As more mental-health, counselling, coaching and wellness professionals engage psychedelics in their professions, the more we need a common ethical foundation to guide our efforts. This is important for a variety of reasons, one of which is the fact that treating with psychedelics, or guiding others in their use, is unlike any other form of therapy, counselling or coaching. For instance, with most pre-psychedelic approaches to...

Now go out and enjoy every second of the journey, try to be a “good” person along the way and maybe cook up a huge pot of “Peeps & M&M Chili”! If you are looking for a “meaning” to life, that’s a good a place as any to start. As an arm-chair philosopher one of my favourite shows is The Good Place (an afterlife – “Heaven”). The premise of The Good Life is simple. A...

“Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong” ~ Donald Porter “Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them” ~ Kevin Stirtz   A few weeks back I posted on Facebook something about having a bad day and that for the first time in maybe more than a decade I called someone an...

  “The more we exploit nature, the more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.” (Morris Udall) “What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?” (Thoreau) “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.” (Margaret Mead)   Squamish is currently wrestling with the difficult moral, economic and environmental questions...

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.” (Albert Einstein)   “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” (Ghandi)  “We do not act rightly because we have virture or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly” (Aristotle)   Here we are facing another municipal election in Squamish and once again there...