Our True North
North Node is a private educational association devoted to conscious exploration, integration, and personal evolution.
We create thoughtfully facilitated environments that support the integration of insight and sustained personal development over time.
Our work is intentional and rooted in respect for each person’s innate intelligence and capacity for self-inquiry, alongside reverence for the medicines and practices engaged within this work.
Our Container
North Node operates as a private membership association. We are an educational and experiential learning community that supports conscious integration through preparation, guided practice, and reflection.
We are not a clinic, treatment center, or medical provider.
Participation is voluntary, consensual, and contractual, emphasizing personal agency within a practitioner-guided framework and held within clearly defined boundaries that support consent, discretion, and participant privacy.
Our Philosophy
At North Node, intentional exploration is grounded in preparation, discernment, and personal responsibility, with integration as the measure of its value.
This work honors each individual’s capacity for self-inquiry and free choice and is supported within thoughtfully facilitated containers that prioritize care, ethics, and personal agency, supporting a self-directed path of growth that is thoughtful, ethical, and truly their own.
Our Approach
North Node bridges modern neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and experiential education.
Our approach supports emotional awareness, regulation, and embodied insight in service of sustainable change.
Guidance is offered with clarity and care, while each participant remains responsible for their own experience and choices.
Our Framework
EDUCATION
Grounded learning focused on preparation, altered-state literacy, harm reduction, and integration.
EXPERIENCE
Carefully prepared experiential containers designed to support clarity, connection, and self-awareness.
INTEGRATION
1:1 coaching, facilitated group integration, and reflective practices that translate insight into embodiment and daily life.
Ethics & Responsibility
Ethics and responsibility are central to our work.
North Node operates within a consent-based, education-focused framework that emphasizes preparation, discernment, and personal agency. Our work is non-medical and non-directive.
We do not diagnose, treat, or replace medical or mental health care. Participants are encouraged to maintain appropriate professional support and to engage collaboratively with therapists, clinicians, or care providers when aligned.
Who We Serve
North Node supports adults seeking personal evolution and a more integrative way forward, often after finding that traditional or familiar modalities have not fully addressed what they are navigating. This work offers intentional, structured support for navigating life transitions, integrating past or ongoing experiences, and engaging growth with care and discernment.
Participants are often professionals, creatives, and leaders living full lives who value thoughtful, grounded support outside of clinical settings and are frequently referred by therapists or wellness professionals.
Consent & Membership
North Node operates through consensual, contractual engagement grounded in free will, informed choice, and personal agency within a practitioner-guided educational framework. Engagement is held with respect for privacy and discretion, and individuals may participate without public disclosure while retaining control over how their involvement is shared.
Participants remain responsible for their own experience and engage within clearly held boundaries that prioritize care and ethical responsibility.
Nothing is prescribed. Nothing is required. Everything is entered into willingly.
An Invitation
North Node collaborates with therapists, wellness practitioners, and organizations who value conscious, integration-centered support.
If this approach resonates, connection is welcome.
Held with care, clarity, and intention.
Our Oath
We commit to holding this work with integrity, care, and respect for personal sovereignty.
We honor free will, informed choice, and personal responsibility in all participation.
We do not prescribe paths, promise outcomes, or replace medical or mental health care.
We believe integration, not intensity, is the true measure of this work.
We hold ourselves accountable to ethical clarity, thoughtful facilitation, and ongoing discernment.
This is our oath.
The Founder
Maggie Kirkwood
Founder, North Node™
Maggie is a certified psychedelic practitioner, entrepreneur, and creative director devoted to helping people reconnect with their inner light and explore the internal patterns shaping how they think, create, and lead.
Her work blends contemplative practice, neuroscience, and the responsible exploration of non-ordinary states of awareness.
As host of the Minds on Mushrooms podcast, she has spent years bringing thoughtful, grounded conversation to a space that deserves greater clarity and care.
North Node is the environment she built to take that work further, a structured practice for leaders and entrepreneurs ready to explore their inner architecture and translate insight into meaningful change.
Angie Fox Dahlof
Founding Partner, North Node™
A cultivator, facilitator, and health integration coach with decades of experience at leading advertising agencies and several companies of her own, Angie brings deep expertise in collaboration, innovation, and the art of sustainable life balance. Having walked her own healing path, she brings lived insight to every session, rooted in compassion and somatic awareness. Her work with clients centers on integration — helping people embody new perspectives, translate insight into purposeful action, and create lasting change in an environment defined by both rigor and warmth.
Follow Your Curiosity.
Whether you’re exploring microdosing education, leadership expansion, or a team experience, let’s see where your North Node leads.