Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills & Round Table Mentorship

Are you an herbalist looking to build confidence and skills to support your clinical practice? Join an online community of peers and mentors for a collaborative learning experience!

The Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills and Roundtable Mentorship are complementary programs with overlapping schedules, and can be taken either together or as stand alone programs.

Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills is an online classroom program designed for students who have already completed significant herbal education and want additional ethical and practical skills translating their education into a clinical practice.

Roundtable Mentorship is designed for current and former students of Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills as a hands-on learning opportunity to support your work with clients through online observed in class intakes and weekly case study discussion.

Overview

We dream of herbal medicine being accessible to everyone, where empowering, holistic, integrative community healthcare is the norm, and where part of being a health care provider means being committed to actually addressing the root causes of illness and disease. We see herbal medicine as being a crucial part of resilient communities, of mutual aid and webs of care. In collaborating on our clinical work together, we dream, learn and catch glimpses of the world we want to see. A world where rivers are free, where lands are stewarded in sacred relationships, where people learn to live in harmony with each other and this earth, where everyone can access a dignified life, where systems of power and oppression are collectively dismantled and replaced by community-led initiatives.

The live online classroom space is collaborative, where the wisdom and knowledge that students bring is welcomed and questions are encouraged. The small class size is designed for an intimate and individualized experience, where each student can overcome challenges and grow capacities. With a full class, a portion of the tuition will contribute towards BIPOC-led herbal projects. Reduced tuition is available and prioritized for early applications and BIPOC students.

Let’s contribute towards living on an Earth that is more vibrant, abundant, resilient and free from domination.

Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills

October 16 - February 26 2024 (Online)

Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills is a classroom program designed to help herbal practitioners and students build confidence and fill the gaps in their clinical training. This program is for you if you have completed significant herbal education (through formal programming and/or self-study), and want to build clinical skills. Now in our fifth year of offering this program, we have lengthened the 2024 schedule to add an additional 18 hours of classes in response to student feedback.

The curriculum and classroom discussion is client-centered, trans and gender affirming, and trauma informed. We offer a heartfelt and encouraging environment that allows students to understand their current scope, and identify areas for growth, and challenge themselves as practitioners. Instructors share openly from our many years of clinical experience about the nuts and bolts of herbal practice, including interpreting bloodwork, apothecary management, formulation, consultation workflows, and advanced materia medica. An indispensable part of the program includes growing interactional skills through role-playing live scenarios, where participants can get hands-on practice with tricky clinical encounters. We help our students grow into herbal practices that are authentic to their true selves, and aligned with their core values by delving into the “heart work” of being an herbalist - encouraging self exploration of your herbal path so far, and identifying visions and desires for the future.

The program offers a vast library of shared resources, from reference texts to ethics centered articles, as well as reading suggestions for further learning.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the interactive nature of the program, live attendance to the majority of classes is required. Classes will be recorded for student reference.

Classes:

  • Holistic Protocol Development: advanced materia medica, interpreting blood labs, formulation, case study review and practice

  • Clinical Skills: intake process, follow-ups, professional skills, trauma-informed care, client-centered care, harm reduction, boundaries and rapport building, clinic and apothecary management, clinical scenarios practice

  • Ethics and Values: anti-oppression, anti-racism, accessibility and barriers to care, trans-inclusivity

  • Heart-work: self-exploration of herbal path, visioning hopes and desires for your practice

  • Mentorship: clinic observation of mentors, one-on-one mentorship session

Classroom Hours: 78 (plus homework)

Prerequisites:

  • Completion of a clinical herbalist program OR 2+ years of formal study, at least partially at a herb school OR 5+ years self-study with apprenticeship or mentorship.

  • 500+ hours of study (can include self-study) ~ anatomy & physiology ~ western herbal materia medica ~ pathophysiology and herbal therapeutics for chronic conditions ~ basic plant chemistry/pharmacology

Round Table Mentorship

November 27 2024 - March 26 2025

Limited to 10 students

After a hiatus, we are excited to offer an updated version of Round Table Mentorship, including an additional 4 weeks of class time in 2024. Round Table Mentorship is an active, hands-on weekly mentorship designed for clinical herbalists looking to gain support in their direct work with clients. Participants will each do one intake in class with mentor and classmate observers, and bring at least two cases to roundtable from their clinical practice. The collaborative round table space allows for everyone to learn from each other’s cases.

Participants must already have an active clinical practice. Due to the interactive nature of the program, live attendance to the majority of classes is required.

Mentorship includes:

  • Clinical roundtable

  • Intake observation

  • One-on-one clinical mentorship sessions

  • Intakes and client work

Hours: 54 live (plus client work)

Round Table Prerequisites:

  • An active clinical practice

  • Current or past participation in Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills (exceptions occasionally made)

Schedule

Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills

18 weeks total - Wednesdays at 1-5pm AT/12-4pm EST/9am -1pm PST live on Zoom

Oct 16, 23, 30; Nov 6, 13, 20, 27; Dec 4, 11, 18; Jan 8, 15, 22, 29; Feb 5, 12, 19, 26

Round Table Mentorship

16 weeks total - Tuesdays at 1-4pm AT/12-3pm EST/9am -12pm PST live on Zoom

Nov 26; Dec 3, 10, 17; Jan 7, 14, 21, 28; Feb 4, 11, 18, 25; March 4, 11, 18, 25

Tuition

Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills: $1700 USD / $2295 CAD +hst

Round Table Mentorship: $1190 USD / $1600 CAD +hst

$2690 USD / $3630 CAD +hst for BOTH the Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills and Round Table Mentorship

Monthly payment plans available upon request

There are a limited number of 25% and 50% reduced tuition spots that will be prioritized for earlier applications and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. Students can request the reduced rate on the application. Click here to view the guidelines for requesting reduced tuition

If the class is full, a portion of the tuition will subsidize herbs and consultations for clients, as well as contribute towards BIPOC-led herbal projects.

Applying

The application deadline is August 20th, 2024. Click the button below to apply for both the Advanced Clinical Herbal Skills and the Round Table Mentorship programs. We will be in touch at the end of August with next steps.