Plant Spirit Psychopomp

What is a psychopomp?

A conductor of souls or spirits, a being who knows how to guide souls making a transition. The work of a psychopomp is important, not just for the compassionate care of those who’s bodies have died (souls or spirits), but also for the health of those who have living bodies. Our ancestors knew it was important for souls to continue on their path. A persons death experience or life regrets may keep them from continuing on their journey. These lingering spirits can create problems for the living, leading to a host of issues from depression, illness, substance abuse, emotional challenges and thoughts of death. 

In order to care for spirits of the dead, we enter into this sacred and compassionate work of the living human psychopomp (you). Long ago our cultures had people who did this work, as we transitioned into modern life, we find ourselves without the human psychopomps we need.

Since ancient times, land spirits, plant spirits and tree spirits have been trusted psychopomps for the dead. We have relied on these relationships in the past for safe passage, and continue to incorporate plants in our ancestral, funerary and burial practices today, although we might not remember why. Many modern cultures have lost this ancient knowledge, yet, we carry this wisdom of our ancestors in our bones, and can start to remember together.​

Join this rare offering of plant spirit psychopomp.

We will explore plants, trees and land in practices from around the world, and enter into experiential work together. There is a lot to know in this work, consider this offering an introduction. 

• Learn how to do this middle-world work and maintain personal sovereignty by being in relationship with key plants and trees. This is especially helpful for those who work in or visit; hospitals, hospice care facilities, cemeteries and for those doing ancestral work.

• This training is helpful for mental heath professionals, death doulas, shamanic practitioners and psychedelic facilitators, as they encounter lingering energies of the dead with clients, especially when ancestral trauma arrises. 

• Learn how to do this client led work, with languaging appropriate for mental health professionals and death doulas to use in a clinical setting. This training is a bit unique compared to other psychopomp trainings, in that it is client led not practicioner led. We learn to be facilitators, how to ask good questions and how to be in a state of curiosity and wonder with our clients. The process is entirely done through the clients own senses.

• Discover plants and trees that could be helpful during the death process.

• Connect with the powerful networks of plant, tree and land psychopomps who already know how to aid beings in transition. While you will be sent plant sprays and plant materials to work with in the training, you don’t need the materials to work with plant spirit.

• Learn how to identify and help spirits who need to cross a threshold, and how to check on loved ones. Again, this is a client-led process where we learn how to use our non-physical senses to guide us in the good questions to ask our clients and to tune-into their experience from their own perspective. This method of inquiry thought the clients senses and knowing, helps us to meet them where they are at and to help connect them with resources for the psychopomp process.

• Become familiar with the thresholds people may need to cross in order to continue on their path and how some plants and trees are connected with them.

• Learn how to do this work in short sessions over time, or in a longer session. For most professionals, client work needs to happen in 50 minutes or less.

• Learn how to care for yourself during and after you do this work.​

Full info here: https://www.nativamedica.com/plant-spirit-psychopomp

**Registration deadline October 30th, 2024

This 3-day live video training is for practitioners, health care professionals, psychologists, psychedelic facilitators, hospice workers, death midwives and death doulas who want to expand their training into after death care. You need to have previous basic training in how to work with clients or already work with clients. You will need a computer to attend (no attending by phone please).

3 day intensive training, live, by video, November 8th-10th, 2024 each day we will meet:

11am to 5:30pm Eastern

10am to 4:30pm Central

9am to 3:30pm Mountain

8am to 2:30pm Pacific 

We will have an hour lunch break each day.

You will be sent a package of plant preparations in advance of our class.

**Registration deadline October 30th, 2024