Chesapeake Herb Gathering
Pre-Gathering One Day Workshop:
Friday September 23 from 10am to 4pm
Exploring Oppression: Energetics & Physiological Affects
&
Being Our Own Medicine: Self-Care as Resistance
*a safe and healing space created for people of color*
Workshop Description
Exploring Oppression: Energetics & Physiological Affects
This will be a community workspace to share, learn, and develop strategies for addressing historical, communal, and family trauma in our lives. We'll connect common understandings between indigenous spiritual views of ancestral trauma and epigenetic evidence of cellular trauma, map the ways that trauma shows up in or own families and communities, and collect wisdom about medicine, cycle breaking, and other healing interventions.
Lunch Break
Being Our Own Medicine: Self Care as Resistance
This workshop is intended to investigate our ideas and beliefs about our worth, to strengthen our personal commitment to self-care, and to widen our circles of support. This is an experiential space offering participants the opportunity to develop tools and skills for real-life application and cultivate resilience despite oppressive environments.
Information:
Please remember space is very limited for this workshop, we have 25 spots total.
This workshop has been created as a safe and healing space for those who identify as people of color.
Please bring your lunch with you, as well as a full waterbottle. This workshop will be held in our indoor/outdoor classroom at Centro Ashé Farm, we have covering in case of rain but please bring weather appropriate clothing.
Address:
1620 Chester Avenue
Bryans Road, MD 20616
Please remember space is very limited for this workshop, we have 25 spots total.
This workshop has been created as a safe and healing space for those who identify as people of color.
Please bring your lunch with you, as well as a full waterbottle. This workshop will be held in our indoor/outdoor classroom at Centro Ashé Farm, we have covering in case of rain but please bring weather appropriate clothing.
Address:
1620 Chester Avenue
Bryans Road, MD 20616
Investment & Registration
$50 - $60 Sliding Scale
*no one will be turned away for lack of funds
*This workshop is not included in normal Chesapeake Herb Gathering registration*
Special Offer Chesapeake Herb Gathering Discount
Registrants in this workshop will receive $30 off registration for the Chesapeake Herb Gathering. Register for both together and save below! (Normal CHG Registration is $95)
*no one will be turned away for lack of funds
*This workshop is not included in normal Chesapeake Herb Gathering registration*
Special Offer Chesapeake Herb Gathering Discount
Registrants in this workshop will receive $30 off registration for the Chesapeake Herb Gathering. Register for both together and save below! (Normal CHG Registration is $95)
Facilitators
Richael Faithful
Richael Faithful is a folk healer, shaman, and energy worker within the Black healing tradition in the U.S., known as conjure. Faithful birthed Conjure! Freedom, a constellation of creative healers committed to healing trauma from slavery, ending racial caste, and creating love politic. They also serve as Shaman-in-Residence at Freed Bodyworks where they established Liberatory Healing, a trans-generational racial justice healing circle. Before being called to become a traditional healer, Faithful was a community lawyer and organizer from Virginia.www.richaelfaithful.com
Karen Culpepper
My two favorite things in the world? Massage and herbal medicine. Massage is touch, coupled with sacred intention and is very therapeutic and healing to all of our bodies: physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual. Herbal medicine is a sacred, ancient healing tradition that matches the energetics of plants to the energetics of human being. I am thankful for the opportunity to hold space, listen and introduce healing through the use of touch and herbs.
In 2008, I completed my massage training at the Potomac Massage Training Institute (PMTI) and in 2010 I completed my Masters of Science in Herbal Medicine at the Tai Sophia Institute (now Maryland University of Integrative Health).
Karen currently practices at Freed Bodyworks as both a licensed massage therapist and clinical herbalist.
Special interests: stress relief, reproductive wellness, self care, trauma, body awareness and herbal body treatments.
In 2008, I completed my massage training at the Potomac Massage Training Institute (PMTI) and in 2010 I completed my Masters of Science in Herbal Medicine at the Tai Sophia Institute (now Maryland University of Integrative Health).
Karen currently practices at Freed Bodyworks as both a licensed massage therapist and clinical herbalist.
Special interests: stress relief, reproductive wellness, self care, trauma, body awareness and herbal body treatments.
Ayo Ngozi
I am a clinical herbalist and educator based in the lowcountry of Savannah, GA. A native of western Massachusetts, I grew up in the woods, but didn’t find my way to herbalism until after working for many years as an arts administrator and visual artist in Washington, DC. I completed my M.S. in Clinical Herbal Medicine at the Maryland University of Integrative Health in 2012, where I specialized in adrenal and nervous system function. In my private practice, I work with clients of all ages and backgrounds to support them in creating greater health and wellbeing, and to offer new possibilities using an approach that integrates both scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom.I’m also passionate about empowering others through education in both community-based and academic settings. As Lead Instructor at Centro Ashé’s Grassroots Herbal Program in southern MD, I facilitate the development of family- and community-based herbalists at a wonderful farm and apothecary space. I also serve as a teaching assistant for online courses at the Maryland University of Integrative Health’s departments of Integrative Health Sciences and Health and Wellness Coaching. More recently, I’ve joined the course development team at the Herbal Academy, where I both help develop learning programs and contribute as an educator.I also teach workshops at conferences and symposia, from Brooklyn to Costa Rica, whenever I have the opportunity, and continue to integrate herbs and healing philosophy into my art practice. A fourth-generation descendent of Virginia herbalists, I’m committed to passing my knowledge, experience and deep respect for the natural world on to my two wonderful sons.
Shawna Murray Browne
Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C is the owner of Kindred Wellness, LLC, an integrative practice dedicated to honoring culture, expanding mindfulness, and holding safe space that empowers professionals & families to heal themselves. She earned a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore and a Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Family Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Shawna completed the Advanced level training in Mind-Body Medicine at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, headquartered in Washington, D.C. She is a Life Coach, Licensed Certified Social Worker- Clinical (LCSW-C), a Certified QiGong Instructor, Speaker and Mind-Body Medicine Practitioner. She has over 9 years experience serving children and families in the local community and human services field including, working with victims of sex abuse, children and adolescents in foster care, juvenile detention centers, after-school programs, public schools and residential treatment centers.
She provides personalized, culturally-affirming integrative psychotherapy, workshops, as well as QiGong and Mind-Body Skills groups that honor the healing power of art, movement, breath and connection to nature. Best known for her initiative, The #HealASista Project, Shawna is honored to hold safe space for women, families and passionate professionals. When she is not showing others how to heal themselves, she finds peace in meditation, traveling abroad, spending time with her sistas and with her husband, Brian. (www.ShawnaMurrayBrowne.com)
She provides personalized, culturally-affirming integrative psychotherapy, workshops, as well as QiGong and Mind-Body Skills groups that honor the healing power of art, movement, breath and connection to nature. Best known for her initiative, The #HealASista Project, Shawna is honored to hold safe space for women, families and passionate professionals. When she is not showing others how to heal themselves, she finds peace in meditation, traveling abroad, spending time with her sistas and with her husband, Brian. (www.ShawnaMurrayBrowne.com)
Toi Scott
Toi Scott is a visionary community organizer, artivist, and medicine maker of many varieties co-creating healing and transformation within our communities one knowledge share, one article, one book, one film, one play, one tea at a time. Toi writes and compiles liberatory literature with an anti-racist, pro-queer, decolonial perspective that centers the histories of people of color. Some of their work includes includes the Queering Herbalism volumes and the zines Herbal Freedom School 1&2, Partnering with Plants, Liberatory Sustainability and Philosophactivism 1&2.
Toi is also founder of the School of Liberation Healing and Medicine which includes the Herbal Freedom School and Queering Herbalism program, QTPOC Healing Histories courses among other programs and knowledge shares. Find out more at www.afrogenderqueer.com & queerherbalism.blogspot.com
Toi is also founder of the School of Liberation Healing and Medicine which includes the Herbal Freedom School and Queering Herbalism program, QTPOC Healing Histories courses among other programs and knowledge shares. Find out more at www.afrogenderqueer.com & queerherbalism.blogspot.com
