InnerEthics®
- An inner, complementary approach to ethics education, adding awareness tools to the traditional, external codes, rules, laws, and standards that help guide our ethical behavior.
- A model that encourages compassionate self-reflection about our motivations
- A set of concepts and practical tools that help us know and support ourselves in Right Relationship.
- Professional development with a personal bonus of benefitting our everyday lives and relationships.
Kylea Taylor, M.S., LMFT is a licensed California therapist who developed and teaches InnerEthics®, a reflective, compassionate, and transpersonal approach to being in Right Relationship with ourselves, our clients, and in community with others. The InnerEthics® model includes Ethical Awareness Tools that are especially useful to professionals working with clients who are experiencing extra-ordinary and profound states of consciousness.
The presence or absence of Right Relationship affects all professional results and determines whether there is to be benefit or harm from the relationship. Preventing harm and creating greater benefit are possible if we are willing to look at ourselves compassionately, learn to avoid ethical missteps, and discover self-knowledge and skills that we can then apply to all our future relationships. Learn more about InnerEthics®.
Featured Book
NEW! In her latest book, Kylea Taylor, LMFT, describes the key elements and structure of an InnerEthics® Peer Consultation Group and shares effective and practical Ethical Awareness Tools that facilitate compassionate self-inquiry and relational reflection. Her latest book is a ground-breaking successor to The Ethics of Caring, recipient of a Silver Medal Nautilus Book Award.
Professionals working with clients in profound states of consciousness can rely on this book to help them avoid ethical missteps, increase client benefits, and find personal and professional support.
Peer Consultation Groups distills Kylea’s experience facilitating and supervising thousands of extra-ordinary state of consciousness sessions and decades of teaching in-depth courses within many breathwork, spiritual emergency, and psychedelic practitioner training programs. Now available at Amazon!
Taylor’s format for peer consultation and her ethical awareness tools, developed over decades of work in the field, are essential for communities of practice to provide safe and ethical psychedelic care. ~ Diana Quinn, ND, Director of Clinical Education, Naropa University Center for Psychedelic Studies
A must-read for any practitioner of psychedelic-assisted therapy! Kylea Taylor has translated the wisdom of psychedelic therapy pioneers into a practical, accessible, affordable framework that addresses a significant ethical concern about psychedelic assisted therapy: how will therapists keep developing their abilities by attending to and exploring their own Shadow?” ~ Will Van Derveer, MD, co-founder, Integrative Psychiatry Institute
This is an extremely important and timely book that should be required reading for all training programs in psychedelic-assisted therapy. ~ Chris Bache, PhD, author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe
InnerEthics® Courses
Ethical Right Relationship in Psychedelic Therapy
Online courses in partnership with Psychedelic Support Education. Designed for psychologists, therapists, mentors, physicians, medical professionals, bodyworkers, teachers, and guides interested in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy or in assisting clients with the integration of profound experiences. These courses provide 6 hours of Ethics CEs for most mental health professionals and nursing licenses or a Certificate of Completion.
Featured Event
“Psychedelic Consent: An Interdisciplinary Conversation with Kylea Taylor, Emma Knighton, Edward Jacobs” – November 14, 2024. A Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions Program. This event explores the problems and possibilities of psychedelic consent with an interdisciplinary, cross-practice approach. Watch the video here.
Featured Articles
Our Vulnerabilities to Unethical Sexual Behavior – The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients, from which this excerpt is taken and edited, provides a scaffolding by which to begin identifying and sorting our motivations. It describes fears and desires in seven areas (or centers) of life…” Read at Chacruna.net
Kylea Taylor on the Woman Who Lost Everything. “If psychedelic practitioners don’t learn the basics of altered states ethics, they could end up losing their livelihood.” Joseph Holcomb Adams interviews Kylea at Ecstatic Integration.
Ethics is about relationship. It is about the inner relationships of our values to actions and how we view and treat “the other” in our personal and professional communities. Ethics is the process by which we sort out what best creates inner and outer harmony in our lives and in the lives of those we care for. ~ Kylea Taylor, LMFT
Featured Video
Angela Ward, BSN, RN, CPTR, one of the founding members of OPENurses, interviews Kylea Taylor, LMFT. The Organization of Psychedelic and Entheogenic Nurses (OPENurses) works to establish best-practices; clearly define appropriate care in psychedelic sessions; elucidate a code of ethics and conduct; advocate for the full inclusion of nurses in psychedelic therapy; provide continuing education related to psychedelic therapy; and provide a place for professional networking.
Featured Podcast
Holotropic Breathwork with Kylea Taylor, LMFT. Interviewer: Patrick McGregor, The New Orchard. “Every moment, without thinking about it, we breathe. But hidden inside this seemingly unconscious rhythm is a mysterious portal, an almost forgotten technology of healing and limitless transformation. Long before we had access to talk therapy, trauma informed coaching or psychedelics, humans knew how to use breath to transition into altered states of consciousness. Shamans, monks, mystics, they all knew, how to tune into something magical, something most of us in our contemporary society ignore or simply are unable to see….” Listen here.
InnerEthics® Trainings
InnerEthics® is being taught to students and professionals who will use this self-reflection method personally. InnerEthics® is also in the early stages of preparing a training program for new teachers of the InnerEthics® model. Subscribe to InnerEthics® News and contact us to be notified when this program becomes available.
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