Check out the Schedule of Workshops by Category at NWHF this Year!
We are extremely proud to announce this lineup of workshops available this year - click here to see it on the official schedule page or check it out below - there’s something for everyone!
NWHF 2024 Workshops by Category.
Mushrooms/Fungi
* Drew Ryan. Medicinal Mushrooms and Functional Fungi Deep Dive.
* Jason Scott. Conk'd: Medicinal Conks of the PNW and Beyond.
* Raskal Turbeville. Hyphal Knot: An Intro to Mushroom Cultivation.
* Reishi Strauss. Creating Psilocybe Patches Outdoors.
* Jay Cusker. Dumbledore Talks Mushrooms, Magic Meets Science.
* Jason Scott. AstroMycology.
* Reishi Strauss. Micro-dosing Psilcoybe Mushrooms.
* Raskal Turbeville. Mycorestoration and Mycoremediation Primer.
Cultural viewpoints
* Peter Lundeen. Chinese herbal medicine.
* Mary Schroeder. Formulating with Chinese herbs.
* Charles Garcia. The Hispanic Experience of Curanderismo
* Morgan Brown. Honoring Kinship Ecosystems.
* Nancy Turner. Treasures of the Land: Plants that Heal and Keep us Healthy.
* Paul Chiyokten Wagner. A Coast Salish Perspective
* Sarah Kruse. Rasayana For Life ~ Ayurveda's Rejuvenating Herbs, Foods and Practices
* Indigenous/PGM Caucus (People of the Global Majority)
* Zoe Allegra Ho. The Healing Medicines of the Amazon Rainforest.
* Charles Garcia. Experiences of a Street Herbalist.
* Morgan Brown. What can we do for the plants?
Workshops about specific conditions/herbal remedies.
* Michelle Mahler. Essential Oils for Mental & Emotional Health.
* Denise Joy. Nervines for today’s world.
* Robin Baire. Herbal allies for Men's health
* Melissa Ayoub. Healing the nervous system with herbal medicine
* Laura Maver. Herbs for Awakening Your Voice.
* Suzanne Tabert. Adrenal Fatigue? Adrenal Health!
* Erin Vanhee. Exploration of Botanical Treatments for Pain.
* Jenn Dazey. I’m doing everything right… Why don’t I feel good? How to
* Paulina Czarnecki. Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism.
* Amber Young. Herbal & Holistic Supports Through the Birthing Year.
* Suzanne Tabert. Phytochemistry for Beginners.
* Juliet Howard. Scent Medicine through Herbal Body Oiling.
* Sajah Popham. The 6 Tissue States and Planetary Pathology.
* Denise Joy. The many ‘Faces of Asthma and other lung conditions.
* Leslie Lekos. Mental wellness.
* Jenn Dazey. Cancer Update: What evidence exists that supports the use of
* Paulina Czarnecki. Boosting Sexual Vitality with Herbs.
* Mary Schroeder. Healing Pelvic Pain with Herbal Medicine.
* Logan Keister. Herbal Formulation Strategies.
* Nicole Telkes. Actions and Analogs: How to Substitute in Herbal Formulation
* Drea Moore. Supporting the Lymph/Immune System with bathing culture, bioregional herbs, traditional foods & Ayurvedic body tools.
* Michelle Mahler. Essential Remedies: Blends for Dogs & Cats. (class at her booth)
Making herbal products
* Anna Derrer. Making Potent Herbal Oil.
* Eva Endrikhovska. The Art of Hydrosol Distillation.
* Gabe Garms. Wildcrafted Misos.
* Juliet Howard. Flower Tryst: Co-Creating Flower Essences
* Erin Vanhee. Making Folk Tinctures.
* Anna Derrer. Making Medicinal Broth.
* EagleSong Gardener. Hawthorn: Recipes & Remedies.
* Laura Maver. Not Just Any Ordinary Herbal Syrup.
* Amber Young. The Profound Medicine of Herbal Body Oils
Specific Herbs
* Terri Wilde. Meet the Mellow Mallows.
* EagleSong Gardener. The Heart of Hawthorn.
* Sajah Popham. Like Bile in Your Throat: The Acrid Materia Medica.
Plant Walks
* Logan Keister. Plant walk.
* Greta de la Montagne. Plant Walk in the Tradition of Michael Moore
* Robin Greenfield, Foraging Food Plant Walk.
* Gabe Garms. Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk.
* Leslie Lekos. Medicinal plant walk.
* Crystal Hamby. The Bounty of the PNW: a medicinal focused plant walk
Wildcrafting workshops
* Lindsay Huettman. Ethical Foraging and Stewardship 101.
* Kristy Bredin. Seaweeds in the Herbal Kitchen.
* Wildcrafters Caucus.
* Kristy Bredin. Marine Herbalism (if we find a classroom space for a PowerPoint).
* Robin Greenfield. Food Freedom Book Reading from his new book, Food Freedom: A Year of Growing and Foraging 100% of My Food.
Astrology
* Melissa Grace. Somatic Astrology Circle.
* Maureen Judith. Astrology map of the body.
* Jason Scott. AstroMycology.
* Mark S. McNutt. Drawing on the Moon- Using Lunar cycles for people and herbs.
Movement/Sound/ Meditation
* Heyona Cho. Movement medicine and sound alchemy
* Anna Mae. Mythic Qigong.
* Serguei. Resonance Meditation.
* Noah Seeley. Squish Lab.
* Emmy Joy. Barefoot walking.
* Anna Mae. Vocal Alchemy
* Heyona Cho. Movement Meditation
* Hayley Shannon. Wild Embodiment.
Growing Medicinal plants
* Michael Pilarski. Medicinal Forests.
* Shaelee Evans. Food Forests & Agroforestry Guilds or Agroforestry Guilds and Local Food Systems.
Plant Spirit Medicine.
* Sia Riversong-Ray. Herbalism & Spirit Medicine.
* Sara Butters, Plant Spirit Communication: Channeling the Plants.
Herbal First Aid
* Nicole Telkes. The Herbal First Response: Street First Aid, Backwoods, and Disaster Response
* Montana Honeylion. Herbal First Aid: Topical Woundcare
* Crystal Hamby. First Aid for Herbalists: how to assess what the body needs and what the plants may offer
* Montana Honeylion. Herbal First Aid: Tending the Emotional and Mental Wellbeing in Dire Times.
Grief-work
* Lindsay Huettman. Tending to Ecological Grief and Anxiety with Plants.
* Greta de la Montagne. Healthy Grieving Using Herbs.
Other topics:
* Drea Moore. Plant Induced Sobriety' --Exploring herbalism to support addiction and recovery holistically
* Reisha Beck. Tea Sit Meditation.
* Maureen Judith. Gaia Alchemy and its relation to Spagyria.
* Natalie Hammerquist. Fire and Snow: Plants and Ecology of the Eastern Slope of the Cascades.
* Janet DeHart. Acutouch: Somatic Integration.
* Kelly Ann Nickerson. Biblical Herbalism: A Journey Through Theology and Plant Medicine.
* Lauren Morgan. Herbs and Dreams.
* David Hoover. The Bardic Arts. Connecting to our roots through music, story, and theater.
* Tuck Yates Tyrrell. The Earth is Alive! The Science of Gaia and Art of Planetary Participation
* Laurie Lava-Books. Gratitude talking circle (Youth ages 11-18)
* Finn Liengaard. Grounded Fatherhood - an exploration to modern fatherhood and the father archetype.
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