Specialization Cohort S-1 · Begins 12 September 2026 · Now accepting applications

The coaching profession
has a new frontier.

ICPIC trains experienced, credentialed coaches to support people in integrating profound transformative experiences: rigorous, ethically grounded, and deeply human.

40 CCEUs · Phase I ICF CCE Application Filed For Credentialed Coaches Specialization Cohort S-1 · Limited Places
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Why This Matters

A profession meeting
a cultural moment.

Psychedelic-assisted approaches are entering mainstream society. The coaching profession needs to be ready — professionally, ethically, and with clarity about its unique role.

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Why psychedelic integration coaching matters now
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is moving toward mainstream medical legitimacy. Psilocybin-assisted therapy is at the forefront of regulatory attention. MDMA-assisted therapy has already completed Phase III trials. The societal legitimization of these modalities is not a distant prospect — it is an unfolding process. As more people encounter these experiences through legal therapeutic contexts, through research programmes, or through their own lives, the demand for skilled integration support will grow. Coaching, practiced within its proper scope, has a significant and distinct contribution to make.
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Why coaching is uniquely positioned
Psychedelic integration is not therapy. It does not require a diagnosis, a prescription, or a clinical frame. What it requires is what skilled coaching already provides: deep listening, powerful questioning, a non-directive stance, and genuine respect for the client's own authority over their experience. Coaches who are trained in integration work bring something clinicians often cannot: the explicit absence of a pathological lens. They work with healthy people navigating significant experiences — which is exactly what coaching, at its best, has always done. The scope is different from therapy. The contribution is equally real.
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Why ethics and formation come first
Enthusiasm for the potential of psychedelic-assisted approaches is not professional preparation. The ICPIC curriculum begins with ethics — not as a compliance requirement, but because ethical clarity is the prerequisite for competent practice. This means understanding scope boundaries before learning techniques, understanding referral triggers before working with anyone, and developing the reflective practice capacity that keeps a coach honest about the limits of what they know. ICPIC exists to form practitioners who hold that discipline not because they are required to, but because they understand why it matters.
The Program

Psychedelic integration coaching.
Done properly.

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.

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Not another wellness program

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.

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Built on the skill you already have

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.

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Two phases, earned in sequence

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.

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Designed for real professional lives

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.

40 CCEUs. Your complete ICF renewal — in a single programme. Phase I is a 40-hour ICF CCE program (application filed, accreditation pending). It contains exactly what every credentialed coach needs for a full three-year renewal: 24 hours Core Competency, 16 hours Resource Development, and a minimum of 3 hours of ethics content woven throughout. On completion of Phase I you earn the Integration Specialization and the full 40 CCEs. The Advanced Integration Practicum (Phase II) is the practice-readiness layer that completes the training: the full Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach (CPIC) credential — and genuine readiness for the harder cases real practice brings — is earned on completion of both phases.
An Institute, Not a Course

Contributing to the
professionalization of a field.

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.

Ethics before enthusiasm
Professional formation precedes practice. Scope clarity precedes everything else.
Integration over experience
The experience is not the intervention. What follows — reflection, meaning-making, changed behaviour — is where coaching contributes.
Coaching, not psychotherapy
Our scope is defined and maintained with clarity. We work with healthy adults. We work alongside clinicians, not instead of them.
Reflective practitioners
We form coaches whose self-awareness is as developed as their skills. Supervision is a professional identity, not a compliance requirement.
Evidence and humility
We engage the research honestly, including its limitations and contested findings. We do not claim certainty where none exists.
Humanity before ideology
We see the person before the framework. We hold our models lightly and our curiosity firmly.

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.

The Founder

Formed at the intersection
of three rare worlds.

Márton Mányai MCC brings a formation that does not exist elsewhere in the psychedelic integration coaching field.

Márton Mányai MCC Márton Mányai MCC Márton Mányai MCC Márton Mányai MCC Márton Mányai MCC Márton Mányai MCC
ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) Badge
Coaching
ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC)
EMCC Senior Practitioner
Experience
3,400+ coaching hours
MCC (2 yrs) · PCC (11 yrs) · 20 yrs professional helper
23+ nationalities · Ezra & CoachHub
Supervision
Postgrad Diploma Senior Supervisor (KRE Budapest)
EMCC ESIA in process
ICF Supervisor Registry (eligible Jan 2027)
Psychedelic Formation
IPI Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider
MAPS MDMA-AT Theoretical Training
Depth Psychology
Jungian Coach
Symbolon Reflection Expert & Specialist
(Christina Kranz, ICF MCC)
Methods
Solution-Focused Brief Coaching (SFBC)
Hogan Assessment Certified
Formation
Diploma Theologian-Pastor
Hungarian · Swiss resident · Basel & Barcelona

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, across Basel and Barcelona. 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.

Admission

Who this is for.
Credentialed coaches.

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.

Eligibility — Required
An actively practicing, credentialed coach
  • Active ICF credential, ACC minimum (PCC and MCC warmly welcome, no upper limit)
  • Minimum 200 documented coaching hours
  • Currently practicing — hours logged within the last 24 months
  • In good standing, with no active ethics complaint or disciplinary action
  • Application form + admission "chemistry call" with Márton
  • Agreement to the ICPIC Code of Ethics, including a jurisdictional acknowledgment
Phase I begins directly. No bridge or prerequisite module. Phase II (the Advanced Integration Practicum) follows for graduates and, with Phase I, earns the full CPIC credential.
Recommended — Not Required
Depth of personal formation
  • Personal therapy, expressive or arts therapy, supervision, or comparable guided self-knowledge work
  • Relational maturity and a genuine, examined commitment to scope of practice
  • Openness to your own inner work alongside the work you do with others
A personal experience of non-ordinary states can deepen this work, and an openness to it is welcome. For legal reasons it is never a requirement, and you will never be asked to disclose personal substance use.
A note on legal responsibility. Participants are expected to seek independent legal advice in their own country of citizenship before practicing. ICPIC training does not authorize anything that is not already legal where you practice, and does not modify your individual responsibility for the laws of your country of citizenship and the jurisdiction in which you work. This applies regardless of any personal psychedelic experience, which is neither required nor relevant to your legal obligations.
Not a coach yet? The Integration Specialization requires an existing coaching credential and cannot count toward earning one. We are developing the ICPIC Formation Program — a separate, foundational ICF-accredited coach training designed with psychedelic integration in view from the very beginning. Graduates of the Formation Program will be eligible for the Integration Specialization directly, without the external hours requirement. If that is your path, register your interest below.
The Integration Specialization

40 CCEUs. Phase I.
Built around your life.

40
Phase I CCEUs
~5
Months, Phase I
8
Live sessions
24+16
CC + RD hours
Phase I — Integration Specialization (~5 months)
  • Begins 12 September 2026, opening with Live Session 1 — no multi-day intensive
  • 8 live sessions, every three weeks, 19:00 to 21:30 CET
  • Asynchronous knowledge modules between sessions, with verification of learning
  • Independent triad practice, reviewed personally by Márton
  • Case spine: a complete psilocybin coaching arc — chemistry call through evaluation
  • Integration Specialization + 40 ICF CCEs earned at the end of Phase I (the CPIC credential requires Phase II)
Phase II — Advanced Integration Practicum (~3–3.5 months)
  • Small-group live sessions for Phase I graduates; sync-efficient, async-deferred
  • The deferred depth: neuroscience, transpersonal frameworks, ACT, trauma-informed practice, KAP / ketamine integration, and the current regulatory landscape
  • Case spine: a harder, fully-documented arc — a no-effect first dosing day and the re-dose decision, medication tapering handled ethically with the prescriber, and gains that later reversed into a calm, in-scope referral
  • Risk recognition, scope and referral under pressure, plus live supervision of your own emerging cases
  • Required, together with Phase I, for the full Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach (CPIC) credential
What You Take Away
  • The ICPIC Integration Specialization — and, with Phase II, the Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach (CPIC) credential
  • 40 ICF CCEUs (24 CC + 16 RD + ethics) — ICF CCE application filed, accreditation pending — satisfies full 3-year ICF renewal
  • ICPIC alumni status and practitioner directory listing
  • Eligibility for ongoing group supervision
  • A genuine, robust specialization — not a weekend certificate
Pilot Pricing — Specialization Cohort S-1
  • Phase I: €1,990 (founding / pre-accreditation price)
  • Phase II — Advanced Integration Practicum: €1,990
  • Full-path bundle (Phase I + Phase II): €3,500
  • Installment plans available (3 installments)
  • One Founding Scholarship per cohort: Phase I at €995 (50%)
  • Founding pricing; Phase I rises to €2,900–€3,500 once ICF CCE accreditation is confirmed
Scholarship

The ICPIC
Founding Scholarship.

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.

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What it is

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.

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Who it is for

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.

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How to apply

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.

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Geographic pricing

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.

One scholarship per cohort keeps it meaningful. The person who receives it is genuinely chosen. Not drawn from a pool of discount seekers, but selected because Márton believes they will do something important with this formation.
Applications Open

Apply for
Specialization Cohort S-1.

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.

Application received.

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.

Coming Soon

The ICPIC
Formation Program.

Not a coach yet — but drawn to this work? We are building a foundational, ICF-accredited coach training designed from the ground up with psychedelic integration in mind. Graduates will be eligible for the Integration Specialization directly. Leave your email and we will keep you informed as it takes shape. No spam, no obligation.

Your information is kept strictly confidential. We will only contact you about the Formation Program. No spam, no sharing.

Noted.

We will reach out when the Formation Program is ready for applicants. In the meantime, feel free to follow ICPIC for updates.