LIVING BRIDGES TRAINING PROGRAM
The Mazatec Fellowship
for Psychedelic Practitioners
A professional fellowship taught with Mazatec teachers from the Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca. Learn directly from the tradition that has carried this knowledge for generations, and build a working bridge into your own Western practice.
In plain terms: a [TBD: N]-month professional program. You join a small cohort of experienced practitioners for [TBD: N] live online journeys with Mazatec and Western faculty, and one multi-day in-person intensive in the Netherlands where you train practically with [TBD: Mazatec teacher name]. [TBD: confirm rhythm and hours]
First cohort expected [TBD: timeframe]
A fellowship, not a training in ceremony.
We do not certify anyone in Mazatec tradition and we do not teach participants to imitate it. We teach what Mazatec teachers choose to share, and the professional capacities to bring it into Western practice with integrity.
WHY THIS FELLOWSHIP EXISTS
Western psychedelic practice adopted the molecule and left the knowledge behind.
Psilocybin is entering clinics, protocols, and licensure programs across Europe. That progress is real. But the compound arrived without the knowledge system it comes from.
The Mazatec people of the Sierra Mazateca have worked with psilocybin mushrooms across generations: how to prepare people, how to hold a session, how to read what unfolds, how to weave the experience back into family, community, and daily life. Western training programs teach almost none of this, because almost nobody in the West can.
This fellowship exists to close that gap. Not by imitating Mazatec practice, but by learning from it directly and building a bridge that holds in your own professional context.
Learn from the source, not from summaries.
The Mazatec content of this program is taught with Mazatec teachers, on their terms. [TBD: teaching mode and interpretation details]
Reciprocity built in, not bolted on.
A defined share of fellowship revenue flows directly to Mazatec-led initiatives, with Mazatec say over what is taught and how. Details below. [LAUNCH-GATE: real numbers before public]
Six journeys and one intensive.
From the source to your practice
01 - From Treatment to Relationship
Limits of symptom-reduction models
Relational approaches to healing
Healing as restoration of relationship
Individual, collective, and ecological dimensions of wellbeing
02 - Mazatec Cosmology & Ethics
Introduction to Mazatec worldview
Reciprocity and responsibility
Sacred relationship to place
Cultural context and knowledge stewardship
03 - Territory, Place & Biocultural Intelligence
Place-based knowledge systems
Territory as teacher
Ecological awareness and repair
Biocultural stewardship frameworks
04 - Relational Integration
Beyond individual integration
Family, community, and systems integration
Reciprocity practices
Long-term integration pathways
05 - Facilitating Across Knowledge Systems
Two-Eyed Seeing approaches
Working between Indigenous and clinical frameworks
Ethics of cultural interface
Building trust across worldviews
06 - Stewardship & Future Practice
Reciprocal partnership models
Cultural continuity and responsibility
Governance and accountability
Designing life-serving healing ecosystems
The Netherlands Intensive
A multi-day in-person training with [TBD: Mazatec teacher name] in the Netherlands. [TBD: N] days of practical work: [TBD: content, e.g. session craft, preparation and aftercare practice, group practicum]. [TBD/LAUNCH-GATE: precise statement on whether work within the legal Dutch truffle framework is part of the intensive, offered separately, or not part of the program.]
Meet the Faculty
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[TBD: Name of Mazatec teacher]
[TBD: role in the community, in their own words]. [TBD: authorized 3 to 5 sentence bio]. [TBD: photo with explicit consent]
If the Mazatec teacher chooses not to be named publicly, used only with their explicit approval: "Out of respect for community protocols, our Mazatec teacher chooses to be introduced personally to fellowship participants rather than publicly online."
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Ryan
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[TBD: role, e.g. program steward and bridge; relationship to the community, since when; professional background] -
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Florian
TBD
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Additional faculty
Further Mazatec and Western teachers, integration specialists, clinicians, and researchers are joining the circle and will be introduced as the founding cohort approaches. Each journey is led by the people closest to its knowledge. [TBD: name confirmed additions as they land]
WHO IS IT FOR?For practitioners who carry real responsibility in psychedelic and transformational work.
Psychedelic therapists
Clinic founders and directors
Facilitators
Researchers
Participation is by application. Cohorts stay small because the depth of this work depends on who is in the room. What matters is not seniority but active practice: you are currently working with people in therapeutic or transformational processes. [TBD: confirm criteria, cohort size]
Integration practicioners
Mental Health Innovators
OUTCOMES
What you will be able to do?
01 - Ground your psychedelic work in a living tradition instead of secondhand summaries of it.
02 - Design integration processes that include family, community, and life context, not only the individual.
03 - Recognize and navigate cultural interface tensions in your own practice.
04 - Structure ethical, reciprocal working agreements with Indigenous knowledge holders.
05 - Explain the shift beyond the treatment model to colleagues, boards, and clients.
06 - Apply stewardship principles to how your clinic, practice, or program is governed.
[TBD: Certificate of completion / CE recognition, in clarification]
RECIPROCITY
How this fellowship gives back
A fellowship built on Mazatec knowledge must return value to the Mazatec community. Visibly, and on terms the community shapes.
[TBD: X]% of all fellowship revenue goes to [TBD: named Mazatec-led structures, e.g. language preservation, elder support, youth cultural education]
Decisions about Mazatec content require [TBD: consent/veto mechanism] by our Mazatec partner(s)
We publish an annual accounting of what flowed where [TBD: confirm]
Format & Facts
DURATION
FORMAT
THE INTENSIVE
FIRST COHORT
[TBD: N] days, [TBD: location/venue region], with [TBD: Mazatec teacher name]
[TBD: timeframe]
COHORT SIZE
INVESTMENT
LANGUAGE
[TBD: e.g. 6 journeys over 6 months]
Live online sessions plus one multi-day in-person intensive in the Netherlands
[TBD: N]
[TBD: price range, or "announced to the waitlist first"]
English [TBD: plus interpretation from Mazatec/Spanish where applicable]
Frequently Asked Questions
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VERSION A
The online journeys do not involve substances. The Netherlands intensive includes [TBD: optional] work within the legal Dutch framework (psilocybin truffles), fully voluntary and held by [TBD: teacher/team].VERSION B
No. The fellowship works with knowledge, practice, and worldview, not with substances. -
It's the right question to ask. This fellowship does not transmit ceremonial practice and does not certify anyone in Mazatec tradition. It is built with Mazatec teachers, on their terms, with structural reciprocity. See "How this fellowship gives back."
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[TBD, recommended:] No fixed threshold. We look for active practice and real responsibility for other people's processes, whether therapeutic, facilitative, or organizational.
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In the Netherlands. [TBD: region, venue type, accessibility, accommodation handling]
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[TBD: session rhythm, live vs. recorded, time zones, expected hours per month]
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