Psilocybin-Facilitator Training Program Approved by the Oregon Health Authority

AMHI’s Psychedelic-Facilitator Training Program

The Alfred M. Hubbard Institute educates psychedelic facilitators to work in Oregon’s licensed psilocybin-service centers or similar settings elsewhere. Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS) is a section of the Oregon Health Authority. OPS approved AMHI’s curriculum as meeting the requirements for our graduates to apply for a psilocybin-facilitator license.

The Alfred M. Hubbard Institute is commonly known as AMHI (pronounced "am hi"). AMHI’s psilocybin-facilitator training program teaches students about society’s changing attitudes towards psychedelics. AMHI also imparts an understanding of the legal requirements for psilocybin facilitators. And most importantly, AMHI teaches a firm foundation of the actual process of facilitation.

AMHI training not only teaches the art of facilitation, it also emphasizes developing critical-thinking skills, good writing skills, and public-speaking ability. In other words, we want to produce facilitators who are good at thinking and communicating. Due to today’s declining educational standards, even many licensed professionals who went through graduate school have weak writing ability and are shy about public speaking. AMHI realizes that you may need gentle guidance to help develop your critical-thinking skills so that you can effectively analyze evidence, figure out logical interpretations about the known facts, and arrive at rational conclusions about the entire situation. Therefore, AMHI training involves having robust discussions in order to debate concepts. We give our students the opportunity to practice articulating their ideas both verbally and in writing, within a comfortable and low-pressure environment.

Schedule for the Winter 2024 Cohort

The program will run for 12 weeks. Each of the first 11 weeks will have five hours of self-study and five hours of online classes held in the evenings on either two weekdays or on Sunday. The final week will be preparing for, and then taking, the final exam. This will prepare the student to pass the state exam. The winter cohort for 2024 will run from 1-October till 21-December. The program will end before the Christmas holidays.

The classes are scheduled to accommodate students who work. In order to provide some flexibility, students can attend either two weekday classes or a single Sunday class. Both sections cover the same course content. Even if you ordinarily attend one section, if something comes up in a given week you are welcome to attend the other section.

Tuesday and Thursday

  • Pacific Time: 6 PM till 8:30 PM
  • Mountain Time: 7 PM till 9:30 PM
  • Central Time: 8 PM till 10:30 PM
  • Eastern Time: 9 PM till 11:30 PM
  • Sunday

  • Pacific Time: 3 PM till 8 PM
  • Mountain Time: 4 PM till 9 PM
  • Central Time: 5 PM till 10 PM
  • Eastern Time: 6 PM till 11 PM
  • The AMHI Curriculum

    Our 124-hour coursework is conducted online. The AMHI curriculum conforms to the legal requirements of the Oregon Psilocybin Services Act by providing 120 hours of instruction on these nine topics:

    AMHI also offers an additional four hours of training on the use of psychedelics for enhancing creativity, learning skills, and solving technical problems.

    Our 40-hour practicum consists of one or two in-person meetings. This satisfies Oregon's requirement that students observe facilitation or view films of facilitation. AMHI is now accepting applications for students who wish to study during the final quarter of 2024 or during the first four months of 2025.

    Sometime in 2025, AMHI hopes to expand its program to 155 hours spread out over four months. We intend this expanded curriculum to conform to both Oregon’s Psilocybin Services Act and the requirements of Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Program. The AMHI program intends to apply for approval in Colorado as preparation for the opening of “natural-medicine healing centers” in that state.