Ethics 101 · Homestudy
The ethics training you wish you’d had before your first session. Learn a framework that gives you something you can carry into the room — self-awareness, relational ethics, and the internal compass to navigate what codes of conduct alone can’t cover.
2 CE Hours · Self-Paced Homestudy · $59
Begin Ethics 101 — $59Developed by Kylea Taylor, MS, LMFT · Offered by Psychedelic Guide Network
Instant access · Learn at your own pace
The Gap No One Talks About
Ethics goes beyond laws and guidelines. When a client is in a non-ordinary state of consciousness; wide open, profoundly vulnerable, looking at you like you hold the answers; the rulebook disappears. What’s left is the relationship. And that’s where ethical development actually lives.
This course exists to close the gap that codes of conduct were never designed to fill.
What Ethics 101 Covers
Ethics 101 is the entry point to the InnerEthics® framework — a relational approach to ethical practice developed by Kylea Taylor over three decades of work with psychedelic and transpersonal communities. This isn’t compliance training. It’s an invitation to examine the internal dynamics that shape every therapeutic relationship you hold.
Why trustworthiness forms the foundation of ethical work. How internal motivations and self-awareness create (or erode) the therapeutic container, especially when clients are in profound states of consciousness.
What “right relationship” actually means when power differentials, vulnerability, and altered states are all present in the room: and the practical conditions that make healing possible versus harmful.
The internal trigger management and self-inquiry tools that help you notice the moment before a boundary is crossed: the subtle signals most practitioners override until it’s too late.
Developing an embodied ethical awareness that complements behavioral ethics training. Something you carry into the room, alongside the codes that guide you there.
Ethics Education, Completed
The codes of conduct, liability frameworks, and behavioral guidelines that define professional standards.
The internal motivations, relational patterns, and unconscious dynamics that shape how you actually show up in session.
Clear boundaries for what not to do.
The self-awareness to recognize the edge before you reach it, especially when consciousness is altered and everything is amplified.
Frameworks designed for conventional therapy settings with stable, grounded clients.
Training built specifically for practitioners working with non-ordinary states, where vulnerability is amplified and projections intensify.
A certificate that fulfills your requirement.
A gateway to a complete 6-course certification with peer consultation groups, ethical awareness tools, and a credential you can post that signals you take ethics seriously.
What Practitioners Are Saying
“These tools allow examining ethical dilemmas as opportunities to grow: not just problems to avoid. It shifted how I think about every client interaction.”
PGN Member
“A whole new understanding of ethics is now embedded in me. This wasn’t information I learned: it was a perspective I internalized.”
PGN Member
“One of the best courses on ethics I’ve been part of. It made me realize how much personal bias shows up even when I’m in my provider role.”
PGN Member
“The work with non-ordinary states of consciousness brings specific new challenges and problems. Kylea Taylor’s book is a pioneering venture into these new territories, providing important guidelines for practitioners and students.”
Stanislav Grof, MD — on The Ethics of Caring by Kylea Taylor
Is This For You?
No prerequisites. Self-paced. Start immediately.
The Complete InnerEthics® Certification
Six courses. One comprehensive certification that signals you take ethical practice as seriously as the work itself.
The foundational course. Internal motivations, self-awareness, and creating trustworthy containers for clients in profound states.
Practical ethical awareness tools including trigger management and self-inquiry techniques that complement behavioral ethics.
How a structured peer consultation framework emphasizes compassion and self-inquiry and supports group members’ mutual ethical development. Watch an InnerEthics® role-play demonstration group with five therapists.
The legal, ethical, and relational implications of dual relationships when clients experience heightened vulnerability in non-ordinary states.
A guided book study based on Kylea Taylor’s The Ethics of Caring. Professional love, boundaries, power dynamics, and accountability in depth-oriented work. Includes a comprehension test.
A guided book study based on Kylea Taylor’s book of the same name. Concrete tools for self-supervision, peer consultation, and formal supervision. Relational accountability for extraordinary states. Includes a comprehension test.
Individual total: $444 · Bundle price: $389
Save $55 with the Level 1 Certification bundle · You’ll see the bundle option at checkout
Investment
Both options include instant access via the Psychedelic Guide Network Learning Portal.
Who’s Behind This
Kylea is an internationally recognized author and educator specializing in ethical practice in extraordinary states of consciousness. She is the founder of InnerEthics®, developed over three decades of work in psychedelic and transpersonal communities. The relational framework of InnerEthics® is at the heart of every PGN course. Kylea studied directly with Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof beginning in 1984, worked as a Senior Trainer in the Grof Transpersonal Training for a decade, and spent nine years on the staff of a residential substance abuse treatment center. She brings clinical depth and lived experience to everything she teaches. Her books on ethical awareness and peer consultation for psychedelic practitioners remain foundational texts in the field.
“I created InnerEthics® after seeing practitioners doing extraordinary work in situations of amplified relational complexity that call for ethical self-reflection beyond rules and guidelines. PGN has become a wonderful home for InnerEthics® where it can support ethical development as a living practice in community.”
I built the Psychedelic Guide Network because I kept meeting the same person everywhere: a brilliant, dedicated practitioner carrying impossible ethical weight, completely alone. No peer structure. No framework that fit. Just the code of ethics on the wall and the reality of what happens in the room.
Ethics 101 is the course I wish someone had handed me before my first psychedelic-assisted session. It’s built on Kylea Taylor’s InnerEthics® framework: the only relational ethics curriculum designed specifically for what we do. I offer it through PGN because I’ve lived the gap it fills.
Common Questions
The Room Won’t Wait
“Ethical development requires acknowledgement of all aspects of relationship. When we work with people in profound states of consciousness, the ethical stakes aren’t theoretical; they’re alive and in motion during every moment of the session.”
— Kylea Taylor, MS, LMFT
Self-paced · Instant access · Lifetime access
Want the full certification? Add the Level 1 Bundle ($389, all 6 courses) at checkout.
Continuing Education
2 CE Hours · Homestudy · Video course & assigned reading
Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals, as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.
