Blending modern neuroscience with the wisdom of psychology, Trip takes you on a self-guided journey to help make the most of your consciousness-expanding experiences. Now featuring Trip Guide, meditations from leading psychedelic guides from around the world.
Thanks @rrhoover, really appreciate the support. It’s an important question, and one we spent a lot of time asking ourselves when in ideation mode early this year. I.e. how will we distill centuries of wisdom and decades of academic and clinical research into a simple, engaging user experience? We spoke with experienced and new trippers, guides, psychologists, medical doctors, and combined those insights with the research from Mendel Kaelen, Stanislav Grof, MAPS, Roland Griffiths, Robin Carhart-Harris and others. We found that despite the diverse set of communities and individuals that work with consciousness expansion for rituals, growth, healing, or otherwise, a few common practices make up a framework that has been shown to enhance the therapeutic benefits. We broke those down into preparation, exploration, reflection, and integration phases, and translated the steps within those phases into a synchronous flow in the app when starting a trip. Still plenty more research to be done, and many smart people currently working on new studies to better inform this, so this by no means is a static product. I'm looking forward to getting feedback from users and iterating based on what we continue to learn from them and the experts.
Further, I think it's important that product leaders and designers can empathize with their users so I hope that my own convoluted journey (https://www.koriharrison.com/blo...) that has driven a passion for helping people doing this work will help inform product from that perspective as well.
While I have some reservations about rolling out psychedelic therapy to the masses, I'm also not in favor of restricting access to guides, information, and support for people who might be interested in exploring this avenue of self-help or self-discovery either. In an ideal world, there would ample human guides and assistance for people who are interested in chemically-assisted therapy, but alas, there's still too many taboos (and laws) to make such access readily available and stigma-free.
Is an app a sufficiently safe way to provide access instead? Jury's out, but my hunch is no — nor do I think that's what Trip is trying to achieve.
And yet here we are — and at least things are moving forward, providing access to support where previously there was little to none that was publicly readily available.
@chrismessina very excited to design intersecting with this space. Tools like this make the conversation easier to have. Really glad to see this out in the wild.
@chrismessina@savissavvy agreed, and for the longest time the only resources available have been communities like Erowid. Tools like this (I hope) can help break down the barriers.
Expanding the mind is just the beginning. It is the set and setting before and during, and the reflection done after trips that supports lasting personal growth. We designed Trip as a tool to support that.
Through our research, we learned that many people already use their phones as a tool for tripping. The most common reasons were for music, writing notes or journaling, and voice recording. Now, they can have all three in one place.
Trip helps you maximize these experiences, self-discoveries, and growth through intention setting, mood tracking, personalized music, and guided journaling.
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