While Stephen may do a rare lecture here and there after 2013, this is the last year he will teach any workshops (unless something unusual occurs). If you do want to experience any in-depth work with Stephen, then this will most likely be your last chance.

Please note: The schedule is not firmed up as to all the dates. Verbal agreements have occurred and the final dates will be posted as soon as we can get them confirmed. Please check the Stephen’s calendar on the website from time to time or ask to be specifically notified if you are interested in a particular event.

Summer 2013

For a depth description of the Gaia’s Mind workshops scroll to the end of the calendar listings or click here.

1. June 7 - 9, Charlottesville, VA:
   Gaia’s Mind and the Secret Teachings of Plants
   Depth work with the plants and the Earth with lots of material from Stephen’s new book, Gaia’s Mind.
   Please Note: This workshop is full, a waiting list is beginning.
   For info and registration: www.sacredplanttraditions.com
2. Saturday, June 15, Sturbridge, MA:
   Lyme and Lyme Coinfections
   – for those who treat and those who have, one day only.
   We have retained a bigger space at Sturbridge; there is now more room.
   VIEW WEB PAGE FOR DETAILS AND ONLINE REGISTRATION
   NOTE: If you wish to use payal for your final payment on the lyme day, it is due BEFORE May 29th. I will be on the road and not able to access paypal after that date. After May 29th payment will have to be in cash or by check sent to Deb Pouech.
3. June 19 - 23, Cold Brook, NY:
   Gaia’s Mind and the Secret Teachings of Plants
   Depth work with the plants and the Earth with lots of material from Stephen’s new book, Gaia’s Mind – heavily experiential.
   Please Note: This workshop (and the waiting list) is full. 
   For info contact: woodland@ntcnet.com

Fall 2013

1. October 12 - 16, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada:
   Gaia’s Mind and the Secret Teachings of Plants (read the workshop description).
   10am Saturday - 4pm Wednesday
   Note: This workshop is half full.
   Contact: Richard Klein, Mountain Waters Retreats.
   http://mountainwatersretreats.ca/calendar/ (scroll down)
2. October 19 - 20, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada:
   Sacred Plant medicine and the Secret Teachings of Plants.
   9am - 5pm both days. Pacific Rim College, School of Phytotherapy.
   James Christian Hosting: www.pacificrimcollege.ca.
3. October 25 - 26, Portland, Oregon:
   Gaia’s Mind
   Friday evening 6:30 - 8:30pm
   Saturday 10am - 5pm
   Contact: Cory Szybala, Cszybala@gmail.com
   National College of Naturopathic Medicine
   Note: This event is free and open to the public; it is first come, first serve as to seating.
   
4. November 2 - 3, Philo, California:
   Herbal Antibiotics/Herbal Antivirals
   9:30am - 5pm both days.
   Contact: Mary Pat Palmer, RH
   http://www.herbalenergetics.com/joomla/
   707-895-3007 or mpatpalm@herbalenergetics.com
5. November 9 - 11, Nevada City, California:
   Gaia’s Mind and the Secret Teachings of Plants
   NOTE: this event has been CANCELLED due to significant communication problems with the promoter. My deep regrets to all who wished to attend.

Workshop Description:

Gaia’s Mind and the Secret Teachings of Plants

Over these five days Stephen will explore his newest work with plants and plant intelligence, including material from his newest book Gaia’s Mind. The workshop will be, as usual, about half experiential and half didactic. Stephen will explore the dreaming of Earth, the function of psychotropic plants in ecosystem function, cytokine cascades in human disease (and plant interventives for them), plant nervous systems and intelligence (just where is the plant brain and yes there is one; its location will surprise you), plant neurotransmitters and sensory gating channels, and in more depth: the nature of golden threads and their uses in understanding plant function and medicinal qualities, synaethesis, the secret kinesis of things, imaginal perception, analogical thinking, and a great deal more. The development of tools to intentionally shift consciousness in order to perceive the dreaming of Earth and the medicinal nature of plants will be explored. Due to the length of the workshop, we will go deep. As usual, Stephen will use a combination of personal reflection, storytelling, informational sharing, and experiential exercises in his teaching. Some of it will actually be humorous. However. . . Please be prepared to have core belief systems challenged. (Really)

Stephen Harrod Buhner is the award-winning author of 18 books of nonfiction and one of poetry. For the past 30 years he has taught throughout the U.S., Canada, and the Western European Isles (UK/EU) about medicinal plants and Earth relationship. Among other contributions, Stephen is one of the early pioneers in understanding the non-linear source of indigenous plant knowledge; has been instrumental in bringing to prominence unhopped, herbal beers and ancient gruit; developed the first depth understanding of systemic herbal antibiotics and plant synergists; created the first comprehensive exploration of the function of medicinal plants in ecosystem homeodynamis; initiated the development of phytoandrogens in herbal practice, published the first meta-analysis of the dynamics of lyme spirochetes in the human body; developed the first understandings necessary for the herbal treatment of cytokine cascades in disease complexes; generated the first comprehensive exploration of the use of heart field dynamics in human/plant relationships; created the first depth analysis and exploration of herbal antivirals; and is one of the foremost writers on the nature of emerging infections and ecosystem disruption. There is a reason that Rosemary Gladstar calls him one of the “plant geniuses of our time.“

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