Learn Herbalism by Doing Herbalism
Hands-on learning for herbal, first aid, and other healing techniques is invaluable. Building muscle memory is fun and allows you to make mistakes and build skills. Most workshops from the Trillium Center include online materials to complement the in-person experiences, so participants can experience information in different ways. Sign up for a course below, I’ll be touch to confirm your attendance.
Refine your first aid skills
Community Medic Training
November 7, 11-4 PM
Church of the Sparkling Unicorn, Columbus, OH
This course is now open for enrollment! The online portion will be made available shortly after you sign up.
Learn basic first aid from a community perspective. This training has online and in-person components to offer different ways of learning. Trainer Leah Wolfe is a former street medic and disaster responder. Disaster preparedness is self-care especially in uncertain times.
This training includes three online portions featuring written materials and videos, and quizzes (that you can take multiple times) and an in-person hands-on workshop to practice first aid techniques. When all parts are complete, participants will receive a certificate and a patch.
The online portion should be completed before the in-person portion. I’m offering three dates for the in-person portion. I will contact you after you sign up with your payment below to confirm the date and location.
An online course complements the hands-on Community Medic Training, which will be available for 60 days to those who complete all three in-person trainings.
Part 1 – Online
- Becoming a Community Medic
- Legal Aspects
- Ground Rules + Guiding Principles
- A Short History
- Physical Preparation
- Mental Preparation
- Scene Survey
- Streetside Manner
- Controversial Treatments for Street Medics
Part 2 – Online
- Initial Assessment: The ABCs
- Basic Psychological First Aid
- Recognizing Sudden Illnesses
- Stroke
- Heart Attack
- Seizures
- Diabetes
- Weather Related Illness
- Fainting
- Abdominal Illnesses
Part 3 – Online
- Basic First Aid
- Head Trauma
- Abrasions, Lacerations & Other Wounds
- From Bruises to Breaks
- Burns
- Chemical Exposures
- Secondary Assessment
- Basic Health & Safety for Large Gatherings
- Working with Emergency Medical Services & Public Safety
Part 3 – In-person and hands-on
This training is being offered on a sliding-scale basis. That means that the trainer and the host are incurring costs to make this happen but we don’t want to exclude anyone based on income. If you can’t make a donation, please get in touch. The suggested donation for the community medic training is $40-100. Please donate extra if you are able.
Learn by seeing and touching the plants
Plant Walk Schedule
October 2 & 3, near Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Join the plant walking group! I need some info from you so I know when and where herb walks are wanted, whether you’ll travel, or if you prefer to stay closer to home. Once you are part of the group and you reserve your spot, I’ll send you the exact location for each walk. To get on the list just fill out the short form by clicking the button below. If you want to attend a walk, send me a note to reserve your spot, because sometimes we run out of room.
disaster preparedness is resistance
Emergent Herbalism and Community in Disaster Situations
October 2-3, 2026
GLESS Teaching and Learning Collaborative/TLC Intensives, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
When disaster strikes, government response is often slow leaving victims without help for days. Preparing community members to coordinate a decentralized and plant-based response and recovery is vital. This workshop is presented in 3 parts: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Topics include putting together disaster kits, learning about important plant medicines (including a plant walk), logistics and communication ideas, basic clinic set up, thoughts on how to work with the community to rebuild, and suggestions for further education. We will work through a scenario with active discussion, planning, and logistics for a plausible disaster situation. Sliding-scale fee is offered up to $175 for two-days of intensive training.
Roots Of Reverence Herb Shop, 18103 Detroit Ave, Lakewood Ohio
The roots of Halloween dig into autumn traditions celebrated around the world. People celebrated where they came from and the people that came before them. People celebrated the harvest with blessings for the darker days to come. If you want more than candy, costumes, and inflatable icons, join a deeper celebration of the autumnal shifts. Herbalist Leah Wolfe comes to Roots of Reverence for an evening of storytelling about plants, the thinning veil, and ways to connect with ancestral traditions. Ancestral work is meant as the process of connecting with people who have inspired, nurtured, or assisted and not necessarily related as family. Along with tastings of herbs for the thinning veil, enjoy a traditional food and a warming beverage.
Cost: $40.
Please bring a mug from home for tea.
Class size limited to 10, so sign up early.
Reading the Body with Stacy Quade
February 27-28, 2027
Learning to read the body is extraordinarily helpful when matching herbs to a person. Join our guest instructor Stacey Quade in an intensive workshop that will show you how to read tongues, fingernails, and faces for indications that will improve your selection of herbs to match a person’s constitution, patterns, and symptoms.
Two days of fun lecture with hands-on practice in the assessment skills of reading the face, tongue, fingernails and toes and drop pulse testing.
This is an interactive, participatory class. To fully engage in the practice of assessment, please come without makeup or nail polish. You’ll be both observing and being observed in a safe, supportive learning environment.
Stacey Quade, Herbalist, COTA (Retired), CHTP/I Levels 1 and 2, has worked in holistic healing and energy-based bodywork since 2002.Her herbal education was shaped by years of mentorship with Margi Flint, as well as studies with Matthew Wood, jim mcdonald, and Nicholas Schnell.She brings over 30 years of experience in occupational therapy, blending her medical background with grounded, intuitive herbal practice.
This workshop will be held in the new classroom at the Trillium Center in Conneaut, Ohio.
Getting Grounded: Community Herbal Intensive Level 1
March-November 2027 – Registration now open!
A 9-month hybrid course in herbalism with self-study, online, and in-person options. Register early to access payment plans.
resilience is a distillation of the mind
Community Distillation for Herbalism and First Aid
Date and Location: TBD
Learn about different extraction methods to make herbal essences (hydrosols) and essential oils with little more than a handful of barks, leaves, and needles from plants that grow in the region. When the community pools effort, the outcome is shared resources. This workshop is an opportunity to practice a new skill while creating a community distillation project.
Distillation is an ancient practice that can be done in multiple ways. Leah will demonstrate how to do distillations at home with common kitchen equipment while also demonstrating the use of copper alembic distiller. This experience also comes with online materials, available for 30 days so that you can preview and review information to help you develop skills to safely choose herbs that fit your constitution and elemental patterns, plus a guide to ethical foraging.
Interested in attending or hosting this event? Get in touch.
Refund Policy
Refunds are available for workshops, walks and other short events until one week before the event, unless otherwise stated. Guest instructors may have different policies.
Refund and transfer of credit requests must be made one week in advance of the workshop. Some events may only be eligible for partial refunds to cover costs already incurred on behalf of the participant.
Long-term courses are refundable until 30 days before the start of the course and may only be eligible for partial refunds to cover costs already incurred on behalf of the participant.