You’re heartily invited to participate in a most unique and life changing
4-day experience, contributing your own personal wisdom and magic
to what is a much needed healing potion:
The 18th Annual, 2026 Good Medicine Confluence
October 12th-15th –– Ghost Ranch –– New Mexico
Join with your fellow impassioned herbalists and natural healers, alchemists and visionaries, wildcrafters and home medicine makers, glad misfits and determined world-changers –– sharing a kindred calling and epic mission, a relentlessly loving hope and unbridled joy!
Delve deeply into 100 inspiring and empowering classes with invigorating topics like nowhere else, presented to you by over 40 amazing teachers including traditional practitioners and wisdom keepers, and exciting boundary-jumping explorers of much needed new paradigms.
Learn, play, network, celebrate, and dance the night away beneath the stars at this wild and remote venue vibrantly alive with the flora, the fauna, and the communicative spirits of the American Southwest –– in the truly unforgettable Land of Enchantment…
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…taking place just an hour’s drive from the historic arts town of Santa Fe, yet veritable lightyears away from generic artifice and imposed realities. Wherever it is that you hail from, the Confluence at Ghost is not just a treasure trove of useful skills and knowledge, but a vine-draped portal to more vivid and meaningful ways of being, a set of trails to choose from that can carry you to where you’re most drawn, most effective, most pleasured and fulfilled.
.For your advance discount tickets, proceed to the
2026 Confluence Registration Page
“The mythic Confluence is a gathering of diverse teachers and skills, an invocation of ancient and resurfacing traditions — a wild, wide and expansive invitation to re-imagine the worlds in which we all live. At the core of this event: Change, find yourself, honor the diverse and healing being that you are, and seek out the transformation you alone can carry into this waiting world.”
–Asia Suler (One Willow Apothecaries)
Step right this way, please –– through the curtaining veils of conformity and illusion and into the awakened dimensions of empowerment and purpose, of practicable wisdom and nature’s infinite mysteries.
Whatever else you had scheduled or planned, this is your special chance to break out and engage in self care and restoration as well as goals-furthering education and too-long deferred celebration. Like the ancient ones climbing a difficult trail to the mountain top for its personalized instructions and encouragements, we elect to do anything that it takes to fulfill our own quest for revelation and self discovery, empowerment and direction.
And always, it’s the living land that gifts us with what we seek, the spirit and terrain of a particular place that provides the means to hear and heed what we most need. Dark and fanciful forests. Prehistoric caves with revealing petroglyph art. Sacred talkative springs erupting from the fecundate earthen womb. And the incomparable site of this year’s transformational Confluence…
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…at the historic Ghost Ranch Education Center where Wolf Hardin and Kiva Rosethorn first launched these Plant Healer gatherings in 2008. Immerse yourself in the brilliant hue and colors of its crimson cliffs and golden spires, a sacred gathering place for the first nations people and then a refuge and workplace for the eccentric artists and culture-shifting authors who followed. Just imagine the scents of its exotic Fall flora, the stirring songs of its canyon winds and resident birds, the plaintive yips and howls of the coyotes at sundown as they summon you home to your wilder self and deeper purpose…. walking the endless spirals or our dreams and destinies. Bienvenidos, compadres.
Welcome, welcome!
For a feel of the inspirited region surrounding our event site, navigate to the:
Confluence Site & Region Pages
“Herbalists, alchemists, craftspeople and artists of all kinds, wildly talented, deeply intelligent and, on occasion, just plain odd, the presenters and the participants at the Good Medicine Confluence represent a frontier of human understanding and experience. You won’t find a more inspiring gathering of healers and craftspeople than this one, no where else can you share your latest recipe for absinthe, refine your salve, lotion, and cream preparations, compare notes on meads, oxymels, and acetracts, and then talk about crucible steel, astrologically informed spagyrics or wild foraging your next meal… here is the most uniquely diverse gathering of incredible human talent that you will see anywhere. Come and have your eyes opened to a wide world of wonder that you only dreamed possible.”
–Dr. Kenneth Proefrock
YOUR STORIED MISSION
Healing and beautifying our lives and our world in these harrowing times might seem like a fairytale, but it’s a tale that we can embrace, embody, and help right now to make come true by expanding your knowledge, learning crucial skills, creating alliances with kindred healers, and living out your most beloved wishes and dreams through a confluence of inspirations and opportunities.
This is your opportunity to explore novel approaches as well as rooted traditions, to dance to tribal beats, network with newfound friends, and deepen your personal connection to the healing herbs, the teacher mushrooms, and inspirited Nature herself.
Together we’re doing the vital work of becoming our most authentic selves, heeding our callings, following our hearts, and allying with the plants –– equipping and empowering ourselves to do the good work even in the scariest and darkest of times…
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…the work of not only healing bodies, but of helping to shift the culture from one of unhealthy acrimony, imbalance and dis-ease to one of wholeness and balance, relationship and responsibility, caring purpose and meaningful roles. Shifted in the process, is ourselves –– from helplessness or meaninglessness to deepened understandings, real-world manifestation, healing results, personal fulfillment and palpable pleasures.
BE The Medicine!
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“The Good Medicine Confluence is an herbal community like none other. While the classes and play-shops are amazing, the real reason to go is to make connections and find your tribe. This is the place to team up with fellow agents of change to create a better version of our world, a righteous good time with a hearty tribal stomping! To be in the company of fellow wildlings where you are not only accepted, but fully appreciated for what you bring to the table. Being surrounded by magical healers from various paths, it is the ultimate muggle-free community gathering. It is a welcome sanctuary to all the radicals, outcasts, conformity shakers, and out of the box thinkers, a collection of offbeat change makers that evoke heart warming affirmation and validation for who you are while fostering growth in personal evolution. It holds the sweetest reminder that we are not alone. We walk this path with others who share a mutual vision. I’ve attended numerous herbal conferences, and there is none other that compares to this one. So click your heels together three times and say “there’s no place like home” – that’s exactly what it feels like.” –Heather Luna (Acorn School of Herbal Medicine)
“The Confluence is intimate, inspiring, and path-affirming, and a growth experience for me as I gather with so many wonderful humans, learn so many a things, and return home fueled for more. I am thankful for this unique space embracing all of us hippie, anarchist, neurodivergent, introverted, extraverted, fairy, alchemist, etcetera-spirited beings – the keepers of tradition and of community. The world wouldn't be the same without this important work.”
–Jessicka Nebesni (Mountain Rose Herbs)
YOUR CLASS TOPICS
For 4 incredible days and nights you’ll experience an empowering and transformative journey like none other, including your picks of over 100 information-filled and outside-the-box presentations, deftly guided experiences and hands-on playshops –– led by both wise elders and fresh-thinking young practitioners.
Your 2026 Classes include a wide range of topics such as….
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• Medicinal Plants & Their Actions
• Home Medicine Making Methods & Formulas
• Assessment, Treatments & Clinical Skills
• Medicinal & Entheogenic Mushrooms
• Cannabis Benefits, Processing & Products
• Herbal Cocktails & Mocktails, Gins, Brewing & Meads
• Cutting-Edge Science, Ancient Wisdom & Ancestral Traditions
• Plant Lore, Plant Spirit & Creating a New Mythos
• Spagyrics, New Alchemy & Personal Transformation
• Plant Identification, Botany, & Ethical Wildcrafting
• Aromatherapy, Essential Oils & Botanical Perfumery
• Herbal Smoking Blends
• Creating Artisanal Products
• Launching an Herbal Enterprise
• Plant Illustration & Crafts
• Healthful Foods & Cooking Creative Cuisine
• Heightened Senses, Aphrodisiacs, & Healthy Sexuality
• Pregnancy, Women’s & Children’s Health
• Emotional Healing, & Growing a Just & Healthy Community
• Nature Connection, Plant Conservation & Land Restoration
….& much, much more!
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2026 Confluence Class Topics Page
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2026 Confluence Class Descriptions
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“This isn’t a conference, but a gathering of a tribe, all who bring a unique and varied perspective that contributes to the whole energy. Just as a single herb cannot be defined by a single constituent, each person that comes to the Good Medicine Confluence lends a special role that makes for a stronger synergy. Herbalists, students of herbal medicine, plant lovers, land stewards, and simply those with an intellectual curiosity converge and share ideas, inspiration, beauty, and knowledge. I came home with a wealth of knowledge I’m already applying in my practice, grateful for the amazing experience!”
–Holly Dunbar (New Moon Bodywork & Botanicals)
ROOT, GROW, & BLOSSOM
Together we’re doing the vital work of becoming our most authentic selves, heeding our calling, following our hearts, and allying with the plants –– equipping and empowering ourselves to do the good work even in the darkest times…
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…the work of not only healing bodies, but of helping to shift the culture from one of unhealthy acrimony, imbalance and dis-ease to one of wholeness and balance, relationship and responsibility, caring purpose and meaningful roles. Shifted in the process, is ourselves –– from helplessness or meaninglessness to deepened understandings, real-world manifestation, healing results, personal fulfillment and an unstoppable joy!
“The Good Medicine Confluence surprised and delighted me! It was refreshing to meet so many ardent students of the plant path. While there were many highly skilled herbalists in attendance, I was most struck by the spirit of love and cooperation towards a common way of being. All of the attendees I met had that "vital spark" which seems to generate alchemical and lasting change. The unique blend of technical and mythological classes made the Confluence the perfect gathering for all the unboxable individuals that I am proud to identify with. If you are looking for folks who are learning from the book of life and doing real work in the world, I highly recommend coming!”
–Jason Brazil (Mother’s Blessing Apothecary)
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You, dear friend, are a truly essential ingredient in the much needed Good Medicine.
And it’s so good to have you with us.
–Jesse Wolf Hardin & Kiva Rosethorn
Grow your understanding of medicinal plants, new healing modalities, expanding consciousness and lifestyle. Plant your roots in meaningful purpose and the living land. Clarify your personal role in the fields of helping and healing. Branch out into new areas of interest and need. Blossom into wild wholeness and full fruition. Spread seeds of purpose and joy for those who heed or follow. Help to feed and form this confluence of Plant Healers and culture shifters, the lasting habitat of your becoming, your manifesting, and your fulfillment.
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