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.

AMHI's tuition is $3,000 for the coursework and $1,000 for the practicum.

• Meet our educators:
• Director of Education: Nikki Johnson: Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. psychology program.
• Lead Educator: Kristy Martin: Has taught college courses in economics, statistics, and molecular biology.

Schedule for 2025

The program will run for 20 weeks with three hours of online classes and three hours of self-study (reading the textbook, writing an occasional essay) per week. The final week will wrap up the coursework, and will entail preparing for and taking the final exam. This will prepare the student to pass Oregon’s state-licensing exam. 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.

AMHI’s Autumn 2025 cohort will run begin on July 8 and end on November 23. We will discuss with students the exact days that would be most convenient for the group as a whole, but at the present time this is the tentative schedule:

Section on Monday and Thursday

Section on Sunday

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:

• (a) Historical, traditional, and contemporary practices and applications: 12 hours.
• (b) Cultural equity in relation to psilocybin services: 12 hours.
• (c) Safety, ethics, and responsibilities: 12 hours.
• (d) Psilocybin pharmacology, neuroscience, and clinical research: 4 hours
• (e) Core facilitation skills: 16 hours.
• (f) Preparation and orientation: 16 hours.
• (g) Administration: 20 hours.
• (h) Integration; 12 hours.
• (i) Group facilitation: 16 hours.

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.

AMHI is now accepting applications for students who wish to study during the final class of 2025.