A Living Tradition of Spiritual Plant Medicine

The School of Craft Herbalism located in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah was founded by Herbalist and Educator Josh Williams in 2018.
Our year-long curriculum coupled with an optional student clinic is the most in-depth in our area and offers the only complete program in the world focused on magico-medicinal spiritual herbalism rooted in Indo-European, Pan-Celtic, and Nature-based lore and practice.

Our focus is on experiential relationships with the ancient plant spirits through journeywork, medicine making and taking, exploring plant connections with body systems and healing narratives, and working our ourselves through the process.
This program is incredibly hands on, and hearts on. We learn by doing and by being.

Our tradition is fiercely spiritual in nature.
We acknowledge and honor the personhood and spirit of the plants, and do our work in conscious and intentional relationship with them.

If you feel called into the wild green ways of the plant spirits, I invite you to explore below.
If you have any questions please reach out and I'll be happy to help!

Offerings

  • Taught personally by Josh and special guest presenters throughout the year
  • Small stream size to ensure in-depth education (6 new students, 2 senior students, and 1 teaching assistant)
  • 26 sessions and over 250 hours of combined classroom and independent study
  • Optional student clinic hours
  • Possibility for direct apprenticeship hours
  • 6 celebrated textbooks creating an instant reference library of the most trusted spiritual and energetic herbalism classics including all books written by Josh
  • Program manual, notes, and slides
  • Intensive connection to over 25 individual herbs through ritual, dedication, personal healing, and journeywork
  • Deep study of over 75 herbs, 10 body systems, and anatomy and physiology for herbalists
  • Initiation into ancient energetic tools for diagnosis, formulations, and herbal treatment protocols
  • Exploration of illness patterns and herbal remedials from varied perspectives of practice
  • Transformative personal healing, empowerment, and the refinement of intuitive gifts
  • A profound personal, spiritual, intuitive connection to the plant allies and an ability to cultivate and nourish personal relationships with any who call to you
  • Free access to all of Josh's online courses available before or during your year.

The Program

We meet every-other-Sunday for an entire 26-session year for 3-4 hour sessions in a beautiful sacred space in downtown Salt Lake City.

Each session consists of:
  • Plant medicine and magic through the lens of Pan-Indo-European, Pan-Celtic, Old European culture, language, and practice (this course is open to everyone!) and evolutionary nature-based spiritual perspectives from my own work and experience with the plants
  • Learning in a queer-affirming, body-positive, sex-positive, anti-racist, and trauma-informed environment
  • Discourse and experience of one herbal ally with shared medicine work with herbs and medicines to take home throughout the program
  • Topical discourse from the perspective of Nature-based spirituality
  • Body systems, anatomy, pathology, and, physiology through the lens of herbalism
  • Exploration of illnesses and dis-ease patterns associated with those body systems
  • Herbal protocols, allies, and supportive therapies
  • Medicine making workshops including infusions, decoctions, tinctures, oils, balms, poultices, smokables, and more
  • Herb magic experiences exploring how herbs work on life narratives such as abundance, love, protection, guidance, and more
  • Empowering plant-based rituals and workings celebrating and aligning us to the seasons and elements
  • Seasonal herb walks and foraging adventures
  • Immersion into many aspects of Josh's Green Arte tradition
  • Note: the first 10 sessions are dedicated to un-learning, decolonizing, and reconnection work in addition to our focal herbs.
Important COVID Updates
Due to the unexpected nature of the pandemic and how it's influenced our usual flow of things, I encourage all prospective and enrolled students to be patient, adaptable, and willing to roll with the way things change. I will do my best to make sure we are able to stay on track and meet in person. If we are not allowed to meet in person, I will continue the classes via zoom and will provide supplies in pick-up packs you can grab from me beforehand. Masks will be required for anyone not teaching during all classes until they are not longer mandated. During the pandemic we will be meeting out-of-doors when weather permits in covered spaces both to enjoy nature and to help keep everyone safe. Thank you so much in advance for your understanding!

Start Dates

Streams begin near the Spring Equinox every year. Sessions take place every-other-Sunday for the full year and are 3-4 hours in length.

Please see below for available spots in the next stream. Aside from 4 seasonal herb walks in surrounding areas, sessions take place at Greenthread Herbs apothecary in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

2021-2022 BEGINS SUNDAY MARCH 21!
As of October 1, 2020 Class is FULL // Waitlist is CLOSED

2022-2023 Applications open September 1, 2021. You can get on an invitation list by sending me an email via the contact page.

Tuition

The full program cost includes 250+ hours of classroom and directed independent study in addition to costs associated with optional student clinic. Fees include all textbooks, workbook, and journal, most all supplies, and many supplemental supplies. Student clinic and any offered direct apprenticeship hours at also included.
Once fees are paid they are non-refundable as they are allocated towards supplies for the entire class.

PAY IN FULL
$2,200 - Due on January 2 of stream year

PAY QUARTERLY
$550 - Due every three months with the first due on January 2 of stream year. Remaining quarter payments are due June 1, September 1, and January 15.

Application & Registration

Applications are accepted beginning in September of each year for the following year's program.
The application process helps us learn more about you, you more about us, and helps to answer any questions and ensure this program is the right fit for you.
Upon successful application, you'll be confirmed for a stream and will be invited to register once registration opens up in September. Details and registration information will be sent directly to you via email.

Stream Dates

2021 - 2022 / FULL - CLOSED
Josh Williams & Theresa Coulter

2022 - 2023 / Applications open September 1, 2021
2023 - 2024 / Applications open September 1, 2022

Reality Checks

  • This program is no walk in the park - except for the days we go walk in the park! Sessions are fast-paced and loaded with information, homework is serious, and there's a lot of reading to be done between sessions. We have a lot of fun and get to spend a great deal of time in ritual and meditation- but there's a lot of work to do in order to pass on the herbal wisdom in just one year.
  • As mentioned above, every session includes homework, projects, and reading you will need to do on your own time before the next meeting. Homework and self-study are integral parts to making the whole thing 'click' into place.
  • Students have access to a private group that can be utilized between sessions for support, inspiration, and questions. Those who take advantage of these group chats benefit a lot!
  • There is no occupational licensing standard for herbalism- thus you will not be a 'certified' or 'licensed' herbalist upon successful completion of this course. You will receive a certificate of completion which recognizes the education and experience you worked for during the program. If you choose to take advantage of the student clinic and/or apprenticeship hours you will receive a separate certificate for that.
  • There is no guarantee or promise of employment or career based on this program. Some folks are happy being full-time herbalists and creating their own career path or business around the practice of herbalism, some are not. It's up to you what you do with your education and inspiration- possibilities are endless!
  • You will be challenged, annoyed, and transformed. There will be days you don't want to come to class, days you hate your homework, and days you may dislike me immensely. Like anything, the study of spiritual herbalism causes us to grow, shift, and change and those growing processes can be uncomfortable.
  • There will be some additional costs associated with this program. You may need to purchase herbs, supplies, tools, and supplemental books along the way. Most of this is optional and will be choice-based, but please be aware that your collection of herbs is not included in the course. We try to provide as much as we possibly can along the way and will always help out any student who may not be able to get the items they need.
  • Homework, readings, and projects are required. You will not be invited to the next quarter of classes if you aren't keeping up with homework, reading, and projects. Each student will be evaluated by the teacher and acting assistant each quarter before tuition is due. If you are struggling with your homework or projects, please let us know so we can help.
  • Our program is open to everyone. We work in a queer-affirming, anti-racist, anti-vulture, trauma-informed space and will do our best to accommodate the unique needs of anyone who wants to attend. If you don't see yourself represented in our syllabus or presentation, please reach out- we want to hear from you.
  • In order to receive a certificate of completion, students must attend 85% of all classes (22 of 26) and turn in all homework. Missed classes need to be made up or attended on zoom with adequate notice.
  • Tuition payments are made quarterly and are non-refundable once made due to the nature of our supplies and in support of the whole class. Students are invited to attend each quarter based on participation and successful completion of homework and projects in the previous quarter. This means that lack of participation, showing up, or completing homework in a satisfactory way can result in not being invited to continue the program.
  • This course does not make you an herbalist. I don't have that authority, nor does any other human teacher. You are made an herbalist by your work with the plants, your dedication to being a force for harmony in the world, and by your practice, practice, practice. I can certify that you've put the hours in and filled my heart with joy at your learning and engagement, but only you can choose if you want to go on to become a true, authentic herbalist. My certification is one of completion of requirements.
If you have any questions about the program, please let us know and we'll be happy to help.
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