Ethics
The PAC Ethics Working Group has been working with experts across Canada to help create documents to help guide strong ethical behavior across all activities in the psychedelic ecosystem.
The first of these documents are presented here for your feedback. We welcome all respectful comments on how to make this document the best it can be.
1. Code of Ethics
2. How To Find an Ethical Therapist
3. How to Work Through “Cancel Requests”
4. Best Practices for Psychedelic Practitioners
5. How To Navigate Touch in Therapy
6. How to Respond to Ethical Breaches?
7. How to be Part of a Ethical Therapist Accountability Group
8. Professional Practice Guidelines for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Documents that are in process include :
- What Does Reparation Look Like? i.e Restorative Justice
- How to Support the Survivors?
If you would like to volunteer to contribute to these documents or be an editor please email: pkryskow@psychedelicassociation.net
Additional resources from our Allies are listed here:
- Rev. Jessica Rochester D.Div. : Please do not call yourself a Healer
- Dr. Jessica Rochester & Kate Caldwell: Entheogens & Psychedelics in Canada, Proposal for a New Paradigm (E & P)
- MEDIUM - Addressing Abuse and Repair: An Open Letter to the Psychedelic Community
- MAPS - Participant Safety in Psychedelic Therapy
- MAPS’ Therapy Code of Ethics
- Janice Phelps: What makes a Good Psychedelic Guide?
- Phil Wolfson: Utopian Proposal for the Psychedelic Community
- Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines:
Guide to RFRA and Best Practices for Psychedelic Plant Medicine Churches
Psychedelic Justice: Creating a Socially Just Psychedelic Renaissance
The Psychedelic Association of Canada would like to thank the following people for volunteering their time on the Ethics Working Group:
Contributors:
Lorraine Percy
Tricia Bowler, MA
Dr. Pamela Kryskow, MD
Scott Kouri
Bradley Foster MA
Dr. Brendan Leier, PhD
Michael Oliver
Michelle Gagnon, RN
Reviewers:
Tricia Bowler, MA
Derek Endress
Bruce Tobin PhD
