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Reveal Your Psychedelic Medicine Training Path with SCOUTT™

Psychedelic Education Orientation + Self-Assessment Tool

This structured 12-question self-assessment generates an orientation page to help you choose your path with confidence.

 

*Taking the assessment won’t require an account until you’re ready to see your results.

SCOUTT™ has revealed your path. What you’re about to see is a reflection of what matters most to you, helping to clarify where your interests, preferences, and priorities intersect within the psychedelic education landscape.

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SCOUTT™—Self-Clarity Orientation + User Training Tool

Get clear on what you’re looking for and what you can commit to, so you can take your next step.

SCOUTT™ is your permission slip.

Stop the endless searching. 

 

This is your invitation to pause before purchasing, reflect before committing, and choose what actually fits you rather than what’s trending. 

 

When the field is moving fast, it’s easy to feel behind, see a flashy program, and think you have to decide right now. 

 

You might be burnt out, questioning your career, and searching for something meaningful—and feeling rushed to decide on a program so you can keep up. 

 

The SCOUTT™ self-assessment is your pattern interrupter. Here, you clarify your priorities—  budget, schedule, learning style—so your next step feels intentional. You can take it as many times as you need, print it out, and use it as a guide as you explore your options without pressure. 

 

Most of all, it’s here to help you feel welcomed into the psychedelic ecosystem—to feel like this was made for you, because it is.

“Spotify Psych Med School podcast episode #3 “It’s Not Woo-Woo, It’s Leadership”: 6 months ago “Great perspective and suggestions!”

- Ashly Ulrich (listener)

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Daydream with Direction

A grounded sense of what fits right now
Time. Budget. Schedule. Capacity. The SCOUTT™ helps you understand what you can realistically commit to in this season. 

 

Your priorities, clearly named
Your interests. Your readiness. Your boundaries. Your learning style. Seeing these laid out gives you language for what you already know—but haven’t been able to articulate.

 

Momentum
When your priorities are clear, your mind has something solid to work with. Your thoughts organize. You turn down the noise. And forward movement starts to feel possible again.


Built from a clinician’s perspective, the SCOUTT™ is anchored in real-world responsibility and lived experience—not influencer energy or empty promises. It’s designed to help you enter this field with intention, clarity, and confidence.

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How it works

  • Answer 12 thoughtful questions
    Tell SCOUTT™ about your interests, readiness, priorities, boundaries, and real-life constraints.

     

  • Check your email 
    Then sign in to the portal to see your results. This puts your preferences into the language you need to understand what matters most to you right now, so you can confidently take the next step.

 

  • Print it. Put it on your wall. Take it again and again until the answer doesn’t just make sense in your head, but feels steady and true in your bones. This isn’t a program recommendation. It’s an orientation tool you can return to as the field—and you—evolve.
     

  • Explore the ecosystem with more discernment
    Pair your results with podcast conversations featuring training leaders and educators so that you can see if you feel a sense of resonance.

     

Let the momentum move you
Now you're grounded in what you want. Know what is realistic now so you can move from a place of deep self-trust.

Google sends an avalanche of options your way.

SCOUTT™ helps you find solid ground.

How clinicians choose a psychedelic training program and podcast

One of my PA colleagues was ready to drop $3,000 on a psychedelic training program… because it was advertised as being “on sale” from $8,000. 

 

She earned her Master’s in Public Health from Harvard and her PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins, and she’s a sharp, thoughtful clinician.

 

And even with all of that intelligence and education, the marketing almost worked, because the field moves fast and the options feel endless.

When she told me she was about to buy it, I asked her one simple question: Do you really want a self-paced course where you sit alone on your computer at night after work, or do you want a paced program with cohorts, community, discussion, and real access to faculty? 

The moment I said it out loud, she immediately realized it wasn’t a fit. She wasn’t looking for “a deal.” She was looking for an experience, mentorship, and a learning environment that matched her personality and how she thrives.

She was genuinely relieved and grateful because it saved her from spending thousands of dollars on something that would have left her disappointed. 

That’s the kind of misstep I see all the time. Not because people are careless, but because they’re excited, overwhelmed, and trying to make a good decision in a crowded landscape. 

The SCOUTT™ is designed to slow that moment down and help you choose what fits you, not what’s being pushed at you.

"Thank you so much for having us on as guests today. I am very grateful for your kindness and desire to lift up the collective community!” (11/2025)

- Gianna Sutley Program Manager | Grof® Legacy Training USA

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This kind of daydreaming is powerful. It’s how you begin to manifest your next chapter. 

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 The assessment is your first step if you..

  • Are stalled at the weight of “getting it right” 

  • Are overwhelmed by a noisy, expensive, mixed-signal training landscape

  • Don’t know where you belong in the ecosystem

  • Have read so many sales pages for programs that you lost sight of what things actually matter to you

  • Feel behind and worry everyone else already understands the pathways, language, and “right” order of steps

  • Are overwhelmed by the sheer number of options, find yourself stuck in decision fatigue, and need to know what your priorities are right now

 

SCOUTT™ helps you move from

“I’m interested but overwhelmed” → 

“Here’s what I’m really looking for—and what matters most.”

“We loved the conversation and appreciate your enthusiasm for "rising the tide" for all of us doing transformational work!” (11/2025)

- Jay Dufrechou, J.D., Ph.D. Director at Grof® Legacy Training USA

What will the assessment help me get clear on?

The SCOUTT™ takes all the mental tabs you’ve been holding open and turns them into the language of real-life logistics, so you are prepared to look for a training experience that fits you.

 

Things like:

 

  • Whether this is a green light, yellow light, or red light season

    • Green = ready to explore seriously

    • Yellow = this matters, but you are not resourced yet

    • Red = not now—which can feel like relief
       

  • What kind of learning environment you thrive in

    • Self-paced vs. cohort-based

    • Online modules vs. live experiential training + mentorship
       

  • What you’re realistically able to commit to right now

    • Based on your time, budget, schedule flexibility, travel capacity, and bandwidth
       

  • What’s missing (and how to get resourced first)

    • More structure? A dedicated study time? Foundational education?
       

  • What you’re really looking for

    • A professional pathway, a next-chapter pivot, community, education, integration work, or personal healing first
       

This is your time to get honest—so when you do say yes to a training path, it feels steady and realistic. It’s not “do more.” It’s do the next right thing—with your feet on the ground.


Don’t guess your way into a frontier field. Get oriented—and choose like a clinician.

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The SCOUTT™ helps you bring your decision out of fantasy and into reality by looking at what you have to work with right now.

After you get your results, then:

Browse podcast episodes by theme and start learning directly from program directors and training leaders

Follow Psych Med School on social media to stay connected to the ecosystem and keep the momentum alive between episodes.

Reach out to me for speaking, guest lecturing, or conference keynotes if you’re part of a school, clinic, or organization.

Now that you know what you want from a psychedelic training program, listen to the podcast to find resonance

We’ll talk to program directors, retreat leaders, and educators shaping the future of psychedelic care—and break it all down for busy healthcare professionals like you.

 

This is where your questions are answered. 

  • Do I connect with this teacher? 

  • Do I feel safe listening to them? 

  • Do I like their energy and teaching style? 

  • Am I drawn to how they think, how they speak, and what they emphasize? 

  • Did something they said spark a full-body yes in me, or did it feel like a no? 

 

We all know the teacher can make or break the program. 

 

This is where you feel it out before investing your precious time and money.

Dr. L Cooper introduced me to the right psychedelic medicine experts at exactly the right time."

- S.S. Wall

Stay oriented as the field evolves

The psychedelic medicine landscape is changing quickly—and it’s easy to feel behind or overwhelmed trying to keep up.

 

Join the Psych Med School email list for scouting notes to help you stay oriented.

 

When you join, you’ll receive:

  • Notifications on new podcast episodes and highlights

  • Reflections on how the field is evolving

  • Invitations to pause, reassess, and re-orient

  • Occasional updates on new tools, talks, and resources
     

We promise not to clog your inbox, just thoughtful guidance to help you stay grounded as you explore what’s next.

Stay curious

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Blue Sky View

Your thoughts create your reality.

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The SCOUTT™ acts like a pair of binoculars, helping you magnify that inner vision, bring it into focus, and translate it into practical next steps.   Don’t doubt it, SCOUTT™ it!

Get oriented. Stay curious.

Your grounded and magnetic clinician, Dr. L Cooper, reports back from the frontier with new podcast drops, field notes from conferences, honest reflections on the psychedelic ecosystem, and riveting discussions with program leaders.

Contact

Email: l@psychmedschool.com

Keynotes • Guest Lectures

Psych Med School and SCOUTT™ are educational and orienting tools only. They do not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or clinical recommendations. Psych Med School neither condones nor recommends the use of psychedelic substances unless permitted and regulated by state law or authorized by federal law. State legalization of psychedelic substances does not confer immunity from federal prosecution. SCOUTT™ is a self-assessment designed to support reflection and orientation, not to recommend, rank, or endorse specific training programs. This platform exists to support informed exploration of psychedelic medicine education and training pathways.

Psych Med School is an educational platform. Podcast content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, clinical training, or endorsement of any specific program.

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