Attunement as Leadership: Council Practice and Low-Dose 5-MeO-DMT as Transdisciplinary Pathways to Transformative Leadership
World Futures April 29, 2026 Azul Delgrasso, Jay Monger
Leadership emerges less from positional authority than from attunement—an embodied capacity to sense self, others, and context. This article argues that well-designed relational containers, such as the Way of Council and men's work, combined with low-dose (psycholytic) 5-MeO-DMT sessions, can deepen empathy, coherence, and collective intelligence in complex, transdisciplinary settings. Using facilitator narrative, reflective inquiry, and two composite vignettes, the authors show how these practices support ethical self-reflection, dialogic sense making, and responsible action. They emphasize that carefully held low-dose sessions may amplify intersubjective resonance and relational learning when grounded in consent, safety, and cultural humility.