Naropa University creates Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts

BOULDER —  Naropa University will separate from and rename the Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies to create the Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts.

The center is a collaboration between the team who founded NCPS and Boulder-based therapists and psychedelic researchers Marcela Ot’alora, Bruce Poulter and Sara Gael Beauregard, according to a news release.

With the exception of the Bachelor of Arts Psychedelic Studies Minor — which will remain at Naropa University — all NCPS staff and operations have moved to the new organization, the release stated. Current trainees in NCPS programs will not be impacted, the release stated.

“The Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts is the logical next step in NCPS’s three-year evolution, adding clinical care and research to our successful training programs,” said Joe Harrison, director at Memoru, in the news release. “This collaboration positions us in such a way to establish a cutting edge clinically focused center in Boulder. The new center will be unique, a benefit to the community, and a place for developing new approaches to mental health care focused on therapeutic efficacy and accessibility.”

The new center will focus on clinical care, training and research. Clinical care will include integrative medicine, and ketamine and psilocybin-assisted therapies. The Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program and Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies programs launched by NCPS will continue through Memoru beginning in 2025, the release stated. The center will offer a Psychedelic Ethics course in early 2025, advanced certifications and expanded research. Current trainees enrolled in certificate programs will not be impacted by this transition. Memoru has inherited Naropa’s Colorado state certification to offer psilocybin training and transferring the Oregon certification is in process.

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