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Kylea Taylor, M.S., LMFT and SELENE KUMIN VEGA, LMFT, PHD

Selene and Kylea Taylor teach a program called InnerEthics. Their course titles include: Finding Right Relationship with Clients: An Introduction to InnerEthics and Inner Ethics: Examining Counter-transference with Compassion.

Kylea is a California Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been a senior trainer at the Grof Transpersonal Training since the 1990s.  In 2017 Kylea rewrote and republished her successful 1995 title The Ethics of Caring. The new book won the 2017 Nautilus Book Award in the category, “Relationships & Communication”.

The Ethics of Caring is the “go to” reference work on the ethics of guiding in psychedelic and expanded states of consciousness.

Selene’s work with movement and other experiential modalities has evolved over many years of teaching and developing approaches to facilitating self-exploration, connection, and transformation in workshops and courses.

 
  • For decades Kylea Taylor has been directing people's attention to the ways in which holding space for a psychedelic session requires close attention to the ethics of caring. It is essential that anyone who works with clients using psychedelics understand the unique ethical concerns that arise in these sessions. Transference, counter-transference, inflation, power, sex, money and much more will arise with great intensity in a psychedelic session. 

    Kylea and Selene Vega clearly articulate the core ethical concerns when sitting for others in expanded states of consciousness.

    Kylea is a California Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been a senior trainer at the Grof Transpersonal Training since the 1990s. She worked at a Santa Cruz residential substance abuse treatment center for 9 years.  In 2017 Kylea rewrote and republished her successful 1995 title The Ethics of Caring. The new book won the 2017 Nautilus Book Award in the category, “Relationships & Communication.” She also authored The Breathwork Experience, The Holotropic Breathwork® Facilitator’s Manual, andedited Exploring Holotropic Breathwork®. Kylea does consulting and teaching related to ethics.

    Selene’s work with movement and other experiential modalities has evolved over many years of teaching and developing approaches to facilitating self-exploration, connection, and transformation in workshops and courses. She has taught at The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University), Bastyr University, JFK University, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, SoulCollage® Institute, and Sacred Centers and has served as President of Santa Cruz CAMFT (California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists). She was editor of the Spiritual Emergence Network Newsletter, and co-authored The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body, and Spirit through the Chakras (Crossing Press, 1993), which has been translated into six languages.