What INDRAnet will be
An independent, donor- and grant-funded nonprofit organization with the mission of improving well-being by accelerating research to optimize the delivery of psychedelic-assisted therapies
What INDRAnet will do
- Survey psychedelic medicine practitioners to identify the open questions that affect their work the most
- Prioritize research questions based on an analysis of their potential to improve outcomes at scale
- Collaborate with researchers to design studies and secure funding for the highest-priority research questions
- Recruit practitioners in the network to collect data, then provide anonymized data to researchers for analysis and publication
- Share actionable results with network members, including training organizations, to be immediately applied to improve practice
Who researcher-members are
- Faculty, postdocs, and graduate students at academic institutions
- Scientists working for established psychedelic medicine research organizations
What researcher-members do
- Help guide research question prioritization by providing up-to-date knowledge of what is known and unknown and what research is currently underway
- Pursue the research questions identified as highest-priority by INDRAnet’s scoring system that align with their own interests and expertise
- Design, execute, and publish studies in collaboration with INDRAnet’s in-house researchers, acting as PI or co-I as appropriate
- Abide by INDRAnet’s code of research conduct, which is guided with principles of open and reproducible science, to minimize the risk of false positives and ensure that participants’, practitioners’, and their own hard work is not wasted
What researcher-members get
- Data! Access to a network of psychedelic medicine practitioners who are enthusiastic about contributing to science, and the people with whom they work, with recruitment and data collection facilitated by INDRAnet
- Support in the design and conduct of research
- Help selecting the research questions that are most likely to improve practice
- A direct path to impact: dissemination of results to practitioners and trainers who are already bought-in to incorporate the findings into their practice
Who practitioner-members are
- Directors and trainers at institutions that provide training in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
- Directors and staff at retreat centers engaged in delivery of psychedelic medicine
- Independent practitioners (professional therapists, spiritual healers, and lay guides) engaged in delivery of psychedelic medicine
What practitioner-members do
- Provide input on the questions they most urgently want answered in order to improve their practice
- Share their wisdom and learning so that the techniques they have discovered can be tested and, if effective, disseminated to other practitioners
- Gather data for studies by inviting the people receiving their guidance to participate, then collecting data according to study protocols
- Commit to applying results of studies (when those results are clear and actionable) to their own practice, and/or their training of others, in order to improve psychedelic medicine outcomes for all
What practitioner-members get
- An unprecedented opportunity to shape the direction of psychedelic research and get answers to the questions that matter to them
- An accessible way to contribute directly to scientific progress, while protecting their privacy
- Rapid access to actionable research findings that will improve outcomes for people receiving their guidance, delivered in an easy-to-digest format