Building a community of practice

We believe in co-creating a training, curriculum and culture that support and encourages people to feel empowered to bring their fullness and authenticity to share.

We recognise that the form and style of training in the school won’t be the right fit for everyone, and at the same time we are always learning how to grow and widen our invitation. Our hope is that each new graduate brings their own lived experience, skills, and ways of relating, helping the wider culture of herbalism continue to evolve.

People arrive carrying many different histories, identities, strengths, and challenges. We know that these shape how the training is experienced, and our approach is to meet one another with humility, curiosity, and care while continuing to learn from feedback and experience.

We genuinely want to welcome everyone while recognising that, as a small school, we do not hold specialist expertise in every area of lived experience. We are committed to ongoing learning and, where someone would benefit from knowledge or support outside our expertise, we want be open about those limits and, where appropriate, help people find additional support from those with more specialised expertise.

The school is rooted in an animist perspective. We welcome people of all faiths, beliefs, and none, who feel a resonance with this way of relating to the world.

We celebrate multiplicity in approach and point of view with regard our work with herbs and healing – for instance, following 1:1, group, artistic or community type models of herbalism. Furthermore we believe that this wide spectrum of approaches deepens, challenges and grows the culture of herbalism.