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Find Your Herbal Path

Where are you in your herbal journey, and how can we help you achieve your goals?
Click on the herbal future that sounds most like your goals to see how we can help!

I want to keep my family & my community healthy

Whether you're in a city or the country, you feel passionate about keeping the people you love healthy, no matter what comes.

I want to work with clients professionally

Whether online or in your local area, you want to open a practice so that you can see clients and help them with their health concerns.

I want to start an herbal business

Formulating and creating herbal products, running an herb shop or tea bar, growing herbs for market - you want herbalism to be your life's work.

Don't wait for the cottage in the woods:

You can be The Herbalist wherever you are now!

🌿 Maybe you're pretty new to this, but you know it's the right path. You see so much need for better health options - for yourself and people you care about. You're ready to be part of the solution: for yourself, your family, and even your community.

🌿 Maybe you've learned lots of herbal bits by self-study or workshops, but it feels unorganized in your head. You're ready to build on the knowledge you have so far with a complete & tested system that allows you to practice with confidence!

🌿 Maybe you've tried learning with other online programs but you felt alone and unguided, and you're ready for a school that's got the convenience of online learning paired with the friendly and nurturing community and direct access to your teachers that you need to thrive!

The Family and Community Herbalist programs were designed for you!

When you enroll in our Family + Community Program, you'll get:

🌸 1,150 hours of online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace. Our courses are primarily taught by self-paced video, with audio versions of every video so you can listen anywhere. There are plenty of quick-guides and other text-based lessons to support what you're learning and they're printable if you learn best that way!

🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week with katja & ryn so that you can talk through you questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them!

Can't make it live? No problem - they're all recorded and you can watch them anytime! Plus, you can also ask questions in writing in the discussion thread attached to every lesson - we answer these daily so you never have to wait for support!

🌸 And access to our private Student Community (not on facebook!) where you can chat with other students, as well as with your teachers. Participate in regular Learning Challenges, trade recipes with friends, share herbs in our regular swaps, and more!

There are three ways to jump into this path:

🌿 Dive right into Family + Community!
These two programs were designed to work together. In the Family bundle, you'll see that the herbs are arranged to match up with the courses in the Community bundle. You can work through them at the same time so that you're making the fastest progress.

🌿 Start with the Family Herbalist Program.
You'll learn over 100 of the most important herbs and how to work with them, as well as more than 52 ways to turn them into medicine, products, treats, and more!

You can join the Community Herbalist program at any point.

🌿 Jump straight to the Community Herbalist Program.
Maybe you already know 50-100 herbs and you also know how to make all the different kinds of things - you might not need the Family Herbalist program. It's totally fine to jump directly into the Community Herbalist program! If you change your mind and want to add Family later, it's never too late. Because the programs work together, you can move between them easily!

Build the change you want to see in the world, one client at a time!

🌸 You might be at the beginning of your journey, but you know your destination is working with others in herbal practice.

🌸 Maybe you're already a health practitioner - a nurse, a psychotherapist, a massage therapist, a pharmacist... and you're looking to provide new options to your clients.

🌸 Maybe you've already studied herbalism for a while now with other schools and programs, and you're looking for the next steps in your education.

The Clinical Herbalist program & Live Clinical Mentorship is the most thorough clinical training you can get.

🌼 The Clinical Herbalist program covers all of the course material that you'll need to advance your skills. This includes advanced pathophysiology and complex health issues, as well as all of the clinical skills, legal information, and herb-drug interactions & safe practice considerations.

This coursework trains you to be a skilled, flexible, responsible practitioner.

The antidote for imposter syndrome.

🌼 The Live Clinical Mentorship is where the rubber meets the road: you'll be working with us in our online clinic!

We've built a system to ensure that you go into practice with confidence in your skills - you're never just thrown into a situation without a net!

First, you'll observe us in consultation with clients, so that you can get comfortable with all the parts of the work. Afterwards, we'll talk about each client! What went the way you expected, and what surprised you? What might you have done differently? What questions do you have about the choices we made?

Once you feel ready, it'll be time for you to work with clients yourself!
First you'll work with other students and with us, acting out the client roles. This gives you an opportunity to work through real cases, but in a safe environment where you can "hit pause" at any time if you start to feel stuck.

Then we can work through it with you so that you know what to do next!

This also gives you the chance to work through very complex cases with challenging safety concerns in a safe environment - so that when you're really in practice, you know you're ready for anything.

You can do this as many times as you like until you feel super confident about each step in the process.

Then you're ready to see real live clients - total strangers who are looking for support on their health journeys. You'll be assigned clients each month, and you set your own schedule.

Student clinicians get to keep all clients assigned to them - so you're building your client base as you learn! And we discuss every client in roundtable so that you are always practicing "with a net".

Student clinicians are paid for their work with clients: both because you did the work, but also because this gives us the opportunity to make sure all your business systems are up and running - you'll have your whole website, scheduling, and payment systems set up while you're learning!

We're serious about training: that's because we want you to actually be in practice, to actually build this as a sustainable career, and to actually be out there changing lives! ❤️️

This isn't just a way to spend your time - this is real training for real work!

🌼 If you want to apply for recognition in one of the national professional organizations (either here in the States or in whatever country you're in), we'll help you prepare! Our program meets and exceeds the requirements for professional recognition, and we even have a tool to help you organize all the materials that you'll need to submit with your application and exam!

If this sounds like what you're looking for, here are your next steps:

🌿 Read the program information by clicking the purple buttons below.

Make sure to double check the pre-requisite information: students entering Live Clinical Mentorship need to be confident with all of the material in the Family + Community Herbalist programs, because you'll be using those skills in clinic, along with the new advanced material you'll be learning!

🌿 If you have questions, we have answers! You can book a session to talk about where you are in your studies and where you should start in our program.

Make sure to read the program page before you book a session so that you have all the information about the program and we can jump right into your questions when we meet!

Book a course consultation session here

🌿 If you're coming from a different school, and you'd like to make sure we're a good fit, why not start with the Herb-Drug Interactions & Herb Safety course? That will give you critical skills at a level that's not being taught anywhere else, and you'll get to know our program to make sure you like it!

When you're ready to get the rest of the Clinical Herbalist bundle, email us first so we can deduct the HDI & Herb Safety course from the tuition :-)

Herb-Drug Interactions & Herb Safety

Let's build your dream job, together!

🌿 Maybe you're a skilled herbalist and you're ready to turn your passion into a career.

🌿 Maybe you're still building your herbal skills and you want to start planning the business you're growing into.

🌿 Maybe you've been running a business for a while now, but you need support because nobody learns this stuff in school!

The Herbal Business Program will help you make your dream job real!

Different businesses have different challenges, but we've seen it all and together, we'll get you through it!

Whether you're:

struggling with GMP compliance
overwhelmed and dreading doing marketing
maybe you just hate technology and budgeting

It's all here, laid out step by step!

Here's what you'll get:

🌸 Online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace.

Everything is presented step-by-step, with lots of worksheets and examples to help you through every part of the process.

You can go in the order it's presented and at the end - presto! You have a business!

Or you can hop around to get help with exactly the problem you're having now, whatever is best for you!

🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week, so that you can talk through your questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them, too!

🌸 A special private group in our Student Community (not on facebook!), where you can chat with other Herbal Business students, as well as with your teachers.

Get feedback on your designs, formulas, website, whatever! You can literally post anything you're working on, and we will help you make it better. 🙂
Plus you'll get feedback from other students so that you get lots of perspectives before you go live with anything!

There are regular month-long challenges on specific topics to help you bulldoze your way through blocks, because it's easier if we're cheering each other on and having fun while we work!

🌸 Personalized care: every business is different, so if there's something that you're working on and you don't see a lesson on that, just let us know! We add new material to the course all the time, so just ask whenever you need something!

Your next steps:

🌿 Check out the program details & enroll today:
Click the purple "Herbal Business Program" button below to get more details about the course and to enroll!

🌿 If you have questions, we can help!
Click the "Schedule a Question Session" button below and we can answer your questions and help you choose the right courses to support both your business and any herbal skills you might still need!

🌿 If you're looking for some more in-depth counsel, you can have that too!
Maybe you have a few different ideas, or you have questions about how to get from idea to implementation - and you'd like to have a longer discussion with specific suggestions about how to move forward. We've got one-hour blocks set aside for exactly this, and you can book one here:

Book a business consultation

Not sure what your end goal is?

You don't have to have a plan to get started - we didn't!
We both had other careers before learning herbalism, and never anticipated running a school. But the plants called us, and we saw the need - and a couple decades later, here we are!

So let's just get started, and see where this winding path leads you!