PRATI Psilocybin Practicum Experience
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Welcome to the prati Psilocybin PRacticum Experience
We are pleased to offer a comprehensive program that meets the Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act (NMHA) requirements, designed to deepen your facilitation skills and expand your understanding of psychedelic-assisted therapy in a supportive, professional environment.
This four-day, in-person program will run from October 23 – 26, 2025 or November 13 – 16, 2025 . This course will begin on Thursday at 8:00 a.m. MT and will wrap up on Sunday around 12:00 p.m. MT.
Our NMHA-compliant practicum provides hands-on experience in preparation, integration, and an experiential component, where participants are invited to partake in the medicine themselves, allowing for a profound, firsthand understanding of the therapeutic process. This unique curation of supervisors and educators offers an opportunity to deepen your relationship to psilocybin facilitation and the medicine itself within the framework of the Colorado regulatory model.
The experiential space will be held in a culturally attuned and trauma-informed manner, ensuring a supportive and valuable experience for facilitators of all levels. This practicum will prepare facilitators to create safe, supportive spaces for diverse populations, fostering growth and competence in the evolving field of psychedelic-assisted therapy. By combining practical experience with expert guidance, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of psilocybin facilitation within the context of Colorado’s regulatory landscape.
This program and the practicum dates are contingent on our practicum site’s Healing Center License being approved. Applications for Natural Medicine Healing Center Licenses began getting reviewed in January, 2025. Should this not happen, or be delayed due to Healing Center Licensure, deposits will be refunded in full.
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What You will Learn
This practicum offers participants a unique opportunity to engage in the intentional practice of facilitation. Each practicum will have a capacity of 12-14 students, ensuring an intimate and focused learning experience. Participants will have the chance to experience the medicine firsthand and support others in their journeys. Our experienced staff will provide gentle guidance and support throughout the process, enhancing your development as a facilitator. This immersive approach allows for a deeper understanding of the therapeutic process and strengthens your ability to create safe, supportive spaces as a facilitator.
Program Eligibility
All participants are required to have successfully completed a Colorado-approved Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program prior to enrollment in this practicum experience.
Additionally, all participants will be required to complete a 1-hour individual intake as well as a 1-hour virtual group preparation session. More information on these requirements will be provided to registrants in the upcoming weeks.
Training Length of Stay
The PRATI Psilocybin Practicum is a four-day, in-person program that runs from October 23 – 26, 2025 or November 13 – 16, 2025. This course will begin on Thursday at 8:00 a.m. and will wrap up on Sunday around 12:00 p.m. All times listed are in the Mountain Time zone.
We encourage out-of-state students to arrive Thursday afternoon and depart Sunday evening or Monday morning to allow for sufficient grounding and integration before and after the program.
Location
Accommodations
Participants are responsible for booking their own accommodations near the practicum venue located at 1600 Pennsylvania St, Denver, CO 80206. To assist you in finding suitable lodging, we have provided a list of hotels in the area with various price ranges.
Lodging Options:
Cost
The price for this practicum experience is $3,000 (tuition price does not include accommodations or meals). A non-refundable deposit of $1,000 is required to secure your enrollment.
Please note that the cost of psilocybin mushrooms, which will be sourced from a certified NMHA provider, is not included in the program fee and will be an additional expense.
Full payment is due by September 22, 2025, or October 13, 2025, (depending on your practicum). You will receive an email with a link to pay the balance.
Cancellation Policy
Full payment deadline: September 22, 2025, or October 13, 2025, (depending on your practicum)
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 90 days prior to the practicum start date, you will receive a full refund, minus 50% of the deposit.
- Cancellations less than 90 days from the practicum start date forfeit the full 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.
Faculty And Staff
The supervision and facilitation of this event are led by integral members of the PRATI community. Our training faculty comprises a diverse group of professionals with varied backgrounds, training, and personal experiences. We are connected by our shared commitment to healing individuals, advancing our professions, and contributing to planetary well-being through the responsible use of psychedelic medicines. Each faculty member brings a wealth of teaching and research experience, driven by a deep dedication to advancing this important field of work.
Wilhelmina De Castro
Wilhelmina De Castro, LCSW (She/They) serves as PRATI’s Executive Director and is trained in KAP (Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy) through PRATI and MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy through MAPS. They support organizations in building justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives, systems, and cultures. Wilhelmina also works as a lead therapist in a Psilocybin Phase 3 Clinical Trial for Treatment-Resistant Depression and sits on the Advisory Board for Thank You Life.
As a Queer, Filipinx, non-binary person, they are deeply committed to anti-oppressive work, diversifying the psychedelic space, and uplifting the voices of BIPOC and LGBTQIA2s+ people. Wilhelmina is currently practicing KAP with individuals, groups, and families, and offering low-cost/donation-based KAP. She specializes in the areas of anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. She has significant experience in working with the Queer folx and People of the Global majority and communities that have been impacted by global and systemic oppression.
German Ascani, MD
German Ascani, MD, has a broad range of clinical experience having worked over a decade in public psychiatry, community mental health systems, and private practice in California. In his current Colorado practice he uses an integrative approach and uses Ketamine, including Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. He is a study physician and MAPS trained therapist working on the phase 3 study on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. German has particular interests in the potential for psychological, emotional and spiritual healing that new and emerging psychedelic medicines bring to the mental health field. He supports the clinical use of these powerful transformative tools to open up a process of deep exploration, self-reflection and lasting growth.
Chris Pateros
Christine Pateros, MA, RN is a global spiritual guide, ceremonialist, psychedelic-assisted nurse therapist, artist, author, healer, teacher and presenter. Chris serves as Course Director for PRATI’s End Of Life Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training, and is Lead Faculty and Operations Director for other PRATI offerings. Grounding in ecocentric ritual, ceremony and practices, and called to existential work, Chris’ seeking and mystical soul-seeing has awakened her spirit to support others to own and share their potent gifts in the world by guiding individuals and groups in embodied conscious living and dying practices through her private practice based in Denver, Colorado. Chris is a lineage carrier of the Qero mystics of the Peruvian Andes. She is a trained and certified ketamine-assisted therapist (Ketamine Training Center, 2019) and Ecopsychologist (MA 2022) and is MAPS MDMA trained (2024). As a mother who has lost a child, Chris is intimate with living and thriving with grief as a part of the medicine of life that she carries in her work in the world. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado with regular time spent in Chicago and Kythira, Greece.