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Preparation worksheet

A structured page to think through before the day — why, when, who, what, and what happens if it gets hard. Fill in what you want, print or save it as a PDF, and let the paper hold it.

Part of the Sheets · the day-of logistics one is the safety Sheet

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Preparation worksheet

Why now — or why not

There is no required reason to be here. Play, curiosity, and a good time are complete reasons on their own — and so is deciding to wait. Naming your own reason, in your own words, makes it easier to notice later if it has changed.

Time and room to land

Time pressure tends to shape the experience, and people often notice it more in hindsight than in advance. Fewer outside pressures means fewer things pulling on you while you are less able to manage them.

People

Company shapes the experience, and it is worth treating the people around you as part of the setup. If you will be alone, that is a real and common choice — and the things a present person would catch become yours to plan for instead.

What I'm taking

Substances sold as one thing are sometimes something else, or something else mixed in. That is not a reason to panic — it is a reason to check, if checking is available to you. A clean result is information, not a guarantee.

If–then plans

Clear thinking is exactly what the state can make harder, for a while. A plan made now in the specific form “if this, then that” survives that — the decision is already made; there is only something to recognise and act on. Plans made ahead like this measurably help people follow through.

  • If I want to leave the house → I don't.
  • If I want to message someone → it waits until tomorrow.
  • If I feel like I'm dying → this passes. Sit down. Call the line.
  • If a moment feels unsafe → lights on, sit up, say out loud that I want it to slow down.

Gollwitzer, P., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta-analysis of Effects and Processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. — https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1Watts, R., & Luoma, J. (2020). The use of the psychological flexibility model to support psychedelic assisted therapy. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.12.004

Boundaries and agreements

Settled ahead of time, nobody has to negotiate anything mid-event — with a companion, or with yourself. An answer given beforehand still counts when it is harder to give one in the moment.

Body basics

In a clinical setting someone else handles the room. Without that person, these small things become yours to set up in advance — and they do real work.

Safety, in short

Direct information, stated once. Pausing keeps every option open; going ahead closes some of them.

  • Worth pausing over: pressure from someone, an unfamiliar or unsafe place, acute distress right now, unsure about a medication or mixing, nobody knows where I am, no free day after, untested substance, something feels off and I can't say why.
  • Worth a clinician conversation first: personal or family history of psychosis, mania, or bipolar disorder; a heart condition; lithium or MAOI use (some combinations are seriously risky); changing psychiatric medication; pregnancy.
  • Get urgent help now for: trouble breathing, unresponsive, chest pain, seizure, acting on a plan to harm self or others. You do not need to be certain it is serious to call.
  • Still not feeling right the next day? That is a reason to call, not to wait.

Tomorrow

Whatever the day turns out to be, the day after is part of the plan too.

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