Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners
In her new 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. Now available at Amazon.
Download the Introduction to Peer Consultation Groups PDF.
Highlights
- The unique structure of an InnerEthics® PCG (Peer Consultation Group) assists therapists and practitioners to compassionately help one another meet the challenges and vulnerabilities that arise when working with clients in multi-dimensional states of consciousness, including psychedelic-assisted therapy, breathwork, hypnosis, profound grief, and trauma recovery.
- InnerEthics® Ethical Awareness Tools provide clear and effective methods to identify motivations, beliefs, and biases. They help to recognize and address ethically precarious situations and identify conflicts of interest between professionals and their clients.
- An InnerEthics® PCG’s compassionate support is specifically helpful to therapists and practitioners working with clients in states that amplify relational issues, such as transference, countertransference, conflicts of interest, and power dynamics. This book serves as a guide for maintaining ethical awareness by utilizing self-supervision, formal supervision, or peer consultation groups.
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. She has taught in large and small university classes with credentialed health professionals and therapists, as well as in programs where students studied with indigenous teachers. Compelling positive feedback from Kylea’s students prompted her to make the InnerEthics® model more widely available.
In Kylea’s words…
“I believe the first duty of a Responsible Party in a psychedelic session is to protect the experiencer, and the second is to prioritize and serve that client’s best interests, especially if there is a choice to be made between serving the client’s and the practitioner’s interests or beliefs.… Beyond that, psychedelic practitioners need just as protective a context for their own personal work as the one they provide for their clients…. My heartfelt wish is that you may find something in these pages that will support you in the consequential work you are doing in protecting and caring for clients who are in profound states of consciousness.” ~ Kylea Taylor, LMFT
Advance praise …
An invaluable companion to her seminal text The Ethics of Caring, Peer Consultation Groups…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
There can be no overstating the depth and breadth of the contributions made by Kylea Taylor to the field of extraordinary states of consciousness and the inner work that accompanies it. With Peer Consultation Groups and Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners, Kylea has once again moved the field forward in significant ways.
~ Cary Sparks, Director, Institute for Holotropics, Inc. and Grof Transpersonal Training
This is an extremely important and timely book that should be required reading for all training programs in psychedelic-assisted therapy. The intense intimacy generated by psychedelic therapy amplifies the potential for therapists to make ethical mistakes. This wise, seasoned, and practical book by Kylea Taylor can help practitioners avoid these mistakes. I highly recommend this much needed book.
~ Chris Bache, PhD, author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe
Taylor reminds us that ethical practice is not a set of guidelines, it is a structure of support for practitioners to work within the values that undergird their ethics. Peer Consultation Groups & Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners counsels us in the belief that ethics is relational and must be tended to in relationship. This offering is a practical and necessary one for this time, as the psychedelic training industry grows rapidly, often leaving ethics as an afterthought.
~ Florie St. Aime, author of Anti-Oppressive Psychotherapeutic Practice: Finding Liberation Through Unlearning
In the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicine, the need to prioritize ethics in the training of psychedelic practitioners has never been more critical. Her book underscores the importance of collaboration, emphasizing that this work cannot be done in isolation. Peer consultation groups provide essential spaces for self-reflection, deep listening, growth, and mutual support. This book is an invaluable resource and should be required reading for anyone working with clients in expanded states of consciousness.
~ Allison Feduccia, PhD, Psychedelic Neuropharmacologist and CEO of Psychedelic Support
It takes a village to support a healer. And now that village has a blueprint. Kylea Taylor’s remarkably comprehensive book is both an invitation and an instruction manual for helping professionals who understand that they should not walk their path alone. She offers step-by-step guidance on how to create communities of practice rooted in support, accountability, mutual growth, and a sacred commitment to do no harm. We could all use some of the medicine this book steers us toward.
~ Bill Brennan, PhD, co-author, EMBARK Psychedelic Therapy for Depression: A New Approach for the Whole Person
This book serves as a crucial how-to manual, leading groups of dedicated professionals through the nuances of creating principled, integrity-based learning communities of practice. Her InnerEthics® model is a beacon for those striving to elevate their practice through mutual learning and ethical rigor.
~ Alex Belser, PhD, co-author, EMBARK Psychedelic Therapy for Depression: A New Approach for the Whole Person
Kylea’s lived experience, wisdom and passion for ethics shine through this work. The power of the community to come together in ways described by the InnerEthics® model will directly correlate to the level of collective sovereignty our society experiences. The times we are in are pivotal to consciousness development and the raising of humanity overall. Bravo!
~ Ashley Carmen, MS, LMFT, Founder of Psychedelic Guide Network
With Peer Consultation Groups and Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners, Kylea Taylor makes another essential contribution to the field of psychedelic ethics. Taylor’s writing is remarkable in that it is incredibly practical and pragmatic—psychedelic (and non-psychedelic) practitioners who read this book will discover detailed, concrete, specific guidance for cultivating ethical excellence in their work.
~ Joseph Holcomb Adams, Ethicist
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