Kylea Taylor, M.S., LMFT (CA MFC #34901) developed and now teaches InnerEthics®, a self-reflective, self-compassionate approach to ethical relationships for therapists and practitioners. She wrote The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients and has been writing and teaching about ethics for three decades.
In ordinary coaching or therapy, it is relatively easy to remember ethical guidelines, codes and laws. Yet when we are sitting for people who are experiencing extra-ordinary states of consciousness, the intensity often requires the additional ethical alertness of self-inquiry.
In ordinary coaching or therapy, it is relatively easy to remember ethical guidelines, codes and laws. Yet when we are sitting for people who are experiencing extra-ordinary states of consciousness, the intensity often requires the additional ethical alertness of self-inquiry.
InnerEthics® Awareness Tools help us gently identify motivations, fears, biases, conflicts of interest, and ethically precarious relational situations before these result in behaviors that might compromise a client’s healing or expansion.
Holotropic Breathwork®
Working with Stanislav Grof, M.D. as a Senior Trainer in the Grof Transpersonal Training throughout the 1990s, Kylea facilitated and observed thousands of extra-ordinary state-of-consciousness sessions. She began her study with Stan and Christina Grof in 1984.
Kylea assisted Grof and Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. in workshops combining Holotropic Breathwork® and Vipassana meditation, and she facilitated Holotropic Breathwork® in residential addiction treatment. She is the author of The Breathwork Experience, Considering Holotropic Breathwork® and the editor of Exploring Holotropic Breathwork®.
InnerEthics® Courses
Kylea has produced a series of pre-recorded InnerEthics® video courses for professionals interested in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy or helping clients to integrate profound experiences. These courses feature a video lecture, InnerEthics® Awareness Tools, reading, case stories, and a Course Materials Booklet. CEs are available. Offered in partnership with Psychedelic Support Education.
- Ethics 101: Ethical Right Relationship in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
- Ethics 102: Ethical Right Relationship in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
- Ethics 103: Peer Consultation Groups: Supporting Ethical Alertness in Community (ETHICS 101 & 102 recommended as prerequisite)
InnerEthics® Training Programs
Kylea teaches live InnerEthics® courses to students and staff in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy training programs. Individualized Student Training Programs are available for students who have viewed the Part 1 & Part 2 videos and for students who have viewed these videos and the Peer Consultation Groups video.
Course elements include Q & A (staff-curated questions or cases), Vignette discussions, instruction on InnerEthics® Awareness Tools, conflicts of interest issues, sex and power in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, and debriefing experiential Peer Consultation Group role-plays, and more.
Live InnerEthics® Training for Staff in Training Programs focuses on how to facilitate InnerEthics® Experiential Groups. This curriculum includes why and how InnerEthics® uses vignette (real case studies) discussions as an educational method, how to set up Peer Consultation Groups as practice break-out group role-plays, and other advanced topics.
Live Classes & Licensing Options
Jim Schofield, Kylea’s trusted InnerEthics® Business Manager, negotiates InnerEthics® Training licensing and speaking contracts. Jim’s education and career background are in physics, computer programming, management, real estate, finance, and publishing.
Jim and Kylea met in the first Grof Transpersonal Training with Stanislav Grof, MD. and Christina Grof in 1987. Kylea and Jim were certified as Holotropic Breathwork® Facilitators in 1990 and facilitated monthly Holotropic Breathwork® in their home in the Santa Cruz mountains until 2007. They have built several other businesses together, including a publishing company and SoulCollage Inc.
Kylea is available to consult on Training Program Design. Download this handout to learn more.
Contact Jim for InnerEthics® licensing, contracts, and other business matters.
SoulCollage® Inc.
Kylea is President of SoulCollage Inc., a company providing training and a global community for Facilitators of the SoulCollage® expressive arts method that is useful for supporting the integration of extra-ordinary experiences. The World of SoulCollage® offers workshops, training, and social engagement in its international, private online community for personal and professional development.
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