University of Colorado Denver Opening Psychedelic Facilitator Program

As natural medicine healing centers open around the state to offer psilocybin-assisted therapy, the University of Colorado Denver is preparing to launch its own program. The new set of courses, intended to train natural medicine facilitators, will come from the one-year-old Center for Psychedelic Research .

Dr. Vivian Shyu, a teaching professor in CU Denver's psychology department and Director of Education and Training at the Center for Psychedelic Research, is spearheading the new program. Shyu's background in cognitive neuroscience led her down the path of psychedelic inquiry "from that very science-y place," she says.

Shyu completed MDMA facilitator training with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) several years back when MAPS's pharmaceutical company