• Midwest Women's Herbal Conference Registration Form

    Embracing Generosity, Care, and Creativity

  • Welcome Ladies! This is a long form. Please ensure that you have the time and space to read all questions thoroughly. Take a deep breath, ground, grab a cup of nourishing infusion, and begin. You've got this! If you have any questions or difficulties, please email us at HerbWomen@gmail.com. We look forward to spending this time with you.

     

    Spaces always fill up fast! Don't miss your chance to register at the early bird rates, register today!

    Once the conference is full, we will start a waitlist.

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  • For Pre-Conference only, follow these instructions: 

    - Fill out the "Information" Section - Continue to the next page

    - Under "Will you be attending the Main Conference?" - select "No" 

    - Continue to the Pre-Conference Registration and additional offerings

  • For Women Who Pre-Paid at an earlier event, follow these instructions: 

    - Fill out the "Information" Section - Continue to the next page 

    - Under "Will you be attending the Main Conference?" - select "I Pre-Paid at an earlier event to hold my spot" 

    - Continue to the Pre-Conference Registration and additional offerings

  • To Add Addditional Offerings to your Registration: 

    If you have already registered and would like to add workshops or early arrival to your registration: Please use this Extras Registration Form HERE!

  • To Purchase Recordings Only: 

    If you cannot attend the conference and would like to purchase the recordings only, please use this Recordings Packages Form HERE!

  • IMPORTANT: Cancellation and Refund Policies
    Please see our Website for important cancellation policy information.

     

    Virtual classes are not refundable.

    Pre-registration and early registration fees are non-refundable.
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    Refunds for Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Pre-Conference Events will be offered as follows:

    Up to two months before the event begins - a $75 administrative fee will be charged
    Up to one month before the event begins - a $125 administrative fee will be charged
    Less than one month before the event - no refunds will be issued

     

    Note: You can transfer your registration to another woman at any time. You will need to identify the person and let us know who it will be. We are not able to assist in identifying a person, but can always apply your registration to the scholarship fund if you choose. 

  • Information

    Please fill out the form carefully, being certain that both your email and phone number are correct - this is the only way we have of communicating with you!  Add herbwomen@gmail.com to your contacts so our communication does not go into spam or promotions.

  • Meal Preferences

    Please help us provide enough nourishing, satisfying food for all. Those with unique dietary needs not addressed below may wish to bring snacks to supplement meals. Camp Helen Brachman is a nut free facility, please leave snacks with nuts at home. Food allergies and medical conditions need to be listed in the allergy section.

  • Mobility Needs

  • Main Conference Registration: May 23-25, 2025

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  • Registration Includes:

    Main Conference Attendance

    Lodging Friday & Saturday Night,

    Meals Friday Dinner – Sunday Lunch

    Workshops, Activities, and More All Weekend Long!

  • If you Pre-Paid at an earlier event already, please select "I Pre-Paid at an earlier event to hold my spot" and confirm your lodging choice. This option ONLY applies to women who have already paid at a previous event. It DOES NOT mean the early bird discount.

  • Pre-Conference Registration: May 20-23, 2025

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  • Create a Mini Retreat for yourself through these Pre-Conference Offerings:

    - 2-Day Intensives on Wednesday and Thursday

    - 1-Day Workshops on Thursday

    - 3 Hour Workshops on Thursday and Friday 

    Scroll down to see all of our pre-conference workshops!

    Follow this link for all details regarding our Pre-Conference Events

  • 2-Day Intensives

    9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Wednesday and Thursday - Includes Lodging Wednesday Night and Meals from Wednesday Lunch to Thursday Lunch

  • Fine Tuning the Clinical Practice of Herbal Medicine: The Consideration of Constitution,Energetics and Body Signs"

    With Althea Northage Orr
  • Rebecca Chandler

  • - 9 am to 5 pm on Wednesday, May 21st and Thursday, May 22nd

    - Includes Lodging on Wednesday night

    - Includes Meals from Wednesday Lunch to Thursday Lunch 

    This intensive will focus on three primary aspects critical to developing an effective clinical protocol. The first day will focus on learning how to judge the constitutional state of the patient, and how it affects the direction of the protocol. We will look at the constitutional “types” of both the West and Traditional Chinese Medicine and learn how to map the energetics both of the typical patterns of the patient, and in their current state. We will look at pulse diagnosis in a simplified form, tongue analysis, and overall consideration of body fluids.

    Day Two will continue to look at energetics, but consider how to judge the energetic pattern of a particular illness and how to look at staging illness from the standpoint of depth, seriousness, and the direction it is most likely to move. We will then consider common herbs from the same standpoint. Which are best at which stage, what are their energetics and how can we utilize them most effectively.

    While this intensive is meant to be accessible to those with little (or no) energetic background, a solid knowledge of the herbal repertory and herbal actions will be useful.

  • Sharing Medicine: Herbal Home Remedies Community Tending and Mending; Making and Sharing Medicine

    With Mimi Hernandez
  • Rebecca Chandler

  • - 9 am to 5 pm on Wednesday, May 21st and Thursday, May 22nd

    - Includes Lodging on Wednesday night

    - Includes Meals from Wednesday Lunch to Thursday Lunch 

    In these times, community and self-care are essential, and the wisdom of herbalism offers us a gentle path forward. Whether we're nurturing our loved ones, connecting with neighbors, or caring for ourselves and our families, simple acts of kindness and healing can bring a warm comfort during challenging moments.

    Imagine delivering healing teas, nourishing soups, and herb infused vinegars to a friend's porch, visiting an expectant mother with thoughtful herbal elixirs, or sending a care package filled with kitchen love to someone feeling under the weather. This journey invites you to explore how we can show up for one another through herbal remedies, delightful recipes, and heartfelt support.

    We will explore a rich array of herbal materia medica designed to address a variety of common ailments and discomforts. This immersion invites you to engage with plants firsthand, as we craft home remedies that nourish, heal, and uplift. Specific topics include: Kitchen remedies for cold, flu, and immune challenges; Remedies for digestion, gallbladder, and liver maladies; Tending to heart health and heart malaise; Mending bones, tending wounds, soothing sprains and burns; Nourishment for the journey of maiden, motherhood, and beyond; and, Calming nerve restoratives for challenging moments. Handouts will be provided.

  • ELEMENTAL: Seasonal Rituals for Wild Embodiment

    With Jiling Lin
  • Rebecca Chandler

  • - 9 am to 5 pm on Wednesday, May 21st and Thursday, May 22nd

    - Includes Lodging on Wednesday night

    - Includes Meals from Wednesday Lunch to Thursday Lunch 

    Embody the Elements within and all around you. Track seasonal shifts through the Five Elements map from East Asian medicine traditions, finding resonance with your unique Elemental patterning. You are the swirling Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal of this land. Feel it. Move it. Write it. Be it. We will meditate, move, write, create, and interact with each Element season by season, indoors and outdoors. Explore nature journaling, acupressure aromatherapy, seasonal materia medica, classical Elemental associations, Process Mapping, and intuitive movement in seasonal rituals for wild embodiment!

  • 1-Day Immersion

    9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Thursday- Includes Thursday Lunch

  • The Continuous Weave with Black Ash

    With April Stone
  • Rebecca Chandler

  • - 9 am to 5 pm

    - Includes Thursday Lunch

    For this one-day workshop, participants will be weaving a fully functioning basket capable of harvest and storage, to take home. Working mainly with knife and scissors, participants will experience cutting and laying out of their pre-harvested and pre-shrunk, choice black ash splint material in order to create a square or rectangular bottomed, diagonally plaited basket, complete with a choice of straight or saw-tooth rim.

    This basket style incorporates a warp (uprights) and weft (weavers) into the making of a very useful and structurally sound harvest or storage basket made using locally harvested and hand-processed, choice Black Ash sapwood and heartwood splint. Students will learn firsthand what it means to shape a basket through “tension” as they work intimately with such flexible material. The finished basket will measure approx. 7” x 7” x 7” for a square bottom or 5” x 11” x 5” for a rectangular bottom, upon completion.

    All materials and tools will be provided by the instructor.

    $35 Material Fee to be paid to the presenter directly.

  • Family-Directed Funeral Immersion

    With Threshold Care Circle (Liz Franklin, Susan Nesbit, & Tracey Mangold)
  • Rebecca Chandler

  • - 9 am to 5 pm

    - Includes Thursday Lunch


    Until the latter part of the 19th century, most people were born and died in their own homes. When they were born, their family cared for them; when they died, their family cared for them. Dying, like birthing, was integrated into living.
    Please join Susan Nesbit, Tracy Mangold, and Liz Franklin for our Family-Directed Funeral Workshop, where you will gain the information and hands-on practice you need in order to care for your family member after death at home and to carry out a home or family-directed funeral, with or without the services of a funeral director.


    Topics include:
    • Meeting legal requirements and acquiring the necessary paperwork
    • Care of the Body, Creating Sacred Space, and Home Vigils
    • Family Direct Cremation & Green Burial options

  • Thursday Afternoon Pre-Conference Workshops

    2:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Includes Thursday Dinner

  • Herbs for Magick!

    With Rev. Judith Laxer
  • Linda Conroy

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    - 2 pm to 5 pm 

    - Includes Thursday Dinner 

    Magick is a way of being, a way of living, one that elevates our sense of delight and enjoyment. In a world becoming increasingly more fractured and socially isolated, we can live in a way that is beautifully connected and wonderfully inspiring by aligning with the moon, the sun, and the realm of the Deva. The practice of magick vanquishes loneliness, enhances joy, and is the fertile ground of our personal empowerment. In this workshop, we will drop more deeply into our relationship with herbs for magick-making through guided reflection, chanting, and direct experience with the use of herbs to shift the state of our being. This workshop is for those who wish to increase their sensuality, become adept at the use of herbs in spellcasting, and want to infuse their life with an embodied sense of spiritual union and reciprocity with the plants we love.

  • Thursday Evening Pre-Conference Workshops

    6:30 PM to 9:30 PM - Includes Thursday Dinner

  • Dreaming with the Ancestors: An Immersive Journey into Southern Italian Dream Work

    With Gail Faith Edwards
  • Linda Conroy

  • - 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    - Includes Thursday Dinner 

    In this workshop, journey into the mystical realm of Southern Italian dream work. Through guided practices, storytelling, and ritual, explore how dreams have been used to connect with ancestral wisdom, receive healing messages, and cultivate personal insight. Participants will learn traditional techniques for dream interpretation, create their own dream amulet, and leave with practices to deepen their relationship with the dream world. This is an invitation to step into a sacred space where the ancient wisdom of Southern Italy meets the inner landscapes of modern dreamers.

  • History, Epigenetics, Psychoneuroimmunology and Patient Zero

    With Gina Perez Baron
  • Linda Conroy

  • - 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    - Includes Thursday Dinner 

    In this course, we will reach way back to “Patient Zero” to understand current times. Using our own lineages, we will look at how ancestors shape biology, build our emotional lens, and create our cognitive map. Through psycho-neuro-immunology, we will review our own social determinants and how they impact our health and wellness. Finally, we will explore what some “Old Ways” say about thriving in challenging times.

  • Community Herbalism in Disaster Situations

    With Leah Wolfe
  • Linda Conroy

  • - 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    - Includes Thursday Dinner 

    Preparing for disasters can be an act of empowerment on a personal and community level. Herbal street medic Leah Wolfe will take you on a journey of bringing healing to disaster situations. Listen to stories, enter scenarios, walk with the plants, and practice herbal techniques to help you increase your confidence and hone your skills in assessing and responding to emergent situations. Immerse yourself in the healing potential of herbs in challenging times.

  • Friday Morning Pre-Conference Workshops

    9:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Includes Friday Lunch

  • Sip, Savor, and Heal: The Magic of Cacao Ceremony 

    With Crystal Dawn Silas
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  • - 9 am - 12 pm

    - Includes Friday Lunch 

    In this cacao ceremony with Dr. Crystal Dawn, participants will journey into the heart of this sacred plant’s history and healing power. After exploring cacao’s role in traditional cultures, we will enter a guided ceremony designed to open the heart, quiet the mind, and connect us to the earth. Experience the transformative power of cacao as we share in a meaningful ritual for inner peace and connection.

  • For the The Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability  

    With Robin Wall Kimmerer
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  • - 9 am - 12 pm

    - Includes Friday Lunch 

    In this 3-hour workshop, Robin will talk about the Honorable Harvest, focusing on indigenous philosophy and practices that contribute to sustainability and conservation. She will share approaches to how Indigenous knowledge can contribute to a transformation in how we view our relationship to consumption and move us away from a profoundly dishonorable relationship with the Earth.

  • Thursday Lodging Between Pre-Conference and Main Conference

  • If you are staying onsite Thursday night after a pre-conference event, and planning to attend a Friday morning pre-conference or the main conference, please select Thursday night lodging below.

    The price includes Thursday lodging, Thursday dinner, and Friday breakfast.

    Friday Lunch is NOT included so if you are NOT attending a Friday pre-conference, please select Lunch below. Friday Lunch will NOT be available for purchase onsite.

    Thursday Dinner IS included so if you ARE attending a Thursday afternoon or evening pre-conference, please select Thursday lodging with no dinner.

  • Early Arrival

    Please use this section for early arrival for the Main Conference or Pre-conference

  • Tuesday Night Early Arrival

    Add this option if you are arriving Tuesday night to attend the 2-day intensive. Includes Tuesday lodging and Wednesday Breakfast.

    Tuesday Dinner is NOT included. Your first meal at camp is Wednesday Breakfast.

  • Wednesday Night Early Arrival

    Add this option if you are arriving Wednesday night to attend the Thursday 1-day immersion. Includes Wednesday lodging and Thursday Breakfast.

    Wednesday Dinner is NOT included. Your first meal at camp is Thursday Breakfast.

  • Thursday Night Early Arrival

    Add this option if you are arriving Thursday night to attend a Friday Pre-Conference or the Main conference. Includes Thursday lodging, Thursday Dinner, and Friday Breakfast.

    If you are arriving after dinner on Thursday night, please choose one of the last 2 options.

    If you selected Thursday night lodging in the Thursday Lodging Between Pre-Conference Events section above, please DO NOT select it again here, you will be charged twice.

  • Friday Lunch

    **Please note: Friday lunch is NOT included in early arrival and must be added below if you are NOT attending a Friday pre-conference workshop and would like to join us for this meal.

    Friday Lunch is included with Friday Pre-Conference Workshops! 

  • Infant Registration

  • Babes in arms (babies that are not yet mobile) are welcome to attend with their guardian! They will lodge where their guardian is lodging.

  • Child Registration

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  • Kids Camp is only offered during the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference, May 23-25, 2025.

    All Kids will be assigned to the same lodging as their guardian. If in a cabin, your child will be assigned a top bunk lodging unless a bottom bunk is specifically requested (use the additional comments section or email us at herbwomen@gmail.com)

    Childcare is offered during the May 22nd pre-conference workshops and the May 23rd Pre-conference workshops at an additional fee.

    For questions about childcare during 2-day intensives, please email herbwomen@gmail.com.

    Please Note: There is space on this form to register 2 children for Kids Camp; if you have more children to register please make a note of that under the "Additional Comments" section and we will contact you and send you an invoice via PayPal.

    *If you register a child/children, the Kids Camp Coordinators will email a questionnaire. Please take that opportunity to share information that will help the coordinators prepare for your child's/children's arrival.

  • Child Information

  • Child Meal Preference

  • Child's Early Arrival Information

  • Child Care During the Pre-Conference Workshop

  • Additional Child

  • Additional Child Information

  • Additional Child Meal Preference

  • Additional Child's Early Arrival Information

  • Additional Child Care During the Pre-Conference Workshops

  • Teen Registration

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  • Teen Spiral is only offered during the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference, May 23-25, 2025.

    All Teens will be assigned to the same lodging as their guardians. If in a cabin, your teen will be assigned a top bunk lodging unless a bottom bunk is specifically requested (use the additional comments section or email us at herbwomen@gmail.com)

    Please Note: There is space on this form to register 2 teens for Teen Spiral; if you have more teens to register please make a note of that under the "Additional Comments" section and we will contact you and send you an invoice via PayPal.

  • Teen Information

  • Teen Meal Preference

  • Teen's Early Arrival Information

  • Additional Teen

  • Additional Teen Information

  • Additional Teen Meal Preference

  • Additional Teen's Early Arrival Information

  • Early Registration!

    Receive the deepest discount on our upcoming events by registering early below!

  • Receive $65 off when you sign up for two multi-day events!

    Add either the 2025 Mycelium Mysteries: Women's Mushroom Conference or 2025 In Our Own Hands: Women's Wellness Series to your 2025 Midwest Women's Herbal Conference Registration to receive the coupon below! 

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  • 2025 Mycelium Mysteries: A Women's Mushroom Conference Registration

  • Keynote Speakers:  

    This special pricing is only available with a Midwest Women's Herbal Conference registration. Price includes main conference attendance, Friday and Saturday lodging, & meals (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch)

    Plus if you register for the 2025 Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and the 2025 Mycelium Mysteries: A Women's Mushroom Conference, you will save an extra $65!

    **Please note that early registration fees are non-refundable**

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  • 2025 Virtual In Our Own Hands: Women's Wellness Series Registration

  • Join us January - March 2025 for virtual workshops led by Kaitlin Ilya Wolf, Isla Burgess, Max Dashu, Gina Rivers, Sunny Savage, and Linda Conroy! All workshops are held virtually via Zoom and are three hours in length, happening every other Saturday.

     

    January 18 Kaitlin Ilya Wolf Women’s Ritual & Rites of Passage; Menarche, Motherhood, and Croning
    February 1 Isla Burgess Aging Well
    February 15 Max Dashu Pagan Herbal Traditions of Europe
    March 1 Gina Rivers Mushrooms and Herbs for the Whole Woman
    March 15 Sunny Savage Wild Nourishment: Exploring the Nutritional Potency of Wild Foods
    March 29 Linda Conroy Case Management and Advocacy Skills for Herbalists

    Learn More Here!

     **Virtual classes are not refundable**

  • Conference Recording Package Pre-Order

    Don't Miss a Single Workshop!!

  • Pre-order the 2025 Midwest Women's Herbal Conference workshop recording bundle that includes over 50 workshop audio recordings and videos of the three keynotes from Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gail Faith Edwards, and Cornelia Cho.

    This special offer is only available online prior to the conference. Recordings will be available after the conference at regular pricing. The 2025 Midwest Women's Herbal conference recordings will be available within 4-6 weeks of the conference.

    Did you miss the Mycelium Mysteries 2024 conference? Or did you attend and wish you made it to more workshops? Order both recording sets below. 

     

    If you are interested in purchasing recording packages from previous events, please visit the Herb Women Classroom.

    Recordings from previous Midwest Women's Herbal Conferences, Mycelium Mysteries: Women's Mushroom Conferences, and In Our Own Hands: Women's Wellness Series are all available! 

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  • Special United Plant Savers Membership!

    United Plant Savers (UpS): Medicinal Plant Conservation Organization focuses on research, education, and conservation of native medicinal plants, fungi, and their habitats.

  • Midwest Women's Herbal is deeply grateful to UpS for helping plant the seeds of our conference through their Seeding Communities events. In partnership with them, we are excited to offer you a discounted membership, supporting their mission to advance research, education, and conservation of native medicinal plants, fungi, and their habitats. By joining us at any of the 2025 events hosted by MWH, you can purchase a student membership for just $22 (normally $35 for community members).

     

    Learn More About United Plant Savers Here!

  • Scholarship Fund Donation

    Our Scholarships are funded through the generosity of donors and sponsors. Please choose an amount below if you are able to help towards scholarships. Thank you!
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  • IMPORTANT: Cancellation and Refund Policies
    Please see our Website for important cancellation policy information.

     

    Virtual classes are not refundable.

    Pre-registration and early registration fees are non-refundable.

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    Refunds for Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Pre-Conference Events will be offered as follows:

    Up to two months before the event begins - a $75 administrative fee will be charged
    Up to one month before the event begins - a $125 administrative fee will be charged
    Less than one month before the event - no refunds will be issued

     

    Note: You can transfer your registration to another woman at any time. You will need to identify the person and let us know who it will be. We are not able to assist in identifying a person, but can always apply your registration to the scholarship fund if you choose.
      

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