03/17/2026
When you ask about safety in a space claiming to teach safety — and get silenced for it — that's not a glitch. That's the system working exactly as designed.
I was removed from a webinar on safety in psychedelic facilitation today after asking how the curriculum would honour women's voices and account for gendered differences in nervous system development and trauma responses. My question was deleted. My follow-up was met with immediate removal from the live call.
This is the landscape we're navigating. Who gets to define safety? Who gets to teach it? And whose experiences are treated as inconvenient questions rather than essential knowledge?
I'm sharing this not out of anger, but out of genuine curiosity and concern.
What does it mean when spaces claiming to teach safety respond to questions about inclusion with silence and removal? What patterns are we unconsciously importing into the wellness and psychedelic landscapes — and who carries the cost?
These are not comfortable questions. But they are necessary ones.
The helping professions are not exempt from patriarchal and colonial patterns — in many cases, they are actively reproducing them under the banner of healing.
We deserve better. And we need to keep asking the questions that make people uncomfortable.
What does safety actually mean if the people teaching it can't sit with dissent?
