Travis Kern 7/21/25 Travis Kern 7/21/25

The Trouble with Trauma Talk

Trauma-informed care is essential, but overreliance on trauma language can limit growth, obscure resilience, and inflate fragility. This post explores how facilitators can work with nuance, uphold consent, and support transformation without pathologizing every form of human difficulty.

Travis Kern 7/15/25 Travis Kern 7/15/25

A Milestone in Colorado

Acadia, in partnership with The Center Origin, completes the first licensed practicum training in the State of Colorado

Travis Kern 7/7/25 Travis Kern 7/7/25

What We Owe Each Other: Community, Boundary, and Reciprocity in Facilitator Networks

Facilitators benefit from networks built on mutual support, clear boundaries, and shared responsibility. The work is demanding and cannot be carried alone. Sustainable practice grows through steady relationships, honest conversation, and structures that make long-term care—for clients and each other—possible.

Travis Kern 6/23/25 Travis Kern 6/23/25

Navigating Ethics in Psychedelic Work: Consent, Power, and the Sacred

Ethical facilitation is more than forms and protocols—it’s presence, reflection, and responsibility. Power is always in the room. The question is: are you aware of it, and are you using it with care?

Travis Kern 6/9/25 Travis Kern 6/9/25

The Summer of Psychedelics: Hope, Hype, and the Heat of Transformation

Summer brings heat, hype, and hope to the psychedelic field. Cultural energy is rising, but not all growth is rooted. As the season expands, facilitators must discern what’s blossoming—and what’s just marketing in bloom.

Travis Kern 5/26/25 Travis Kern 5/26/25

The Sacred and the Price Tag: How Facilitators Can Hold the Tension

Facilitating psilocybin journeys in Oregon means walking a narrow path between sacred work and financial survival. There may not be easy answers, but there are ways to walk with integrity, clarity, and care.

Travis Kern 5/12/25 Travis Kern 5/12/25

Is This Work Sacred? Or Just Expensive?

Psilocybin facilitation is sacred work—but it’s also expensive. As the legal model unfolds, we’re forced to ask: are we offering healing or selling ceremony? And can we hold both truthfully, without losing the soul of the work?

Travis Kern 4/28/25 Travis Kern 4/28/25

The Money Myth: What Psilocybin Facilitators Actually Earn (and Spend)

Psilocybin facilitation isn’t a gold rush—it’s slow, sacred work. Most facilitators aren’t earning big, but even one session a month can shift a life. This is the truth behind the dream.

Travis Kern 4/14/25 Travis Kern 4/14/25

Are You Ready for This? The Hidden Curriculum of Psilocybin Training

Facilitator training teaches the tools—but cannot entirely capture the terrain. The real curriculum unfolds as you hold space for your clients. This isn’t just a job. It’s a practice.

Travis Kern 3/31/25 Travis Kern 3/31/25

Psychedelics Are Not Medicine (And Also Totally Are)

Psychedelics aren’t medicine in the way we’re used to thinking. They don’t fix—they reveal. In the space between story and sensation, healing emerges, not from the compound, but from connection, presence, and profound remembering.