It is early morning. The smell of stale smoke hangs in air so damp and hot it feels like I’m in Singapore, not a few hours drive north of Sydney. I am clothed entirely in cheesecloth as I argue online with a chatbot while hoping the power stays on long enough make a cup of increasingly expensive coffee. No one told me existential dread could be so…sweaty.
Welcome to issue #20 of The Ethical Trip! In this issue:
What should you look for in a psychedelic training course?
Is our access to AI like Mutually Assured Destruction?
Why is it bad to upset your stakeholders?
For all this, plus jokes that some of you (still) won’t let me stop writing, read on!
But first: Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word about my work and double-mega-thanks to people supporting me via buy me a coffee cacti. Special thanks also to this fortnight’s sponsor: Legal Innovative Multidisciplinary Psychedelic Professional Practitioners (LIMPPP.) More from them at the end, if you can scroll that far.
Table of Contents
Industry Insights:
What should I look for in a psychedelic training course?
As psychedelic therapeutic practices move towards above-ground legal practice and underground psychedelic use increases, interest in education and training around psychedelics and their therapeutic use is high. So it’s no surprise the number of course on offer have exploded to meet demand (and cash in on enthusiastic students while they can.)
Which one to choose, though?
I can’t answer that, but I did put together a non-exhaustive list of factors to consider when selecting course of training or education in psychedelic practice or therapy.
Read the whole story here: What should I look for in a psychedelic training course?
