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Family Herbalist Certification Program
Instructor - Emily Ruff
Course overview. See individual programs for more details and dates.
Family Herbalist Certification Program 2010
Our Family Herbalist Certification program is a twenty-six module course that empowers students to care for the everyday health imbalances they face as a family caretaker. It is an excellent program for those wishing to care for their children, their parents, and themselves fully and sustainably.
We believe in preparing students to live in sustainable health. These modules provide students with a strong, comprehensive herbal education, covering individual herbs, herb cultivation, anatomy and physiology, alternative health modalities, plant chemistry and botany, nutrition, detoxification, medicinal formulation, and a wide spectrum of herbal preparations. Modules may be taken in any sequence, with the exception of Personal Wellness I and II and the final written assessment. The complete program includes over 65 classroom contact hours and the study of over 200 herbs. This course may be the greatest investment you will ever make in the long-term health of you and your family.
Students who graduate from this Certification program graduate with the experience and knowledge to care for themselves and the health of their families' most common illnesses. This program is not intended to fulfill educational requirements for those seeking to integrate herbalism into a professional, clinical setting – rather, it is the first step in that journey, and serves as the prerequisite to our Community Herbalist Certification program. It is our philosophy that to care for the health of others, we must first learn self-care. Thus, we have structured our program to provide you personal tools and experience which form a strong foundation on which to build your professional studies. Prospective students who have completed studies with other institutions or herbalists should contact our office about transferring credits.
Family Herbalist Modules
Bioregional Herbalism: Learn about what Goethe called “the spirit of the wild,” while exploring the herbal apothecary growing wild in our backyards and forests. Explore different theories of bioregionalism and their practical application. This module also covers native and naturalized herbs of our Materia Medica.
Botany for Herbalists: This introduction to botany will explore the basics of plant life, to develop a greater understanding of how plants grow and interact with our environment.
Chemical and Nutritional Constituents: Dig within the plants to understand the chemical and nutritional components which interact with the body in a healing way. Learn about solvency and contraindications for combining chemical constituents.
Detoxification and Purification: Uncover the many hidden toxins in our daily lives. Explore practical tips for nutrition and herbal regimens to purify the body, from daily detoxification to intensive purification programs.
Diagnostics for Herbalists: With influences from Eastern medicine traditions, discover how the body can express on the surface what lies within. Explore different systems and practical applications.
Herb Gardening 101: Learn the basics of herb gardening in Florida, including building the soil, water, planting seeds, compost, and more
Harvesting, Drying, and Storing: using the six Ecological Protocol of harvesting, discover how to wildcraft responsibly, proper techniques for harvesting, how to dry your herbs, and best practices for storage.
History of Herbalism: Where did we come from, and where are we going? This in-depth lecture discusses the history of herbalism in this country, and legal issues we face today.
Home Remedies and First Aid: Discover the herbal remedies found in your kitchen cabinet and backyard. Learn to compile an herbal first aid kit for home use or travel.
Medicine Walk: Learn how to live more deeply and with intention in your relationship with the plant world. Practical exercises will immerse you in the spirit of the green, for a greater understanding of your plant allies and the world around you.
Medicinal Formulation: Learn important techniques for combining herbs into formulas for maximum synergy and effectiveness.
Nutritional Preparations: Learn how to make tasty herbal preparations that allow for easier delivery to children and those with picky palates. Discover hands-on about herbal soups, candies, syrup, oxymels.
Topical Preparations: Learn how to make healing herbal preparations to soothe and heal skin, draw out toxins, and support wounds. Discover hands-on infused oils, salves, fomentations, liniments, and more.
Herbal Therapeutics Modules
Herbal Therapeutics are a series of modules that focus on the anatomy and physiology of body systems, along with Materia Medica corresponding to each system.
Herbal Therapeutics: Respiratory Herbal Therapeutics: Urinary
Herbal Therapeutics: Endocrine Herbal Therapeutics: Children's Health
Herbal Therapeutics: Immune, Lymphatic, and Prevention Herbal Therapeutics: Nervines
Herbal Therapeutics: Digestive Herbal Therapeutics: Reproductive
Herbal Therapeutics: Nutritive and Restorative
Herbal Therapeutics: Liver, Gallbladder, and Skin
Herbal Therapeutics: Cardiovascular and Musculoskeletal
Personal Wellness I and II: Work with other students to receive and provide guidance and support as you create a personal wellness program to help integrate your knowledge of herbs into radiant personal wellbeing. Scheduled based on groups, these are modules to be completed after you have finished 75% of the core modules.
Family Herbalist Assessment: To receive certification, students must successfully complete a written and practicum assessment, covering the information they learned in the Family Herbalist program. This may be scheduled on an individual basis. The practicum portion ensures students have integrated their experience with herbal preparations.
To learn more about the program or to register, contact our office. Space is intentionally limited,
and these classes do fill up quickly. We encourage you to register early to hold your space.
407-595-3731 HolisticLivingSchool.org
2010 Family Herbalist Schedule
Orlando
Sunday January 10
10 am – Herbal Therapeutics: Nervines
1:30 pm- Detoxification and Purification
5 pm - Harvesting, Drying, and Storing
Sunday February 21
10 am– Herbal Therapeutics: Children's Health
1:30 pm- Medicine Walk
5 pm- Herbal Therapeutics: Digestive
Sunday March 7
10 am – Herbal Therapeutics: Immune, Lymphatic, and Prevention
1:30 pm - History of Herbalism
5 pm - Nutritional Preparations
Sunday April 18
10 am - Herbal Therapeutics: Liver, Gallbladder, and Skin
1:30 pm - Chemical and Nutritional Constituents
5 pm - Herbal Therapeutics: Reproductive
Sunday May 16
10 am - Topical Preparations
1:30 pm - Herbal Therapeutics: Endocrine
5 pm - Bioregional Herbalism
Sunday June 13
10 am - Home Remedies and First Aid
1:30 pm - Diagnostics for Herbalists
5 pm - Herbal Therapeutics: Respiratory
Fall 2010 Dates TBA
Sarasota
Saturday March 6
10-12 - Herbal Therapeutics: Nutritive and Restorative
1-3 - Medicine Walk
4-6 - Nutritional Preparations
Saturday April 10
10-12 - Harvesting, Drying, and Storing
Sunday April 11
10-12 - Herbal Therapeutics: Nervines
Saturday May 15
10-12 - Topical Preparations
1-3 - Herbal Therapeutics: Endocrine
4-6 - Bioregional Herbalism
More Dates TBA
Course Tuition:
Each module is $65 and includes all herbal materials and handouts. Register for all modules on a class day, and save 10%. Register for entire program for $1395 with tuition pre-paid. Limited partial scholarships are available based on need. Students who have completed a module (as part of the former 8-week format or the new format) may re-take a module for a 50% credit.
For Current Students
Our Family Herbalist program has been reformatted based on feedback of students like you, to offer the most effective and relevant curriculum we can. If you are currently taking classes towards your Family Herbalist certification, it is our goal to make the transition into the new format as seamless as possible. Because our Materia Medica is now formatted by body system, we recognize that in these modules, some information will be review and other information will be new, and want to ensure you receive credit for the work you have completed, while not missing any new information in the process. We will offer tuition credit for you to use towards Herbal Therapeutics modules so that you can cover all of the course material. If you are seeking to accelerate the completion of your program, we may offer you written assessments in lieu of taking Herbal Therapeutics modules, but still advise you to take the modules using the tuition credit for the most comprehensive education.
If you completed Level 1 Family Herbalism in Fall 2009, you have completed the Medicine Walk module. You will receive $200 in tuition credit for Herbal Therapeutics modules, and you will receive full tuition credit for the Chemical and Nutritional Constituent module, as this module covers additional information not covered in your class.
If you completed Level 1 Family Herbalism in Summer 2009 or prior, the coursework you covered is now part of our Roots of Herbalism pre-requisite program, so all Family Herbalist curriculum will be new to you.
If you completed Level 2 Family Herbalism in Fall 2009 or prior, you have completed the following modules:
Medicine Walk
Bioregional Herbalism
Herb Gardening 101
Chemical and Nutritional Constituents
You will receive $300 in tuition credit for Herbal Therapeutics modules.
If you completed Level 3 Family Herbalism in Fall 2009 or previous, you have completed the following modules:
Medicine Walk
Bioregional Herbalism
Herb Gardening 101
Home Remedies and First Aid
Medicinal Formulation
Detoxification
Chemical and Nutritional Constituents
You will receive $450 in tuition credit for Herbal Therapeutics modules.
Florida School of Holistic Living Main Campus, Orlando Textbooks - Family Herbal, Rosemary Gladstar; Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook, James Green; Back to Eden, Jethro Kloss.