{"id":18198,"date":"2024-12-12T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18198"},"modified":"2024-12-12T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:26:26","slug":"can-psychedelics-help-ceos-boost-their-leadership-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18198","title":{"rendered":"Can Psychedelics Help CEOs Boost Their Leadership Skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A growing cottage industry is dedicated to the theory that mind-altering drugs can improve business leadership.<\/p>\n

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Burrowed in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies is a wooden house, a retreat center made of pine and spruce and filled with mushroom carvings, tapestries of periwinkle and indigo paisley, books about \u201cThe Indoctrinated Brain\u201d and other paraphernalia nodding to the promised transformation: Enter as a chief executive, emerge as an enlightened one.<\/p>\n

When a group of executives wearing hoodies and leggings arrived on a Tuesday evening in October, they vibrated with the nervous energy of summer camp drop-off. They were gathered for a retreat called \u201cThe Psychedelic C.E.O.,\u201d which they had agreed to let me observe.<\/p>\n

Their guide, Murray Rodgers, used to be a hard-charging oil and gas executive. About a decade ago, he underwent a process of self-discovery. It began after a miserable pairing \u2014 a divorce and a failed company initial public offering \u2014 that left him alone on his 60th birthday, watching Hugh Grant\u2019s romantic comedy \u201cThe Rewrite\u201d and wondering if it was time for a rewrite of his own. He became a yoga instructor and then went to Costa Rica to try ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew. This started a sequence of mushroom trips and psychedelic ceremonies that left Mr. Rodgers, now 69, spiritually, psychologically and professionally transfigured.<\/p>\n

It was as if he had thrown his ego into a dryer and watched it shrink, and he became intent on helping others with that same kind of cosmic laundering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He wrote a book, \u201cThe Psychedelic C.E.O.,\u201d and after hearing from readers, he also began hosting retreats. On that day in October, he welcomed five business leaders \u2014 Adam, Adam, Jill, Chris and Ajay \u2014 most of whom requested to use only their first names so as not to alarm their investors, employees or children with their unconventional approach to professional development. All run small businesses in the Calgary area and had met through an entrepreneurs\u2019 network.<\/p>\n

After their arrival, they scarfed down bowls of thick lentil soup and then settled on couches in a downstairs den, waiting for Mr. Rodgers to introduce the agenda.<\/p>\n

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A growing cottage industry is dedicated to the theory that mind-altering drugs can improve business leadership.Burrowed in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies is a wooden house, a retreat center made of pine and spruce and filled with mushroom carvings, tapestries of periwinkle and indigo paisley, books about \u201cThe Indoctrinated Brain\u201d and other paraphernalia nodding to the promised transformation: Enter as a chief executive, emerge as an enlightened one.When a group of executives wearing hoodies and leggings arrived on a Tuesday evening in October, they vibrated with the nervous energy of summer camp drop-off. They were gathered for a retreat called \u201cThe Psychedelic C.E.O.,\u201d which they had agreed to let me observe.Their guide, Murray Rodgers, used to be a hard-charging oil and gas executive. About a decade ago, he underwent a process of self-discovery. It began after a miserable pairing \u2014 a divorce and a failed company initial public offering \u2014 that left him alone on his 60th birthday, watching Hugh Grant\u2019s romantic comedy \u201cThe Rewrite\u201d and wondering if it was time for a rewrite of his own. He became a yoga instructor and then went to Costa Rica to try ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew. This started a sequence of mushroom trips and psychedelic ceremonies that left Mr. Rodgers, now 69, spiritually, psychologically and professionally transfigured.It was as if he had thrown his ego into a dryer and watched it shrink, and he became intent on helping others with that same kind of cosmic laundering.He wrote a book, \u201cThe Psychedelic C.E.O.,\u201d and after hearing from readers, he also began hosting retreats. On that day in October, he welcomed five business leaders \u2014 Adam, Adam, Jill, Chris and Ajay \u2014 most of whom requested to use only their first names so as not to alarm their investors, employees or children with their unconventional approach to professional development. All run small businesses in the Calgary area and had met through an entrepreneurs\u2019 network.After their arrival, they scarfed down bowls of thick lentil soup and then settled on couches in a downstairs den, waiting for Mr. Rodgers to introduce the agenda.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18200,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18201,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18198\/revisions\/18201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}