2018 Classes 2018 Classes are VSAC Grant Approved!
April 2018
A Willow Basket Making Workshop
With Nick Neddo & Sarah Shapiro
April 14-15, 2018 / November 10-11, 2018
Cost: sliding scale $175-$225
May 2018
Deepening our Practice - Beyond the Questionnaire: Using our Intake as a Healing Tool
With Caroline Gagnon
May 5-6, 2018
Cost: $250
In addition to being a tool to retrieve information, our intakes have the potential to become a process of co-creation. Through practical exercises we will learn to hold space for our clients as they tell us their stories and expose their aches. This class will inspire confidence in you to help your client connect the dots and increase their self-awareness. In this process, they regain their own power with your support as they full-heartedly engage on the road to meaningful transformation and healing.
Come learn how to wield your own magic and gifts as a therapist, and harness all your scattered tools: Presence, your well-honed communication and educational skills, empathy, mirroring, plant energetics, herbal wisdom, and knowledge of the body processes. This class will help you build a clinical practice in which you master the art of holding space for your clients. You will see your clients engage, open up, transform and soar.
Bring your intake forms, your tools, and your willingness to explore, as we practice under Caroline's guidance to hone, deepen and fine tune our skills.
July 2018
Advanced Flower Essence Class
With Kate Gilday
July 6-8, 2018. All day Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
Cost: $295. Hearty lunches, snacks & herbal tea included!
Kate is returning for the second part of an advanced Flower Essence training. Kate has decided to open the class up to include friends who were not able to attend the first class. So, if have previous experience with Flower Essences and want to join us, please contact me. As you can imagine, the first class was heart-felt, deep, informative, fun and amazing! More details to follow.
Sacred Plant Medicine
With Amy Goodman
Saturday July 21, 2018. 10 am-5pm
Cost: $95
Journey into Presence on the land with the plants and ourselves. We will spend a delicious day together exploring many of the ways to connect directly with the plants. We will strengthen our skills, our inner sight and build confidence in our sacred connection to the plants, the stars and all that is.
August 2018
All about Lavender
With Amy Goodman
Saturday, August 11, 2018. 10-2pm
Cost: $60
Join us in the gardens for a day long exploration of everything Lavender with the 80 plus Lavender plants growing in our gardens. We will discuss the best growing practices and varieties to grow for successful harvesting in the Northeast. We will visit the plants to see when is the best time to harvest for fresh and dry Lavender, taste and smell Lavender preparations, take home recipes, Journey with Lavenders growing on the land, explore energetics. We might even make some Lavender wands if the group wants to. (bring a bag lunch)
September 2018
Energetic Herbalism Intensive
With Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes
Friday p.m. September 7, 2018 and/or September 8-9, 2018
Cost: $295 Friday night, Saturday & Sunday
Early bird special $275 paid in full by May 1, 2018
Friday night only: $30
Spend a weekend immersed in the energy of the plants. In this class we will explore energetic herbalism from a Native American perspective. We will look at working with the energies of plants for yourself and in your work with other people. Class time will be a combination of lecture, discussion, meditations and energy exercises.
Topics of the weekend will include:
- Energetics
- Animal medicine
- Connecting with self to be better able to connect with plants
- Meditations
- Formulating
