ICPIC trains experienced, credentialed coaches to support people in integrating profound transformative experiences: rigorous, ethically grounded, and deeply human.
Psychedelic-assisted approaches are entering mainstream society. The coaching profession needs to be ready — professionally, ethically, and with clarity about its unique role.
The ICPIC Integration Specialization is a focused, two-phase training in psychedelic integration coaching for already-credentialed coaches. Built on ICF coaching standards, grounded in the science of non-ordinary states, and formed around the ethical boundaries that protect both client and practitioner.
This is a rigorous professional training. Every hour is anchored in ICF Core Competencies, evidence-based frameworks, and a clear scope of practice. The credential it leads to means something.
This specialization assumes you already know how to coach. It does not re-teach coaching fundamentals: it adds the integration-specific competence, scope judgment, and ethical grounding that this work demands, on top of your existing credential.
Phase I establishes the foundation: scope, ethics, preparation and integration coaching, anchored in a full documented case — and earns the Integration Specialization plus 40 ICF CCEs. Phase II, the Advanced Integration Practicum, goes deeper, around a harder case and the field's most demanding material, building readiness for real-world difficulty and risk. The full Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach (CPIC) credential is earned on completion of both.
Live evening sessions every three weeks (19:00 to 21:30 CET), with asynchronous knowledge modules in between. No multi-day intensive, no weekends, no travel required. Sustainable alongside an active practice.
ICPIC does more than train coaches. It is contributing to the formation of psychedelic integration coaching as a recognized professional discipline — with its own code of ethics, its own competency framework, its own standards for supervision and ongoing formation.
Coaches who complete ICPIC programmes are not simply informed about psychedelic integration. They are professionally formed for it. That distinction matters — to their clients, to the coaching profession, and to the credibility of this emerging field.
ICPIC is a specialist institute of Merion Institute — an educational organization dedicated to advancing excellence in coaching, coach education, and professional development. Merion Institute's mission extends well beyond any single specialty: it exists to contribute to the long-term evolution of the coaching profession. ICPIC is its first specialist institute.
Merion Institute, the parent institution of ICPIC, holds ICF AACS accreditation for its Advanced Coaching Supervision Program. This is a separate ICF accreditation credential from the CCE — it confirms that ICF has reviewed and approved an ICPIC-affiliated program against the ICF's advanced standards for coaching supervision education.
Note: the Integration Specialization operates under a separate ICF CCE application, currently pending accreditation. The AACS badge above refers specifically to the supervision training, not to the Integration Specialization.Márton Mányai MCC brings a formation that does not exist elsewhere in the psychedelic integration coaching field.
Márton introduces ICPIC and what this program is built to do.
Márton was twenty-five years old when he was ordained as a youth pastor in his local Pentecostal Free Christian Church in Hungary, while completing his third year at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Budapest. That was the beginning of twenty years as a professional helper — not a career he chose late, but a vocation he entered young, and has never left.
In the two decades since, that formation has grown into something rare. Theologian-pastor became coach. Coach became supervisor. Supervisor became mentor coach, executive coach, coach educator, leadership trainer, keynote speaker. More than 3,400 hours of coaching. ICF MCC — the profession's highest credential. An active international practice across 23 nationalities, in English, German, and Hungarian, based in Basel, Switzerland. A postgraduate diploma in supervision. Depth psychology formation in the Jungian tradition. Clinical-grade psychedelic training through IPI and MAPS. Twenty years of accompanying people through the most significant transitions of their lives — organizational, personal, and existential.
Most psychedelic integration programs are built by therapists who have learned some coaching language. Márton is a master coach who has trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy. That inversion is not a detail. It is the entire premise of ICPIC.
ICPIC was not built because clients began arriving with psychedelic experiences — that is someone else's story to tell. It was built because something larger is happening in society. Psychedelic-assisted therapy is maturing toward mainstream legitimacy. Psilocybin-assisted therapy is at the forefront of regulatory conversations. The societal legitimization of these modalities will create new touchpoints between altered-state experiences and the people — including coaches — who support healthy individuals through significant life transitions. The coaching profession needs to be ready. Not with improvised frameworks, but with rigorous, ethics-first professional formation.
ICPIC is not a wellness offering. It is a professional institution in formation: built to last, designed to be licensed globally, and grounded in the conviction that the people doing this work deserve the best possible preparation.
Specialization Cohort S-1 is small by design. Márton will know every participant personally. The founding alumni of ICPIC will help shape everything that comes after.
Integration coaching raises questions that the existing literature does not quite answer: what actually happens after a transformative experience ends, and what is the proper role of a coach in that process? What does ethical practice look like when the work sits at the edge of what coaching has traditionally been asked to hold?
This book is an attempt to answer those questions rigorously — not as a clinical text, not as psychedelic advocacy, but as a serious engagement with what coaching can and cannot do in this emerging field. It draws on case material from practice, on the philosophical traditions that inform integration work, and on the ICF and EMCC competency frameworks that give this work its professional grounding.
Participants in the Integration Specialization will receive access to draft manuscript chapters as part of their training — making Cohort S-1 a founding group whose own practice shapes the thinking in the book as it develops.
This specialization is for coaches who already hold a credential and already practice. The real admission filter is not just the credential on paper, but a conversation. Márton speaks personally with every applicant.
| Session | Date & Time | Topic Focus |
|---|---|---|
| S1 | Sat 12 Sept 2026 19:00–21:30 CET |
Scope in Action · Ethics · Case Launch (Client J) |
| S1 | Tue 6 Oct 2026 19:00–21:30 CET |
Scope in Action · Coaching Agreement at Intake |
| S2 | Tue 27 Oct 2026 19:00–21:30 CET |
Preparation Coaching Skill Practice |
| S3 | Tue 17 Nov 2026 19:00–21:30 CET |
Scope Boundary Deep-Dive · Referral Decision Practice |
| S4 | Tue 15 Dec 2026 19:00–21:30 CET |
Integration Coaching I: Meaning-Making (SFBC + Symbolon) |
| Christmas & New Year break | ||
| S5 | Tue 12 Jan 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
IFS-Informed Parts Work · Somatic Integration |
| S6 | Tue 2 Feb 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
Self-Regulation · Countertransference in Practice |
| S7 | Tue 23 Feb 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
Cultural Humility · Wounded Healer · Disclosure Ethics |
| S8 | Tue 16 Mar 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
Capstone & Closing · Integration Specialization Awarded |
| Session | Date & Time | Topic Focus |
|---|---|---|
| P2·1 | Tue 6 Apr 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
Case A Launch · Depression, Antidepressants, Scope (Client A) |
| P2·2 | Tue 27 Apr 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
Medication Tapering · Legal Risk · Values Work |
| P2·3 | Tue 18 May 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
The Failed Dosing Session · Ethical Reasoning Under Pressure |
| P2·4 | Tue 8 Jun 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
Suicidal Ideation Disclosed Mid-Session · Referral Protocol Live |
| P2·5 | Tue 29 Jun 2027 19:00–21:30 CET |
Consolidation · Closure · CPIC Credential Awarded |
All live sessions 19:00–21:30 CET (= 13:00–15:30 EST · 10:00–12:30 PST). Sessions are recorded; recordings available for 12 months to enrolled participants.
One scholarship is offered per cohort of the Integration Specialization. It exists because access to serious professional formation should not be determined solely by geography or economic circumstance. Márton received a scholarship for his own psychedelic-assisted therapy training. This is a way of passing that forward.
50% of the Phase I program fee — €995 instead of €1,990 — for one participant per specialization cohort. Not a discount. A named award, granted on the basis of genuine need and genuine readiness. The recipient is chosen personally by Márton.
Any applicant who demonstrates financial need relative to the program fee and their country of residence, and who meets the same admission criteria as every other participant. Motivation and readiness matter as much as need.
Submit your application as normal. In the motivation field, indicate that you are applying for the Founding Scholarship and include a brief note on your financial situation and what you intend to do with this training.
Applicants from countries where the standard fee represents a significant financial barrier relative to local income levels are welcome to mention this in their application. Adjusted pricing is available on a case by case basis and is handled with full discretion.
For credentialed coaches (ACC minimum, 200+ logged hours within the last 24 months). Cohort S-1 begins 12 September 2026. Márton reads every application personally and will reach out to schedule a chemistry call. Not a coach yet? Register your interest in the Formation Program instead.
Your information is kept strictly confidential and will only be used to contact you about ICPIC Specialization Cohort S-1. No spam, no sharing. Márton will personally review your application and reach out within 5 business days.
Márton will review your application and reach out within 5 business days to schedule a chemistry call. Please check your inbox — and your spam folder.
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