychedelic facilitation training, with programmes that can be quite expensive and out of reach for many people.
“To address these challenges, we are offering EMBARK OA, the first free psychedelic massive open online course. Our team has put a lot of thoughtful, science-informed, and heartfelt work into these training materials, and we are proud to share them with the broader healthcare community.
“Our hope is to provide more equitable access to high-quality learning and development in psychedelic practice.
“EMBARK is a truly integrative psychedelic facilitation training model, which, at its core, reflects the multi-dimensional nature of psychedelic work. The delivery and teaching of the model, by multiple faculty members who specialise in their field, provided a breadth of knowledge and perspective which beautifully complements the interdisciplinary framework,” added EMBARK graduate Emily Zelner, LCSW.
Cybin has also announced the launch of the EMBARK website. To learn more about EMBARK, including information on EMBARK faculty and EMBARK OA, please visit embarkapproach.com.
To access EMBARK’s comprehensive approach to skillful and ethical facilitation training and to access the EMBARK OA training modules, enroll here.
