PSMC CORE COMPETENCIES
Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist Apprenticeship is a three year program designed to engage successive levels of lineage empowerment, initiation, and focused mentorship resulting in a sanction by the plants themselves to serve others. Each year of training is a level of direct initiatory training to foster the development of specific shamanic core competencies.
Core Competencies of a Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist
This 3 year journey will support each apprentice to develop these core competencies:
Has received sanction from the Plant Spirit Medicine, ancestors, lineage, Pachamama, and Great Spirit to offer in this way & never takes this sanction for granted. It is received anew, each ceremony and each step of the journey.
Has developed clear consistent direct communication with Master Teacher Plant and Spirit Guides, so as to be their assistant.
Deep relationship rooted in love, devotion, and Ayni with Plant Spirit and Benevolent Guides.
See each client as already whole and as bringing an essential medicine and gift to Earth.
Ability to meet, discern, harmonize, and transform hucha, susto, and dano (dense energy, trauma, shock, and harm) for oneself and clients.
Embodied understanding of true healing, the role of the PSMC, and is able to consistently create the energetic and 3-D conditions in which true healing occurs.
Practiced ability to remain the “Eye of the Storm”, centered, grounded, and clear amidst the chaos and mess of another’s healing process.
Has a clear Vista (shamanic sight) and honed tools and self assessment to discern truth, distortion, illusion, and fantasy.
Holds “Vista en Virtud” for all who sincerely seek healing.
Practiced ability to remain coherent, clear, grounded, and calm within expanded states of consciousness.
Has a strong healthy mind, body, and fortified stable resilient bio-field- only practices offering ceremony for others when personally well. Has the tools and support of the community to return to wellness through life’s curveballs.
Holds everyone they encounter with unconditional positive regard, discriminative wisdom, and compassion.
Absolute devotion to living a daily life of service to All of Life.
Absolute devotion to mature self-care, personal practice, personal shadow work.
100% commitment to Truth, impeccable with words and actions, and repair of personal error or unintentional harm.
Resourced in an embodied gnosis of Love and Truth, empowered in personal Sovereignty and Wisdom.
Skillful means to meet clients with compassion, discernment, confidence, humility, and loving kindness.
Trauma-informed and committed to transparent explicit ethics of informed consent. Has an experientially based understanding of the dangers of projection, transference, and how to create relationships with clients that resource and empower their spiritual sovereignty and body autonomy.
Connected and collaborates with a network of interdisciplinary practitioners to help best support clients.
Is held within a circle and community of active mature mentorship and has an oversight counsel.
Deeply understands the risks and benefits of the master teacher plant that is being served. Can readily assess if a potential client would actually benefit from ceremonial work, the preparation, the appropriate dosing, and supported integration.
Is very well practiced in the Art of Ceremony, including appropriate prayers, songs, practices, and energetic tending of the container.
Year One- The Way of Reverence- “Khuyay Tusoq Hampi ”
Three Virtues we will cultivate:
Devotion
Honour
Clarity (Clear Hearing, Clear Seeing, Clear Knowing)
Three Core Competencies:
Build direct and deep connection with plant spirit medicine ceremony as a personal healing practice.
Learn how to accurately perceive the guidance of PSM and how to construct a ceremonial container of “resource and empowerment” for yourself.
Learn how to accurately hear, perceive and know that the guidance you are receiving is of the greatest benevolence for sanctioned practice with Master Teacher plants.
More of What You Will Be Learning in Year 1- The Way of Reverence
“Khuyay Tusoq Hampiq ” – Learning to be a Loving Apprentice to Sacred Medicines
Deepening relationship with the Shamanic Universe and Sacred Plant Teachers through devoted personal practice.
This year of apprenticeship will be a deep dive learning container to:
Learn how to cultivate direct communication with Plant Spirits.
Develop a deep, loving relationship with Plant Spirits and Guides.
Receive guidance directly from Plant Spirits as to the ceremonial path and personal approach to healing with the plants.
Learn how to receive true, good, and clear sanction from Plant Spirit medicines, Guardians of Ayni, Benevolent Guides, Pachamama, and Great Spirit.
Learn how to align your life and ceremonial work to the power of Nature, the cycles of Earth, Sun, and Moon, as well as the unique medicine power of the land.
With a fully activated heart, body and mind, learn how to distinguish Truth, distortion, and meet adversarial energies within yourself (we have to learn this within ourselves first, before we can help support others in this way.)
Build the Kallpa (power base) of your sacred healing container and Mesa, through devoted offerings, pilgrimage, and focused practice.
Learn the Way of Reverence as the foundation to any further service to and with the Sacred Plant Medicines.
Learn and embody “The Circles of Sanctuary”.
What is not taught in Year One- “The Way of Reverence”
In the “Way of Reverence” we are experiencing, growing, and deepening into a personal relationship with the Master Teacher plants. This personal relationship is the foundation of all of our healing practice yet to come. This is what is too often missed in the psychedelic and plant medicine communities. While almost everyone called to be of service in shamanism, plant spirit medicine, and psychedelic therapy has a true and sincere call to help others- many facilitators are relatively inexperienced, inadequately trained, and lack the personal practice to build the kallpa (power) and maturity necessary to assist the plants in a clear, grounded and humble way.
The level of unintentional harm happening to individuals within the “medicine spaces” at this time is vast, devastating and sobering. We are referred to new community members every month in recovery from psychedelic or ceremonial trauma, susto, and dano.
We are not willing to train those who would allow their desire to “get there fast” to cause potential harm to others. While this 3 year program is far “faster” than any traditional apprenticeship, becoming a Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist is a 24/7 lifetime commitment. Only you can truly cultivate the skillful means, strong relationships to the plants, kallpa (raw natural power) and hampi (beautiful medicine) of your poqpo and mesa.
However by going slower, we truly “get there” faster. These three journeys will grow a mighty foundation for a truly successful and honorable medicine practice. Plus as you keep going, we will co-create and develop the Plant Spirit Medicine Wisdom-Heart Council. This council will be a interdisciplinary, multigenerational, council of wise heart centered practitioners holding the vision of birthing the Medicine for the New Earth and the alignment of ceremonial practice to our developed “Code of Honour.”
We will begin to co-create this “Code of Honour” on the first day we gather together in the opening retreat for this program.