CommonWealth Holistic Herbalism

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🌿 Lifetime access to your materials - there's no time limit!

🌿 When new material is added to your courses, you get it for free - automatically!

🌿 Live Q&A video sessions with Katja and Ryn twice every week - and they're archived so you can watch them anytime!

🌿 Ask questions right while you're watching the material - just start typing in the discussion threads! We answer your questions every day!

🌿 Work together with other students in the Community Groups - you'll find them right on your dashboard!

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What's New

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We are working to provide closed-captioning for every single course! I wanted to share some information with you about that process, and about our progress so far!
In order to caption videos, we first send every video to a service that uses a machine transcriber to create the .srt file - that's the file that has all the timestamps so that the captions line up right. 
But of course, the machine transcriber isn't very good at herbalism! So then, the amazing Noelle and a team of volunteers goes through every file while watching the actual video, to make all the necessary corrections and to make sure everything is lined up correctly. 
Then the file can be uploaded and you can use it!
You'll see a file in the Welcome chapter of every course that has captions ready for you - it's got instructions on how to switch them on!
 
Here's a list of the courses that have captions already, and where the captions are in progress:
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/4-keys" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Four Keys to Holistic Herbalism</a> <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/materia-medica" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Materia Medica</a> <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/herbal-medicine-making" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Medicine Making</a> <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/herbal-community-care-toolkit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Herbal Community Care Toolkit</a> - 75% <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/energetics-holistic-practice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Energetics</a> -75% <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/formulation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Formulation</a> <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/nutrition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nutrition</a> <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/basic-phytochemistry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Phytochem</a> - 60% <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/puberty" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Puberty</a> - 50%
And <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/digestive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Digestive Health</a> has just started - it's at 10%
New closed-caption files are being added every day! 
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I'm currently uploading new updated videos on Covid and Long Covid in lots of different courses! 
There's foundational information about how to support all the stages of Covid - prevention, as well as infection, recovery, and Long Covid - as well as information about how Covid impacts all the different parts of the body and how we can mitigate those impacts. 
You'll find new, fully updated Covid materials in the following courses:
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/cold-flu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cold & Flu</a>
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/herbal-community-care-toolkit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Herbal Community Care Toolkit</a>
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/respiratory" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Respiratory Health</a>
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/immune" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Immune Health</a>
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/cardiovascular" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cardiovascular Health</a>
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/digestive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Digestive Health</a>
<a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/neurological-and-emotional" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Neurological & Emotional Health </a>
Each chapter already has a few hours of video covering the foundational approaches, and over the next two weeks i'll be uploading more videos about each specific system. I'll also be uploading a Covid chapter in <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/children" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Children's Health</a>!
So jump right in and check back frequently as i upload even more good stuff!
love and chamomile,
katja 
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We've created a new Community Space that has much better features than our old one, and i hope you love it!
All you have to do is look up at the top of the page and click on the COMMUNITY link:
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And you're in!
So jump on in and let's get this party started!
*Don't worry - the old community groups are not being deleted for a while so if there's something there that is still helpful for you, you have plenty of time to go get it.
But the new features in this new Community Space should really improve the chat-ability and make it more fun and easier to connect with other students!
Not a student yet? No problem! You can create an account and start chatting - and when you do, why not grab a free course? You might enjoy the <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/4-keys" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Four Keys to Holistic Herbalism</a> and the <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/herbal-study-tips" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Herbal Study Tips course</a> - both are totally free!
Enjoy!
love and chamomile,
katja
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Hi! I just uploaded new Capstone Assignments! These assignments help you pull together everything that you've learned in your courses, and we'll send you feedback on your work!
A couple weeks ago i posted the "test balloon" capstone assignment in the <a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/digestive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Digestive Health</a> course and it's going great! 
So just now i added:
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<li><a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/reproductive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reproductive Health</a></li>
<li><a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/nutrition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Holistic Nutrition</a></li>
<li><a href="https://online.commonwealthherbs.com/courses/better-sleep" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Better Sleep</a></li>
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If you're getting close to finishing one of these courses, then bop on over and check out the new Capstone Assignments and show off everything you've learned!
love and chamomile,
katja
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