THE SCHOOL OF FOREST MEDICINE
Reconnect with the Wisdom of the Living Earth
Creating new stories of collective and individual flourishing
From the physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses afflicting so many people today to the planet-wide crises we now face—climate change, the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, and other ecological disasters, the repercussions of the mechanistic and disenchanted worldview of Western techno-industrial culture are clearly evident.
Today most people in our society suffer from a sense of alienation from the so-called “natural” world, but must remember that our collective and individual flourishing is only possible within the context of our Earth community relationships.
Learning, Healing, and Thinking with Ecological Intelligence to meet the existential challenges of our times
Healing these interconnected individual, societal, and planetary ailments requires a fundamental shift in the way we relate to life. The School of Forest Medicine’s one-on-one healing sessions, classes, courses, and initiatory trips provide opportunities to help us remember our essential bond with the living world.
All of our embodied and participatory learning experiences help us learn to engage intimately with plants, nonhuman beings, and other forms of ecological intelligence. Orientating ourselves in this way fosters the relational orientations to the world necessary for us to become more fully aware humans and better citizens of the community of life on Earth.
“I feel blessed every single day for the time I spent in your school. I could never really thank you enough for the teachings, space, and community that brought eons of depth and connection into my life. That 9 months with Oregon and you and our group completely changed the course of my 25 year old path.”
Featured Offerings
Botanical Allies
Develop Relationships with Plants for Interconnected Psychological, Emotional, and Energetic Well-being
Alive in Living Worlds
Awaken Animistic Awareness
Starts April 24, 2024
Reciprocal Illumination
Journey Toward Integration
July 11-14 and August 1-4, 2024
High Desert Odyssey
Renew Your Relationship with Wild Nature
September 13-20, 2024
Relationships of Loving
Reciprocity
Learn Regenerative Wildcrafting and
Make Medicine Infused with
the Wisdom of the Wild
Launches Fall 2024
Ecological Intelligence Mentorship
Find Your Way Guided by the Living Earth
“I want to thank you because, six years later, I can see how much your teachings have improved my life, especially in dedicating my professional life to environmental journalism, which I don’t know that I could have mustered the courage to do otherwise.”
Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants
Did you know that most people living in industrial societies can identify fewer than ten plants that grow where they live? They can, however, identify over 100 corporate logos.
Buck this trend, and empower yourself by getting to know the medicinal plants that grow in your backyard and beyond!
This comprehensive guide is useful for anyone, from beginners to experienced practitioners, seeking up-to-date information. It’s an indispensable guide to finding, harvesting, and working with the wild medicinal plants of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
It includes plant profiles, high-quality color photographs, step-by-step instructions for making herbal remedies, and a detailed overview of wildcrafting techniques.
It has sold over 40,000 copies and is used by herb schools and students of natural healing all across the Pacific Northwest.
Bioregionally Wildcrafted Botanical Extracts
If you’d like to procure high quality, botanical extracts infused with the wisdom of the wild, please visit our sister company, Cascadia Folk Medicine.
Talks & Lectures
Ecological Intelligence Blog
Time or its apprehension is ever at hand, and though we are often encouraged to be present in the moment, to be here now—don’t live in the past; forget about it; it's water under the bridge—is it not true that our personal and ancestral memories comprise a not insignificant portion of who we are in this moment here now?