✅ Readiness Assessment

Evaluate your preparation level across key dimensions to ensure you're truly ready for a meaningful and safe psychedelic experience

🎯 About This Assessment

Proper preparation is one of the most important factors in having a positive, meaningful psychedelic experience. This assessment evaluates your readiness across seven key dimensions that research and experienced practitioners have identified as crucial.

📊 What This Assessment Measures

  • Mindset (Set) - Your mental state, emotional readiness, and psychological preparation
  • Environment (Setting) - Physical space, comfort, and safety of your location
  • Intention - Clarity of purpose and goals for the experience
  • Support System - People available for support during and after
  • Knowledge - Understanding of what to expect and how to navigate
  • Practical Preparation - Logistics, supplies, and timing
  • Integration Plan - How you'll process and apply insights afterward

Time: 8-10 minutes | Items: 28 questions | Your answers are not stored - they're processed locally in your browser.

🔍 Begin Your Assessment

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🧠 Mindset (Set)

1. Emotional Stability

How emotionally stable do you feel right now? Consider your overall mood, stress levels, and emotional resilience over the past few weeks.

2. Anxiety Level

How much anxiety do you feel about the upcoming experience? Some nervousness is normal; excessive anxiety may indicate you need more preparation.

3. Openness to Experience

Are you genuinely open to whatever the experience brings, including potentially challenging content?

4. Trust in the Process

How much do you trust that you can handle whatever arises and that the experience will ultimately be valuable?

🏠 Environment (Setting)

5. Physical Safety

Is your planned location physically safe? No hazards, secure from uninvited interruptions, with needed supplies accessible?

6. Comfort Level

How comfortable is the space? Consider temperature control, comfortable seating/lying areas, lighting, and overall ambiance.

7. Privacy

Will you have complete privacy without risk of unexpected interruptions from roommates, family, or others?

8. Access to Nature or Beauty

Does your setting include access to nature, art, or other beautiful elements that can enhance the experience?

🎯 Intention

9. Clarity of Purpose

How clear are you about WHY you want to have this experience? What are you seeking or hoping to explore?

10. Healthy Motivation

Is your motivation healthy (growth, healing, insight, connection) rather than escapist (running from problems, numbing pain)?

11. Written Intention

Have you written down your intention and spent time reflecting on it?

12. Flexibility of Expectations

Are you attached to a specific outcome, or can you surrender to whatever the experience brings?

👥 Support System

13. Trip Sitter Availability

Do you have a trusted, sober person who can be present throughout the experience?

14. Sitter Trust Level

How much do you trust your support person? Could you be completely vulnerable with them?

15. Sitter Preparation

Has your sitter read guidelines and understands their role, including how to handle challenging situations?

16. Post-Experience Support

Do you have people you can talk to about your experience in the days and weeks after?

📚 Knowledge & Understanding

17. Understanding of Effects

How well do you understand what to expect - timeline, typical effects, possible challenging experiences?

18. Navigation Techniques

Do you know techniques for navigating difficult moments (breathing, grounding, surrendering, music)?

19. Dosage Knowledge

Do you know the appropriate dose for your experience level and intentions, and have you verified potency?

20. Safety Knowledge

Do you understand contraindications, drug interactions, and know when/how to seek help if needed?

📋 Practical Preparation

21. Time Allocation

Have you set aside enough time - including the full experience plus rest and integration time (ideally 24-48 hours)?

22. Supplies & Provisions

Do you have everything you need? Water, easy snacks, blankets, comfortable clothes, music, tissues, etc.

23. Music & Playlist

Have you prepared a playlist appropriate for the experience, tested it, and know how to control it?

24. Pre-Experience Preparation

Have you followed recommended pre-experience practices? (Proper sleep, light eating, no substances, meditation)

🔄 Integration Planning

25. Journaling Plan

Do you have a journal ready and plan to write about your experience?

26. Integration Practices

Have you identified practices for integrating insights? (Meditation, therapy, art, nature time, talking with others)

27. Time for Integration

Have you protected time in the days following for reflection and integration (not jumping back into busy life)?

28. Professional Support Access

Do you have access to a therapist, integration circle, or coach if you need additional support processing the experience?

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✅ Essential Pre-Flight Checklist

Use this checklist to ensure you've covered all the basics before your experience. Your progress is saved locally.

🧠 Mindset

🏠 Setting

👥 Support

📋 Practical

🔗 Preparation Resources

📚 Set & Setting Guide

Comprehensive guide to optimizing your mindset and environment for psychedelic experiences.

Read Guide →

👤 Trip Sitter Guide

Everything your sitter needs to know to support you effectively.

View Guide →

🎵 Music Playlists

Curated playlists designed to support different phases of the experience.

Browse Playlists →

🔄 Integration Guide

How to process and integrate your experience for lasting benefits.

Learn More →