Photo by Christian Bisbo Johnsen on UnsplashYou’ll come together for 8 weeks of possibility-expansion through the lens of design, creativity and play. By employing the skills of empathy-building & rapid prototyping, you will test & iterate your way forward, learning how to turn challenges & problems into expansive opportunities. You’ll walk away with a basic understanding of design & the confidence to explore this sometimes taboo topic with a new sense of daily applicability. This is the first step in unlocking your creative potential and building your community of like-minded creators.
[set]ting the stage for patient-centered care
Finding the right therapist can feel like dating: a delicate process of finding mutual fit, often during moments of crisis. From the tone of a medical intake form to the ambiance of your office, every detail serves as a vital touchpoint in a patient’s healing journey. Design is in the details. What feels safe and nurturing for one person may feel overwhelming for another—understanding these nuances is key to creating effective therapeutic environments.
This course helps you create safe, nurturing, and effective environments tailored to your patients ensuring every interaction is intentional and impactful.
Whether enhancing your current practice or building a new clinic, retreat, or service, you’ll leave with a personal design blueprint and a set of prototypes to deepen patient care.
Course Details
KEy Themes
Life-Centered Design
Adopt a holistic design approach that transforms patient empathy and understanding into designs that cultivate safety, care, and connection. Learn techniques for mapping patient journeys and designing empathetic touch points.
Designer’s Mindset
Learn rigorous methods for understanding what truly matters in high-stakes healing contexts. You’ll develop pattern recognition skills and concrete tools for moving from assumptions to actionable insights that inform better design decisions.
Creative Confidence
Build your creative problem-solving muscle through structured exercises adapted for healing systems. Learn to generate innovative solutions reliably, prototype experiences rapidly, and test ideas ethically—even within complex regulatory and cultural constraints.
Navigate Ambiguity
Thrive in uncertainty by recognizing meaningful design opportunities in an emerging field. Practice identifying leverage points, framing challenges that inspire action, and finding your next right step when the landscape constantly changes.
Who Should Attend
Mental Health & Wellness Practitioners seeking to integrate psychedelic modalities into their therapeutic toolkit.
Government Policymakers shaping regulations around psychedelic research, access, and use.
Venture Builders & Entrepreneurs exploring business opportunities within the emerging psychedelic market.
Individuals curious about psychedelic medicine and its potential for personal growth and healing.
Social Justice Advocates committed to ensuring equitable access to spiritual and healing practices involving sacred plants.
Course Format & Structure
Medicine will not be served in this course.
Live Virtual Journey
Weekly sessions designed as mini-journeys, each with opening rituals, thematic intentions, and integration activities that mirror the psychedelic experience structure.
Expert Guest Faculty
Industry leaders from medicine, policy, indigenous wisdom, mysticism, and clinical practice sharing cutting-edge insights through lectures and case studies.
Embodied Learning
Each session includes somatic practices—breathwork, meditation, drumming—to access altered states of consciousness without substances, emphasizing collaborative exploration and experiential learning activities.
Hands-On Prototyping
Rapid design challenges and creative exercises using play science and creative ideation to move beyond theory into tangible solution-building through critical inquiry.
Journey-Based Assignments
Weekly creative assignments that explore themes like consciousness, mysticism, and regeneration through design research, prototyping, and futures thinking exercises.
Community Co-Creation
Collaborative learning environment where students help shape course direction, contribute to a collective futures anthology, and participate in field-building conversations focused on making healing and wellness accessible to all.
2025 Scholarship Application
Scholarships are available, apply here.
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