Our Work
We’re working to create an environment where care providers are equipped to provide ethical, culturally competent, trauma-informed psychedelic facilitation to those who need it.
EMBARK is a transdiagnostic, flexible model of psychedelic facilitation that builds on more than a dozen previous approaches. The EMBARK approach offers six clinical domains, representing the diverse ways in which care providers can offer therapeutic support and four care cornerstones, reflecting how care providers can provide ethically rigorous, trauma-informed, and culturally competent care within a broader frame of collective caregiving.
Existential-Spiritual
Translating psychedelic-occasioned spiritual experiences into resources for healing
Mindfulness
Developing a capacity to observe and accept internal states
Keeping Momentum
Integrating and translating altered states into altered traits
Body-Aware
Acknowledging the body can act as a doorway into deep healing
Relational
Attending to the importance of relationships in healing
Affective-Cognitive
Supporting participants with identifying, welcoming, and experiencing affective (emotional) states more fully
Trauma-Informed Care
Recognizing the importance of attending to trauma in all aspects of treatment
Culturally Competent Care
Integrating a focus on cultural factors into all elements of treatment
Collective Care
EMBARK facilitators attend to the larger context of participants’ challenges through all aspects of treatment
Ethically Rigorous Care
Psychedelic-assisted therapy has a greater need for therapists to use their role power ethically
Our Training
The EMBARK Training Program intensively trains facilitators
Through a blended model of live and self-guided activities that prepare trial facilitators to function as Certified EMBARK Facilitators. This training model includes a comprehensive curriculum of didactics, experiential activities, group discussion, independent study, and clinical supervision, led by 28 esteemed faculty members, supervisors, and advisors.
Our Training
The EMBARK Training Program intensively trains facilitators
through a blended model of live and self-guided activities that prepare trial facilitators to function as Certified EMBARK Facilitators. This training model includes a comprehensive curriculum of didactics, experiential activities, group discussion, independent study, and clinical supervision, led by 28 esteemed faculty members, supervisors, and advisors.
The EMBARK model draws from process evidence in psychedelic clinical practice and the experience of senior teachers and supervisors. The approach builds on proven evidence-based treatments (EBTs) and combines them with demonstrated psychedelic-assisted therapies. We have published a more complete description of the model in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychology.
