Train to guide the integration of powerful experiences into life-lasting change.
People come back from the biggest experiences of their lives to find that nothing at home has changed, and yet everything in them has. Living those changes takes time, and attention, and someone who knows how to help.
The field has put its focus on the journey, which is only 10% of the process. The work that comes after, integration, is the other 90%. And this is the opportunity NBIC trains you for.
The Nature-Based Integration Coaching Certification (NBIC) is an 8-month, ICF-aligned training that prepares you to guide the integration of powerful experiences — psychedelic and otherwise — into lasting change. NBIC trains you for the whole range of expanded and transformational experiences, not only psychedelic ones.
Nature-based can be a slogan. Here it is a set of specific skills and tools that are woven through the whole program.
Four additional nature-connection courses are built into NBIC to support your coaching foundation.
Our biweekly calls often include a guided nature-connection practice, with examples and discussion you can take home and use with your own clients.
We show you how to bring nature into the integration work as a supportive ally to your clients.
An online home for our coaches and guides that keeps you connected and inspired between calls, long after certification.
Across the field, integration gets taught in offices and on video calls. Ours is grounded outdoors, in the body, and in relationship. The competency frameworks now emerging for this work name an ecological dimension. No other training teaches it.
NBIC is the only integration coaching certification built on nature-connection skills, taught by practicing guides and structured as a pathway toward an ICF credential.
We train the preparation and the integration, the work that happens before and after an experience. Our scope is our integrity, and it is the reason clinicians and licensed facilitators can feel safe referring to the people we certify.
Pre-journey and post-journey integration coaching, which is legal wherever coaching is.
Our graduates do not facilitate, administer, or recommend psychedelics, and we do not train them to.
Licensed facilitators, clinics, and clinical providers, as the integration side of a referral relationship.
Here is the shape of it. The full syllabus has each module in detail, the schedule, and how certification works.
Digestible video lessons on your own schedule, anchored by biweekly live integration calls, a community of professionals, and project-based mentoring. Two optional in-person gatherings bring the cohort together on the land.
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Sarah is the lead instructor of the Nature-Based Integration Coaching certification program. She is an educator, certified Nature-Connected Coach, licensed psilocybin facilitator, and integration specialist.
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Earth-Based Institute (EBI) was Founded by Michael Jospé. As a professional coach, educator and wilderness guide, Michael is passionate about helping people learn about themselves while being out in nature.
Derek is a Gestalt therapist who teaches in both the NCC and NBIC programs.
Paired with our Nature-Connected Coaching certification, NBIC opens the ICF Level 2 education pathway. The ICF minimum is 125 hours. You choose your path, ACC or PCC, on your own timeline.
Schedule a call to learn how the two programs bundleThe scope and breadth of this training is unlike anything else. I finished knowing what I do, what I do not, and how to build a practice around it.
The business support was as real as the coaching training. I left with clients, not just a certificate.
Placeholder quotes — real graduate testimonials to be dropped in.
Your tuition is an investment in a profession, not a paper credential. It includes:
A full year of business mentoring, a $10,000 value. It is the support that helps you build and fill a practice, so you finish with clients and income, not just a certificate.
Registration begins with a $1,500 deposit, then completes one of two ways.
Current 2026 rate. Bundling with Nature-Connected Coaching lowers the total.
Graduates go on to private practice, aftercare teams at clinics and retreat centers, and adding integration to existing coaching or therapy work. We will walk you through the numbers, and the plan that fits you, on your call.
Talk with Sarah, or get the full syllabus by email.
A short application, whenever you are ready.
A grounded talk about fit, with Sarah or our team.
Acceptance, onboarding, and you begin right away.
No, and we will never ask you to get it. NBIC trains the coaching craft of preparation and integration, not the journey.
In part. NBIC trains you to support integration of psychedelic experiences and other transformational ones — grief, awakenings, major life transitions — always through above-ground, legal coaching. It is not a guide/facilitator training for administering substances.
No. It is not therapy, and we teach you where that line sits and how to refer across it well.
Yes. Everything we train is legal wherever coaching is legal, because the work happens before and after the experience, not during it. We teach current scope in each state's own terms.
Paired with our ICF Level 2 Nature-Connected Coaching certification, NBIC opens the education pathway toward your ICF credential, either ACC or PCC, based on your logged coaching hours. On its own, NBIC is a professional certification grounded in the NBICS competency standards.
Schedule a 20-minute no-pressure meet and greet to find out if NBIC fits where you are headed, or start your application now and we'll follow up with you.
Earth-Based Institute does not approve or disapprove, suggest, advocate, or make referrals or connections to any psychedelic substances, sources, or providers. NBIC trains pre-journey and post-journey integration coaching only. Graduates do not facilitate, administer, or recommend psychedelics. The ICF Level 2 credential pathway applies when NBIC is paired with our Nature-Connected Coaching certification.
Earth-Based Institute is an ICF Level 2-accredited training organization. We've certified Nature-Connected Coaches since 2008, alongside offering programs for personal growth, leadership, and 1:1 coaching.
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