Most people hear "IFS" and think parts work. Dr. Nancy Morgan says that's one piece of a much larger model, and the piece facilitators tend to miss is the one that matters most in the medicine space.

Dr. Nancy is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified IFS therapist, and guest instructor in our facilitator training, where she teaches facilitators to map their own parts so they can sit with clients from a more grounded place.

In this conversation she walks through how parts mapping works inside a preparation session: what a hopeful part wants from the medicine, what happens if it doesn't get it, and what fears sit underneath. Skip that inquiry and those parts still show up, often mid-session, where a protective part losing control of the environment can turn into an adverse experience.

She also explains Self-energy, what Michael Mithoefer calls the inner healing intelligence, and shares her own psilocybin journey following a cancer diagnosis. She closes with advice for people stepping into this work, including why she believes facilitators should never practice as an island.

Dr. Nancy Morgan is licensed in Oregon and Colorado and teaches in the Entheogen Institute facilitator training program. Learn more about her work: https://theguideinside.com

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Not every student enrolls in psilocybin facilitator training with a clear career plan. Some simply know it is the next right step, even before they can see where the path leads.

Coeli Dwivedi sits down with Entheogen Institute graduate Amy Speek, an ER nurse with a master's in counseling who spent 20 years in therapy before a single psilocybin journey changed the trajectory of her life. That experience gave her the courage to open her own practice, enroll in facilitator training, and set out on a lifelong dream: thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.

Amy shares what it felt like to be called to this work before she knew where it would lead, the friendships from her cohort that carried her far beyond graduation, and what happened at mile 801.9 of the PCT that put everything she had learned about trusting the unknown to the test.

Learn more about The Entheogen Institute's 150-hour psilocybin facilitator training: https://learn.entheogentraining.com/learn-more

Follow Amy's journey on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@speekingofadventure

Coeli went back and read all 103 student applications we've ever received, looking for one thing: why do people really come to facilitator training? What she found was six distinct pathways. Some students arrive with a clear calling to licensed practice. Some are therapists and nurses who keep meeting clients this work could serve. And some just know, deep in their bones, that this is the next step, even before they can explain it.

Wherever you are on that spectrum, we made this video for you.

Can psilocybin therapy help people with chronic suicidal ideation? A study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry in 2026 suggests yes — and it maps directly onto the Oregon and Colorado facilitated models.

In this episode of Entheo Hour, Coeli Dwivedi, founder of Entheogen Institute and licensed psilocybin facilitator, shares the details of a landmark Sheppard Pratt study on psilocybin therapy and suicidal ideation, and a story from her own facilitation practice that the research brought back to the surface.

The study followed 20 adults with chronic suicidal ideation and treatment-resistant depression through a single supported 25mg psilocybin session with three preparation visits, two trained facilitators present throughout, and three integration sessions afterward. At 12 weeks, 70% reported minimal to no suicidal ideation with no serious adverse events.

Coeli breaks down what the results mean for facilitators practicing within the legal regulated model in Oregon and Colorado, where current suicidal ideation is considered a red flag for services — and why this research may be the beginning of a much larger conversation.

This is not a conversation about self-guided use. The container matters.

Read the study: https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.26m16338
Learn about psilocybin facilitator training: https://learn.entheogentraining.com/learn-more

What's the biggest lesson you learn after facilitating dozens of psilocybin journeys? For Coeli Dwivedi, founder of Entheogen Institute, it wasn't about de-escalation or holding someone through a hard emotion. It came down to a single moment with a client, one she still thinks about today. In this episode, she shares that story for the first time, and what it taught her about the line between helping and directing.

Can you journey on psilocybin while still on SSRIs? Dr. Alessio Luinetti — board-certified psychiatrist, Air Force veteran, and co-founder of The Zephyr Collective in Centennial, Colorado — joins Coeli to answer that question and a lot more.

They get into the biochemistry of psilocybin and serotonin receptors, why coming off SSRIs may actually be more harmful than staying on them, and how Dr. Luinetti thinks about his role as a physician in psychedelic-assisted care. He also shares what burned him out in traditional medicine, what drew him to this work personally, and why the Zephyr Collective is focused specifically on healing other healthcare providers.

A grounded, clinically informed conversation for anyone navigating the intersection of psychiatry and psychedelic medicine.

Clara Peratti has spent years supporting people through the gap between what medicine shows them and what their lives actually reflect. A psychosynthesis psychedelic integration coach and guest instructor at the Entheogen Institute, she joins Coeli Dwivedi, Founder of the Entheogen Institute, to talk about what deeper integration really takes — and why the experience alone is never the whole story.

They cover the resistance behind insight looping, how psychosynthesis and identity work complement psilocybin healing, what it means that healing is fundamentally relational, and why that first post-experience integration session sets the tone for everything that follows.

Entheogen Institute is the gold standard in psilocybin facilitation training. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and woman-owned.

Learn more at entheotraining.com

This episode discusses legally regulated psilocybin programs in Oregon and Colorado and is for educational purposes only. Always consult with a licensed facilitator or healthcare provider regarding your specific needs.

What does it actually mean to hold space for another person — and how do you learn to do it well?

In this episode of Entheo Hour, Coeli sits down with Acacia Land, somatic movement therapist, HeartMath coach, and instructor at Entheogen Institute, for a conversation about heart circles, co-regulation, and the relational skills that make a psilocybin facilitator genuinely effective.

Acacia breaks down what a heart circle is, the neuroscience behind why it works, and how learning to regulate your own nervous system is the foundation of holding space for anyone else. She and Coeli also get into the difference between a heart circle and a processing circle, why group facilitation is not an entry-level skill, and how this practice directly complements the neuroplastic window that psilocybin opens.

Learn more about facilitator training at entheotraining.com.

Oregon's regulated psilocybin services program has been running since 2023. Now we have the most comprehensive statewide data the field has ever seen.

In this episode, Coeli breaks down the first complete dataset from the Oregon Psilocybin Services Public Dashboard, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry in May 2026. She covers what 5,935 clients and 5,375 sessions actually showed, why a 99.48% safety rate across all legal psilocybin sessions is a turning point for the community-based model, who is seeking psilocybin services and why, and what it all means for facilitators and aspiring facilitators right now.

If you are working in psilocybin-assisted therapy, training to enter the field, or watching where psychedelic-assisted therapy is headed, this data is worth understanding.

Source: Yu Jr. F, Tafur J, Moreno F and Dahmer S (2026). Inaugural year of regulated psilocybin services in Oregon: safety, motivations, and utilization. Front. Psychiatry 17:1777387.

Learn more about facilitator training at entheotraining.com.

The HHS Secretary's announcement of the federal "MAHA Action Plan to Curb Psychiatric Overprescribing" has 38 million Americans asking a question they weren't asking before: what else is out there?

In this episode, Coeli breaks down what the SSRI deprescribing push actually means for people navigating this shift, and for the facilitators and aspiring facilitators working in this field. This is not a political conversation. It's a clinical one.

She covers the true scale of antidepressant use in the US, how SSRIs were designed versus how they've actually been prescribed, why psilocybin-assisted therapy is a research-backed alternative for depression, who is and isn't a good candidate, the latest neuroscience on neuroplasticity and the integration window, and what the standard of care actually requires from the people trained to hold this space.

The numbers are clear: as this conversation moves into the mainstream, the field is going to need a lot more trained facilitators.

If you're considering facilitator training, apply at entheotraining.com/apply-now-1.

Sources: PMC 2026 antidepressant prevalence study · CDC NCHS Data Brief April 2025 · KFF Health News Feb 2026 · Ward, Haslam & Prasad medRxiv 2025 · Nature May 2026 (psilocybin and neuroplasticity)