Coaching and psychedelics: a beneficial partnership?
Yannick Jacob, Nigel Pedlingham, Marcel Braun
August 1, 2024 DOI: 10.24384/x16a-0v41 (opens in new tab) via Semantic Scholar
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractPsychedelic experiences may foster growth, learning, and wellbeing for non-clinical populations, not just treat disease. Drawing on coaching psychology and positive psychology, this paper argues that coaching can provide effective, safe, and ethical support for such experiences. It identifies positive psychological themes in research and highlights shared motivations for seeking coaching and psychedelics, building a case for psychedelics-assisted coaching. The paper offers a practice framework and discusses ethical concerns and future research directions.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Psychology |
| Key finding | Argues that psychedelic experiences hold potential to foster growth and wellbeing in non-clinical populations and that coaching can provide effective, safe, and ethical support for such experiences. |
Abstract
A burgeoning evidence base demonstrates the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. Grounded in a review of existing literature and drawing on assumptions from coaching psychology and positive psychology, this paper argues that psychedelic experiences, beyond their potential to treat disease and disorder, hold promising potential to foster growth, learning, and wellbeing for non-clinical populations, and that coaching can offer effective, safe, and ethical support. Through identifying positive psychological themes in research and highlighting shared motivations to seek coaching and psychedelics, this paper builds the case for psychedelics-assisted coaching, offers a framework for practice, and discusses ethical concerns and future research.