Why I don’t do things… My colleague and I went to a talk recently. The hall was large and filled with about 100 people. We were sitting near the front, so when the presenter asked a question, I felt able to put my hand up and give an answer. What she said surprised me; ‘Well […]
Category Archives: The School of Herbal Medicine
03
Jan
Jan
Is there an easy way to do this? It happens every year and it is always a headache. We have six years of herbal medicine students studying for an Advanced Diploma, and we need to make sure that each of the six years gets their allocated four seminar days per module. Each year has six […]
‘Why don’t we start a herb school?’ I can’t remember who said it first, but it seemed a good idea at the time… We had been talking about this at University while we were training. The advantages of taking herbal medicine training out of University [and therefore Government] control had been becoming obvious. Governments, in […]
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Jan
Jan
Apart from making medicine from medicinal plants and seeing patients, I teach students who want to become Medical Herbalists at The School of Herbal Medicine in Devon. This weekend I am teaching Herbal Therapeutics & Clinical Medicine to Year 3 on Saturday and Year 2 on Sunday. Other weekends I teach Pharmacy. These seminars run […]
I love these old books: All of them describe a way of living and looking at plants, that is, for the most part, disappearing from our modern way of life. It is very, very rare that the ordinary housewife would go out into the country-side or even her own garden, and pick greenery […]
It’s cold – it’s very cold and I don’t want to go to the allotment. The wind is icy and it cuts right through me, and the hail stings sharply every time I walk from my office to the house. No, I’m not going to my allotment today – I have harvested everything and all […]
L-R: Jonas Brab, Lisa Poynton, Julie Bruggemann, Susan Vassar, Tim Carter, Maggie Pope, Joe Nasr. Easter School went well. The second residential study week at the School of Herbal Medicine was busy, informative and fun. All the students were in the same place at the same time, and we enjoyed teaching them Pharmacy, Herbal Therapeutics, […]
After the weekend I will be teaching in our school’s second residential Easter School. Four days of seminars when the different year groups are in the building at the same time and we teach back to back. Usually we keep the year groups separate and teach them on different days just because it’s easier […]
So, I’m half way through my teaching diploma at Bridgwater College; and it’s fun. I did think that if you had a degree in a subject and practical experience then you could just teach it. But no. There is so much more to teaching than getting up the front and telling students what they […]
We’ve done it! The School of Herbal Medicine [www.schoolofherbalmedicine.co.uk] has successfully completed our first full year with students, with seminars every month and end-of-year exams just finished…. The exams were tough, but the standard has been good. Some of the subjects taught were completely new to the students – not many people even know […]