Cultural Humility

Teaches culturally responsive psychedelic care, including humility, anti-bias practice, Indigenous and traditional-use awareness, cultural appropriation concerns, diversity and inclusion, and respectful work with marginalized communities.

8 care stages · 7 guidelines · 11 courses · 10 providers

Responds respectfully to spiritual, mystical, and value-related themes that may arise during psilocybin sessions and debriefing. Integrates these themes into therapy without imposing interpretations.

3 care stages · 6 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Adapt language and interpersonal style to the patient’s preferences to promote dignity and comfort. The therapist should also respect the patient’s autonomy within safety limits.

4 care stages · 5 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

The use of ayahuasca requires sensitivity to its traditional indigenous and ceremonial origins. Facilitators should avoid reducing the practice to a purely technical intervention and should respect cultural meaning and ceremonial context.

4 care stages · 4 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Staff must ensure participants can understand and engage with the protocol in the site’s recognized language and can participate in a way that preserves safety and informed consent. This is part of the practical knowledge needed for ethical facilitation.

2 care stages · 2 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Able to participate in or support ceremonial treatment elements respectfully and appropriately. The source indicates ceremonial behavior and traditional medicine are part of the intervention, requiring cultural competence and sensitivity.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Explores participant values, including spiritual values, in a respectful way that supports behavior change. Integrates meaning-making without imposing therapist beliefs.

2 care stages · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

The training framework explicitly includes cultural awareness and inclusion, and examples identify culturally insensitive behavior as clinically inappropriate.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Adapt therapy language and mindfulness practices to fit participants' cultural, spiritual, and social contexts. The manual emphasizes that ACT concepts may need careful framing to avoid invalidation or misunderstanding.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Therapists must adapt their practice to diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. Cultural sensitivity is important for trust, communication, and consistency across sites.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Therapist/facilitator practice in the study must align with equity, diversity, and inclusion commitments by avoiding exclusions based on protected or social identity characteristics outside protocol-defined scientific/safety criteria. This supports ethically sound participant engagement.

2 care stages · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Facilitators must understand the model's intentional weaving of Western clinical frameworks with Indigenous knowledge systems. This requires respectful, non-tokenistic integration grounded in explicit values rather than superficial cultural inclusion.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Understands the therapeutic role of ayahuasca as a psychoactive plant brew used ritually in traditional Amazonian medicine. Knowledge of the cultural and medicinal context is necessary to support safe and appropriate facilitation.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Therapists need specific knowledge of methamphetamine use disorder, HIV risk behaviors, and the social context of affected populations to deliver relevant and responsive care. This includes understanding how methamphetamine use intersects with trauma, sexual risk, and HIV prevention or treatment adherence.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

The protocol explicitly frames equity, diversity, and inclusion as ethical requirements. Facilitators should deliver care and study procedures without discrimination on race, ethnicity, religion, sex, or gender.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Teaches providers to recognise access barriers and health disparities, adapt services for diverse participant needs, and deliver care in ways that are inclusive, accessible, culturally responsive, and practically reachable.

3 care stages · 0 guidelines · 1 courses · 1 providers

JEDI is explicitly named as part of the program structure and curriculum. Learners are expected to examine systemic marginalization, positionality, and power while building more inclusive psychedelic services.

1 care stage · 0 guidelines · 1 courses · 1 providers

Reciprocity and ecological awareness are named as a core knowledge domain. This indicates training in relational responsibility, environmental context, and respectful exchange with communities and traditions.

1 care stage · 0 guidelines · 1 courses · 1 providers

The program states it prepares facilitators to address the needs of clients, patients, or community members from diverse faith traditions and communities of origin. Learners are expected to adapt facilitation to varied settings and worldviews.

5 care stages · 0 guidelines · 1 courses · 1 providers

The page explicitly signals the value of bilingual and bicultural heritage as a foundation for practice. This points to competence in communicating and relating across language and cultural context.

4 care stages · 0 guidelines · 0 courses · 1 providers

Understands the clinical and occupational context of the treated population. Facilitators should be aware that the target group consisted of frontline physicians and nurses with depression and burnout related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

1 care stage · 2 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Therapists must help participants manage disclosure, social support, and media contact carefully to protect privacy and emotional safety. They should advise discretion without controlling the participant's choices.

2 care stages · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Provides patient-centered, nonjudgmental care to individuals with severe opioid use disorder, including those who have not benefited from conventional treatment. The report’s focus on a treatment-refractory patient implies the need for a supportive, stigma-free approach.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Therapists should understand multiplicity of the psyche as a normal phenomenon that may become more apparent in trauma treatment and altered states. They must respond with curiosity and support rather than pathologizing parts, selves, or dissociative phenomena unless clinically necessary.

1 care stage · 1 guidelines · 0 courses · 0 providers

Learners are expected to follow the North Star Ethics Pledge and practice non-discrimination, equity, and inclusion. Ethical responsibility is positioned as a core professional competency.

2 care stages · 0 guidelines · 1 courses · 1 providers

The training includes practices for cleansing and closing psychedelic sessions appropriately. This signals competence in ending sessions in a structured, culturally responsive way.

3 care stages · 0 guidelines · 1 courses · 1 providers