app02 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:02:03 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Permission Slip - Episodes Tagged with “#Peerconsultation” https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/tags/%23peerconsultation Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0600 I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise. en-us episodic You are allowed. Matt Kosterman I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise. yes Conscious living, Embodiment, Transformation, Inner healing, Trauma release, Psychedelic integration, Energy work, Nervous system regulation, Authentic expression, Conscious relationships, Spiritual awakening, Shadow work, Self-remembrance, Intuitive guidance, Healing trauma, Mind-body connection Matt Kosterman matt@mattkosterman.com S3 | E4 Ashley Carmen https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s3e4-carmen 2c4f01f3-9f4c-42d3-8c5a-a70c0663e13d Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 3 Matt Kosterman My guest is Ashley Carmen, a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of the Psychedelic Guide Network, joining me from Austin. We dig into the least glamorous and most important topic in psychedelic work: ethics. Ashley walks through Kylea Taylor's InnerEthics model, why motivation and intention matter more than any rulebook, and what it takes for a guide to hold a clean container. Then we get practical, with the questions to ask and the red flags to watch for when choosing a facilitator, from preparation through integration. 1:04:49 yes <p>I'm joined from Austin by Ashley Carmen, a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of the Psychedelic Guide Network (PGN), where she trains practitioners in the ethics and interior work of guiding others through non-ordinary states. Ethics isn't the sexy part of psychedelic medicine, but Ashley makes the case that it's where the real transformation happens, for guides as much as for the people they serve.</p> <p>Ashley traces her path on two tracks: a childhood without much honor or respect, a connection she made during an ayahuasca experience, and a clinical career where hundreds of hours of required consultation showed her what was missing in the psychedelic space. Her own road to the medicine ran from mushrooms on a pizza in sixth grade, to witnessing substance-induced psychosis in inpatient rehab, to finally answering the call with intention in Tahoe, then training with MAPS and the School of Consciousness Medicine.</p> <p>From there we get into Kylea Taylor's InnerEthics model, which asks practitioners to look at the motivation and intention behind everything they say and do in the journey room, and then we get very practical about how to find a safe guide. I share some of my own experiences as a guide, including times my projections crept into someone else's journey.</p> <p>In this episode, we talk about:</p> <ul> <li>Why inner ethics beats a rulebook, and how it becomes shadow work for practitioners</li> <li>The practitioner as the container, and what a "clean container" really means</li> <li>How medicines amplify attraction, projection, and a guide's need to feel useful</li> <li>The questions to ask a facilitator, and why operating in isolation is a red flag</li> <li>Why a guide who won't tell you what you're taking is violating your sovereignty</li> <li>Co-facilitation, group ceremony ratios, and who should avoid solo journeys</li> <li>Integration, aftercare, and why three prep and three integration sessions is the minimum</li> <li>Why the FDA is only one umbrella over psychedelic work, and the case for standards for coaches</li> </ul> <p>You can find Ashley, and PGN's free monthly live events, at <a href="https://psychedelicguidenetwork.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">psychedelicguidenetwork.com</a>.</p><p>Special Guest: Ashley Carmen, LMFT.</p> Ashley Carmen, Psychedelic Guide Network, PGN, psychedelic ethics, InnerEthics, Kylea Taylor, psychedelic facilitation, psychedelic guide, psychedelic therapy, shadow work, peer consultation, clean container, projection, transference, sovereignty, consent, red flags, co-facilitation, group ceremony, solo journey, integration, aftercare, harm reduction, MAPS, MDMA-assisted therapy, psilocybin, ayahuasca, coaching, FDA, Fireside Project, embodiment, LMFT I'm joined from Austin by Ashley Carmen, a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of the Psychedelic Guide Network (PGN), where she trains practitioners in the ethics and interior work of guiding others through non-ordinary states. Ethics isn't the sexy part of psychedelic medicine, but Ashley makes the case that it's where the real transformation happens, for guides as much as for the people they serve.

Ashley traces her path on two tracks: a childhood without much honor or respect, a connection she made during an ayahuasca experience, and a clinical career where hundreds of hours of required consultation showed her what was missing in the psychedelic space. Her own road to the medicine ran from mushrooms on a pizza in sixth grade, to witnessing substance-induced psychosis in inpatient rehab, to finally answering the call with intention in Tahoe, then training with MAPS and the School of Consciousness Medicine.

From there we get into Kylea Taylor's InnerEthics model, which asks practitioners to look at the motivation and intention behind everything they say and do in the journey room, and then we get very practical about how to find a safe guide. I share some of my own experiences as a guide, including times my projections crept into someone else's journey.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Why inner ethics beats a rulebook, and how it becomes shadow work for practitioners
  • The practitioner as the container, and what a "clean container" really means
  • How medicines amplify attraction, projection, and a guide's need to feel useful
  • The questions to ask a facilitator, and why operating in isolation is a red flag
  • Why a guide who won't tell you what you're taking is violating your sovereignty
  • Co-facilitation, group ceremony ratios, and who should avoid solo journeys
  • Integration, aftercare, and why three prep and three integration sessions is the minimum
  • Why the FDA is only one umbrella over psychedelic work, and the case for standards for coaches

You can find Ashley, and PGN's free monthly live events, at psychedelicguidenetwork.com.

Special Guest: Ashley Carmen, LMFT.

Support The Permission Slip

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Ashley traces her path on two tracks: a childhood without much honor or respect, a connection she made during an ayahuasca experience, and a clinical career where hundreds of hours of required consultation showed her what was missing in the psychedelic space. Her own road to the medicine ran from mushrooms on a pizza in sixth grade, to witnessing substance-induced psychosis in inpatient rehab, to finally answering the call with intention in Tahoe, then training with MAPS and the School of Consciousness Medicine.

From there we get into Kylea Taylor's InnerEthics model, which asks practitioners to look at the motivation and intention behind everything they say and do in the journey room, and then we get very practical about how to find a safe guide. I share some of my own experiences as a guide, including times my projections crept into someone else's journey.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Why inner ethics beats a rulebook, and how it becomes shadow work for practitioners
  • The practitioner as the container, and what a "clean container" really means
  • How medicines amplify attraction, projection, and a guide's need to feel useful
  • The questions to ask a facilitator, and why operating in isolation is a red flag
  • Why a guide who won't tell you what you're taking is violating your sovereignty
  • Co-facilitation, group ceremony ratios, and who should avoid solo journeys
  • Integration, aftercare, and why three prep and three integration sessions is the minimum
  • Why the FDA is only one umbrella over psychedelic work, and the case for standards for coaches

You can find Ashley, and PGN's free monthly live events, at psychedelicguidenetwork.com.

Special Guest: Ashley Carmen, LMFT.

Support The Permission Slip

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