Sunrise Ranch
Loveland, Colorado
Sunrise Ranch is located in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains about one hour from Denver. Besides being a resort and retreat center, it is also an intentional spiritual community and a working sustainable ranch. The farm-to-table food is delicious and inspiring in quality.
**Tuition price does not include accommodations or meals.**
In addition to making tuition payment to PRATI, all participants must register with Sunrise Ranch separately, as they charge by the bed, not by the room. This payment will also includes all of the meals you will be receiving during the training. Accommodation options include shared and private rooms. We require all trainees to stay onsite for the duration of the training course to ensure safety and support group cohesion. Additionally, we do not allow family and friends to stay with trainees at Sunrise Ranch during the training experience, as this is disruptive to the container.
Course Director: Christine Pateros, RN, is a Shamanic Energy Medicine practitioner and ketamine therapist guiding and teaching private clients and groups to connect to their inner wisdom and essence. After “dying” in the Amazon jungle in 2011 in her own life affirming psychedelic journey, Christine’s course as a healer was transformed from nurse and clinical drug researcher to Cranio Sacral therapist, energy healing practitioner, and psychedelic therapist. Christine’s deep interest in research and the healing powers of psychedelics fuels her work so these medicines may be accessible to those they can help.
Mary Cosimano, LMSW has been with the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research since 2000 when they began research with psilocybin. She is currently a Psychedelic Session Facilitator and has served as Director of Clinical Services and as a research coordinator. She has been involved with all the psilocybin studies and has conducted over 500 study sessions including Club Drug studies with Salvia Divinorum and Dextromethorphan. Mary has trained post doctorate fellows, faculty, clinicians, and research assistants as guides and taught individual and group meditation to breast cancer patients in a Johns Hopkins research study. She is a teacher and mentor at California Institute to Integral Studies for their Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research (CPTR) certificate program and conducts trainings for therapists in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. In 2003 she started a meditation group for employees in her department. She also has 15 years of experience with direct patient care as a hospice volunteer.
Darren Fisher, RN has a Bachelor’s in Psychology with a concentration in Buddhist psychology and a second Bachelor’s in Nursing. He has spent years studying and practicing meditation in Asia and has facilitated meditation groups in the US. A hospice nurse for the last 9 years, he attended the Fall 2021 PRATI training after learning about the positive role psychedelics have played in end of life care. Interested in the many benefits of group work, he has created and co-facilitated group KAT retreats focused on healing and spiritual deepening. Darren is a musician and enjoys curating and creating sound experiences to support clients in their psychedelic experience.
Catherine Beckett, LCSW, PhD has provided psychotherapy with a specialization in grief, loss and trauma since 1994, in a variety of settings including community agencies, addiction treatment centers, hospitals, and both adult and pediatric hospice. Her doctoral research focused on training mental health providers to work with grief, and she has designed and taught workshops and courses for professionals across the country. In addition to more mainstream counseling approaches, her practice draws from her training as an End of Life Doula and Reiki Master Practitioner. She completed her certification in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute in Colorado, and advanced KAP training with Polaris in San Francisco; she is grateful to be able to offer KAP as a treatment option in her private therapy practice in Portland, OR.
Charlotte Charfen, MD is a board-certified Emergency Physician with over 20 years of experience in the field of Life & Death, living on the Big Island of rural Hawaii. In addition to emergency medicine, she has a private practice focused on end-of-life and serious illness support and helped found the North Hawaii based nonprofit, Life & Death Wellness. Their mission is to educate and support on all of life matters, but especially the end as a method to embrace one's life fully. But it was her patients that taught her the power of psychedelics at end-of-life and prompted her training with PRATI in 2021. Dr. Charfen is convinced that addressing our own mortality in addition to mental, and spiritual poise, are the keys to thriving in our world at any phase of life.
Stephen Thomas, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and KAP practitioner in Fort Collins, Colorado. Formerly, he worked in nonprofit development and has been involved in media, education, and events promoting psychedelic medicines for over a decade. He is a board member of the Nowak Society, a Colorado nonprofit that helps build community and advance critical discussions in the psychedelic movement. Stephen has a keen interest in the role that these powerful teacher plants and molecules can play in resolving psychospiritual distress and healing the wounds of disconnection behind our mounting ecological, social, and political crises. In his work with PRATI, Stephen serves as the Course Director of the Foundational KAP Training Program and curates KAP playlists with a passion for music's ability to facilitate growth and transformation.
Event Coordinator: Stephanie Thomas, PharmD, NTP, CGP, is a pharmacist, a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and a certified GAPS practitioner focusing on the interplay between nutritional and mental health. In conjunction with the experience she has gained through her 400-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, she is well versed on the delicate and complex synergy between the gut, mind and body and is passionate about the healing potential these holistic treatment modalities can provide.
$2,985 - Professionals (LPC, LCSW, LMFT, PhD, APN, NP, PA, RN, etc.)
$4,425 - Physicians (MD, DO)
$500 - Scholarship Ticket (Professionals or Physicians)
**Price does not include accommodations or meals.
All participants are required to make a reservation at Sunrise Ranch in addition to making tuition payment to PRATI. We require all trainees to stay onsite for the duration of the training course to ensure safety and support group cohesion.
Accommodation prices range from $91 to $207 per night (roughly $360-$820 for a 4-night stay), with a variety of options from camping, dorm style arrangements, and private rooms in shared apartments. These fees also include all meals provided while onsite at the training.
Upon registering and paying the deposit (for Standard Tickets), your space is secured for this training. Scholarship applicants not selected will receive a full refund for their deposit. We look forward to connecting with you!
Full payment of the tuition balance is due by April 8, 2024 or you will lose your deposit. You will receive an email with a link to pay the balance.
Cancellation Policy
Full payment deadline: April 8, 2024
Deposits are non-refundable (with exceptions for Scholarship ticket holders) and non-transferable. We are unable to transfer tuition payments to a subsequent training in the event of any cancellations. Please understand that cancellations impose a burden on our staff and the below policy covers us in the event we are unable to fill a cancelled spot.
- If you cancel more than 60 days prior to the training start date, you will receive a full refund of tuition fees, minus deposit.
- If you cancel after the full payment deadline up to 2 weeks from the training start date, you will be refunded 50% of tuition fees, minus deposit.
- Cancellations 2 weeks or less from the training start date forfeit all of the tuition fees.
I have participated in a variety of KAP trainings through different organizations over the last year and have learned a lot along the way and had lots of good experiences. PRATI's training, however, was above and beyond any expectations I have for quality of information delivered, skillfulness in group facilitation, and the safety of the holding environment for the experiential part of the training. I highly recommend training through PRATI.
- Amy Everson, LMFT
The PRATI organization is powerful, embodied, extremely inclusive and well organized. Highly recommend any training they offer. The staff is so experienced and knowledgeable and a very welcoming community. I can't wait to do more trainings with them!
- Carolyn Cubberly, RN
After having several experiences where I felt ignored and/or harmed in psychedelic training spaces as a Black woman, coming to PRATI was a healing and corrective experience I am so happy to have had. The only program I plan on doing psychedelic trainings with going forward. Thank you!
- Mercedes Hightower, MSW, LCSW-C
