If you spend significant time in the psychedelic community you have likely heard stories of abuse.

From the corners of the amazon to our own backyard, it seems more and more survivors are coming forward. While these stories of abuse by facilitators and intimate partners may be new to us, these abuses of power have been in the background since the beginning.

This has always been the shadow side of the psychedelic movement. Now that we as a community are starting to become more aware of the prevalance of abuse, we have a chance to learn how we can do better. If we don’t learn to better handle the shadows of abuse within our community, we risk losing the movement entirely.

This course by no means has all the answers, but it can increase our understanding and help those in the psychedelic movement begin to create solutions from a place of deeper understanding. From this deeper understanding, we can begin to ask good questions that can lead to radical, transformative, and hopefully long-lasting change.

In this course, you will learn:

• Defining abuse and how it differs from harm, conflict, or misunderstanding

• A deep understanding of what is and isn’t abusive behavior

• The psychology that causes abusive behaviors and how it develops in individuals

• The unique dangers of mixing psychedelic medicine with abusive practitioners

• Understanding the relationship and misconceptions related to personality disorders (i.e., narcissism) and abuse

• What abuse looks like in the context of a therapeutic relationship

• Ethical boundaries to have with clients to prevent abuse as a provider

• How to tell if your client is or was in an abusive relationship

• How to support survivors who have received abuse or are in current abusive situations

• How abuse shows up in spiritual groups

• An understanding of how abusive tendencies are currently treated in the therapeutic field

• Strategies to approach transformative justice and accountability when encountering abusers in community spaces