Principles Matter
VisionTrek is built on the belief that powerful experiences require clear structure. Transformation should strengthen autonomy, not dependency.
To protect participants, facilitators, and the integrity of this work, we operate under two written commitments:
These are not marketing statements. They are structural guardrails.
Ethics First Facilitation Policy
VisionTrek exists to support transformation through ethical facilitation, participant sovereignty, and grounded integration. To protect the integrity of this work, we commit to the following principles:
No Charismatic Authority: No individual at VisionTrek is positioned as spiritually superior, infallible, or uniquely enlightened. Facilitators are guides, not gurus.
Shared Agency: Participants retain full personal sovereignty. All decisions — before, during, and after any experience — remain voluntary and self-directed.
Transparency of Power: Roles, responsibilities, and boundaries are clearly defined. Power dynamics are acknowledged openly, not obscured or denied.
No Psychological Dependency: VisionTrek does not foster emotional, financial, or spiritual dependence on any facilitator, coach, or community structure.
Integration Over Idolization: The goal is to strengthen each individual’s inner authority — not attachment to an external figure or system.
Accountability: Concerns, grievances, or boundary violations are taken seriously and reviewed through defined processes.
VisionTrek facilitators hold psychological and emotional space during the experience. Their role is not to control the journey but to support participant autonomy, safety, and integration. Transformation should increase autonomy, clarity, and grounded strength - not surrender it.
Foundational Influences: Grounded in established principles of autonomy, trauma-informed care, professional ethics, and psychedelic facilitation ethics, including Self-Determination Theory, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)trauma-informed framework, the American Psychological Association (APA) Ethics Code, and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Code of Ethics for Psychedelic Psychotherapy.
Facilitator Code of Conduct
All VisionTrek facilitators, advisors and contractors agree to uphold the following standards:
Participant Safety First: Emotional, psychological, and physical safety are prioritized over spectacle, intensity, or performance. Participants and Facilitators complete a structured psychological screening process to ensure readiness and safety.
Clear Boundaries: No romantic, sexual, or exploitative relationships with participants during active retreat engagement.
Informed Consent: Participants are provided clear information regarding risks, expectations, and integration responsibilities.
No Coercion: No pressure to continue participation, purchase additional services, or adopt specific beliefs.
Cultural Respect: Indigenous and ceremonial traditions are approached with humility, credit, and integrity.
Professional Conduct: Facilitators operate within their scope of competence and do not present themselves as licensed clinicians unless properly credentialed.
Confidentiality: Personal information and participant experiences are treated with discretion and respect.
Ongoing Self-Work: Facilitators commit to continued supervision, reflection, and ethical development.
VisionTrek’s work depends on trust. Trust depends on structure.
Ethical clarity is not a constraint on transformation.
It is the container that makes transformation sustainable.
Artificial Intelligence Statement of Ethics and Human Accountability
VisionTrek may use artificial intelligence (AI) to support research, writing, strategy, education, and creative development. To protect and guide this work, we commit to the following principles:
Human Accountability: AI may assist, but it does not make final decisions about people, safety, care, ethics, or program design.
Transparency: When AI significantly supports public-facing materials, we aim to acknowledge its role and avoid presenting assisted work as unassisted human insight.
No Machine Authority: AI is not treated as a healer, therapist, spiritual guide, medical advisor, legal advisor, or source of spiritual truth.
Verification: AI and humans can both sound confident while being incomplete, biased, mistaken, or wrong. Important claims are reviewed with care.
Privacy and Non-Manipulation: Sensitive participant information is treated with discretion and consent. AI is not used to exploit vulnerability, dependency, confusion, spiritual longing.
AI can clarify and accelerate. It can also distort, flatten, fabricate, or overreach.
Be amazed. Stay sober. Keep humans accountable.
Foundational Influences: Grounded in trustworthy, human-centered, rights-respecting, and accountable AI principles, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) AI Ethics Recommendation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) AI Principles, European Union (EU) AI Act, and Council of Europe AI Framework Convention.