Nathaniel Hughes is the founder and course director. His journey started with a degree in Chemistry with a focus on pharmacology. This was followed by a four year MSc level training in Medical Herbalism (1999-2003). These practices gradually converged, alongside insights gained through holding experiential herbalism courses. He is neurodiverse and recognises that this brings a profound sensitivity to subtleties within the human-human and human-plant relational fields which guide all this work. Turning this sensitivity from a challenge that triggered endless overwhelm and fatigue – to a gift – has been twenty years work, with almost weekly support from countless healers, therapists and teachers. Now it is a joy to help guide others in how to skillfully allow and process their sensitivity, in a way that both nourishes them and is in service to the plants and humans. Currently he works full time as course director as well as offering 1:1 supervision, mentoring and client sessions in Insight Herbalism ®. His unique background in pharmacology and medicine allows him to help bridge peoples’ understandings of the connections between their direct experiences of their bodies and herbs to health conditions – a journey of discovery that is as nuanced and complex as it is rewarding and enlivening. Much of this insight comes from a deep understanding of embodied trauma from over 25 year of practising as a bodyworker, supporting people on deep inner journeys, sometimes over years.