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 10 Chapter course allowing two weeks for completion of each chapter thus 20 weeks in duration. (There may be occasional breaks to accommodate retreats).

  • Zoom Meetings every two weeks on Thursdays at 5:30pm.

  • This course has rolling enrolment so participants can join anytime.

  • Next Chapter One iteration will start January 30/25 with chapters released every two weeks. The first Zoom call is February 13/25 at 5:30pm PST/PDT

About this course

This is one of two courses required prior to accessing the more advanced coursework

  1. Course Details

  2. Welcome to the course!

  3. Chapter 1 Mystical Experiences in Non-Ordinary States

  4. Chapter 2 The Relationship Between Transpersonal Psychology, Holotropic States of Consciousness and the Hard Sciences

  5. Chapter 3 Synchronicity; CG Jung's "Acausal Connecting Principle"

  6. Chapter 4 Holotropic States of Consciousness and the Understanding of Art

  • 44 lessons
  • 13 hours of video content
  • 15 hours of live zoom discussion

Pricing options

Make a one time payment or use our convenient payment plan. Buy now pay later options are also available at checkout

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 leads both the Psychedelic Training, and Grof Breathwork Programs in Canada. With his extensive background of curriculum development and teaching skills has developed the coursework with emphasis on its application to psychedelic medicine work, and Grof Breathwork.


Neil Hanon MD, FRCPC

Lead Instructor