What Does Success Look Like?

We want to take this project right through to the practicalities of making the changes that will benefit patients, practitioners and clinicians.

Success will look like:

  • Clinicians being well-educated and informed about the range of spiritual experience so that they are easily able to hear, understand and appreciate the experiences of patients and incorporate those into a skilful clinical diagnostic and management plan.

  • Patients being presented with a range of therapeutic or treatment options that may include mindfulness or meditation based interventions or psychedelic interventions. They can make reasonable, informed choices about those possible treatment options based on solid data of the risks, benefits and alternatives of those therapies.

  • The results of those studies will be incorporated into billing and diagnostic codes and the major medical textbooks. Knowledge of these experiences would be incorporated into the certification criteria of various boarded medical specialities.

  • Practitioners will be empowered to know the range of effects and risks of various practices and be properly supported in their choices and their outcomes.

Ultimately, clinicians will be empowered to have a lot to contribute when patients present with these sorts of experiences, to provide more satisfying encounters for patients and clinicians, so that they are competent and confident in caring for these sorts of situations, dealing with these sorts of problems and appreciating the opportunities for healing that they present.