Flower Church Cohort 2: Rekindling Plant Spirit Connections

Are you looking to:

- Connect deeper to the spirit of plants?

- Slow down and connect deeper to your own inner world?

- Revive ancient and ancestral plant connections?

- Add flowers into your practice for personal and community wellness and liberation?

- Find a community of plant people centered in respect, whimsy, and curiosity?

Imagine having a fleet of allies at your side, ready to transform any life challenge from overwhelm and stagnation to generative healing. Flower essences are these pocket allies, helping you and your community tend to what truly matters.

Learning how to hear them and work with them is the first step in unlocking their healing properties.

Welcome to Flower Church; where you delve into the life changing power of Flower Essences & Plant spirit communication that will bring more peace, liberation, and healing to you and your community.

Are you struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, grief or seeking a deeper sense of peace? Flower Church offers a unique journey to help you tap into the healing power of plant essences. Past participants have transformed their emotional well-being and found a renewed sense of purpose. Ready to experience this for yourself?

Spend your Tuesday evenings in Flower Church, a four-month cohort designed to immerse you in the power of flower essences and plant spirit for self and community care. This non-hierarchical, communal space invites you to explore and experience the transformative energy of plants alongside fellow flower enthusiasts and plant people. Come worship the dirt and whisper to the flowers with us. Together, we will revive the ancient language of plants and conjure floral magic.

When:

Start Date: September 2024

Monthly Meetings: Fourth Tuesday of each month, from 5:30 pm-7:30 pm CST / 6:30 pm-8:30 pm EST via Zoom.

This is an intimate cohort for 16 flower freaks, looking to connect to one another and the flowers. You can join the live calls or watch recordings at your pace.

Dates of Live Classes:

- 9/24: Essence Experience Foundations

- 10/22: Essence Experience Call 1

- 11/19: Essence Experience Call 2

- 12/17: Essence Experience Call 3 & Certification of Completion

This course was my first experience working with flower essences. Now, 6 months later, I look back and feel astounded by how much personal growth it inspired. I expected to learn about new plant friends, but I had no idea I would develop a feeling of connection and belonging to their world. Learning how to sit in meditation with a plant, and having the gentle support and guidance of the cohort was powerful and healing. I can’t wait to be a part of future cohorts like this one. - Jey Z, Cohort 1 Participant

Flower Church Participants Will Receive:

- **Pre-recorded Training Videos**: Gain a deep understanding of plant spirit communication, the history of flower essences, and how to work with plant energetics.

- **Monthly Cohort Meetings**: Participate in two-hour sessions to experience and discuss a different plant/flower essence each month with your cohort.

- **Flower Essence Kit**: Receive a monthly essence via mail, along with guidance on working with it over the next 4-5 weeks. Participants will document their experiences and the energy felt while working with each essence.

- **Personal Flower Essence Journal**: Document your experiences and deepen your connection with plant spirits.

- **30-Minute Check-in Call**: Schedule a call with Courtney or Madison to discuss your journey or create a personal flower essence blend.

- **Certification of Completion**: Earn a certification upon completing the cohort and gain access to level two certification classes.

Participants will share this experience every month on a live Zoom call, receiving a deep dive on the monthly essence(s) from Madison & Courtney. This cohort is not just about sharing knowledge of essences but collectively rekindling our intuition and natural ability to speak the language of plants. We will hold this space together, rekindling these ancient and ancestral connections to plant spirit in our personal and collective healing journeys.

Who is This Cohort For:

- Herbalists

- Nature lovers

- Teachers

- Conflict practitioners

- Community organizers

- Caregivers

- Counselors/Clinicians

- Youth workers

- Healthcare workers

- Birth workers

- Grief workers

- Trauma support professionals

- Empaths and highly sensitive people

- Anyone called by the flowers

Flower essences can be powerful allies in supporting yourself, your family, your community, your coworkers, and your clients through challenging emotions and life experiences. Whether it's supporting someone after the loss of a loved one, regrounding after shock, uprooting patterns learned through surviving trauma, or opening up communication channels during conflict, the relationship with flower essences is a continuous journey of healing and growth. Inviting the energy of plants into your self and community care journey can be profound and life-changing.

Meet your hosts/the flower nerds:

Madison McCoy (she/her) is a circle keeper, flower whisperer, and student of the messy & miraculous. Madison comes from a white, Celtic, mixed European ancestry, and folk herbalism background. She is the founder of Earth and Sea, a llc with the mission to build a more equitable world by equipping individuals with generative conflict transformation tools, deep self awareness, and a reverence for the earth. Madison is a certified Personal Transformation Facilitator, flower essence practitioner, folk herbalist, and holds a degree in Community Conflict Transformation from George Mason University. She uses a whole self and trauma-informed approach & partnership with the plants to guide individuals in accessing their own deep well of healing, transformation, and imaginative power. She believes these are necessary tools to dismantle systems of oppression and through healing yourself, you heal the world. From medicinal plants to heal the body, to biomimicry: nature informs all that she does. She currently lives on a farm outside on occupied Piscataway land, an hour south of DC with her partner, farm cat, and two tortoises.

Courtney Cochran (they/she) is a queer, gender nonconforming, plant freak living on 16 acres of occupied Anishinaabe land near Knife River, Minnesota. Courtney comes from a white, Celtic, mixed European ancestry and always works to bring in ancestral plants into their practice. Courtney has been listening to and learning from plants their entire life, but she has been intentionally studying herbs since 2018. Courtney is a passionate gardener, forager, food preservation enthusiast, and chicken caretaker. Courtney’s deepest passions are talking to flowers and centering queer and trans joy, liberation, and wellness in everything they do. With a background in social work and queer liberation organizing, they come to herbalism with a unique lens that weaves a community of plant, animal, and human relations into your healing journey. Courtney has studied herbalism via Green Wisdom School of Natural & Botanical Medicine and Twin Star Herbal Center. Courtney is a Clinical Herbalist and Flower Essence Practitioner.

Grounding values of the Cohort Space:

Accessibility information: All monthly sessions will be hosted via Zoom. Closed captioning will be available for live calls and recordings. All materials written and verbal will be presented in the English language. Live participation is recommended, but instructional recordings of the calls and notes/materials as applicable will be shared after every cohort meeting. This space embraces people of all abilities and neurodiversity is welcome and centered in all aspects of this cohort. If there is anything that would make this space more accessible to you, do not hesitate to ask.

Liberation Centered Space: This space will be centered on liberation for all people harmed by systems of oppression and will be loudly anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive. This space will center queer and trans identities. Both cohort hosts are white people with Celtic/mixed European ancestry, but hold this space welcoming of a diversity of participants and experiences.