A Milestone in Colorado

Acadia Completes the First Legal Psilocybin Practicum at The Center Origin

This past week, Acadia Professional Learning completed a landmark step in our training program: the first legal psilocybin practicum training in the state of Colorado. Hosted at The Center Origin in Denver, this inaugural practicum marks not just a milestone for our curriculum, but a historic moment in the rollout of Colorado’s regulated psilocybin services.

As the first practicum of its kind in the state, this training brought together licensed facilitators, supervised trainees, and client journeys under the newly legal framework. While the broader system continues to develop, this successful practicum demonstrates that meaningful, ethical, and well-supported psychedelic services are already possible—and happening.

Like many firsts, this one came with its share of challenges. Colorado’s psilocybin regulatory infrastructure is still coming online, and we experienced multiple delays as final approvals were issued for licensed growers and certified testing laboratories. These setbacks required flexibility, patience, and a great deal of coordination. Throughout it all, our trainees showed extraordinary adaptability, staying focused and prepared despite shifting timelines. And The Center Origin—under the calm and skillful leadership of Mikki Vogt—remained a steady partner in making sure that once the final pieces were in place, everything was ready to go.

This work would not have been possible without the exceptional leadership of Mikki Vogt, clinical director and practicum site supervisor at The Center Origin. From the earliest planning stages through the final sessions, Mikki held this process with both clinical rigor and steady heart. Her attention to detail, her calm professionalism, and her deep trust in the work created a container where learning could flourish and clients could be genuinely supported.

Mikki did more than manage logistics. She cultivated an environment in which trainees felt mentored and empowered, in which clients were met with care and dignity, and in which the spirit of the Colorado model could begin to take real shape. That’s no small feat in a new and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.

This first practicum was also a proof of concept—not only for Acadia’s training approach, but for Colorado’s position in the vanguard of states leading the development of responsible and community-rooted psychedelic services. It showed what can happen when legal infrastructure, ethical training, and grounded facilitation come together.

We’re proud of what this cohort accomplished, and we’re especially grateful to Mikki and the entire team at The Center Origin for hosting this experience with such excellence. As we look ahead to future practicums across the state, this first chapter will serve as a model—for what is possible, and for how to do it well.

To Mikki, to our Colorado trainees, and to The Center Origin: thank you. This was a beginning worth celebrating.