Master of Herbalism
This last week I was finishing my Master of Herbalism program with the phenomenal Gigi Stafne and the Green Wisdom School of Botanical and Natural Medicine.
We ended the year long program with the Intermediate Herbalism Summer Field Study Program (for me this was delayed till the end because of Covid).
What goes into a Master of Herbalism program?
Here are a few of the things we study when completing a Master of Herbalism.
- Natural Sciences (for example botany, biology and anatomy) 200+ hours
- CAM (Complementary Alternative Medicine) and Clinical Herbalism 400-500 hours
- Materia Medica (100+ plants) 400-500 hours
- Foundations of Herbalism 40 hours
- Western Herbalism 40 hours
- Diversity Issues, Cross Cultural/Global Medicine 40 hours
- Botany/Plant ID/ Field Study Work: 70-100 hours
- Apotheca: Herbal Pharmacy and Apothecary 90+ hours
- Botanical Medicine Making and Applications 90+ hours
- First Aid, CPR and/or Wilderness Medicine 10+ hours
- Professional Ethics, Legal, Legislative and Contemporary Issues in Herbalism 30+ hours
- Thesis/Final Project of Paper 100+ hours
I am so thrilled with my studies and love learning all I can about this amazing field. My studying definitely won’t stop there!
My Philosophy of Herbalism
Perhaps one of the biggest take aways from this program is my ability to really pinpoint my philosophy of care and where I really want to focus my energies. You can find out more about my philosophy on my About Page but I will restate it here.
My work as an herbalist is driven by two things–
- My love of history, especially women’s history and ancient healing modalities.
- My love for my life work of parenting.
I believe that we are at a critical point in earth’s history. We need a complete revolution, but not the revolutions of the past. This revolution will be based on individual, personal, spiritual evolution. The ancient healing traditions including herbalism and astrology are poised to help us.
Still even with this ancient help the work is likely to be multi-generational. That is where parenting comes in. By devoting our spiritual gifts to raising the next generation of spiritually evolved revolutionaries we can and will ensure the survival of not only our species but the planet.
This is why I started AmyDoeun.com. To give you the tools to first begin your own spiritual evolution and to hopefully instill in you the passion to pass it on to the next generation. After all we are Saving the World!
Our essential/true self is the key to it all.
My motto is Nourish Grow Change
By Nourishing and Growing our True Self we can and will Change the World!
For more information about my work or how to request a consultation check out my consultations.
