Frequently Asked Questions

What is your Vision?

We are educating the psychedelic community about the responsibilities of sharing/honoring benefits thru the Nagoya Protocols. For the original plant stewards, we are creating reliable, verifiable corporate benefits that are invaluable. We are fostering support in all communities while strengthening appreciation for local self-sufficiency and allyship. We focus on making balanced positive results for culture. The people are accepting infrastructural support for the plants and animals in their culture to provide the momentum that helps affect regenerative change. 

What is Benefit Honoring?

Benefit Honoring is an alliance-building process that supports cultural restorative governance for business or you personally that is created to have a proven consultation process with a verifiable financial outcome. The consensus process produces true consultation in a way unusual with traditional indigenous people’s agreements with outside entities. We are requiring any company working with us to give back with these standards which will create a honoring synergy.

Honor is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valor, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.

High respect; great esteem, adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct, regard with respect, fulfill (an obligation) or keep (an agreement), honor, homage, reverence, deference mean respect and esteem shown to another.

Honor is listening to and obeying someone’s wishes!

Honor helps define who you are as a person while serving as a guiding light for your growth and character. Having honor defines you to others.

Where do benefits go, and how are they used?

 All honoring benefits will go directly into the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund and then be shared with all the tribal partners. The IMC Fund and Sia are allies in this conservation effort. 

Sia has served over 144 Native American tribes a year and serves all 574 tribes in the U.S. thru the only tribal feather repository and the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund which now serves over 85 indigenous tribes and growing around the world. Each tribal program and business is vetted for certain standards and botanical assessments are made on how to support truer outcomes in these new complex alliances. Sia has created a trust exercise that has easy indicators. The Psychedelic industry is being shown how a new cultural vision can create an honoring synergy between business and traditional indigenous people that models the way for true alliances that support on-the-ground restorative infrastructural abundance for their sacred plants, and animals while restoring the land!

What is the Convention for Biological Diversity and The Nagoya Protocol?

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty, effective December 29, 1993. The convention has three main goals: 

The CBD is a multilateral treaty. The convention has three main goals: 

  1. The conservation of biological diversity (or biodiversity); 

  2. The sustainable use of its components;

  3. The fair and equitable sharing/honoring of benefits arising from genetic resources.

  4. Its objective is to develop national strategies for the convention and sustainable use of biological diversity and is often seen as the key document regarding sustainable development. 

The Nagoya Protocol is an extension of the CBD, and applies to genetic resources that are covered by the CBD, and to the benefits arising from their utilization. The protocol also covers traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources that are covered by the CBD and the benefits arising from its utilization. Its aim is the implementation of one of the three objectives of the CBD: the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, thereby contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. 193 countries are signatories, and the protocol was signed on October 29, 2010, and then effective on October 12, 2014.