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Our mission

The AMAPP mission statement.

Our mission is to create a trusted and ethical space for psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) practitioners to thrive. By providing peer support, advocacy, educational opportunities and resources, we strengthen a movement that honours healing, integrity, and the useful role of psychedelics in helping address mental health problems and the maintenance of a healthy society.

The three pillars

Peer support, advocacy, and trust.

Three pillars carry the mission. Each names a commitment AMAPP holds to the community it serves, set out here in full.

Pillar 01

Peer Support

Nurture a connected and multidisciplinary PAT community that honours both professional expertise and lived experience. Through mentorship, leadership, and a strong foundation of support, this network fosters resilience, ethical practice, and innovation, strengthening the field for both practitioners and society.

Professional Peer Network

Co-create a thriving, multidisciplinary community that values both professional expertise and lived experience in the field of PAT. Through networking forums, peer-led discussions, and collaborative events, this network facilitates knowledge exchange, mutual support, and innovation.

Member Services

Advance the professional development, ethical practice, resilience and well-being of PAT practitioners through training, tools, health resources, consultations, and access to exclusive offers and discounts on global programs, to support a sustainable and healthy PAT field.

Leadership

Provide members with access to affordable, credentialed and experienced PAT mentors and specialist group supervision to support professional growth and foster the ongoing development of the PAT field.

Pillar 02

Advocacy

We advocate for equitable, safe, and ethical PAT by promoting awareness, access, and harm reduction for the community, supporting client rights to best-practice care, and ensuring fair policies, protections, and support for practitioners.

Community

Awareness of and access to effective evidence-based PAT options, harm reduction strategies and diverse medicine cultural contexts to promote informed responsible engagement.

Clients

Advocate for the rights of PAT clients to receive care that is safe, equitable, inclusive and supported by best practice.

Practitioners

Championing fair workplace policies, protections and support systems to uphold the rights, safety, ethics and wellbeing of PAT practitioners, ensuring a healthy and sustainable field.

Pillar 03

Trust

As the peak PAT body, AMAPP integrates research into real-world practice, balancing potential and risk. With courage, we advance PAT with scientific rigour, wisdom, and openness, free from stigma, to instil trust in our members, clients, sector, and the wider community.

Integrity

To provide recognition of PAT practitioners who embody standards of safety, integrity and inclusivity through a credentialing process and public-facing record of practitioners.

Peak Industry Standard

Collaboration with Australian and global experts to ensure AMAPP is the peak Australian voice for integrating psychedelic research and related research outcomes into real-world practice and assisting the field of PAT to navigate the enormous potential whilst honestly addressing risk.

Courage

To create a culture of health where all novel treatments are explored with open, objective minds and scientific rigour, selected with wisdom and professionalism, and employed without stigma and shame.

The full document

Read the mission statement in full.

The founding document sets out the mission and all three pillars in detail. Open it in the reader below, or download the PDF to keep.

As AMAPP is a new organisation, it is expected that this document will change organically as AMAPP grows and adapts to its environment.

Read our position statement

AMAPP moves forward with open minds and courageous hearts.

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