Living in Practice

Matthew Wood, Margi Flint and

Kay Parent

Feb 22nd - 26th 2012

$170 by the day

All 5 days ~  $825

Lodging available nearby $35/night

...A unique opportunity for herbalists to hone their clinical skills while working alongside three of the premier herbalists teaching and practicing today!

10 AM Wednesday

Focus will be on Pulse taking, Intuition, Facial lines and Tongue reading

9 AM - 5 PM Thursday through Sunday will be a rare opportunity to observe Matthew Wood, Kay Parent and Margi Flint with clients - seeing how each herbalist approaches issues, works with clients, and discovers the infinite mystery of re-discovering glowing health with clients. The use of intuition, testing skills and visual observations will be shared and taught daily. Time will be set aside daily for hands on work within the group.

 

Come for one or all the days you are able.

MATTHEW WOOD has been a practicing herbalist since 1982. In a period when many authors and lecturers are merely "arm chair herbalists" who offer theories and opinions based on book learning, and others have turned to the exotic traditions of India or China, he has been an active practitioner of traditional Western herbal ism. He has helped hundreds of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems. While Matthew believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage. He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and has earned his Masters of Science degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).

Wood is the author of a number of books including The Practice of Traditional Western Herbal ism, The Book of Herbal Wisdom, Seven Herbs, Vitalism, and the two volume Earthwise Herbal.

MARGI FLINT owns and operates EarthSong Herbals, a busy family practice and herb school in Marblehead, MA . For over thirty years she has worked as a labor coach, polarity therapist, and herbalist. She has been Adjunct Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine where she taught a four-week rotation in clinical herbal medicine for Fourth Year Medical Students and practitioners at Union Hospital and her clinic in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She continues to teach Herbal Pharmacology at North Shore Community College, is a regular lecturer at Pacific Rim College- British Columbia, and for Massachusetts College of Pharmacology. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild and serves as an Herbal Mentor for those who aspire to professional membership in the organization. She oversees two Practitioners Circles, one at her clinic in Marblehead and one in Albuquerque New Mexico.

Flint is the author of The Practicing Herbalist, meeting with clients, reading the body, now in it’s second edition.

KAY PARENT runs her practice Earthweaver in Newport and also a successful Practitioners Circle monthly. Practicing since 1996 she has become a well admired character in Rhode Island.  Her skills as an intuitive practitioner are eclectic and worthy of aspiring toward. She has taught at the International Herb Symposium and the Womens Herbal Conference and numerous clinical circles in the Marblehead office.

To register please e-mail margi@earthsongherbals.com

 

Margi's Office in Albuquerque New Mexico

Call 505-933-9777

Practitioners Circle ~ Herbal Mentorship

We have a full day of clinic monthly.

9 AM to 5 PM
Let me know if you are going to attend ASAP.

 

I had a lot of time to think about the Practitioners Circle while on the 12 plane trips this Autumn! For 2012 I want to focus on serious herbal practice.

The Mentorship program is meant to develop independent practioners, encouraging more involvement from you to maintain contact with your clients.

I will also require a six month commitment. You may pay by the day, $100.

A full day of practice scheduled monthly (your choice of the day of the week)
Each practitioner must have developed their own intake form and use it.
Client files must be kept at Earthsong and in your own file cabinet.
Practitioners who see clients will be responsible for follow up by email or phone, run by me prior to advising changes in protocol.
You may come to the office to fill the client's orders or can begin invoicing from your own apothecary (copies made for Earthsong files).

A discussion of pricing with me prior to re-filling in your apothecary is appropriate.

Dates already booked for Practitioners Circle are

January 9th
February 27th
March 12
April 9
May 7
June 4

I am home for the winter and hope to enjoy these circles with focus and joy! Margi

 

OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLIENTS

 

PRACTICE IN CIRCLE

Clinical practice HERBAL CONSULTATIONS

monthly

call for dates

 

Do you need to see an herbalist?  Lack funds for a private consultation?  Do you desire to be heard and treated in a group setting by diverse herbalists?  Call to book an appointment, be seen individually, and depart feeling fully empowered and supported.  Follow-up appointments are requisite.  Take care of yourself now.

These consultations are performed by herbal practitioners who come to practice their skills and glean insights from their peers.  The gifts of practice in circle are bountiful for the one in focus.  As a client you will receive the professional input from one to five talented herbal minds and hearts. One and a half hours of questioning which includes medical history, diet, supplement and prescription use, plus suggestions for herbal protocols, references for adjunct therapies and lots of laughter.

 

Cost: Sliding scale from $70 - $170

Call or email to book appointments.

Contact margi Flint at 781-631-4312 to book appointments in Massachusetts

Contact Kay Parent at 401-849-7068 or kayparent3@aol.com in Rhode Island

Blue Otter School

Special Class this May

California

Reading the Body
Guest Teacher, Margi Flint
May 26-27. 2012

We are thrilled to bring herbalist and teacher Margi Flint to the West Coast!

What do your thinning eyebrows mean? Why is there a crease in your earlobe? Each color, line and marking on the face, tongue and nails holds meaning of your internal health. Margi will be explaining and demonstrating diagnostic techniques taught to her by the late William Le Sassier.

This two day seminar will focus on various diagnostic techniques including facial signs, tissue color, elimination analysis, signs of hot, cold, damp and dry conditions. In knowing what the body has to say, we can learn how to prevent illness before it arrives as well as treating what is here. This seminar will consist of both lecture and hands on learning with ample opportunity for questions to understand what your body is saying to you.

Margi is a delightful teacher with over 30 years of experience behind her. Her most revered teachers are the plants and her clients. She is also author of The Practicing Herbalist: Meeting with Clients - Reading the Body and will have copies available for purchase. Margi teaches nationally and internationally and is adjunct Professor at NSCC, Pacific Rim College BC, the School of Traditional Western Herbalism, Bastyr U., Tufts Medical School, & MCOP as well as running her family practice and clinic in Marblehead, MA.

Registration: Pre-registration required. Contact us at the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, 530.468.4342 or info@blueotterschool.com
Class size is limited so early registration is encouraged! We expect this class to fill up quickly.
Schedule: 10-4pm each day with one hour lunch break, lunch provided
Location: Fort Jones, CA (near Mt. Shasta and the Oregon border)
Cost: $240, includes lunch both days
Lodging is not provided. Motel and camping options will be provided upon registration.

 

Cooking 5CK with Chef Barry

We will have a cooking class - really, learning chopping, knife techniques, taste considerations and more with our favorite calm and centered Barry.  

We will begin prep at 3-4 depending on the choice of food to experience. The enjoyment of our labors enjoyed when completed!  Enjoy a full evening of learning, sensory joy and gastronomical fun. Remember your pen and notebook!  These will be at Margi Flint’s 10 Central Street here in town. You can arrange a class in your own kitchen as well!

includes lessons and digestion of it.

Call to discuss dates and wine choices.

Details can be found on

5 Corners Kitchen on Facebook

www.5cornerskitchen.com

or

call Margi Flint at 781-631-4312

 

OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES with Margi Flint

 

GATHERING TEXAS HERBALISTS

 

      Please send your contact information to me so that we build a list for the upcoming journey back to Austin Texas and Houston                                      

Place in your subject line "Texas" and mail to margi@earthsongherbals.com

GATHERING FLORIDA HERBALISTS!

There is a request for me to teach in Florida.  Please send your email address and I will begin a list.  The Floridians are ready! 

Place in your subject line "Florida" and mail to margi@earthsongherbals.com

 

Gathering Herbalists from

Ontario

Nova Scotia

Montreal

British Columbia

Place in your subject line "Canada" and mail to margi@earthsongherbals.com

BOOKS AND CDS

CDs of William LeSassier's teachings are available!

Facial Diagnosis and Palpation Video CDs are

available through www.earthsongherbals.com

HIS FACIAL DIAGNOSIS POSTERS AS WELL.
Go the the store at the  www.williamlesassierarchive.orgto order his brilliance now.

Do not wear headphones, sound is irratic.

"The shining light of his wisdom be yours." Margi

 

 

 

 

HERBAL IMMERSION

The Pod

9 WEEKS OF ACTIVE HERBAL PRACTICE

Call for 2013 Dates

Marblehead Massachusetts

 

Our goal is to empower the herbalist to have confidence in beginning and maintaining a successful herbal practice.  Immersion is for those who wish to experience daily herbal practice and begin practice following completion of Immersion.   You will be seeing clients as an observer, being the intake practitioner, formulating, preparing protocols, billing and providing follow-up appointments with your clients. Basic herbal studies must be completed and now have a desire to practice well.

Student’s goals

• For those who wish to become Practicing Herbalists encouraged through experiencing life in an active family practice
• For those who wish to experience clinical experience with part of the day learning from weathered herbalists

A capable herbalist will know and understand…

• That doing deep inner work with self is part of the job
• How to manage a herbal apothecary
• Therapeutics
• How to develop good clinical boundaries
• How to develop diagnostic skills
• How to develop testing skills
• Promotion and Social media
• Time management
• Quickbooks Pro
• The financial aspects of business
• The art of play, movement and relaxation

Pre-requisite knowledge

• Students will arrive with a solid foundation of herbal knowledge, at least 2 years intensive study of herbs
• Students need to know actions of herbs
• Have knowledge of basic herbal preparations
• Have a good understanding of which organ system responds to which herbs
• Must feel comfortable with herbal knowledge
• 3 written references will be required, all being herbal or therapeutically related
• Should currently be working with and formulating for family and friends
• Understand gardening “from the lens of an herbalist”
• Students who come should be “choosing to be a practicing herbalist”; students have the intention to build/maintain a current herbal practice
• Students should have a basic understanding of flower essences and aromatherapy

Requirements

• Arrive with Mac laptop loaded with Quickbooks Pro ($230- if we order it together it is $199.95)
• Be fully present, on time, dressed appropriately from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday
• Pack gathering tools, and work clothes for gardening and wildcrafting
• Be prepared to research hours after the clinic closes
• Be responsible for daily cleaning: vacuuming, bathrooms & the design for an environment that is both professional and nurturing
• If living on site be respectful, quiet and clean  
• All fees paid 30 days prior to Immersion. Contact Margi if payment plan is needed.

Skills students gain from Herbal Immersion

• Time to be a practitioner; actually working with and following up with clients
• Being empowered to practice well realizing your own gifts through seeing clients and hearing feedback from experienced practitioners.
• Working with nutritional concepts with clients
• Business skills to launch ones own practice
• We will cover inputting data, inventory, determining cost of items, account arrangements, and preparing for taxes.
• Practice intake skills

 

• Diagnosis
• Formulating, preparing protocols
• Time line development
• Herbal preparations; oils, creams, salts, tinctures, teas, bolus, poultices, glycerites, vinegars, solid extracts, dried teas, dehydrated raw foods, cordials, drying, garbling and storing herbs
• Testing skills
• Pulse
• Dowsing
• Tuning into intuition
• Practice with flower essences, aromatherapy, and food based supplements, amino acids and enzymes
• Note taking skills; charting
• Follow-ups
• Billing
• Gain confidence in herb/organ system relationships
• Gain an awareness of drug/herb interactions through client cases
• Ideas for office organization

• Sources for herbs, bottles, labels, office equipment
• Wild-crafting (in and outside of Marblehead or other Immersion Pod)
• Get direct feedback
• Clinic and class each day

Other perspectives that will be incorporated into curriculum by Herbalists holding foundational information may include:

• The late Michael Moore’s teachings – Palpation skills - Howie Brownstein  
• The late William LeSassier’s teachings – Office skills - Margi Flint
• Matthew Wood – Energetics of herbs  
• Karyn Sanders – Native American Chocktaw energetics and practitioners skills
• William Morris – Pulse  
• Sean Donahue – Food intolerances, asthma
• Doug Simons – Southwestern herbs  Plant communication, plant journeying, ceremon,. staph infections, UTI's, diabetes, heart/circulatory
• Anne Dickerson – book keeping, Quickbooks Pro, preparing for taxes  
• Mindy Green - Aromatherapy
• Jim MacDonald – Midwest bioregion - Immune/lymphatic, cold related respiratory, back & joint injuries
  
• Kate Gilday and Don Babineau – Heart centered practice, Ayerveda, Lyme
• Kay Parent - understanding how to tap into intuition. Practitioners skills.
• Nicole Telkes - Social media
• Educators from Standard Process, Pure, Planetary Formulas, Banyan Botanicals and Metagenics 

Current Tuition

• Tuition is $9,000.00 Non-refundable deposit of $3,000.00 in by February 4th 2012
• Live-in space available limited to 4 people, call for details, the other two may lodge nearby
• 6 practitioners total for immersion

Future Herbalists to share information with you

• Rosemary Gladstar – planetary ethics 
• David Crow  – Aromatherapy, Ayerveda, planetary awarenessNicole Telkes – Texan bioregion 
• Rising Appalachia – Nourishing the heart through music and play 2012
• Paul Bergner – Insulin Resistance, Metabolic syndrome
• Christa Sinadinos – West coast bioregion 2013
• Andrea and Mathias Reisen – Conscious wildcrafting
• Rhonda Pallas Downey –  Southwestern flower essences, chakras
• David Dalton – Flower Essences and Lyme Disease
• David Bruce Leonard – Men’s health and sexuality 2013
• Dr. Ryan Drum  – Sea vegetables
• David Winston – TCM
• Florida bioregion –
• Educators from Standard Process, Pure, Planetary formulas, Banyan Botanicals and Metagenics
• K.P. Khalsa – Ayerveda - digestive issues
• Danielle Gagnon – Nervous system herbs, lab conditions
• Phyllis Hogan – Native
• Annie McIntyre – Ayerveda
• Lisa Gonara – Actions, constituents, biochemistry
• Anne Dickerson – book keeping, Quickbooks Pro, preparing for taxes 2012

“First light thought: As the dark turned to light this morning, thoughts breezed through of being in practice myself and supporting those in practice. And after all the training and internships, and memorization and testing and workshops and conferences and years of sitting with clients....  it occurs to me in my practice that unless I daily do my own private work on myself, on my life, on my own patterning in whatever way I am drawn, I cannot sit with others.  The clearer I am about myself, the clearer I can be with others.  When I am muddled, I cannot hold sacred space for someone else. That's my thought this morning with my hair still wet and the crows chatting and the coffee still warm in the pot.  Such a simple thought but one which makes all the difference to me in this day as I prepare for clinic tomorrow.” 

Kay Parent

Call for financial details 781-631-4312