Program Faculty

Our instructors are passionate about teaching and committed to our students’ success. Our instructors have experience with plant medicine and many of them are licensed facilitators and they allow their work in this field to inform their teaching. Additionally, they bring a wealth of knowledge from complementary realms into the classroom and are dedicated to helping our students reach their full potential.

Terra MacDonald

Guest Instructor, Monthly Facilitator Support Circle
Terra facilitates learning and experiencing healthy boundaries, nervous system health, the importance of understanding the vagus nerve and its functions, as well as introducing us to the subtle energy fields. She helps us to step into a non-directive approach to facilitation, by modeling the approach in her teaching. Terra shows us how to create a safe and sacred space that calms the nervous system and facilitates deep healing. She reinforces the core competencies of facilitation in her teaching. In addition to teaching in the program, Terra leads our monthly facilitator support circles.
A Craniosacral Therapist, Coach and Mentor offering somatic integration with a blend of healing modalities, Terra is the Founder of Core Cranial LLC. Terra is a natural guide for assisting individuals in coming home to themselves and for living in harmony with their outer world. She brings compassion and patience to reveal truth, inner awareness and liberation through holding sacred space and allowing people to be at the helm of their own healing process.
Her passion is to awaken and support others in honing in their unique gifts in the physical, emotional, mental, energetic and spiritual realms. She has cultivated the ability to work within these planes simultaneously, utilizing techniques she has studied, learned and practiced, and she loves to share these with those who are interested and working in the healing arts.

Nancy L. Morgan, MS, PhD, BC-TMH

Guest Instructor

Licensed PAT Facilitator
Dr. Morgan’s classes are life changing and profound. She enriches our program by weaving Internal Family Systems, or Parts Work, into the classroom, and into our lives.

Dr. Morgan is a licensed clinical psychologist in California and a licensed professional counselor in both Oregon and Colorado. She provides Introduction to IFS training for therapists and educators and Introduction to Psychedelics training and consultation for IFS-trained therapists and practitioners interested in learning about psychedelic- assisted therapies and research. Nancy is an Assistant Trainer for the IFS Institute, a Certified IFS Therapist, and an approved IFS Consultant. She received her Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies which included MAPS MDMA training, her Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy certification through the Ketamine Training Center, and her Psychedelic-Assisted Facilitation certification from the State of Oregon. She has a private practice in Ashland, Oregon. www.theguideinside.com.

Benjamin Malcolm, PharmD, MPH

Guest Instructor

Dr. Malcolm shares his knowledge with us in Module 4, Psilocybin Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics and Neuroscience. He is the founder of the website www.spiritpharmacist.com and currently works as a Psychopharmacology Consultant and Psychedelic Educator.
He earned his Masters in Public Health (MPH) and Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD) at Touro University California. He then completed post-graduate residencies in Acute Care at Scripps Mercy Hospital and Psychiatric Pharmacy at the University of California at San Diego Health.

Dr. Malcolm envisions a society where access to psychedelic drugs in a variety of safe and supported settings is available for purposes of psychospiritual well-being, personal development, ceremonial sacraments, and treatment of mental illness. His vision guides his clinical and education service-related professional activity.

Christo Pellani BS

Guest Instructor
Christo Pellani brings ceremony and subtle energy work into the classroom teaching us integrative techniques from around the world. He teaches us by guiding us into alternate states of consciousness using our ceremony, breath, our own voice, drum, movement, and sound healing.
Christo is the founder and creator of VITALIZE and HARMONIZE tm Health Coaching and SOUNDFORMATION Music, tm He facilitates human potential for personal growth and well being both virtually and in person, by blending results based Health Coaching protocols with principles of energy, sound, movement, and rhythm therapies.
He is recognized internationally as an experienced proficient Health Coach, Expressive Therapist,Healing arts Educator and Practitioner. He is also renowned as a Master Drummer, Teaching Artist, and retreat Seminar Facilitator.

Christo is certified in many energetic healing arts practices including:

  • B.S. Therapeutic Recreation Penn State University
  • Certified Tama-Do tm Practitioner (Sound/Color/Movement therapy)
  • Certified REMO Health Rhythms tm Drum Circle Facilitator
  • Certified Theta Healing tm Practitioner
  • Certified Reconnective Healing tm Practitioner
  • Certified REIKI 1 Practitioner
  • EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tm Practitioner
  • Institute for Shamanic Studies initiate graduate

Sha’ana Fineberg ( initials coming soon)

GuestInstructor
Dr. Sha’ana Fineberg is a Psychologist of 45 years (licensed in 3 states), and an Oregon Licensed PAT Facilitator. During her varied career, in addition to working individually with adults she also created and directed two group-based programs – a federally funded Arts & Wilderness program for at-risk teenagers (where she also trained and supervised the staff), and a Breathwork Centre in Australia. Sha’ana also studied for 14 years with the Source School of Tantra, increasing her understanding of emotion and energy movement through the body. Dr. Finebrerg’s personal medicine path was with Ayahuasca. She understands depth journeys because she herself has been a lifelong traveler in those realms. In the PAT Ecosystem, Dr. Fineberg is focused on group facilitation and creating practicum opportunities for facilitator students.

Renee Frye

GuestInstructor
Renee brings in a wellness approach and teaches de-escalation for PAT facilitators. She shows us how to handle people who are in a “reactive trauma response” and in an alternative state of consciousness. She also teaches us about the dimensions of wellness, so we can help ourselves and our clients find balance.
Renee Frye is a Trauma Healing Holistic Specialist who provides healing-centered life wellness coaching and indigenous trauma healing, and second cohort graduate. Renee is the author of Deconstructing Trauma, a holistic approach to unwinding trauma, and one of the books we use in our program. Renee is the founder of https://sacredsolhealing.com/.

Certifications:

  • Peer Support Specialist: Adult Addictions & Mental Health
  • Recovery Mentor
  • Holistic Wellness Life Coach and Educator
  • Deconstructing Trauma Program: Author, Coach, Trainer, and Motivational Speaker
  • Indigenous Healer and Spiritual Guide
  • Mindfulness Expert and Advanced Yoga Instructor
  • Master Reiki Practitioner
  • QPR Instructor
  • TRE Provider