community | comunidad
Nat facilitates dialogue and learning with colleagues, community groups, and organizations in the following
areas of specialty:
- Decolonizing Western Herbalism and Recovering Ancestral Herbalism Practices
- Radical Community, Organizational, and Self Care
- Community Deathwork and Contemplative End of Life Care
- Liberation Centered Clinical Practice Mental Health Care Work
- Embodied Relational Healing
Nat is passionate about teaching and exchanging wisdom with community partners and organizations. They have offered trauma-informed and liberation-centered training for healthcare institutions, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations.
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.”
—bell hooks
Have another community need or idea for facilitation? Contact me!
ANCESTRAL HERBALISM COMMUNITY RESOURCES
To learn the name and people of the land where you live:
native-land.ca
Organizations:
- Botanical Bus (Sonoma County, CA)
thebotanicalbus.org - The People’s Medicine Project (Western MA)
peoplesmedicineproject.org - Ancestral Apothecary School – Herbal, Folk, and Indigenous Medicine
ancestralarts.co - Harriet’s Apothecary – Intergenerational BIPOC Healing Collective
harrietsapothecary.com - United Plant Savers
unitedplantsavers.org - Soul Fire Farm – Afro-Indigenous Community Farm, Education (NY)
soulfirefarm.org - Susu Community Farm – Afro-Indigenous Community Farm and Healing Space (VT)
susucommunityfarm.org
Herbalists:
- Blue Otter School-Karyn Sanders
blueotterschool.com - Sacred Vibes Healing-Karen Rose-Spiritual Herbalism Afro-Caribbean Ancestral Herbalism
sacredvibeshealing.com/karen-rose
Books:
- “Braiding Sweetgrass”
—Robin Wall Kimmer - “Working the Roots, Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing”
—Michele E. Lee - “The Curandex Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for Healing”
—Atava Garcia Swiecicki