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Applying for Our 2025 Cohort
If you are interested in applying for our 2025 cohort please hit the application link below. The application will take about an hour to complete. For short essay sections you may want to save your work separately to make sure it is not lost if your connection is interrupted.
We are currently locking in dates for the cohort scheduled to begin April/March 2025. Final dates are not complete yet but you will be similar time/date ranges as the ones listed below for the current cohort in progress. We will update applicants and this website as we finalize course schedules and offerings.
Summary: Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program
Subtle Winds Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program is a 8 month course designed to prepare students for Oregon Health Authority certification as Psilocybin Facilitators. Our dedicated instructors have designed a curriculum that is rooted in contemporary healing modalities, respect for traditional wisdom, and decades of experience in psychedelic harm reduction approaches. We strive to create a culture of collaborative learning that embraces our shared humanness, our shared values, and our shared visions of creating transformational healing in the lives of those we seek to support.
The Program Parameters
* Program includes 9 modules that add up to 129.5 total class hours to be completed in 8 months. There will be a 40 hour practicum individualized for each student for a total of 169.5 training hours.
*Weekly classes are Online Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 – 7:45 pm
*Weekend trainings will be in person Friday and Saturday 8:00am – 5:00 pm.
Tuition and Fees
All students enrolling in the Subtle Winds Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program will be responsible for the following: application fee, enrollment fees, cost of tuition, cost for books, supplies, and food and lodging for three in person weekends over the course of the training, etc., and any other costs for which the student may be responsible.
The purpose of each fee is as follows:
*Application Fee: $25 (non-refundable) This fee is required at the time of application and is non-refundable. This fee covers the cost of processing your application.
*A withdrawal fee of $25 will be applied 5 days after the enrollment date.
• The non-refundable initial application fee is $25 dollars
• The cost of tuition for the program is $9000
• Enrollment fee $150
• The advanced deposit for the program is $850 to hold a space in an upcoming cohort, we will be asking for an additional $150 for the enrollment fee that will be applied to the overall tuition costs. This deposit is refundable up to 5 days after official enrollment documentation is signed and approved. If an approved student cancels their spot in the program, this fee is refunded minus the $150 enrollment fee, with an additional cancellation processing fee of $25 paid to Subtle Winds.
• Other instructional fees for books, supplies, in-person retreat costs, etc. will be the responsibility of the student and may vary. Currently estimated at up to $120 dollars for books and up to $800 dollars in total for all food and lodging for in-person training weekends. There are no other costs for which the student may be responsible.
Payment Options
Subtle Winds offers two payment options to make paying your tuition and fees as convenient as possible:
*Payment in full by the start of the students training cohort.
*6 month Installment payment plan due by the last day of each month. For more information on these payment options, please contact the fiscal department at connecting@subtlewinds.com.
Subtle Winds asks that students choose to pay either the full amount before the start of their assigned cohort or in monthly installments of $1333.33 with the full amount due 6 months after the start of their training cohort. This fee covers the cost of your training, practicum and certification. Student’s will not receive their certificate of completion until full payment is received.
The Subtle Winds Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program requires that all tuition paid in full by agreed upon deadlines.
If you have any questions regarding your account balance, please email the fiscal department at connecting@subtlewinds.com. A late payment fee of $25 will be assessed for any tuition and fees not paid by the published and agreed up deadlines. In addition, failure to pay tuition and fees by the published deadlines may result in a student’s course registration being canceled. Students will not receive final certification of course completion until all financial obligations are fulfilled.
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Historically Marginalized Communities and Low Income Student Discounts:
Subtle Winds is dedicated to increasing access for students who come from historically marginalized communities and/or who are low income. To this end, Subtle Winds has a discount/sliding scale program that may forgive 25% or 50% of the student’s tuition cost, depending upon each student’s income level, and the current ability of Subtle Winds to discount tuition per cohort.
How to Apply:Â
Students will submit a request for this discount through an application form. Discounts will be offered to those students who demonstrate this need, emphasizing those who come from historically Marginalized Communities including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other such communities including low income community members. We are limited in the amount of discounts we can offer and will assist as many students as possible in each cohort.
Criteria for Consideration:
In order to be eligible for a tuition discount, you must meet one or more of the following criteria.
*You are a student or trainee at our school.
*You are a member of a low-income and/or historically marginalized group.
*You are experiencing current financial hardship.
Next Steps & Scholarship Deadlines:Â
If you meet the criteria for a tuition discount, please fill out the waiver form found here, and provide supporting documentation explaining your request when you submit your application.Â
1. Tuition Discount requests must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the start of the training program.
2. Requests will be reviewed by the Enrollment Team and a decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.
3. Applicants will be notified of the decision via email. We ask that potential students who are considering applying for a discount first review the The Green Bottle Financial Privilege scale, to assist in determining their financial capabilities and level of financial privilege as we will only be able to offer a discount to a limited number of students in each cohort. This discount program allows Subtle Winds to offer financial assistance to those who need it most. Please apply if you find yourself in the low income bracket within the right hand side of the graph. Discounts will be considered on an individual basis to account for fairness.
Subtle Winds | Important Dates:
Student Orientation Session -- Time: 9 am - 3 pm.
Location: In town, in person.
Time: 9 - 5. Location: Mandala Sanctuary.
Time: 9 - 5. Location: Eugene
Asynchronous self guided learning, family groups meetings, and potential for practicum work.
Cohort 3 Enrollment is Closed.
Student Orientation Session -- Time: 9 am - 3 pm.
Location: In town, in person.
Time: 5:30 – 8pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Time: 9 - 5. Location: TBD
Time: 9 - 5. Friday and Saturday.
Tuition Payment Options
Tuition Paid in Full
$9,000
Paid in Full
Plus the cost of food/lodging for the in-person weekends and the cost of a couple books. This cost will support our efforts, pay for the in-person training spaces we are renting, and ensure we can compensate our instructors and all the folks making this project happen.
6 Month Payment Plan
$1333 Monthly
Billed over six months
Plus the cost of food/lodging for the in-person weekends and the cost of a couple books. This cost will support our efforts, pay for the in-person training spaces we are renting, and ensure we can compensate our instructors and all the folks making this project happen.
Frequently Asked Questions
We assume there will be application and annual license fees, but those exact costs are still under review as the final rules will be put in place Dec 29th , 2022. Please see the link below for the most recent updates from the Oregon Health Authority. We recommend that all students review the ORS’s once they are finalized at the end of the month. https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENTIONWELLNESS/Pages/Psilocybin-License-Facilitator.aspx.
Yes. There will be a test that we assume will cover information from both the final rules and information that will be provided through the training program. Our training program was designed around the requirements of OHA and approved by them in June, 2022. We are tracking the final rule making and plan to update our curriculum and courses to support our students in preparing for this test during the course.
Insurance companies are waiting for final rules to come out from Oregon Health Authority this month before making any commitments. Subtle Winds has been actively exploring this issue and have heard recently that a few insurance companies are motioning that they will provide liability insurance to service centers and facilitators, but we do not have any estimates of cost at this time.
To provide psilocybin services, facilitators will have to do work at a licensed service center. Subtle Winds and a few other groups are working to establish local service centers and individual facilitators can also establish locations through the OHA process. Currently final rules are still be created by OHA for service centers but currently it seems that service centers cannot be in residential areas so home offices will likely not be an option. Additionally, each county and city will have Time, Place, and Manner statues that will determine where and how service centers can operate.