3-Day Practitioner Training
A three-day learning experience with Jay Monger and The Pattern Project.
Why This Training Exists
Most contemporary 5-MeO-DMT training is built around peak-dose, breakthrough-style sessions — a single high-arousal event with a long preparation tail and a longer integration tail.
Low-5 work operates differently. The dose range invites a slow, titrated arc in which the molecule amplifies empathy, presence, and intersubjective resonance. Participants retain agency throughout. The relational field — the 1:1 therapeutic dyad — carries the action; Low-5 supports it.
In 1:1 Low-5 work, the molecule is held within the modality the practitioner already brings — Gestalt, IFS, somatic, AEDP, EMDR, mindfulness-based, relational psychoanalytic — with present-tense pacing and titration replacing the long preparation/integration arc of peak-dose work. Integration moves with the session rather than after it. The ethical surface area shifts: agency, consent, and titration become present-tense decisions rather than topics of preparation.
Who This Is For
The training assumes prior foundational work in psychedelic-assisted therapy. Practitioners new to the field are encouraged to complete that grounding before applying.
Cohort size is limited to 10 participants. All applicants are screened through a written application and a 30-minute conversation with Jay.
Outcomes
Structure
This training is highly experiential and draws on participants' knowledge and experience, combined with the nuances of working with Low-5, to create a deeper understanding of how to utilize Low-5 in your practice. The first two mornings focus on the Low-5 education curriculum, with late mornings and afternoons focused on experiential exercises. Following each experiential, there will be a period for personal reflection, clinical reflection, and group discussion to integrate the material demonstrated.
As the training uses authentic therapeutic circles, each participant is encouraged to prepare an authentic piece of work from their own life to share as the client during the workshops. Participants are strongly encouraged to have outside therapeutic support for additional processing of material that may arise during the training.
Introduction to Low-5: applications, dosing, and the arc of experience. Live fishbowl: Jay holds a 1:1 Low-5 session with a volunteer from the participant group, with the cohort observing. Dyad work between participants practicing the 1:1 form.
Screening and Low-5 contraindications, client suitability, after-effects, and proper settings. Deeper instruction in the relational container. Continued dyad work, plus a group practice session.
Continued dyad work in 1:1 settings. A group journey inviting a deeper, more mid-level experience with 5-MeO-DMT. Integration and closing.
The training is delivered in a council format — a circle-based dialogic form drawn from the Way of Council tradition (Zimmerman & Coyle, 1996; Baldwin & Linnea, 2010), in which participants experience the form from the inside as part of the learning.
Stance
Jay works primarily from Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness-based, and somatic frames in his 1:1 practice — visible in his demonstrations and offered as one example of how Low-5 can be held within an established therapeutic frame.
Each participant is encouraged to bring their own primary modality to the training and is supported in exploring how Low-5 integrates with their established approach.
Lineage
Jay draws upon Gestalt therapy, Internal Family Systems, somatic therapy, the Way of Council and mindfulness-based modalities from his training in Mindfulness-based Transpersonal Counselling and leverages this in his work with Low-5 and in this training. The training also draws on a deep lineage of practitioners, including Ralph Metzner and Marcus Grail, who shaped the ethical foundation of agency-preserving psycholytic facilitation.
Ethical and Legal
5-MeO-DMT is unscheduled under Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The training is held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and operates in that legal context; participants from elsewhere are responsible for understanding the laws of their own jurisdiction.
Two principles shape the training:
The training is non-certifying. Each participant is responsible for assessing practice risk in their own jurisdiction and for making their own decisions about how and whether to integrate this work into their offerings.
To learn more and to apply, please contact Axle and Keyanna at connect@patternproject.ca.
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