Are you a recent graduate or new practitioner seeking to build confidence in your clinical skills and define your herbal practice?

Are you an experienced herbalist looking to refresh and enhance your approach to herbal medicine?

Do you want to learn practical tools and strategies to manage your herbal practice more efficiently and effectively?

Are you seeking to integrate both scientific and energetic approaches into your herbal practice for a more holistic approach?

Do you feel ready to take your herbal practice to the next level and gain confidence in your ability to support your clients?

Join Kat and Chanchal for a dynamic three-day deep-dive into the practice of clinical herbalism.

• Enhance Your Practical Skills: Gain hands-on experience with essential clinical practices, including SOAP notes, Apothecary management, and effective patient communication. This program provides the practical tools and resources needed to elevate your herbal practice to the next level.
• Learn from Diverse Expertise: Benefit from the combined knowledge and experience of two seasoned clinical herbalists with different styles and backgrounds. This unique opportunity allows you to learn various approaches to herbal medicine, enriching your practice with diverse perspectives and techniques.
• Build Confidence and Competence: Designed for both new and experienced practitioners, this intensive course offers a deep dive into advanced herbal practices, helping you build confidence in your skills and providing a solid foundation to support and grow your clinical practice.
• Create a Sustainable Practice: Understand the essentials of managing a successful herbal practice, including legal considerations, resource management, and community relationships. Leave with a comprehensive understanding of how to run a safe, effective, and sustainable herbal business.

 ~ Total of 22 hours in-person training ~ 

*May be used to satisfy some registration requirements with professional herbal associations or as continuing education credits with your regulatory body.

Dates and Times:

July 31st – Aug. 2nd

Fees: $375 plus GST

To Register

1. Fill out your registration form
2. Purchase tickets

Registrants for this course will receive a discount code for $65 off of August 3rd and 4th workshop – Energetic Herbalism: Reading the pattern language of our landscapes and ourselves.

Register now to claim your spot! 

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Thanks to Mason Hutchinson at HerbRally for making this content available 

Listen to participants from the 2023 Herb Camp about their experience:

Meet your Instructors

Chanchal Cabrera MSc, FNIMH, RH(AHG), RHT

Chanchal is a medical herbalist with 35 years of clinical practice. She has a Masters of Science degree in Herbal Medicine and runs a private herbal medicine clinic with a specialty in holistic oncology. She is the author of Holistic Cancer Care (Storey Books). Chanchal teaches herbal medicine worldwide, including being a senior member of faculty at Heartwood (UK), a sessional lecturer at Wild Rose College and at Pacific Rim College, and adjunct faculty at Boucher Naturopathic College. Chanchal is also a certified ShinrinYoku (forest bathing) practitioner, a certified Master Gardener and a certified Horticulture Therapist.

Kat Maier RH (AHG)

Kat Maier RH, (AHG) is the founder and director of Sacred Plant Traditions, a center for herbal studies in Charlottesville, Virginia. One of her greatest accomplishments has been to train many clinical herbalists who have gone onto to begin other schools, apothecaries or open their own practices. In clinical practice for over 30 years, Kat teaches internationally at universities, conferences, and herbal schools. She is a founding member of Botanica Mobile Clinic, a nonprofit dedicated to providing accessible herbal medicine to local communities. The Botanica clinic arose out of her school’s free clinic which was one of the first on the East Coast and served as a template for other herbalism schools. She began her study of plants as a Peace Corps volunteer, and her training as a Physician’s Assistant allows her to weave the language of biomedicine into her practice of traditional energetic herbalism. She is coauthor of Bush Medicine of San Salvador Island, Bahamas. As a passionate steward of the plants, Kat also served as president of United Plant Savers and was the recipient of the organization’s first Medicinal Plant Conservation Award.

Draft Timetable

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Day one  Clinical assessments with an energetic lens  

Morning : 9 am – 12.30 pm 

• Pattern Language of the World – Heart of Energetic Herbalism

• Our role as herbalists, healers. What patterns do we reinforce/support

• How do we become the pattern that brings healing/change/nature
• Setting the intention for the weekend – Clinical applications with an energetic template
• Gift of working Constitutionally – Prakruti or Dosha/Temperment
• Ayurvedic Doshas – Our Elemental Selves
• Self-evaluation and review of qualities and tendencies 
• Clinical applications
• Herbal considerations
• Lunch 12:30 – 2 pm  

Afternoon  2 – 5 pm 

• Vitalism – Intro to Tissue states  
• Herb Walk to meet the Temperaments  

Day two Energetics of creating the container for a professional intake 

Morning : 9 am – 12.30 pm 

Our Value and Our Values

1. Our Value is the keystone of our work
2. Our Values are the compass

Choosing our Focus

Where are you putting your focus?

1. What is our vision and mission? Specialties?
2. Limited resources – can’t be everything to everyone
3. How are we choosing to interact with our lives – reframing
4. What you say NO to is as important as what you say YES to

Centering and Remembering

1. 1. Keep your tea kettle full so you can fill another’s cup
   2. Walk among the plants

• Keep the dirt under your fingernails

Creating the Container

1. Your ‘marketing’ defines your intention
2. Scheduling considerations
3. Physical space and considerations for emotional as well as physical safety
4. Sacred means to hold confidence – responsibilities for confidentiality

Paperwork

1. Intake forms
2. SOAP notes and privacy issues
3. Client Instruction forms
4. Apothecary QC, inventory and production tracking

12.30 pm – 2 pm  Lunch

2 pm – 5 pm   Intake, case review and sharing 

Demo intake and case workup, group discussion

Day three  Case study Presentations 

• Students carry out an interview and assessment on each other
• Presenting cases and discussion of assessments and recommendations
  • Treatment planning and clinical formulating 
  • Principles and practice of prescribing
  • Dosing guidelines and safety in herbal formulas

Closing circle and reflections