The People’s Medicine School was created to facilitate mutually beneficial healing relationships between people and plants.
To serve all, by centering BIPoC, Queer, Trans and those with a liberatory focus, in finding their roots in plant medicine; accessing lifelong support from the healing powers of nature, and in turn, becoming more connected to the earth and more invested in themselves and their community.
We continually commit to finding ways to prioritize the needs and safety of our most vulnerable kin. To that end, we will always offer our curriculum fully online, we will always have BIPOC scholarships, and we will always offer multiple course options.
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All course options feature:
lifelong access to all course materials
in-depth, seasonally aligned monthly modules spanning May - October
solid foundation in decolonial community herbalism
deep dive into relationship-based practices such as energetics, actions, virtues, medicine making, body systems, history, traditions, basic botany, formulation, care studies and more
intentionally designed curriculum includes readings, audio recordings and captioned videos
connection via student forums and study groups
opportunities to join us in the garden at our optional, in-person immersions!
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If studying liberatory community herbalism with us feels aligned, we would love for you to join us!! and that journey starts by choosing one of our
3 virtual herb school options:
CONTENT, CORE or CONNECTION
PMS Content
2024 Applications are now Closed! Please join our waitlist for 2025!
All folks committed to liberation are welcome to register!
* All of the PMS Content
* Study at Your Own Pace
* Student Forum
* Study Groups
* Lifetime Access
Registration ends April 1st.
Please click below to go to our registration page. There you can choose to your payment option.
One payment of $900
or
6 monthly payments of $150.
PMS Core
2024 Applications are now Closed! Please join our waitlist for 2025!
All folks committed to liberation are welcome to register!
* All of the PMS Content
* Study at Your Own Pace
* LIVE Monthly Sharing Sessions
(Second Sunday 10:30- 11:30am)
* Student Forum
* Study Groups
* Lifetime Access
* Optional In-Person Immersions
Registration ends April 1st.
Please click below to go to our registration page. There you can choose to your payment option.
One payment of $1300
or
6 monthly payments of $217.
PMS Connection
2024 Applications are now Closed! Please join our waitlist for 2025!
BIPOC-only with a limited number of spaces available. Admission based on application process.
* All of the PMS Content
* LIVE Monthly Sharing Sessions
(Second Sunday 1-2:30pm)
* Two LIVE Monthly Guest Facilitator Sessions (Second & Third Tuesday 7-9pm)
* Extensive Video Class Library
* Monthly Assignments
* Final Project
* Student Forum
* Study Groups
* Lifetime Access
* Optional In-Person Immersions
Applications must be received by February 16th. Notification of acceptance will occur by March 10th.
***To apply please click below and press the ‘add to cart’ button to fill out the application form and to pay the $50 application deposit. The deposit is applied toward the total course fee.
One payment of $2200
or
6 monthly payments of $367.
Initial payment will be due by March 17th.
“this whole course completely changed my relationship with learning , communication, boundaries and curiosity. it has helped me build self-trust and support for the natural world.”
- PMS 2022 participant
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Building deep relationship with nature, plants, yourself and your community
Intimate connection and slow learning. How take time with the plants and value the quality of your relationships over quantity.
Learning healing virtues from the plants growing right outside your door
Learning how to make your own remedies like teas, decoctions, tincture, elixirs, salves, syrups, and flower essences
Understanding how to dismantle the false, white-washed narrative of ‘western’ herbalism and rewrite your own story with plant medicine
Creating an entry point into plant medicine that is accessible and inclusive while focusing on liberation and reclaiming our medicine
How to be of service to your community and the Earth by working towards healing yourself and others with plant medicine
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Liberation through Herbal Medicine
Bioregional Plant Medicine
Herbal Mutual Aid
Growing Herbs
Working with ‘Weeds’ and Accessible Plants
Medicine Making
Herbal Energetics, Actions & Virtues
Body Systems
Sensory Awareness and Nature Observation
Materia Medica (plant virtues, properties, stories)
Basic Botany
Decolonizing Western (aka colonial) Herbalism
Formulation
Care Studies -crafting herbal protocols
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we are thrilled to to have an incredible line up of BIPOC brilliance including:
Kale Mays
Darren LeBaron
Lucretia VanDyke
Cyree Jarelle Johnson
Shabina LeFleur-Gangji
Ayo Ngozi
Randi Moore
Ola Obasi
Samrah Shoaib
Mario Ceballos
Natalia Rathbun
Dr. Claudia Ford -
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BIPOC Scholarships*
The 2024 Scholarship Application Period is closed!
please join our waitlist for 2025!!
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Each year it is our incredible honor to be able to take one small step towards dismantling capitalism and racism through offering BIPOC Scholarships.
We work very hard to raise as many funds as possible through our Reclamation Fund so that we can offer as many scholarships as possible. That said, we receive a wild abundance of scholarship applications and are only able to support a small percentage of applications each year. In a sustained effort to uplift the most vulnerable, our scholarship funds are reallocated to applicants who do not have the resources to participate otherwise and to those who face multiple intersections of oppression under white supremacy. We will never ask applicants to disclose financial or other potentially triggering truths, we do not want to invoke your trauma, we want to invoke your joy. We so look forward to getting to know a little about what makes you amazing through reading your applications.
We have a limited number Full and Half Scholarships to each of our 3 Curriculums.
You will be able to choose what Curriculum and what Scholarship you are applying for on the application.
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Scholarship applications close on February 16th.
Notification of application status will be provided by March 10th.
IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are applying for a scholarship to any of our curriculums (content, core, connection) you DO NOT need to fill out the non-scholarship registration/application for your chosen curriculum. in fact, if you do fill out both the scholarship application and the non-scholarship application/ registration, your scholarship application will be void. thanks!
PEOPLE'S MEDICINE SCHOOL IN-PERSON WEEKEND IMMERSIONS & 1-DAY INTENSIVES
We are literally overjoyed to have a chance to gather with you in 2024!
Our in-person immersions and 1-day intensives are a non-required, but highly recommended, option for PMS students in the Core or Connection Curriculum.
Immersion Weekends will be held at the Jane Minor BIPOC Community Garden on Haudenosaunee Land (upstate New York) and will follow seasonal themes that will reinforce and expand on the online modules.
Our 1-day intensives will be held at various locations throughout the states and will be stand alone deep-dives into topics that support our online modules.
Our in-person experiences will be centered around safety (covid precautions will be in effect), joy and deep connection with the plants and each other! Some opportunities will be cost-free and some will have additional fees (with scholarship opportunity).
Further details will be provided to registered PMS students.
FACILITATED BY AMANDA DAVID
Amanda is a mother of 3 living on unceded Gayogohó:no'/Onöñda’gega’ land near Ithaca, NY.
She has been practicing herbal medicine for over 25 years. Her teachings focus on decolonizing western herbal medicine, relationship building with accessible plants and uplifting QT and BIPOC herbalists.
Through her classes, workshops, courses and apprenticeships she has shared knowledge, laughter and tears with an abundance of amazing plant-loving students from all across the globe.
