Apothecary
Grief
Herbalism at the threshold
This 2-week workshop will unite your mind, your grief, your energy, and your hands toward learning to work with sacred plant allies in your end of life care work. Join us to understand the history of herbalism and how to work with your own herbalism lineage, explore grief archetypes and the plants that support them, and learn recipes to incorporate herbalism into your own end of life toolkit. Walk away with a deepened reverence for plants, protocols for right relationship and practice, and a Grief Apothecary Certificate.
November 5 + 12
6 - 7:30 pm MT
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Grief Apothecary
2 evenings of herbalism, grief, and community.
evening one
History and an intro to the herbs
Before hospitals and hospice, there were the wise women… the ones unafraid to sit in a room with a body doing something enormous, called to bring herbalism to both the birthing bed and the deathbed because they knew the plants speak the same language at either threshold. This is that lineage, unearthed. Our time together will begin by getting to know the plants intimately: the history and tradition of herbalism, the unique properties of the plants, and the varied ways they support death, dying, and grief.
evening two
Recipes, lineage, and right relationship
Our second gathering will focus on practical application: how to source herbs ethically and maintain a reciprocal, right-relationship with them, and how to actually incorporate herbalism into your personal and professional practice. Then, we’ll explore recipes to create your own grief tea blend, smoke clearing bundle, essential oil blend for transitions, and candle of remembrance.
This is for death doulas, hospice workers, grief counselors, chaplains, and anyone else who knows plants as allies and guides for thresholds.
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Tier One
For those facing financial constraints who are stretching to participate
Tier Two
For those with stable finances who can participate without strain
Tier Three
For those with financial abundance who wish to actively redistribute
Your hosts
Lauren Carroll
Lauren Carroll, co-founder of La Mort, is a Death Educator & Holistic Funeral Director who is passionate about weaving community and family back into the death space. Her work centers around re-aligning our culture with Mother Earth and helping humans remember how to love one another. She is a former board member for the National Home Funeral Alliance and co-founded The Deathwives.
This year, Lauren completed her education and training to become a licensed psilocybin facilitator in the state of Colorado, which will allow her to legally facilitate psilocybin journeys for people facing end-of-life and their families, supporting them through grief, in either a healing center or their own homes. She believes plants and mushrooms are allies in life and death.
Morgan Fava
With over a decade of study in the realms of death, dying, and grief, Morgan has journeyed through significant loss and transformation in her own life. As a certified death doula, energy healer, Akashic record practitioner, and ceremonialist, she is dedicated to supporting individuals and families through the sacred transition of death.
In her work, she provides compassionate guidance and education, helping to create a more peaceful and serene end-of-life experience.
Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort
We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits, because it takes one to know one.