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33. Building a Culture of Collaboration in the Herbal Community: Cat Green on Herbal Education The Elder Tree Podcast
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Today's interview is a great discussion with Cat Green from Everyday Empowered. Cat is a home herbalist and grassroots community herbal organiser and educator. She's passionate about making it easy -and normal - for people to make simple, effective herbal remedies at home.
She believes home herbalism is all about reclaiming our capacity to care for ourselves and our families, as well as reconnecting more deeply with the earth. Through Everyday Empowered, she offers a wide range of practical ways for people to learn about herbs - HerbFest, monthly workshops through the Herb Folk group, DIY Herbal Remedy Kits and online courses in collaboration with Heidi Merika (for more about Heidi Merika check out interview #9).
In this interview we learn about Cat's journey into natural medicine starting with spending 3 months with typhoid and dysentry in Indonesia. With a background communication for social change, Cat sees herself as a herbal community builder and she loves bringing people together and collaborating with other talented herb lovers. We talk about the deep importance of collaborating and creating mutual supportive relationships with others on the plant path- busting through the ultra-independent mindset of a dog-eat-dog world, building a "culture of collaboration" and having a community mindset rather than an industry mindset. She talks about the importance of "making us visible to each other" via herbal gatherings and online spaces like The Elder Tree podcast.We discuss the importance of embodied learning with the plants and the importance of creating simple and slow learning spaces to assist students to retain the information. We dream up a future of people living a better life more aligned with nature, with more connection to wild spaces. We envision the world full of home herbalists, taking the pressure off hospitals, and holistic practitioners working more closely alongside the modern allopathic medicine world. Thank you Cat for all of the potent work you are doing in the Australian herbal community. Thank you for sharing your vision for the future and having the strength and courage to work with others to create that future! We are dreaming this into being together.
Herbfest 18th June 2023:
https://everydayempowered.com.au/herbfest/
To find out more about Everyday Empowered:https://everydayempowered.com.au/
IG: @everyday.empoweredHerbal Starter Kits:To purchase a Herbal Starter kit use this affiliate link and 15% of the sale will go to The Elder Tree!:https://www.everydayempowered.com.au/?ref=xe741xvr
To find out more about The Elder Tree visit the website here and donate to the crowdfunding campaign here.You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram and sign up to the newsletter.Find out more about this podcast and the presenters here. Get in touch with The Elder Tree at: asktheeldertree@gmail.comThe intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins. You can find Chad's music here and here.
Today's interview is a great discussion with Cat Green from Everyday Empowered. Cat is a home herbalist and grassroots community herbal organiser and educator. She's passionate about making it easy -and normal - for people to make simple, effective herbal remedies at home.
She believes home herbalism is all about reclaiming our capacity to care for ourselves and our families, as well as reconnecting more deeply with the earth. Through Everyday Empowered, she offers a wide range of practical ways for people to learn about herbs - HerbFest, monthly workshops through the Herb Folk group, DIY Herbal Remedy Kits and online courses in collaboration with Heidi Merika (for more about Heidi Merika check out interview #9).
In this interview we learn about Cat's journey into natural medicine starting with spending 3 months with typhoid and dysentry in Indonesia. With a background communication for social change, Cat sees herself as a herbal community builder and she loves bringing people together and collaborating with other talented herb lovers. We talk about the deep importance of collaborating and creating mutual supportive relationships with others on the plant path- busting through the ultra-independent mindset of a dog-eat-dog world, building a "culture of collaboration" and having a community mindset rather than an industry mindset. She talks about the importance of "making us visible to each other" via herbal gatherings and online spaces like The Elder Tree podcast.We discuss the importance of embodied learning with the plants and the importance of creating simple and slow learning spaces to assist students to retain the information. We dream up a future of people living a better life more aligned with nature, with more connection to wild spaces. We envision the world full of home herbalists, taking the pressure off hospitals, and holistic practitioners working more closely alongside the modern allopathic medicine world. Thank you Cat for all of the potent work you are doing in the Australian herbal community. Thank you for sharing your vision for the future and having the strength and courage to work with others to create that future! We are dreaming this into being together.
Herbfest 18th June 2023:
https://everydayempowered.com.au/herbfest/
To find out more about Everyday Empowered:https://everydayempowered.com.au/
IG: @everyday.empoweredHerbal Starter Kits:To purchase a Herbal Starter kit use this affiliate link and 15% of the sale will go to The Elder Tree!:https://www.everydayempowered.com.au/?ref=xe741xvr
To find out more about The Elder Tree visit the website here and donate to the crowdfunding campaign here.You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram and sign up to the newsletter.Find out more about this podcast and the presenters here. Get in touch with The Elder Tree at: asktheeldertree@gmail.comThe intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins. You can find Chad's music here and here.
1 hr 1 min