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Herbal Reality Events

We are looking forward to many wonderful herbal and wellbeing events throughout the year.

2025

November

Rest, Restore, Revitalise Retreat Day in the Wye Valley with Mel Skinner - 2^nd November

October

CPP Autumn CPD Seminar Series - 4^th October

September

Ayurveda Immersion Course with Jo Webber - 25^th September

International Herb Symposium - 12^th September

July

NIMH’s Power of Plants Festival 2025 - 10^th July

June

Integrative & Personalised Medicine (19-21 June 2025) – Discount: HERB-20 - 19^th June

Mushroom Cultivation Workshop - 14^th June

Betonica Summer School - 11^th June

Embark On A Year-Long Herbal Medicine Journey! - 1^st June

May

Well Read at Wasing Literary Festival - 25^th May

Advanced Home Herbalist course (24/25 May 2025) - 24^th May

Herbfeast Ireland (16-18 May 2025) - 16^th May

Introduction to Ayurveda Course - 12^th May

April

Herbal First Aid and Wound Management Workshop - 29^th April

Home herbalism workshop with Dr. Sam Watts - 28^th April

Advanced Home Herbalist course (26/27 April 2025) - 26^th April

Spring Clean: Online Yoga & Herb Workshop with Helen Barnett - 13^th April

Grow Your Own Herbs Day Course - 12^th April

Spring foraging & wildcrafting days with Jo Webber - 6^th April

UKI Medicinal Mushrooms Conference (5-6/04/2025) - 5^th April

March

Spring Skincare workshop with The Wild Times & Karin Chipulina - 30^th March

Mother’s Day Workshop: Make a Balm for Your Mum - 29^th March

Advanced Home Herbalist course (22/23 March 2025) - 22^nd March

Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice - 19^th March

Spring foraging & wildcrafting days with Jo Webber - 16^th March

CPP Spring CPD Seminar Series - 15^th March

Botanica Obscura 2025 - 7^th March

Online Yoga and Herb Course with Helen Barnett - 5^th March

One Year Course in Plant Medicine with Julia Behrens (1/03-6/12/2025) - 1^st March

February

Coca, Ethnobotany & Medicinal Plants – a night with the McKenna Academy - 25^th February

Introduction to Herbalism with The Wild Times & Laz the Plant Scientist - 23^rd February

Behavioural Iridology with Andrew Mason - 5^th February

Heartwood Advanced Foundation Course (3/02 – 7/07 2025) - 3^rd February

January

Betonica Personal Herbal Journeys – Dr. Phil Deakin - 28^th January

European Herbalists Meet Up - 21^st January

Generalisations in Personalised Medicine with Julian Barker - 21^st January

Rest and Restore Day Retreat with Mel Skinner - 11^th January

2024

December

Winter’s Deep Rest with Mel Skinner - 21^st December

The Living History of Herbal Medicine with Dylan Warren-Davis - 17^th December

Medicinal mushrooms: A farmer’s perspective - 10^th December

Training on how to write and publish herbal medicine case studies - 5^th December

November

Integrative Healthcare Webinar: Focus on Men’s Health - 27^th November

Training on how to write and publish herbal medicine case studies - 22^nd November

Winter Herbal Remedies Workshop - 6^th November

Herbal Medicine Conference 2024 (5 / 6 November 2024) - 5^th November

October

Integrative Approaches to Chronic Pain (Free) - 30^th October

Back to Our Roots Workshops (October 2024 — September 2025) - 27^th October

Herbal Therapeutics for kids and Teenagers with Mary Bove - 24^th October

Mindfulness for Cancer (Free / October to December 2024) - 21^st October

Rest and Restore Retreat Day - 19^th October

Converging Influences in the History of Western Herbal Medicine & Practice - 16^th October

Autumn herb course (6 weeks / 10% discount: HERBALREALITY) - 16^th October

Autumn & Winter herb course offer (10-weeks / 10% discount: HERBALREALITY2) - 16^th October

Heart Healing: Half Day Retreat (10% discount: LOVELOVELOVE) - 5^th October

September

Applying Ayurveda (7 months course) - 30^th September

AMH Conference 2024: Gut Health & Wild Wellbeing - 21^st September

Introduction to Ayurveda (3 months course) - 16^th September

Tree Dispensary: The Uses, History & Herbalism of Exotic Trees - 10^th September

A Taste of Plant Spirit Medicine with Lucy Wells and Pip Waller - 7^th September

Great Lakes Herb Faire - 6^th September

August

Rest and Restore Retreat Day - 17^th August

Northwest Herbal Fair (16-18 August 2024) - 16^th August

July

Herbs for Women’s Health (One day course with Anne McIntyre) - 30^th July

Workshop “Real-world data to document the use of phytopharmaceuticals in children” - 14^th July

International Congress on Natural Products Research - 13^th July

Power of Plants Festival - 12^th July

June

Herbal Plants for Wellbeing - 30^th June

ESCOP Webinar: St. John’s wort – An update on the mechanism of action and pharmacokinetic interactions - 24^th June

FairWild week (24–28 June) - 24^th June

Mushrooms as Food and Medicine - 24^th June

Alpine Herb Walk - 24^th June

Vancouver Island Herb Gathering (21-23 June 2024) - 21^st June

Integrative & Personalised Medicine - 6^th June

May

Tetranational Congress Phytotherapy - 30^th May

A Holistic Approach to Cannabis, ECS, & Medicine (29 May & 5, 12, 19 June) - 29^th May

Menoheaven - 28^th May

How to be a Home Herbalist (Course with Anne McIntyre) - 21^st May

Herb Feast Ireland - 17^th May

Herbs for Mental and Emotional Resilience (One day course with Anne McIntyre) - 15^th May

Vitafoods Europe - 14^th May

Herbs to Support Gut Health (One day course with Anne McIntyre) - 14^th May

Introduction to Ayurveda (3 months course) - 13^th May

Apothecary Garden Build Community Day - 11^th May

Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics - 9^th May

Multi-professional Working in Integrative Oncology (special Herbal Reality discount code: IHF20) - 9^th May

April

Ageing Gracefully: A Holistic Guide to Later Life with Elisabeth Brooke - 27^th April

Integrative Healthcare Webinar: Creating Health – The Power of Language and Imagination - 24^th April

Herbalist Walk, Talk and Tea: A Unique Exploration of Medicinal Plants with Julia Behrens - 23^rd April

Managing Menopause with Herbs - 22^nd April

Community No Dig Compost Day with Charles Dowding - 21^st April

FREE Mindfulness for Cancer – Care.Compassion.Connection. - 16^th April

International Conference on the Science of Botanicals - 15^th April

NoCo Hemp Expo - 11^th April

Spring Clean – Online Herbal Workshop - 11^th April

Reading the Body: A Two Day Immersion with Margi Flint - 6^th April

March

Integrative Healthcare Webinar: Mushrooms and Neurodegenerative Conditions - 27^th March

Spring Foraging & wildcrafting workshop - 24^th March

2024 Forest Farming Conference - 22^nd March

Herbalist Walk, Talk and Tea: A Unique Exploration of Medicinal Plants with Julia Behrens (SOLD OUT) - 19^th March

World Tea Expo - 18^th March

Spring Nature, Health & Wellbeing Retreat with Julia Behrens and Daphne Lambert - 15^th March

Botanica Obscura Conference 2024 - 8^th March

Nutraceuticals Europe - 6^th March

International Spice Conference - 3^rd March

Chelsea Physic Garden Living Medicine Course - 3^rd March

Florida Herbal Conference - 1^st March

February

Integrative Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing (special Herbal Reality discount code: IHF20) - 23^rd February

Ageing Gracefully: A Holistic Guide to Later Life with Elisabeth Brooke - 21^st February

Annual Spice Symposium 2024 - 21^st February

The Aromatic Hologram Project - 16^th February

Integrative Healthcare Symposium - 15^th February

Sports & Active Nutrition Summit USA 2024 - 12^th February

January

Integrative Healthcare Webinar: Take a Deep Dive into Mistletoe Therapy - 31^st January

Herbs for Minor Inconveniences with Henriette Kress - 25^th January

Sustainable Foods Summit - 24^th January

Integrative Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing - 23^rd January

Mistletoe Medicine Making Day - 21^st January

Mistletoe Medicine Making Day - 20^th January

An Introduction to Reading the Body with Margi Flint - 15^th January

Exploring Lyme Disease - 11^th January