While your ketamine therapy practice may be transformative for individual patients, it represents only one piece of a larger healing puzzle. When mental health conditions appear ubiquitously across a culture, it signals systemic-level problems that require community-based solutions alongside your individual treatment approach.

In this conversation, Sam Ko interviews Mike Margolies, co-founder of the Global Psychedelic Society and a decade-long veteran of psychedelic community building. Mike shares insights about moving beyond the medical model's individual focus to create healing communities that address root causes of widespread trauma, depression, and addiction.

This discussion challenges you as a ketamine provider to think beyond individual patient care toward fostering therapeutic communities that support long-term healing and societal transformation.

What You'll Learn in This Episode

• Why widespread mental health conditions require community-level healing approaches, not just individual treatment

• The ethical responsibility that comes with facilitating consciousness-altering experiences and why personal experience matters

• Practical frameworks for building healing communities around your ketamine practice using existing psychedelic societies

Episode 36 show notes:

00:00 Teaser - The Experience as The Medicine

00:44 Welcome to the Ketamine Startup Podcast

01:51 Interview with Mike Margolies: Community Healing

03:05 The Importance of Community in Psychedelic Therapy

04:58 The Bio-Psychosocial Model of Medicine

07:44 Integral Theory and Holistic Healing

09:37 The Global Psychedelic Society: Origins and Evolution

16:01 The Psychedelic Renaissance: Conferences and Trends

19:56 Challenges and Ethical Considerations in Psychedelic Therapy

28:32 The Rise of Ketamine Clinics

31:27 Ethical Considerations in Ketamine Clinics

32:19 Philosophy and Responsible Use of Ketamine

34:52 Integration and Therapy Approaches

37:33 Building a Psychedelic Community

39:53 Vision for a Post-Prohibition World

47:35 Advice for Aspiring Ketamine Clinic Owners

50:40 Fun and Personal Insights

56:06 Conclusion and Contact Information

Thanks for listening

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Selected Links From the Episode:

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

The Psychonaut’s Dilemma By Albert Garcia-Romeu 

PEACH—Psychedelic Education and Community Healing (Double Blind) by Mike Margolies 

📕The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism) by Charles Eisenstein 

📗Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

📘Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frédéric Laloux

📙A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

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