Peer Consultation Groups and Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners

About this book

The author describes the easy to learn InnerEthics Ethical Awareness Tools that a practitioner can use to identify their own motivations and conflicts of interest and recognize common precarious ethical situations. The Tools also help the practitioner assess the balance of safety, encouragement, and connection within the therapeutic container. and rebalance these elements as needed. The book is a guide to maintaining ethical awareness by means of self-supervision, formal supervision, or peer consultation groups. It explains the special structure of an InnerEthics peer consultation group that is designed to help therapists and practitioners assist each other compassionately with the challenges and vulnerabilities that arise in working with clients in multi-dimensional states of consciousness,such as occur in psychedelic-assisted therapy, breathwork, hypnosis, deep grief, trauma recovery, or profound therapy. This structured empathic support is particularly helpful to therapists and practitioners who are working in ways that amplify relational issues, such as transference, countertransference, conflicts of interests, and power dynamics.