Introductions:
- What is your name and how are you feeling today?
- Share your number one thing to plant in a garden?
- Reminder that this is a space where we welcome and explore all perspectives. You may hear something that you disagree with and that’s okay. Fee free to share the discomfort and we can explore that together.
- Today may carry some sensitive stories so a bit of housekeeping to keep a consensual flow, let’s limit names of people involved in your stories and also where they take place. We don’t want to out any space holders or medicine carriers. So let’s use I statements and be cognizant of privacy.
- Discussions are free flow. But we do have a few prompts to start the discussion.
⁃ Instinct ~ When was a time you had to navigate a challenging/emergency psychedelic experience?
- Convincing to pee because it could be a medicinal emergency increase blood pressure -> hypertensive crisis
- Not calling on medics that may cause more disturbance
- People in crisis need expansiveness
- What was challenging is the feelings after, prompted more loving relationship with self, help let go, calm energy to help, not telling her she was wrong
- Experienced damaging intervention, was always after the trip, diagnosed drug induced psychosis, harmful, no benefit, just named it, didn’t help, heavily stigmatized disorder, longer integration
- If going through something difficult, I just leave
At what point is intervention necessary in a psychedelic experience?
- Wants intervention if hurting self
- Disorganized use, or causing harm post use
- There was nothing wrong with me, I just needed to process because there was a disconnect
- Have to remember what reality was
- Wasn’t a psychiatric issue
- Language wasn’t present to process the experience
- Harmful to project what you think a person is going through into the persons experience
Reflection ~ How have you integrated that experience as a learning lesson?
- Regulated nervous system when approaching crisis
- Try touch, sounds, not words
- People are equip to handle what is happening to them- trust the body
- Public vs private scenarios
- What is an emergency
- Be around people who you trust and are knowledgeable and love you
- Have a sober support around
- Ghost pipe
- Intervention vs support
- Checking in before you take anything
- Intervention = force
- Informed consent
- Liability and insurance
- Discuss Who is okay with supporting someone
- You could never be the same
Protocol ~ What protocol can we implement to better care for emergency situations?
- Know your strength
- Reflect what people are saying so you don’t put worlds in their head
- Let them guide it
- Give someone the dignity of having their own process
- Talk through not talk down
- Gesturing and motioning
- Offering support to others witnessing the event that may not be used to this exposure