Training and Events
This 7-day, live-in, fully catered, residential training is designed for therapists and emerging psychedelic-assisted therapists in clinical psychedelic assisted therapy who are seeking something deeper.
Nestled in the lush rainforest of the Byron Bay Hinterland at Avana Byron, this retreat-style training invites you into a different way of learning.
Grounded in both clinical practice and Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, this training offers an alternative to the dominant models currently shaping psychedelic-assisted therapy, reflecting a growing shift toward more relational, and culturally responsive approaches, with IPAT at the forefront of this work in Australia.
We work through a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, weaving together Western clinical frameworks with Indigenous knowledge systems, without collapsing one into the other. In doing so, we respect both, bringing them into right relationship as a bridge toward more connected, accountable, and culturally responsive pathways forward within Australia’s psychedelic therapy landscape.
You will receive the necessary foundations for psychedelic-assisted therapy within the Australian context, while also engaging the cultural, relational, and spiritual layers that are often left out of mainstream trainings, alongside clear pathways for how to responsibly integrate this deeper, embodied learning into clinical practice.
What You Will Experience
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Creating safety within clinical and relational contexts.
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Working with Social and Emotional Wellbeing frameworks grounded in Indigenous perspectives.
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Practising spiritual, energetic, and somatic (embodied) awareness within therapeutic spaces.
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Engaging in earth connection practices, with Country as lead facilitator.
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Participating in experiential components including a guided breathwork day led by Australian Breathwork Association registered trainers, alongside role plays.
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Understanding integration as a lifelong, relational process rather than a one-off intervention.
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Translating embodied, relational and cultural learnings into safe, ethical, and effective clinical practice.
Decolonised Learning Format -
Experiential, embodied, and somatic practice.
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Group process and collective reflection.
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Time on Country and connection with the natural world.
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Integration woven alongside applied clinical skill development.
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Bridging embodied learning with clinical application in ways that maintain integrity, safety, and accountability.
Who This Training Is For -
Psychologists, psychiatrist, psychotherapists, and counsellors.
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Therapists who provide psychedelic integration supports
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers.
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Practitioners seeking a relational, ethical, and culturally grounded approach to clinical PAT.