Support for psychedelic workers
1.
Do you work overground or underground?
Overground
Underground
Somewhere in between / legal grey zone
2.
Have you ever felt burnout from psychedelic work?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
3.
If so, what factors gave rise to that burnout?
Intensity of work
Financial insecurity
Legal insecurity
Difficult client
Adverse events or emergencies (yours or a client's)
Difficult work environment
Challenges of working on clinical trials
4.
If you want, write a bit more about the burnout you experienced and the factor or factors that gave rise to it (especially if it was more than one contributing factor)
5.
If you felt burnout, what did you find helpful in coping with it? Please share a sentence or a few sentences, as you prefer.
6.
Do you have access to supervision in your work from an elder / mentor / supervisor?
Yes
No
7.
If so, how helpful is it, and could you say what form of supervision you have access to?
8.
Have you experienced transference and counter-transference in your work - ie clients projecting roles onto you, either romantic or familial, and you in turn perhaps reacting to that or projecting roles onto them?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
9.
If so, to what extent did you feel equipped to cope with that?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
Not at all
10.
Do you have access to peer support for your work?
Yes
No
11.
If so, could you say what form that peer support takes?
12.
If you do have access to peer support for your work, how helpful do you find it?
Very helpful
Quite helpful
Not particularly helpful
Not helpful at all
13.
Any other issues you've faced in your work you'd like to mention?
14.
Is there anything you think could or should exist to support the work of psychedelic workers (facilitators, therapists, healers etc)