Building a culture of awareness, integrity & mutual benefit
Guiding Light
The mission of Guiding Light is to foster a transmission of wisdom and values across generation, culture, and discipline that guides us into the future of psychedelics by aligning our daily actions with the spirit of connection and humility. Guiding Light is a monthly virtual speaker series that follows the 7 North Star Principals. This season we will hear from those who are implementing principles and values in the DNA of their organizations. We especially invite pledge signatories to participate in Guiding Light to apply the principles and put them into practice within a professional community setting.
About Guiding Light
Next Guiding Light:
Tuesday
December 13th
2022
December 13th
2022
Format:
Professionals working in the psychedelic industry who want to follow the path to a better way of business.
Who is Guiding Light for:
- 1 hour monthly collective gathering for sharing, learning & connecting
- Grounding meditation and/or visualization
- Transmission of knowledge
- Community Learning
Community Partners
of Guiding Light
of Guiding Light
Indigenous Peyote
Conservation Initiative
Conservation Initiative
We are building Community Partnerships with people and organizations across the psychedelic field; get in touch with us to learn more.
There are no examples on earth of industries that bend toward justice. Together we can make psychedelics the first.
Support Guiding Light and help shape the a professional culture of intention and reverence in psychedelics.
Support Guiding Light and help shape the a professional culture of intention and reverence in psychedelics.
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We invite you to take the North Star Ethics Pledge and to share your own ethics statement far and wide. If you'd like to support North Star - in time, resources, or feedback - please email us, [email protected].
Pledge Creation Process
The North Star team came together after the publishing of We Will Call It Pala. Each of us saw a need to raise a critical dialogue around integrity in the commercialization of psychedelics. We shared a concern that moneyed interests were not only going to take power, but control the narrative. We believed there could be a better way.
Thus began a six month process of community dialogue. It started with a dinner with twenty of the elders we respect and admire most, asking questions around their hopes and fears for this moment in psychedelics, and what they'd like to see done. Similar dinners happened with clinicians and therapists, asking for their perspectives on commercialization and what would support them in this time, and investors oriented around impact. Here a concern was raised of a "nuclear arms race" effect, where unethical actors would have a competitive advantage to seize power, rapidly scale and control the narrative.
During this time gathering perspective, the North Star team was distilling the feedback into categories, the basis for the principles, and researching other examples of ethics commitments across industries and time. From that point forward the pledge went through four drafts, with one on one feedback with dozens and dozens of stakeholders representing different coalitions in the field.
The principles in the pledge, and the possible actions, are generated by the community. We see our role at North Star as stewarding this process, soliciting perspectives, opinions, concerns, considerations and feedback. This is reflected in the framing of the pledge - it is participatory, not prescriptive. It doesn't tell anyone how they have to behave. It invites people into a dialogue with themselves and others around what it means to put integrity at the heart of their work in the field. The hope for the pledge is that it helps people step into their own power in culture shaping, and serves as the foundation of a community that can take an ethics-first, patient-focused approach to safely scaling psychedelic healing.
Thus began a six month process of community dialogue. It started with a dinner with twenty of the elders we respect and admire most, asking questions around their hopes and fears for this moment in psychedelics, and what they'd like to see done. Similar dinners happened with clinicians and therapists, asking for their perspectives on commercialization and what would support them in this time, and investors oriented around impact. Here a concern was raised of a "nuclear arms race" effect, where unethical actors would have a competitive advantage to seize power, rapidly scale and control the narrative.
During this time gathering perspective, the North Star team was distilling the feedback into categories, the basis for the principles, and researching other examples of ethics commitments across industries and time. From that point forward the pledge went through four drafts, with one on one feedback with dozens and dozens of stakeholders representing different coalitions in the field.
The principles in the pledge, and the possible actions, are generated by the community. We see our role at North Star as stewarding this process, soliciting perspectives, opinions, concerns, considerations and feedback. This is reflected in the framing of the pledge - it is participatory, not prescriptive. It doesn't tell anyone how they have to behave. It invites people into a dialogue with themselves and others around what it means to put integrity at the heart of their work in the field. The hope for the pledge is that it helps people step into their own power in culture shaping, and serves as the foundation of a community that can take an ethics-first, patient-focused approach to safely scaling psychedelic healing.
