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QUEST, GATHER, LEARN, & DELIGHT
Once Upon a Time a wondrous assortment of impassioned plant healers and innovative medicine makers, alchemists and visionaries, caring culture-shifters and glad misfits from all over the world heeded what is a shared calling to gather together –– for a truly vital purpose and some much needed celebration!
We Invite You, too….
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….to join us for the 16th Annual Good Medicine Confluence –– your magical as well as practical quest to learn new skills, explore new approaches as well as ancient traditions, dance to tribal beats, network with newfound friends and allies, and deepen your personal connection to the healing herbs, to the teacher mushrooms, and to inspirited nature herself –– atop the stunning Pine-crested mountains of wild Southwest Colorado.
“The Confluence is intimate, inspiring, and path-affirming, and a growth experience for me as I gather with so many wonderful humans, learn so many a things, and return home fueled for more. I am thankful for this unique space embracing all of us hippie, anarchist, neurodivergent, introverted, extraverted, fairy, alchemist, etcetera-spirited beings – the keepers of tradition and of community. The world wouldn't be the same without this important work.”
–Jessicka Nebesni
“Monumental! Going to Plant Healer events is like coming home to a place that you didn't even realize you were nostalgic for!”
–Thomas Easley
WONDROUS CLASSES & EXPERIENCES
For 4 incredible days and nights you will be blessed with your choice of over 100 information-filled presentations, guided experiences and hands-on playshops, all while experiencing an empowering and transformative journey like none other.
Both wise elders and fresh-thinking young practitioners are coming together for the primary purpose of bringing to you an expansive range of classes and hands-on playshops, offering outside-the-box inspiration and information, their unique experiences and visions, exploring a host of remarkably unusual and incredibly useful topics within categories such as….
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• Medicinal Plants & Their Actions
• Home Medicine Making & Formulas
• Assessment, Treatments & Clinical Skills
• Medicinal & Entheogenic Mushrooms
• Cannabis Benefits, Processing & Products
• Herbal Cocktails & Mocktails, Gin, Brewing & Mead
• Cutting-Edge Science, Ancient Wisdom & Ancestral Traditions
• Plant Lore, Plant Spirit & Creating a New Mythos
• Spagyrics, New Alchemy & Personal Transformation
• Plant Identification, Botany, & Ethical Wildcrafting
•Aromatherapy, Essential Oils & Botanical Perfumery
• Herbal Smoking Blends
• Making Artisanal Products & Launching an Herbal Enterprise
• Botanical Tattooing & Plant Illustration
• Healthful Foods & Cooking Creative Cuisine
• Heightened Senses, Aphrodisiacs, & Healthy Sexuality
• Pregnancy, Women’s & Children’s Health
• Emotional Healing, & Growing a Just & Healthy Community
• Nature Connection & Land Restoration
….& much, much more!Click here often to view the regularly updated:
2025 Confluence Class Topics Page
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2025 Confluence Class Descriptions
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“The Confluence is an herbal community like none other. While the classes and play-shops are amazing, the real reason to go is to make connections and find your tribe. This is the place to team up with fellow agents of change to create a better version of our world, a righteous good time with a hearty tribal stomping! To be in the company of fellow wildlings where you are not only accepted, but fully appreciated for what you bring to the table. Being surrounded by magical healers from various paths, it is the ultimate muggle-free community gathering. It is a welcome sanctuary to all the radicals, outcasts, conformity shakers, and out of the box thinkers, a collection of offbeat change makers that evoke heart warming affirmation and validation for who you are while fostering growth in personal evolution. It holds the sweetest reminder that we are not alone. We walk this path with others who share a mutual vision. I’ve attended numerous herbal conferences, and there is none other that compares to this one. So click your heels together three times and say “there’s no place like home”. That’s exactly what it feels like.”
–Heather Luna (Acorn School of Herbal Medicine)
ELATION, CELEBRATION, DANCE & PLAY
Elation is an important element of your Good Medicine story –– with dance, laughter and frivolity essential to its restorative formula….
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Enjoy Plant Healer Playshops where you can get your hands into the making of botanical cocktails and brews, painting herbal art, and tasting herbal teas.
Then be both recharged and rewarded with global tribal beats and dance floor celebration, dressing up in your most personally expressive clothes and fantasy costumes for the annual Plants & Faeries Masquerade Ball.
It’s your moment, it’s your day –– revel, revel, we say!
“The Good Medicine Confluence surprised and delighted me! It was refreshing to meet so many ardent students of the plant path. While there were many highly skilled herbalists in attendance, I was most struck by the spirit of love and cooperation towards a common way of being. All of the attendees I met had that "vital spark" which seems to generate alchemical and lasting change. The unique blend of technical and mythological classes made the Confluence the perfect gathering for all the unboxable individuals that I am proud to identify with. If you are looking for folks who are learning from the book of life and doing real work in the world, I highly recommend coming!”
–Jason Brazil (Mother’s Blessing Apothecary)
KID’S VILLAGE
CLASSES & ACTIVITIES
Youngsters are a vital component of a healthy family and community, and essential ingredients of the Good Medicine Confluence mix…
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If at all possible we hope you will bring your kids so they can enjoy the experience with you and learn about and celebrate the incredible world of plants. Tickets for ages 12 to 18 are only $99 for the entire event, and kids 11 yrs and younger are totally free!
Your eager offspring can enjoy simple herb classes and fun plant walks, craft making and drawing, singalongs, movement and more! If you are interested in informal cooperative childcare for the youngest of them, there will be a signup sheet for parents to arrange times.
A KINSHIP, AN ALLIANCE, A TRIBE
Join with your fellow kindred plant healers in an enchanted sprouting of new ideas and ventures, connections and friendships –– a vastly diverse and widely dispersed clan of clinicians, activists, alchemists, artisans and home medicine makers, including those working outside the limits of officialdom, cliques and norms, and who hold close to those fellow edge dwellers and visionaries they sense are their “people”…
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It is for every impassioned natural healer of bodies, psyches and planet that we dedicate our events, and it is for you that we will be doing everything possible to produce yet another enraptured, info and inspiration filled Confluence!
“This is not a conference, but a gathering of a tribe, all who bring a unique and varied perspective that contributes to the whole energy. Just as a single herb cannot be defined by a single constituent, each person that comes to the Good Medicine Confluence lends a special role that makes for a stronger synergy. Herbalists, students of herbal medicine, plant lovers, land stewards, and simply those with an intellectual curiosity converge and share ideas, inspiration, beauty, and knowledge. I came home with a wealth of knowledge I’m already applying in my practice, grateful for the amazing experience!”
–Holly Dunbar (New Moon Bodywork & Botanicals)
ROOT, GROW, & BLOSSOM
Together we’re doing the vital work of becoming our most authentic selves, heeding our calling, following our hearts, and allying with the plants –– equipping and empowering ourselves to do the good work in the darkest times, the work of not only healing bodies but of helping to shift the culture from one of unhealthy acrimony, imbalance and dis-ease to one of wholeness and balance, relationship and responsibility, caring purpose and meaningful roles…
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Shifted in the process, is ourselves –– from helplessness or meaninglessness to deepened understandings, real-world manifestation, healing results, personal fulfillment and unstoppable joy!
“The mythic Confluence is a gathering of diverse teachers and skills, an invocation of ancient and resurfacing traditions — a wild, wide and expansive invitation to re-imagine the worlds in which we all live. At the core of this event: Change, find yourself, honor the diverse and healing being that you are, and seek out the transformation you alone can carry into this waiting world.” –Asia Suler
You are an essential ingredient in the much needed Good Medicine.
And it’s so good to have you with us. –Jesse Wolf Hardin & Kiva Rose
Grow your understanding of medicinal plants, new healing modalities, expanding consciousness and lifestyle. Plant your roots in meaningful purpose and the living land. Clarify your personal role in the fields of helping and healing. Branch out into new areas of interest and need. Blossom into wild wholeness and full fruition. Spread seeds of purpose and joy for those who heed or follow. Help to feed and form this confluence of Plant Healers and culture shifters, the lasting habitat of your becoming, your manifesting, and your fulfillment.
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