The Black Flag Herbal Clinic aims to offer learning opportunities for herbal medicine students who feel aligned with the clinic’s ethos.
Opportunities may include:
- Observing 1:1 calls
- Observing calls & participating in discussion afterwards
- Taking the 1:1 call (with support)
- Working on client herbal recommendations
- Having more in-depth mentoring support
- Being involved in the wider clinic work (medicine making, admin, solidarity projects etc.)
If you’re interested in getting involved, please complete this form here: https://cloud.seatable.io/dtable/forms/a536910a-b0b1-495d-8cda-e92c7046cb49/
It is important to emphasise that the people accessing the clinic have total autonomy over the presence of students. And that many people may prefer the privacy of 1:1 support, especially in our current climate of political repression.
The goal of the student clinic is for it to feel like an empowering space that can also be shaped by student’s needs and not reproduce oppressive dynamics found in many spaces and herbal schools. I recognise that a ‘hierarchy of experience’ exists in a clinical setting, however, the goal of the student clinic is to create a space where discussion is encouraged, feedback is welcome and we are all learning from each other.
Commonly Asked Questions
Are you able to ‘sign off’ clinical hours?
I completed my formal clinical training with the Plant Medicine School in Ireland. I am able to ‘sign off’ clinical hours for students in their programmes.
For other herbal schools, you will need to check yourself if they are happy for clinical hours with me to be ‘signed off’.
It is your responsibility to confirm with your herbal school what is ‘allowed’. I can offer clinical hours for clinic observation, taking consultations and supporting people to work on client herbal recommendations. If you’re in England, you may be able to have signed off clinical hours for support with medicine making and dispensing.
Are herbal students able to join who are not enrolled in a formal school or clinical herbalism training programme?
Yes – with some nuance! I believe there are so many ways to learn about herbalism and the knowledge I gained through years of ‘DIY learning’ were massive foundations for my formal clinical training. Herbalism is the people’s medicine and existed long before formal schools, degrees or professional hierarchies. I want the clinic to offer opportunities for community and grassroots herbalists of all kinds to participate.
What matters most is that people seeking support from the clinic are met with compassion and supported with skill.
Please communicate your experience in the expression of interest form and skills you would like to develop through getting involved.