Flowering Round is an tenth-month council on flower essences, practitioner skills and entering the realm of Flora.
We gather around the bowl of flowers and sip from the Mother:
Welcome Flora, Welcome Flowers, Welcome Friends
This offering picks up from the end of the Turning Toward The Flower course and carries forward the seeds of place-based medicine making, building relationships with plants and personal ritual. In this facilitated learning container we will strengthen flower essence praxis through crafting personal essence remedies, learning a template of exploratory research & proving methods for your creations, practicing formulation and working with others.
Flowering Round is a course for health care practitioners, teachers and artists of all kinds who want to incorporate essences into their practice as well as anyone who simply wants to invite the magic of flower essences into their life. This course is an essence practitioner training that is rooted in working with plants of our own bioregions and ancestral lineages rather than a particular brand of flower essence line. The course honors the ebbs and flows of the body, mind and spirit as we move through the seasons of the wheel of the year.
THE FLOWERING BODY OF THIS WORK INCLUDES:
Floral devotion
Elemental essences
Energetics of flower myths
Seasonal remedies
Methods of proving flower essences
Approaches for essence research & plant profiles
Selecting essences
The art of formulation
Finding the Crossroads: Core themes
Energetics of plant families
Protocols for working with clients
Practitioner integrity & care
Protection magic
Plant poetics, dreamwork & art making
Case studies
Group essence sharing
Students will not only be crafting, researching and proving their own essences but they will also be weaving the tapestry of collective wisdom by participating in group essence testing and inquiry. We will have both large and small group discussion, activities and rituals for working with these mystery essences as a group.
Outside of class time, participants will have homework that includes research, reading, writing, art-making, ritual crafting and dream work.
Guest teachers for 2025 include: Stargazer Li, Chanelle Alessandre, Devin Antheus & Danielle Vogel
This container is open to 15 flower devotees.
Due to the intimate and participatory nature of this course,
students are required to be present for the class sessions.
Missing one or two classes for unforeseen reasons is understandable but please consider before applying that missing three or more classes greatly affects the group integrity and dynamic. Presence of participating in class discussion and exercises is required.
While recordings are available to you if you miss a
class, your participation is crucial. If you miss more than four classes, your participation in the program will be incomplete.
In the rare chance that Liz has to cancel
a class due to illness or internet connectivity issues,
class will be rescheduled.
2025 CLASS DATES
Flowering Round meets 2 x a month
Classes are held on a Monday and Friday of every month
Monday classes meet from 3-5 pm EST
Friday classes meet from 12-3 pm EST
Monday, March 3 & Friday, March 7
Monday, April 7 & Friday, April 11
Monday, May 5 & Friday, May 9
Monday, June 2 & Friday, June 6
Monday, July 7 & Friday, July 11
Monday, August 4 & Friday, August 8
Monday, September 1 & Friday, September 5
Monday, October 6 & Friday, October 10
Monday, November 3 & Friday, November 7
Monday, December 1 & Friday, December 5
(our final Friday class in December will be from 12-4 pm EST)
INCLUDED IN CLASS REGISTRATION
~ 8 1/2 oz single flower essences to begin to build the foundation of your essence apothecary for selection and formulation practice throughout the course
~ 4 1/2 oz mystery flower essences
~ 1 30 minute flower essence consultation with Liz sometime during the course of the class
~ Online class hub (hosted on Discord) for checking in with each other, sharing our experiences and continuing the conversation outside of class time
CLASS PREREQUISITES
It is highly recommended that you have taken Turning Toward The Flower, Liz’s 5-week class on crafting place-based flower essences. Priority will be given to students who have participated in Turning Toward The Flower. The course will be offered again in March 2025. If you’d like to participate in both courses, please make a note in the application and you will be provided with a $75 discount for TTTF.
It is essential that students who are participating in Flowering Round are comfortable with making essences and you will be asked to describe your essence making practice and experience in the application. In Flowering Round, we do not cover as much material on making essences -- so it is crucial to have this practice established already.
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TUITION & PAYMENT PLANS
The cost of tuition for the 10 month program
is $2,000
Upon acceptance, a $400 deposit is required to hold your spot. This deposit allows Liz to begin to prepare the medicines for the year ahead and cover for material supplies and shipping.
This deposit is non-refundable.
Payment plans are available as follows:
4 remaining payments of $400
due in March, May, July and September.
2 remaining payments of $800
due in March and September.
Testimonials from past students:
“These past ten months have been truly transformative. It has been like stepping into a magical new way of connecting with flowers. Working with flower essences became more than just a practice, it felt like an art form. A beautiful and creative way to engage with the plants and myself. Each flower essence has its own unique story and energy, and the process of working with them felt so creative and intuitive.
The guest teachers were incredible. Each brought fresh perspectives that made the journey even more enriching. Their insights really illuminated the path and showed how vast and diverse this work is. And Liz—she’s an amazing teacher. Her generosity and passion for this work shone through every step of the way. She gave us so many ways to engage, learn, and immerse ourselves in the poetics of the plant world. It felt like she handed us a kaleidoscope to see the plants from every angle, and that made the whole experience even more magical. Our reading list was amazing and I loved working with the mystery essences!
This program changed how I work with essences and deepened my connection with flower kin. It helped me see that this isn’t just about the healing, it’s about relationships, creativity, and remembering the beauty of the more than human world. I’m so grateful for this experience and everything it taught me. I look forward to implementing much of what I learnt into my future work. Thank you Liz!” - Leila Halid, herbalist
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“Participating in Flowering Round gave me a supportive container to deepen my essence making practice in the company of other flower devotees while also inspiring me to listen to the stories of the land where I call home. Liz is a brilliant teacher and human! I am so grateful and appreciative of her ability to weave the practical and the poetic. I am much more confident and inspired to continue co-creating with the flowers, land, and waters (and am now deeply devoted to Flora).” - Adrienne Sloan
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