Herbalism Mentorship

from $225.00

The Tending Futures Herbalism Mentorship is a three-month, education-focused program rooted in ancestral plant knowledge, community care, and culturally grounded healing practices. Designed for those seeking deeper relationship with herbal medicine beyond introductory workshops, this mentorship supports participants in building practical skills, embodied understanding, and ethical frameworks for working with plants in everyday and community contexts.

This program centers herbalism as a tool for collective well-being rather than individual extraction. Participants engage with plant medicine through historical, cultural, and relational lenses, with attention to how colonialism, capitalism, and medicalized systems have disrupted traditional knowledge transmission, particularly within Black, Indigenous, and marginalized communities.

Program Components:

  • Monthly live teaching sessions (virtual or in person, depending on cohort)

  • Guided study of core herbs, energetics, and body systems

  • Practical skill-building including teas, infusions, tinctures, and topical preparations

  • Emphasis on safety, accessibility, and non-prescriptive education

  • Reflection practices to support embodied learning and ethical use

  • Community discussion and peer learning

This mentorship is education-based and not a certification program. It is designed to build confidence, cultural context and foundational knowledge rather than train clinical practitioners.

Who This Is For:

  • Community members interested in deepening their herbal knowledge

  • Birthworkers, caregivers, organizers and healers seeking plant-based tools

  • Individuals reclaiming ancestral or culturally rooted healing practices

  • Those looking for learning spaces that honor lived experience and access needs

Program Values:

The Herbalism Mentorship reflects Tending Futures’ commitment to:

  • Cultural preservation and rematriation of knowledge

  • Accessibility and care-centered learning environments

  • Community health, not extraction or commodification

  • Education that respects both science and ancestral wisdom

Payment plans available. Limited scholarships may be offered depending on funding. If cost remains a barrier, participants are encouraged to reach out. We prioritize presence and participation over financial exclusion.

Reciprocity Pricing:

The Tending Futures Herbalism Mentorship is a three-month, education-focused program rooted in ancestral plant knowledge, community care, and culturally grounded healing practices. Designed for those seeking deeper relationship with herbal medicine beyond introductory workshops, this mentorship supports participants in building practical skills, embodied understanding, and ethical frameworks for working with plants in everyday and community contexts.

This program centers herbalism as a tool for collective well-being rather than individual extraction. Participants engage with plant medicine through historical, cultural, and relational lenses, with attention to how colonialism, capitalism, and medicalized systems have disrupted traditional knowledge transmission, particularly within Black, Indigenous, and marginalized communities.

Program Components:

  • Monthly live teaching sessions (virtual or in person, depending on cohort)

  • Guided study of core herbs, energetics, and body systems

  • Practical skill-building including teas, infusions, tinctures, and topical preparations

  • Emphasis on safety, accessibility, and non-prescriptive education

  • Reflection practices to support embodied learning and ethical use

  • Community discussion and peer learning

This mentorship is education-based and not a certification program. It is designed to build confidence, cultural context and foundational knowledge rather than train clinical practitioners.

Who This Is For:

  • Community members interested in deepening their herbal knowledge

  • Birthworkers, caregivers, organizers and healers seeking plant-based tools

  • Individuals reclaiming ancestral or culturally rooted healing practices

  • Those looking for learning spaces that honor lived experience and access needs

Program Values:

The Herbalism Mentorship reflects Tending Futures’ commitment to:

  • Cultural preservation and rematriation of knowledge

  • Accessibility and care-centered learning environments

  • Community health, not extraction or commodification

  • Education that respects both science and ancestral wisdom

Payment plans available. Limited scholarships may be offered depending on funding. If cost remains a barrier, participants are encouraged to reach out. We prioritize presence and participation over financial exclusion.

We offer Reciprocity Pricing to honor different access needs and lived realities.  All in-person classes include food, childcare and materials.  Please choose the level that reflects your current capacity and privilege. No proof required. Trust is part of the practice.

Rooted Access: For those navigating financial hardship, disability, caregiving, unstable income or systemic barriers.  This rate is subsidized by our community.

Sustaining Care: For those able to meet their needs with relative stability and contribute to the true cost of the class.  This rate reflects the true cost of offering these classes.

Redistributive Care: For those with greater financial access who can help subsidize Rooted Access seats and future offerings.

Our Commitment: Tending Futures classes are rooted in Black and Indigenous knowledge, reciprocity and care. This pricing model is one way we practice redistribution and collective responsibility.  If cost is still a barrier, please reach out.  We would rather you be in the room.