2024 Good Medicine Confluence Classes
These Plant Healer events are constantly evolving, the range of class topics expanding and diversifying beyond bodily healing to creating purposed, pleasurable, and fulfilling lives.... such as: assessments, home medicine making, perfumery, cannabis, entheogens, teas, botanical cocktails, treating trauma and ptsd, home medicine making, wondrous cooking, healthy lifestyle, mythos and storytelling, adornment and celebration.
With multiple simultaneous classes and activities in each of the many time slots, you will likely want to make a list prior to the Confluence of those which will best inspire, inform, excite, stretch, and propel you on your personal path.
From early January until the event, you will be able to click here download a pdf of detailed class descriptions. They are going to be updated every month or so, so you may want to periodically re-download them:
2024 Class Descriptions
For information on your wonderful 2024 Confluence Teachers, navigate to the:
And below we will be listing for your convenience a draft list of 2024 topics as they are confirmed:
2024 CLASS TOPICS
Please check back frequently for upcoming additions & class refinements
Phoenix Aurelius
Introduction to Aurelian Medicine (1.5 hrs)
Transpersonal Alchemy: Healing our Deepest Traumas
& Transforming Our Unfettered Potential (2.5 hrs)
The Aurelian Standard for Making Professional
Spagyric Tinctures: A Practical Demonstration (2.5 Hrs)
Carol Batey-Prunty
(Hands-On Playshop) The Medicinal Weed Pantry:
Cooking With Cannabis (1.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Cannabis, Vinegars & Wild Foods (1.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Cannabis & Troubled Skin (1.5 hrs)
Katrina Blair
(Hands-On Playshop) Wild Edible Feasting (1.5 hrs)
Bee Happy Lands: Regenerative Land Stewardship (1.5 hrs)
(Bonus Sunday Field Trip) Turtle Lake Community Farm:
Restoration, Permaculture, & Wild Harvest (3+ hrs)
Valerie Blankenship
Vaccine Injury: What Role Can Herbalists Play in its Treatment? (1.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Let’s Ferment Medicinal Herbs! (2 hrs)
Amy Branum
Thyroid Health & Overcoming Hypothyroidism (1.5 hrs)
The Path to Digestive Health:
Favorite Herbs & Spices From The Ayurvedic Tradition (1.5 hrs)
Therapy Hacks:
Overcoming What is Holding You Back Using Flower Essences (1.5 hrs)
Jason Brazil
Understanding Functional Anatomy:
The Way to Get Better Results, Quicker (1.5 hrs)
Leveling Up:
How to Make The Leap From Hobbyist to Professional (1.5 hrs)
Running A Single Practitioner Clinic:
Day-to-Day Business Operations & Making Time to Wholly Live (1.5 hrs)
Mixing Modalities:
How to Create a Cohesive Healing Practice (1.5 hrs)
Elliott Brinkley
Pregnancy Preparation:
Herbs, Conception, & The Body as Sacred Soil (2.5 hrs)
Embodied Herbalism: Deepening Relationship With Plants Through
Physical Engagement, Energetics, Medicine Making & Creative Expression (1.5 hrs)
Laura Clemmons
Women’s Health, Herbs, & Your Sacred Moon (2 hrs)
(Hands-on Playshop) Kitchen Witch:
Tools & Tricks For Heavenly & Healthful Meals (2.5 hrs)
Herbal Formulation 101 (1.5 hrs)
Mary Colvin
The Trick With Dosing:
Herbal Preparations & Individual Recipients (1.5 hrs)
Clients With Anxiety & How to Help Them: A Conversation (2.5 hrs)
(Audience Participation) Mental Health Crisis: How to Determine
When a Client is in Crisis, & Valuable Resources For Them (1.5 hrs)
Amanda Crooke
(Hands-On Playshop) Crafting Herbal Cocktails & Mocktails (2.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Smoke in Medicine & Magic (1.5 hrs)
Phytochemistry & Medicine-Making Basics (2 hrs)
Yeremi Davila
Surviving Your First FDA Inspection: Notes From The Trenches
Kyle Denton
Astro Aromatics Incense Making:
Smellemental, Spellemental, Zodiacal Medicine (1.5 hrs)
Medicine of The World Tree: As Within, So Without (1.5 hrs)
Reclaiming Vitalism & Nature’s Terrain:
Using Science, Logic & The Imagination For The Possible Causes
of Disease & Applications For Health (2 hrs)
Ashley Elenbaas
The Magic & Medicine of American Vervain (1.5 hrs)
Mystic Plant Partnering
Through Guided Meditation, Plant Walk & Art (1.5 hrs)
Ashley & Adam Elenbaas
Sampling The Herbs of The Stars: Astrology & Herbal Pairings (2 hrs)
Caleb Fischer
Psychedelic Mushrooms:
Their Science & Spirit, Use & Cultivation (1.5 hrs)
Fungi Fundamentals: The Magic & Methods
of Mushroom Cultivation (1.5 hrs)
Advanced Mushroom Cultivation:
Their Biology, Vital Role in The Ecosystem, & Further Growing Techniques (1.5 hrs)
Karen Gipple
(Hands-On Playshop) Easy & Delicious Herbal Shrubs:
Making, Use & Benefits (2.5 hrs)
(Audience Participation) Sacred Plant Medicine Journey:
Working With The Energies of The Plants (1.5 hrs)
Jesse Wolf Hardin
Misfits, Hedges, & Liminal Spaces:
A Celebration of Unconventional Healers, Sensate Seers
& Enchanted Edge-Dwellers (1.5 hrs)
Dr. Marija Helt
Beyond Mushroom Polysaccharides: A Dive Into
The Other Magnificent Medicinal Mushroom Molecules (1.5 hrs)
Mushrooms for Gut Health (1.5 hrs)
(Bonus Sunday Plant Walk) San Juans’ Plant Identification Jaunt
for Herb Geeks (3 hrs)
Logan Keister
The Most Ubiquitous Medicinal Mushroom:
Red Belted Polypore (Fomitopsis pinicola) (1.5 hrs)
Holistic Protocols for Blood Sugar:
Hyperinsulinemia, PreDiabetes & Diabetes (1.5 hrs)
Herbs For The Hunter in Us (1.5 hrs)
(Ft. Lewis Plant Walk) Wildcrafting Ethics & Plant Identification (2.5 hrs)
Warren Kistenbroker
Psychedelic Ethnobotany of South America:
Sacred Plants & Their Role in Consciousness & Philosophy (1.5 hrs)
Psilocybe Mushroom Extraction Techniques: New Research, Methods &
Understanding of Enzymatic Activity in Different Strains (1.5 hrs)
Etheric Chemistry: Understanding Botanical Compounds
in Terms of Electrical Vibration & Alchemy (1.5 hrs)
Erin LaFaive
Rewilding Herbal Wisdom With Archetypes:
Priestess, Healer & Witch (2 hrs)
Seeing The Medicine Tree:
A Journey with Wild Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) (1.5 hrs)
Enchanting Monardas:
Cultivating The Medicine of Didyma, Fistulosa & Punctata (1.5 hrs)
Suzanne Marie Luck
Natural Bee Keeping: Medicinal Plants & Pollinators (1.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Farm to Table: Biodynamic Gardening & Cooking (1.5 hrs)
Creating & Using an Herbal First-Aid Kit (1.5 hrs)
Heather Luna
Anti-inflammatory Herbal Energetics (2 hrs)
What We’re Made Of:
Nutritional Elements in Traditional Diets (1.5 hrs)
Kassaundra Lynn
Nourish Your Nerves (1.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Eat Your Herbs (1.5 hrs)
Pinyon Pete May
(Hands-On Playshop) Essential Oil Distilling 101:
The Science & Art (2.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Making Medicinals From The Piñon Forest (1.5 or 2 hrs)
(Special Bonus Sunday Class) Discovering Plant Music:
Sounds of Nature For Healing & Relaxation (2.5 hrs)
Madison McCoy
(Hands-On Playshop) The Secret Language of Flowers”
Discovering the Transformative Power of Plant Spirit Medicine (2 hrs)
Herbal Insights for Migraine Liberation (1.5 hrs)
Curiosity as a Root of Relationship:
Flower Essences in Narrative Conflict Transformation (1.5 hrs)
Muva Mystick
Intimacy & Sex (2 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Savor The Flavor:
Cooking With Jamaican Herbs & Spices (1.5 hrs)
Jessicka Nebesni
(Hands-On Playshop) Botanical Skin Care 101:
Loving Your Skin Naturally (1.5 hrs)
Marketing Your Herbal Business:
Advertising & Growing a Healing Enterprise (1.5 hrs)
Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue
Solas an Grian:
St. John’s Wort, Goldenrod & The Light of The Sun (1.5 hrs)
Blackthorn Mysteries (1.5 hrs)
In Search of an Irish Psilocybe Tradition (1.5 hrs)
Psilocybin & Identity: Who Do You Think You Are? (2 hrs)
Lauren Peterson
(Hands-On Playshop) Exploring Chaparral (Larrea tridentata) (1.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Healing Herbal Baths:
Making & Enjoying Medicinal Plant Bath Products (1.5 hrs)
Benjamin Pixie
(Hands-On Playshop) Bee Magic & Medicine (2 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Mead Making as Medicine: Wort Cunning (2 hrs)
Dr. Kenneth Proefrock
(Special Thurs. Eve Presentation) Healers, Visionaries & Culture Shifters:
A Call For Embodiment & Action (1-2 hrs)
The Devil Inside: Parasites & Conceptions of Impurity,
Invasion & Body Ecology in Botanical Medicine (2.5 hrs)
The Evolution of Wound Care:
Botanical Medicine-Based Considerations & Strategies (2 hrs)
Nerve Injury & Repair:
From Bell's Palsy & Sciatica to Epilepsy & Trauma (1.5 hrs)
A Comprehensive Management Plan for Multiple Sclerosis:
Botanicals, Nutrients & What to Know About
The New Generation of Pharmaceuticals (1.5 hrs)
April Pallette Punsalan
How to Learn Wild Herbs No Matter Where you Live:
The 4-Step Process (1.5 hrs)
Evergreens: Identification, Medicine & Magic (1.5 hrs)
Ash Ritter
An Apple a Day:
The Many Faces of Forbidden Fruits (1.5 hrs)
The Thorn’s Edge: On Sensitivity,
Acuity, Venom, & Connection (1.5 hrs)
Kiva Rose
In Lunar Communion:
A Healer’s Guide to the Herbs of Light & Shadow (1.5 hrs)
Dara Saville
Anthropocene for Herbalists (1.5 hrs)
Botanical Medicine for Environmental Futures (1.5 hrs)
(Plant Walk) Ft. Lewis Plant Walk (1.5 hrs)
Laurel Silberman
Entheogenesis: The Role of Sacred Psychoactives
& Embodiment in Addiction Recovery (1.5 hrs)
Embodied Poetics:
A Land-Based Invitation to the Poet Within (1.5 hrs)
Malia Thompson
Addiction Recovery: Herbal & Nutritional Support (2.5 hrs)
(Hands-On Playshop) Cooking With Powdered Tonic & Nutritive Herbs (1.5 hrs)
Lise Wolff
(Hands-On Playshop) Pulse Testing For Remedy Selection (1.5 hrs)
All About The Head (1.5 hrs)
5 Common Underused Plants: Profiles With Indications (1.5 hrs)