Sprouts

Year 2
Community Herbalist

Grow Your Garden

Hybrid - Bay Area + Los Angeles | Virtual Zoom Worldwide

Fertilize your inner garden your year 2 ancestral exploration.

Nourish your practice with our Spirit Herbalism seminar, infusing mythos and energetics.

Advance in Body System therapeutics and medicine making boosting your knowledge to the next level as a community practitioner.

Develop your herbal leadership skills by leading a community herb walk or free skills session.

Apply your knowledge to practice case studies and develop formulation protocols.

Next steps… Community Care

Program Format & Timeline

  • Live classes meet weekly March 7th to November 20th 6-9pm PST on Wednesdays

  • Once monthly Live Tea Time Office Hours & Discussion Container 10-12pm PST select Sundays

  • Once a month weekend in-person gathering opportunity featuring:

    Guided bioregional herb walks, hydrosol demonstration, RADs (Reciprocity Action Days), camping retreats, case review intensives, and a foraging adventure (weather permitting).

  • Students can anticipate 2-3 hours of weekly engagement work at home

    We partner with THINKIFIC as our student portal. Access recordings, handouts, recaps archives, and zoom links in our centralized student dashboard.

Location (Bay Area / Virtual Worldwide)

Our learning journeys are offered as a hybrid experience for those local to California with programming offered in the Bay Area only.

Coursework is designed to be available to virtual-only students - so no curriculum based information will be missed if you are unable to join in person!

Local to California or not, all students are invited to part-take in live programming.
Students from out-of-state have travelled in town for our Spring retreat and Fall overnights.

Los Angeles Sprouts: Our in-person programming will be limited to Nor Cal for 2024, but all are invited to attend RAD activations at no additional charge. If you are interested in attending a retreat and are registered as a Virtual Only student, additional fees apply. See Program Guide.

Our Pedagogy

This program is a curriculum-oriented second step towards cultivating a professional clinical herbalist practice. Beginning with the Spirit Herbalism seminar series, we lay a foundation for advanced study grounded in the mind-body-spirit connection.

Content introduces advanced pathophysiology, higher level ailment applications, advanced medicine making technicques, and tools for applied formulation. Develop a protocol for each body system’s case study and your approach with an instructor led cohort review.

Described as rigorous when peak engaged, class time includes lecture, discussion, guided plant-based discovery exercises, and a medicine making demo video series. Supporting experiential, project-based learning, our students have the opportunity to embody plant spirit practices and reciprocal principles that demystify inner earth-based balance.

Curriculum & Learnings

  • Ground in Spirit Herbalism mythos to jumpstart the year

  • Grow skills in advanced medicine making techniques

  • Deepen your understanding of body system therapeutics

  • Adventure in wild foraging in the spirit of sovereignty

  • Expand your Materia Medica and meet 30 new herbs in your medicine kit

  • Intro to aromatherapy and flower essence theory

  • Practice case studies to develop customized care protocols & formulation

  • Become an herbal community leader and guide a local plant walk

  • One year access to course content including subtitled video recordings, slideshows, and PDFs

Engagement Opportunities

  • Publish 30 of your own monographs

  • Engage is case study activity for each body system

  • Lead a guided herb walk for your community

  • Interact with herbs in your home with the experiential medicine kit

  • Cross pollinate with the Year 1 cohort in a spring retreat (Bay Area)

  • Campout with your cohort in the late summer and immerse yourself in herbal community

  • Program long Ancestral Legacy project with capstone presentations at year end

  • Community forum of like-minded student and instructors (Plus Alumni Group!)

Deepen your herbal journey as a fresh sprout

Get The Full Program Guide

Tuition

$3750

Online Course Only

$300 off when you pay in full by December 1st, 2023
Monthly Payment Plan $4150

Virtual Only

$4150

Pay in Full

$300 off when you pay in full by December 1st, 2023

Hybrid

Hybrid

$4450

Full Tuition
or Monthly Payments

Limited Payment Plans Available

Deposit & Refund

Application requires a $1,000 deposit with a $250 non-refundable fee.
This fee compensates our team for the administrative work associated with processing your application
including panel review, contract election, financial arrangements, and time spent.
Should your application not be accepted, we will refund your application less 10% ($100).
Should you chose to withdraw your application electively, the $250 fee is applicable.
Please visit our “Financial Policy” below to learn more about our Program Refund Policy.

Application Process

APPLICATION DUE FEBRUARY 1st, 2024

Step 1

  • Submit application

  • Provide 2 referral letters

  • Share proof of monographs (20)

  • Advance deposit

Step 2

Once you’ve submitted your application, our team will reach out to schedule a virtual interview within 2 business weeks.

Step 3

Upon admission to the program, confirm and complete final payment arrangements.

Outcomes are guaranteed within 3o days.

How to Prepare Before You Apply

  • Be ready to provide thoughtful answers to questions about your herbal knowledge, aspirations and J.E.D.I. awareness

  • Have a headshot or selfie ready for upload! (This helps us get to know you and support our instructor team)

  • Make sure you’re ready for this commitment spiritually, pragmatically, and financially 🪷

  • If you are a graduate of Cecemmana Year 1 prior to 2023, referral letters not required.

  • Application Notes

    Students seats are filled on a first-come first-serve basis with rolling applications from open enrollment.

  • Once seats are filled, we will offer a waiting list. Should seats become available we will prioritize early applicants.

  • Our programs fill up each year - do prioritize applying with this in mind!