Course Overview

Spiritual Healing in Modern Healthcare

Explore the role of spirituality in psychedelic-assisted therapies and healing. Learn how SERTs, ceremonial practices, and mystical experiences enhance emotional processing and contribute to whole-person well-being.

2024 Annual Conference

October 25-27, 2024

Required Lessons

1 lesson with pre-test, video, post-test, and evaluation

Time to Complete

45 minutes

CME Eligible*

0.75 credit(s)

Detailed Course Info

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Course Description
Intended Audience
Learning Objectives
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Accreditation/CME

Course Description

The integration of spiritual, existential, religious, and theological components (SERTs) into modern healthcare is gaining recognition, particularly in psychedelic-assisted therapies (PATs) and ceremonial healing practices. This course explores the role of spiritual well-being in emotional processing and health outcomes, emphasizing how mystical experiences, altered states of consciousness, and spiritual breakthroughs contribute to healing.

Participants will examine the intersection of SERTs, psychedelic-assisted therapies, and ceremonial healing practices, reviewing research on MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, and ayahuasca as transformative tools in mental and emotional health. The session will highlight how spiritual healing fosters emotional breakthroughs, enhances connectedness, and supports whole-person well-being.

Accreditation

Accreditation Statements

In support of improving patient care, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing Education for the healthcare team.

American Osteopathic Association

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to award continuing medical education to physicians. 

Designation Statements

Physicians

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this program for a maximum of 0.75 contact hour of AOA Category 1B CME credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician's participation in the activity. 

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this activity for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Pharmacist

This knowledge-based activity has been assigned UAN JA0004637-9999-25-006-H99-P and will award 0.75 contact hour of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognized ACPE Providers.   

Statements of participation will indicate hours and CEUs based on participation and will be issued online at the conclusion of the activity. Successful completion includes completing the activity, its accompanying evaluation and/or posttest (score 70% or higher) and requesting credit online at the conclusion of the activity.   

Credit will be uploaded to CPE Monitor, and participants may print a statement of credit or transcript from their NABP e-profile. HSC complies with the Accreditation Standards for Continuing Pharmacy Education.

Nurses

This activity provides up to 0.75 contact hours. 

Certificate of Attendance

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth certifies this activity for 0.75 hours of participation.

For questions about CME credit, please contact us at https://www.aihm.org/contact/. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and/or the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine.
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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
  • Discuss the role of SERTs (Spiritual, Existential, Religious, Theological components) in psychedelic-assisted therapies.
  • Describe the relationship between ceremonial healing, spiritual practice, and psychedelic-assisted therapies.
  • Explain how a shift in spiritual well-being is related to improvements in emotional processing.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. 

Disclosures

Planner(s)

  • Bryan Hauf, MEd has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Speaker(s)

  • Joe Tafur, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

What's included in this course?

This course includes the following:
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  • Video Recording
  • Downloadable Audio
  • Speaker Handout(s)
  • Quiz
  • Evaluation
  • Certificate of Completion
  • CME/CEUs

Course Outline

Meet Your Faculty

Joe Tafur, MD

Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American integrative physician. After completing his family medicine training at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry. After his research fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual, training there as an Ayahuasquero. In his book The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor's Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine, through a series of stories, Dr. Tafur shares his unique experience and integrative medical theories. He eventually returned to Arizona where he completed fellowship in integrative medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. With his spiritual community in Phoenix, Dr. Tafur co-founded the Church of the Eagle and the Condor (CEC). Dr. Tafur is also a co-founder of the nonprofit Modern Spirit where he assists in their educational programs, among their projects is the Modern Spirit Epigenetics Project, an analysis of the epigenetic impact of MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.