The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ~Paracelsus   

Advanced Clinical Training

with Matthew Wood and Sean Donahue

What is Advanced Clinical Training?

What will be covered in the Training?

Advanced Clinical Practitioner Training is a unique program for herbalists wanting to deepen their practice and advanced herb students wanting to make the transition to becoming practitioners.

Under the guidance of Matthew Wood and Sean Donahue students will gain a deep grounding in the philosophy and practice of Traditional Western Herbalism, hone their clinical skills, and learn to integrate magical tools and perspectives in their practice.

Due to the nature of the training this program only has 30 spots available to students. Please apply early to make sure you reserve your spot.  

Training Dates

Clinical Practitioner Training takes place in four five-day intensives located in Portland, OR with self-study in between modules.

Dates for the 2017-2018 training are:
October 12-16, 2017
December 7-11, 2017
February 8-12, 2018
April 5-9, 2018

Training hours have not been finalized yet but will be in the range of 9:30am-4:30pm each day with a break for Lunch in between.

Each Module will build upon the previous. It is best practice to plan on being present for every module. Modules are only available in series and not individually.

The Training will include:

• Vitalist philosophy and practice
• Herbalism and The Three Selves
• Identifying the six tissue states as a basis for herbal practice
• Practices for inner education, grounding, centering, attunement, and protection
• Tongue and pulse evaluation
• Constitutional Evaluation
• Working with earthly and celestial cycles
• Physical, psychological, spiritual, and magical properties of Herbs
• Opportunities to observe Sean and Matthew in practice
• Clinical Guidance
• And much more...

Location

All modules will take place in person at The Art Haus located at Milepost 5 in NE Portland, OR.  

The Art Haus
8155 NE Oregon St
Portland, OR 97213

​Instructors

Matthew Wood

Sean Donahue

Matthew Wood has been a practicing Traditional Western Herbalist since 1982. He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years with many difficult health problems. While Matthew believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage. He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and has earned his Masters of Science degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).
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Matthew has lectured in all parts of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, New York to California, and Santa Fe to Sperryville, Virginia. He has also taught in Canada, Scotland, England, France, and Australia. He is known throughout the world as an excellent teacher of herbal medicine. He is also the author of six acclaimed books on herbal medicine, published by North Atlantic Books.

• Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers (1987)
• Vitalism, The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, originally entitled The Magical Staff (1993)
• The Book of Herbal Wisdom (1998)
• The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism (2004)
• The Earthwise Herbal, A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants (2008)
• The Earthwise Herbal, A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants (2009)

More Information can be found at www.matthewwoodherbs.com

Sean Donahue is a member of the faculty of the School of Western Herbalism at Pacific Rim College in Victoria, BC and now co-founder, with Matthew Wood, of the Portland School of Herbal Wisdom in Portland, OR (where also has a private practice.) He is also a priest and holder of the Green Wand in the BlackHeart line of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft. He lives on the traditional territory of the Yakima Nation in Trout Lake, WA. His writing regularly appears in Plant Healer magazine and on the website Gods & Radicals among other publications. 

Sean works to integrate the insights of Traditional Western Herbalism, somatic psychology, European shamanic and magical traditions, phytochemistry, and neurobiology. The result is a clinical approach based on shifting and deepening a person’s felt sense of embodied presence and connection with the living world. He has a special passion for working with people whose experiences and worldviews are frequently misunderstood or discounted in conventional health care settings including Queer and Trans people, Pagans and animists, and his fellow Autistic adults.

Prior to becoming an herbalist, Sean worked for 15 years as an organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and economic justice, and was a freelance journalist documenting the human and ecological impacts of U.S. policies in Latin America.  

More information can be found at www.seandonahueherbalist.com ​