Weeklong Seminar on Spiritist Therapies in Brazil
7-Day Live Seminar in Goiania, Brazil for healthcare providers who want to learn about and experience Spiritist healing and treatments in Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers. 35 CEs or CMEs available.
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Explore Brazil’s Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals & Community Centers
Experience the Transformative Power of Spiritist Treatments
Discover a unique approach to mental health that integrates the spiritual, biological, and emotional dimensions of healing.
The Spiritist paradigm—a pioneering force in Integrative Mental Health—embraces spirituality in an open, inclusive way while taking a careful, minimal approach to psychiatric medication.
While many have heard of Brazil’s remarkable healers, few have witnessed the depth of transformation within the country’s 50 Spiritist hospitals and 13,000 community centers. These places illuminate a powerful model of care that unites science, compassion, and spirituality.
Learning Objectives
Envision psychiatric hospitals where clinicians recognize spiritual emergency, stabilize safely, and help integrate heightened sensitivity without pathologizing it.
Describe free community centers where trained sensitives support spiritual emergence, teach grounding skills, and reduce isolation and hospitalization risk.
Outline a Spiritist care model that blends clinical discernment with spiritual support, guided by clear ethics, roles, and protocols.
Teach a body–mind–spirit paradigm emphasizing spiritual healing, practiced in Spiritist healthcare traditions since the late 1800s.
Integrate complementary methods—energy healing, medical intuition, blessed water, spirit-release therapy, and non-drug spiritual development practices.
Seed global transformation by spreading spiritually competent, humane mental healthcare through training, frameworks, and adoptable care models.
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Earn 35 CEs & CMEs
This seminar is designed for healthcare professionals, students in training, and pioneers advancing mental healthcare.
Medical doctors earn 35 CME credits.
Psychologists, social workers, and psychotherapists earn 35 Continuing Education (CE) credits. (Scroll below for credit details and links.)
Lead Instructor: Emma Bragdon, PhD — author of Kardec’s Spiritism and Resources for Extraordinary Healing, and editor of Spiritism and Mental Health, a volume featuring Spiritist psychiatrists, psychologists, and international researchers exploring Spiritist Therapies.
Small Group: Experiential Learning
Join a small group of no more than ten participants on an intimate, guided journey led by Emma Bragdon, PhD.
Throughout the trip, Emma introduces each part of the experience as we explore Spiritist hospitals and centers through:
On-site tours and presentations
Research updates and clinical observations
Live demonstrations of diagnosis and treatment by medical intuitives and Spiritist mediums
Optional firsthand participation in Spiritist therapies
You’ll have the chance to experience readings by medical intuitives and observe (or receive) “disobsession” sessions—a Spiritist practice similar to exorcism—performed by Brazilian psychiatrists, MDs, and experienced mediums working within Spiritist psychiatric hospitals.
Witness teams of 8–10 mediums working in syntonie—a Portuguese term meaning oneness or exquisite harmony—as they help patients achieve remarkable transformation, including individuals once unresponsive to traditional treatments such as those with schizophrenia.
These Spiritist hospitals, unique to Brazil and respected worldwide, have refined this integrative model of care for over 90 years—addressing body, mind, and spirit. Their approach includes attention to nutrition, homeopathic remedies, herbal medicine, and micronutrients to restore health and balance naturally.
Fees & Inclusions
The weeklong seminar includes
• Hotel accommodations in Goiânia
• Most meals
• A day of rest and recreation in a charming colonial village with hiking trails, swimming, and waterfalls
• A farmhouse brunch featuring over 40 homemade dishes crafted from local ingredients
You’ll also enjoy free time to explore riverside restaurants and shops offering some of Brazil’s finest handcrafts.
Before the trip
• 7-page preparation guide
• Contact us with questions
• We help you meet other registered students to collaborate on travel plans
Seminar Fee
• Full fee: $3665 USD
• Deposit to Hold Your Space: $800, is part of the full fee
• Balance Due 30 days prior to arrival in Seminar
Instructors
We will also be meeting with Brazilian Spiritist MDs, PhDs, Nurses, and Psychics
Emma Bragdon, PhD
Senior Instructor
Emma Bragdon is the Founder and Executive Director of Integrative Mental Health University, IMHU.org. She earned her PhD in Transpersonal Psychology in 1987 and was licensed in California as a Marriage, Family, Child Therapist in 1988. Emma first traveled to Brazil in 2001. She spent 6 months of each year, from 2001-2012, studying Spiritism and Spiritist therapies through fieldwork. This involved travel to many Spiritist psychiatric hospitals and Spiritist Centers throughout Brazil where she met leaders and researchers as well as practitioners. She has written two books about Spiritism and co-produced a documentary film about Spiritism. The Spiritist Seminar she leads is a collaboration with her Brazilian colleagues. Together they have created a unique, in-depth experience that is transformative.
Emanuel Dutra
Guest Presenter
Emanuel is a Brasilian man, educated at MIT in Boston, MA, USA, currently living in Tennessee. He is recognized as a superlative translator of the foundational Spiritist texts--having initiated translations from the original French into English, Portuguese, and Chinese. These have been published. Emanuel has helped with translations in the past. We will supply other excellent translators if he is not available.
What Previous Students Have Said
“I arrived in Brazil a physician full of questions armed with experiences in integrative medicine, but was a novice with the spiritual aspect of healing. My two weeks with Emma Bragdon, PhD immersed in Spiritism… have changed my spiritual paradigm, and shown me the path from physician to healer. The personal shift is undeniable – the outward expression of this shifting unfathomable.”
Shawn Tassone, MD, PhD, and author of “Spiritual Pregnancy”, Austin, Texas
“I highly recommend Emma Bragdon. She has solid professional credentials and many years of impressive work as a scholar. Emma has a great personality and she creates many rich opportunities which would be completely unavailable to those with less knowledgeable, experienced, and insightful guides.”
Karen Ziegler, MSN, MDiv, DMin, Nurse Practitioner; Faculty, Duke U. School of Medicine
“It was a fabulous week indeed. I am back to work and the more I try to describe it, the more I realize how amazing it was to be guided so intimately into another culture and to experience an integrative health system that is so grounded and rooted in respect and compassion for those challenged by mental illness. It was so inspiring to meet doctors who are Spiritist and to see how seamlessly they blend heart and science. Thank you for providing this opportunity. You are a bridge to a new way of looking at health and spirituality. The trust and relationships you have developed are what make this program remarkable.”
Susan Ortiz, MD, Director of Maine Holistic Center, Bangor, Maine
“After spending most of my adult life in Psych Hospitals as a psychiatric nurse… to see a staff of Mediums, and Drs. working as mediums in clinics and hospitals our trip to Brazil remains a top experience for me.”–
Jessie Haugabook, RN
“Dr. Bragdon skillfully prepares you for an experience that without her guidance, would be mediocre at best. As your personal guide, her tour guarantees a wonderful experience with mediumship as practiced in Brazil.”
John L. Turner, MD, Neurosurgeon, Author: Medicine, Miracles and Manifestations, Hawaii
“This trip is transformative! –
Pam Shervanick, psychiatrist
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
CMEs are provided by Westbrook University. Contact info@IMHU.org for application for CMEs.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
Our Guarantee
If you are not 100% satisfied with the course after 3 days we will return your full fee-minus room and board expenses for the 3 days.
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