Course Details

  • Enroll in The Way of the Psychonaut Volumes One and Two, and you'll have the exclusive opportunity to connect with Stan and Brigitte Grof live on Zoom. This unique experience allows you to introduce yourself and engage directly with the pioneer of transpersonal psychology.

  • This is a 9 Chapter course allowing two weeks for completion of each chapter. (There may be occasional breaks to accommodate retreats).

  • The start date for the next Chapter One iteration is October 31 with the first Zoom call November 14 at 4:30pm PDT/PST

  • This course has rolling enrolment so participants can join anytime. The current course holds Zoom calls on Tuesday at 4:00pm PST/PDT

About this course

This 9 Chapter course is one of two courses required prior to accessing the more advanced coursework.

  1. Course Details

  2. How to Use this Course (short walk through video)

  3. Welcome to the course! The text for the course is Volume One of Stan Grof's The Way of The Psychonaut

  4. Chapter 1 The History of Psychonautics

  5. Chapter 2 Maps of the Psyche in Depth Psychology

  6. Chapter #3 The Revision and Re-Enchantment of Psychology: Legacy From a Half Century of Consciousness Research

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Our Instructor

Neil Hanon, MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist based in Kelowna. Recognized for his teaching excellence, Dr. Hanon has received the Undergraduate Psychiatry Clinical Teaching Award from the UBC Department of Psychiatry in 2011 and 2023, along with the Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching from the Faculty of Medicine at UBC in 2018. Dr.Hanon, Neil, got involved in Holotropic Breathwork first as a participant to help with his grief after the death of his 17 year old son. He discovered that conventional psychology and psychiatry had no coherent strategy to help him in his grief. Through extensive reading he discovered Stan Grof’s writing on novel theories of the human psyche and was able to attend a breathwork retreat led by Stan and Christina Grof. He found the breathwork so beneficial for his grief that he continued on training and in 2015 become certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator. Driven by his own journey, Neil developed a keen interest in treating grief and spiritual emergence. He co-founded Relief for Grief, which evolved into Jamaica Grief Retreats, offering legal psilocybin mushroom journeys to parents who have lost a child. He also served as the medical director for TheraPsil, assisting patients with End of Life Distress to gain legal access to psilocybin mushrooms. During his time with TheraPsil he was one of 19 Canadian clinical professionals who were granted permission by the Federal minister of Health to legally possess and take psilocybin mushrooms for educational purposes. In 2021 Neil was invited by Stan and Brigitte Grof to co-lead the Canadian arm of Grof Legacy Training International. In late 2023 Grof Legacy Training Canada separated into breathwork and psychedelic streams. Neil continues to lead the Psychedelic Training Program in Canada, and with his extensive background of curriculum development and teaching skills has developed the coursework with emphasis on its application to psychedelic medicine work.


Neil Hanon MD, FRCPC

Lead Instructor