About this Webinar Intensive Series: Growing Networks of Trans Herbal Care
Do you work with, or want to work with, transgender clients but don’t feel like you know enough? Are you curious about what gender affirmation looks like in herbal practice and how it can benefit your clients? This four-week intensive series is an introduction to trans-inclusive care for herbalists.
Ember Peters and Vilde Chaya Fenster-Ehrlich will discuss clinical skills, surgical support, hormonal support, and the broader political, social and medical context in which trans herbal care takes place. They’ll connect these topics to everyday herbal practice, including client intake, individualized herbal support, and working within your scope of practice. Participants will consider how to ask respectful questions, understand each client’s goals, and think through herbal support in the context of the care a client is already receiving.
Whether you’re supporting trans folks already or you want to start, Ember and Vilde will support you in building your competence and confidence. Join them in expanding and deepening herbal care for trans folks in our communities and making that care more affirming and accessible.
Meet the Teachers
Ember Peters (They/Them) is a trans non-binary clinical herbalist, educator, medicine maker, gardener, nature lover and community organizer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, unceded Mi’kmaq territory. They have been in clinical practice since 2014 and offer advanced clinical education rooted in harm reduction, accessibility, trans herbal care and trauma-informed care. For Ember, herbal medicine is a crucial part of growing empowered & resilient communities, mutual aid and webs of community care. They want to live in a world where empowering, holistic, integrative community healthcare is the norm, and where part of being a health care provider means being committed to actually addressing root causes of illness and disease. Ember is a Registered Herbal Practitioner with the Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia (HANS) and a co-founder of the Maritime School of Holistic Herbalism.
To learn more about Ember, Check out their websites: www.wildcurrentherbalism.com – Business: www.maritimeherbschool.com
Vilde Chaya Fenster-Ehrlich (she/her) is a community herbalist committed to radical, liberatory herbal practice and education. She is an educator at and founder of the Wild Cherries Herbal Studies Program and teaches at the Maritime School of Holistic Herbalism Clinical Mentorship Program and other herbal schools in her region. She’s passionate about helping repair the bond between the plant and human worlds, for companionship and collective healing; and loves the democratic, accessible and experiential nature of herbal medicine. She sought out herbal medicine as an ally to support community organizers, activists, queer and trans folks and others harmed and underserved by racism, capitalism and the patriarchy; in her experience, healing work is intimately interconnected with understanding, coping with and resisting the systemic violence and oppression that weighs on all our lives. Presently, she practices at the People’s Medicine Project in Greenfield, MA and creates magical herbal spaces for her trans community in the cities, woods and rivers she calls home.
To learn more about Vilde, check out her website: wildcherries.org