Beyond Venture and Charity: Defining a Care-Centered Model of Psychedelic Finance
Psychedelic care does not align with venture capital or charitable funding models. This essay explores a care-centered approach to psychedelic finance grounded in stewardship, patience, and financial structures designed to support facilitators over time rather than extract value or create dependency.
What Regulation Can’t Do: Why Psychedelic Care Needs Independent Infrastructure
Regulation is a necessary starting point for psychedelic care, but it does not provide the financial, relational, or material support facilitators need to endure. This essay examines why independent infrastructure must follow policy if psychedelic care is to remain ethical, inclusive, and sustainable over time.
Why We Began with Facilitators: Introducing the Psychedelic Facilitator Loan Program
This essay traces why Inner Guru’s first program focuses on psychedelic facilitators. Drawing on governance experience, mental health equity, and collaboration with Indigenous elders, it explains why financial access for facilitators is foundational to ethical psychedelic care.
Honoring Roots: Introducing the Stewardship Committee
Psychedelic finance carries an ethical responsibility rooted in Indigenous land, lineage, and ceremony. This essay introduces the Stewardship Committee — formed to ensure that any lending connected to psychedelic work proceeds with consent, accountability, and relationship before capital moves.