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An In-Depth Look at 7 Medicinal Plants
(1.5 hr)
This class will look at 7 plants commonly used by herbalists in the US. Many of these can easily be gathered and prepared as medicine (depending where you live). This class will discuss their clinical uses, wildcrafting techniques, specific actions, and various extraction methods. The plants include: Oregon Graperoot, Lobelia, Yarrow, Chaparral, Passionflower, Ragweed, and Oak.
Native Plant Walk I:
The Medicinal Plants of Sky-Island
The TWHC event site is being held this year as far south into the Chihuahuan Desert as you can go without crossing into Mexico, and yet atop a high elevation sky-island with great plant diversity. The area immediately around The Lodge has many interesting species, but if time allows we will be carpooling to some incredible wildland trails nearby. We will enjoy the beautiful environs as we explore the botany and the medicinal applications of the plants growing there.
The Free Clinic Herbalist
There are a number of challenges working as an herbalist in a free clinic. These include seeking donations, procuring affordable equipment, working with other types of practitioners, working with patients who may have never used herbal medicine, patient compliance and did I mention seeking donations? I am a founding member and have been a part of the Ithaca Free Clinic since we opened 8 years ago. It is very rewarding making herbal medicine accessible and available and I hope this class inspires other herbalists. This class will discuss the particulars of working at this and other free clinics. There will also be time for participants questions.
Rebecca Altman & Shana Lipner Grover
Southwest Plants, Southwest Constitutions: The Influence of Place On Conditions & Treatments (1.5 hrs)
In this class, Shana and Rebecca will talk about the ways one's place/bioregion influences the kinds of ailments are encountered and determines which herbs work best. By way of example, they will focus on the ecological experience of moving to the American Southwest: how residing in a hot and dry location affects the constitutions of the people living there, and how the plants that grow there prove uniquely suited. They will discuss therapeutics for environmental imbalances, while covering a number of key Southwestern herbs and their actions, such as Yerba Mansa, Ocotillo, Nettle, and Marshmallow..
Juliet Blankespoor
Tree Medicine
(1.5 hrs)
Many herbalists focus solely on the herbs of fields, dooryards, and the forest floor, but we need only look up to find a whole other realm of medicinal bounty. Nestled in the boughs and bark of our arboreal neighbors is a diverse world of medicine. Because trees are sizable creatures, and typically have larger populations than their herbaceous neighbors, it is easy to sustainably harvest their medicine in a regenerative fashion. During this class, we will cover identification, harvesting techniques and medicinal uses for some of the most common trees and shrubs throughout North America.
Photographing Plants
Explore the creative and technical aspects of photographing the green world by focusing on the art of expressing your plant vision. Composition, exposure, shutter speed and aperture are the building blocks for creating our pictorial stories. In this class we will learn how to balance these elements with whatever equipment we might have on hand, accented by our unique relationship with the plants. Basic phone and point and shoot cameras, along with dSLRs are welcome.
Howie Brounstein
Oregon Grape & Friends
(3 hrs)
This in-depth class will explore Oregon Grape and their berberine containing cohorts like barberry, goldenseal,and goldthread. Starting with a digestive tract review and a general discussion of bitters, we will continue delving deeper into the many topics involved with these life-saving plants, such as alteratives, eye washes, hepatitis, staph, strep, stimulation of protein synthesis, and Oregon Grape's unique mechanism of action which is spurring a whole new class of pharmaceuticals. Drawing from 30 years experience with this plant, I will use case histories, illustrative stories, and humor.
The Skullcaps:
Important Restorative Allies
(1.5 hrs)
The Skullcaps, Scutellaria sp., are valuable plants that hold an important place in my clinic. They are calming nervines, and many are nutritive, restorative, and tonic. I will discuss their general and specific uses as well as their history, ecology, identification, wildcrafting techniques, and the differences in the various species. Drawing from 30 years experience with this plant, I will use case histories, illustrative stories, and humor.
B12 Deficiency Primer for the Practicing Herbalist
Today's foods are diminishing in quality. The tapestry of the environment around us is frayed at the edges, unraveling with loose threads. Diseases of industrialized society are running wild in the streets. Many people are changing their diets by eliminating possible allergens and historical staples. Folks are defining new, sometimes very limited, diets for themselves. Many are detoxifying without nourishing. These factors can lead to nutritional deficiencies of all sorts. Most of these deficiencies are relatively easy to fix. Replace the vitamin or mineral and symptoms disappear and vitality returns. This is not the case for B12.
It is vitally important that herbalists working with high-risk clients learn to recognize and prevent this deficiency, as it can cause lifelong problems and may never get addressed otherwise. Some folks even inherit this deficiency from mothers who were deficient. B12 can cause long lasting or permanent changes in cognitive and nerve functions. It is a hidden problem that usually goes unnoticed or undiagnosed. I have found it to be rampant in our communities. I have worked with many clients with B12 deficiency, some who have had major debilitating symptoms. Catching this problem early can prevent lifelong health issues.
Topics will include physiology of absorption, "red flag" symptoms and lifestyles, deficiency testing, and treatment protocols. Exciting case histories will illustrate different levels of severity and their outcomes.
Larken Bunce
Tongue: Traditional Assessment for Western Herbalists
Traditional assessment methods, such as reading the tongue, face or pulse, are invaluable doorways to the inner terrain, giving us clues about qualities such as moisture and heat, as well as tension, tissue integrity and overall vitality. We can also gain entry into the psychoemotional world of the client, allowing insight into a person's beliefs and perceptions, as held in and expressed through the body. Assessing the tongue is especially useful for understanding the state of digestion, but also serves as a microcosmic mirror of all of the organs, as well as a person's integrated function. We'll learn some theory and then spend time practicing together, including selecting potential actions and herbs based on what we see.
The Flaming Crucible:
Mood Disorders as Inflammatory Disease
Recent research suggests that depression and anxiety may not really be disorders of mood or even originate in the brain, but are instead symptoms of systemic inflammation. From this perspective we can see how gut health, diet, autoimmunity, cardiometabolic diseases and stress might all contribute. W'll explore nervines and non-nervines in this new light, examining research, clinical experience and traditional energetic perspectives equally. We'll consider how the various presentations of affective disorders are qualitatively similar to inflammation's differing guises, and further appreciate the transmuting powers of fire as both consuming destroyer and catalyst of life.
Julie Caldwell
The New Village Herbalist:
How to Use Your Herbal Practice/Business to Facilitate Community Health & Growth
Humboldt Herbals began 17 years ago in the second bedroom of a tiny rented house with a $500 credit card loan. Today Humboldt Herbals has grown into a valued community resource for health and wellness, serving thousands of local folk each month and supporting national and international communities through mail order and internet services. I'll share with you the lessons, best practices, strategies and solutions I've learned to help your herbal business or practice become a nexus for growing and healing your own community. Learn how to bridge the gap with local allopathic medical providers, how to make folks feel welcome and comfortable (even if they've never used herbs in their life!), how to think outside the box for marketing and outreach, and practical business strategies that you can implement immediately!
Sam Coffman
Herbal Wound & Infection Management
in The Field or at Home
Join Sam Coffman as he presents a hands-on learning experience in wound and infection management using plant medicine. Sam will teach how to identify, understand and work through the four stages of wound healing using herbs and other non-pharmaceutical approaches and starting with the immediate first aid from the moment of injury. Sam will explain how to work with tissue state through the various stages of healing, cellular pathology of injury and infection, how to recognize infection and how to manage infected tissue of open and closed wounds as well as mucosa. He will also demonstrate and teach basic bandaging and splinting (protective splinting) techniques for injuries in the field in order to more safely transport a person if necessary. Sam will share his own specific materia medica that he uses time and again for these types of injuries both here in the USA as well as during trips to remote locations abroad. He will cover both those herbs as well as the concepts of using some of them vs. other medicinal plants in poultices and plasters, the use of charcoal, honey and propolis, packing a wound (plaster) vs. covering it (poultice), tincture poultices, mucosal plasters, soft tissue injury stabilization and care, the use of internal herbs, nutritional healing differences for various types of injuries to various types of tissue and more. Students will learn and receive hands-on practice in both the wilderness first aid concepts (bandaging and splinting various types of injuries in various locations on the body) as well as creating and using poultices and plasters.
The Herban Medic
The Herban Medic is an approach to various types of urban medicine – primarily using herbs – for various types of situations. Join Sam Coffman as he steps through three scenarios: Mobile and static herban medicine for the underserved, herban street medic support during social unrest (protests, riots, etc.) and setting up an herbal clinic in a post-disaster environment. The focus of this class will be setting up and running an herbal clinic in a post-disaster environment and to that end, Sam Coffman will lead the class through a hands-on scenario (after an initial lecture) that demonstrates how to divide up the labor between scout/rescue medics and the setting up of a stationary, safe and successful clinic in a central location. What are the primary concerns of any team setting up a clinic in a post-disaster environment? How does a team best work together to achieve the goals that include communication, clean water and hygiene, first aid and stabilization of injuries, transportation, clinic and apothecary layout, strategic security for herbal medics during unrest and integration with other organizations? During the hands-on scenario, students will be able to work through all of these concepts and many more that will arise. They will better understand how to organize as a team of herbal medics in order to be highly effective in rendering aid to those in need.
Sean Donahue
Phytochemical Conversations
(3 hrs)
Phytochemicals and pheremones fill the air, words and phrases in a chemical conversation between plant and animal, human and wild.
In this workshop we will look at some of the ways in which humans evolution and human experience have always occurred in the context of that conversation, and ways we can use or knowledge of the ways that conversation unfolds to shape our therapeutic approach. Along the way we will examine faulty assumptions underlying many herbalists' application of phytochemistry (such as ideas that plants have fixed, predictable levels of consitutents and that constituents always act on fixed receptor sites in easily reducible ways)  and look at exciting new possibilites like looking at the ways in which sitting, bathing, and sleeping with plants can mimic parts of our ancestral experience of living in a world infused with plant medicine and plant magic.
Neurodiversity: Human & Wild
The dominant culture depends on people believing in very narrow definitions of consciousness and perception in order to maintain the illusion that its way of life is necessary and inevitable. But at its edges new/old perspectives are emerging.
The developing fields of plant and fungal neurobiology are extending concepts of consciousness, perception, and communication beyond the human and even the animal realms. Meanwhile, the idea of human neurodiversity, emerging from the experience and analysis of Autistic people, suggests that there is a naturally wide range of ways of experiencing the world within human communities, and that these may even serve particular ecological functions within whole and thriving human communities.
In this workshop we will explore variations (and similarities) in neurobiology in the human, plant, and fungal realms.  We will look at the ways in which expanding our definitions of consciousness, perception, and communication to include the sensory processing and signalling methods of plants and fungi also helps us to imagine and relate to a broader range of human experiences. And we will look at the biology, ecology, and medicine of several species including Ghost Pipe, Coral Root, Corydalis,  and Psiocybe cubensis for clues about how we can engage plant and fungal consciousness in ways that help us access different ways of being in the world.
In Your Own Skin
(with Asia Suler)
(1.5 hours)
Becoming or proclaiming oneself as an herbalist takes great courage. It is a journey, not only of learning or integrating plant knowledge, but of recognizing who you are. Stepping into our roles as healers often demands that we embark upon a deep process of self-reconciliation and acceptance. Herbalists are, by nature, fringe walkers. We often occupy that space between the civilized and the wild, and our role as intermediaries requires that we come to know ourselves well.
Every one of us is a medicine person who carries a special gift. But in order to give this gift in its fullest we must not only accept, but joyful celebrate, our own unique selves. This heartfelt class looks at the deeply important journey of feeling comfortable in your own skin. Through the lens of our own experiences of claiming our roles as healers, we will share about our own processes of self-recognition and revelation, the journey of acceptance that led us to become the teachers we are today. We'll discuss how we came to not only understand, but deeply believe in ourselves as herbalists and explore some of the plant allies, magical tools, or moments of integration that delivered us here.
We hold this class with the intention for opening a safe space for reflection, sharing, recognition and growth. It is a place to be both witnessed and heard. Empowered and accepted. This class will be an exploration and celebration of all the colors and kinds of herbalists. Open to visionaries, renegades, newbies, old-hats and a-typicals of all kinds, come honor the power of being in one's own skin!
Thomas Easley
Advanced Medicine Making
This is a hands on, tongue/taste on class. We will be making continual percolations using Soxhlet extractors and Cold Finger extractors. We will make 1:1 fluid extracts, dual extracts, tea concentrates, syrup concentrates, glycerites and more. I'll be bringing herbs made with various methods to compare the taste and potency.
Physical Assessment for Herbalists
Physical Assessment skills are becoming increasingly more important for Herbalist to learn. Many hospitals and urgent care clinics are understaffed, creating long waits that discourage people from seeking medical care. While Herbalists are not considered primary care givers, the can find themselves in that role out of necessity. It's important to learn when to refer someone immediately, and when you have a little time to try natural therapies before a referral is necessary. This class will teach you the symptoms and signs for emergency referral, as well as teach you how to train your observational skills and introduce you to modern assessment techniques including, Habitus assessment, Gait assessment and Physical signs and symptoms of the hair, ears, nose, mouth, skin, eyes and nails.
Lisa Ganora
How to Taste & Feel the Personality & Power of Herbs
(3 hrs.)
What does it really mean when we say an herb is Hot, Cold, Moist, or Dry? Stimulant or Relaxant? Tonic-Astringent? Does the herb really contain these qualities, perhaps in the form of constituents, or is something else afoot? How does this relate to what we know about modern human physiology and phytochemistry? Where is the interface between the senses and perception, the physical qualities of herbal constituents, and the human-herb relationships that we experience as degrees of temperature and moisture, of stimulation or relaxation? How can we come to know and understand these qualities, as distinct and recognizable aspects of reality, rather than just memorizing them as part of a 'traditional system'? And how relevant is all of this to the contemporary practice of clinical herbalism?
In this extended workshop, we'll bring together the art and science of organoleptics (evaluation of an herb's physical qualities and constituents using our human senses) with the traditional conception of Western herbal energetics and human constitutional types. We'll look at elemental archetypes, alchemical categories, pragmatic energetic classifications going all the way back to Greek-Arabic traditions; the energetics and constitutional characterizations of Nicholas Culpeper in the 1600s; and the synergistic systems of physiology and energetics explored by 19th-century North American Physiomedicalists. Next we'll examine the current-day synthesis of these traditions with the study of physiology and the practice of direct experience with the herbs as taught in the modern Vitalist tradition carried on by Paul Bergner's North American Institute of Medical Herbalism and Lisa Ganora's Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism.
After our romp through the historical and contemporary conceptions of herbal energetics and human constitutions, we'll try some of these concepts out for ourselves. We'll do some constitutional typing using simple, instinctive tools; we'll engage the traditional organoleptic method of sensing constituents (Scratch, Snort, Savor & Spit); and we'll tie it all together with blind tasting/experiencing of several herbs and formulas that are great examples of the different energetic categories. Our experiences in this workshop will bring us closer to understanding how we can use language to communicate the breadth and complexity of the relationships we sense between the elements, the herbs, and the humans who engage them.
Extractions, Benefits, & Adverse Effects
Cannabis is a powerful medicinal plant with multiple potential benefits and potential adverse effects as well. This fascinatingly complex herb is capable of many actions: it may enlighten or dull the mind; stimulate or blunt creativity; enable apathy or inspire to action; palliate or exacerbate pain; heal or worsen various health conditions; depress, release, support, or suppress Vital energies … often depending on how it is understood, extracted, dosed, delivered, and approached on a spiritual level. Cannabis may be used recreationally, spiritually, allopathically, or in a Vitalist manner; the distinction is very important for understanding the role of this plant in herbal therapeutics.
Numerous constituents have been verified to have profound biological activity by contemporary science; numerous clinical and anecdotal experiences have found it to have significant benefits in a wide variety of illnesses. At the same time there are folks who struggle with Cannabis dependency, induced deficiency, insomnia, anxiety … and again, the effects of this herb can vary dramatically person to person, with time of life, and even with time of day. As with any herb, the relationship between plant, client, and practitioner is key – but perhaps even more so with an herb of such power.
In this class we'll review the Western historical uses of and experience with Cannabis as recorded by the Physiomedicalists and Eclectic physicians and pharmacists of 19th and 20th-century North America. We'll examine the professional extraction techniques of this era, the recorded benefits and adverse effects, and the overall conceptualization of Cannabis as a medication. With this background, we'll then take a look at modern usage, for better and worse, and the insights gained from recent scientific investigation. Finally, we'll explore ways that the herb is currently extracted, and how these influence the composition and efficacy of various contemporary products. You'll leave this class with a broadened understanding of whether, when, and how to use Cannabis as part of contemporary Western herbal practice.
Chuck Garcia & Lori Pino
The Poison Path:
The Use of Poisonous Plants From an Hispanic Perspective
This is not a class to learn how to murder a spouse, lover, rich relative. or a cheap tipper. This is a history of poisonous plants once used in healing and still used by some herbalists, both European and native Californian. The grandfather of the presenting herbalist once said, "To fight a poison, sometimes you need a poison."
Kiki Geary
Star Dust Goes Dancing:
The Fire Element For Western Herbalists
The Fire Element is what you feel when you meet someone. The strength of a healthy fire is measured by how far away you can be from it and still be kept warm. Fire commands our attention. It ignites our joy or scorches our abundance. It maintains our life on the planet through the core and the sun. We revolve around it. It grows our food, cooks our food. It is our great protector, but it can also eliminate us. It illuminates everything so that we can see the truth but it can also sterilize us like the potent indifference of the desert sun. Without boundaries, fire will destroy all form and there will be nothing left behind. Fire can not be ignored.
Learn the TCM physiology and function of the fire element. How to assess pathology and how to encourage evolutionary healing through Spirit. We will discuss the specific organs associated with Fire Element, their specific disease patterns and emotional pathology and where to look in the herbal pharmacy to help balance the whole when the Fire Element loses balances.
Mushrooms as Medicine
Journey through the incredible array of mushrooms we call medicine. From Maitake to Lion's Mane, Coriolus to Cordyceps learn the nuances of each spores essence, personality and intention and why they have such a profound benefit on our spiritual and physiological experience. This class will cover both the historical lineage of each mushroom's traditional uses as well as cutting edge modern research. Even more excitingly, we will explore how the information from the traditional and modern viewpoints make sense together. Trametes "settles the Shen" and also eliminates HPV. Cordyceps increases pulmonary capacity and athletic endurance, but also inspires us to recover our spiritual dignity. This class will open the discussion that will help you evaluate research through a holistic perspective.
Shana Lipner Grover
Michael Moore Constitutional System
There are many different theories of constitution, 5 Element Theory, the Doshas of Ayurveda and the Four Humours are commonly recognized. Michael Moore developed his own constitutional theory as a means to categorizing tendencies in the body to see a bigger picture of health. By utilizing constitution information, a practitioner can make choices in protocols to aid the body in finding balance beyond one organ system showing symptoms and effect change on a deeper level. We will cover an introduction to understanding Anabolic, Catabolic and Thyroid constitutions and the manifestation of their tendencies in physiology and their herbal allies.
Ceanothus is a North American native genus with many species and a wide breadth of medicinal function. It is a woody shrub that ranges from small bush to small tree in size and diversity. This is a plant steeped in herbal history of this country from sea to shining sea! Having its greatest effect on membranes and the lymphatic system, and the interconnectedness with all other systems; Ceanothus is a powerful ally when used appropriately . We will explore medicinal differences in species and parts used; as well as it's role in inflammation, congestion, membrane integrity, immune function, transfer of fluids, cardiovascular function and much more.
Shana Lipner Grover & Rebecca Altman
Southwest Plants, Southwest Constitutions:
The Influence of Place on Conditions & Treatments
In this class Shana and Rebecca will talk about the ways that one's place/bioregion influences the kinds of ailments are encountered and determines which herbs work best. By way of example, they will focus on the ecological experience of moving to the American Southwest: how residing in a hot and dry location affects the constitutions of the people living there, and how the plants that grow there prove uniquely suited. They will discuss therapeutics for environmental imbalances, while covering a number of key Southwestern herbs and their actions, such as Yerba Mansa, Ocotillo, Nettle, and Marshmallow.
Emily Han
An Herbalist Walks into a Bar:
Herbal Cocktails, Fermented Drinks, Bitters, Infusions & More
Getting people to embrace herbs often means going beyond tinctures and teas. In this class we will explore the world of quaffable herbal concoctions, including fermented drinks and handcrafted cocktails. Though lecture, tastings, and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to make beverages that both heal and delight, allowing us to provide herbal medicine in creative ways.
First, we will explore fermented drinks like wild soda, water kefir, short mead, and t'ej – all of which may be customized with herbs and spices and can made in small batches without complicated brewing equipment. Participants will learn about bacteria and yeast, core principles and benefits of fermentation, master recipes, and ways to create original herbal recipes. Next, we will turn our attention to mixology. Cocktails and their ingredients – spirits, bitters, liqueurs, infusions – have their origins in medicinal preparations. Nowadays the healing properties of mixed drinks have been largely forgotten or dismissed as quaint (at best) or quackery (at worst). Yet many of these classic drinks and their creative spin-offs possess very real benefits. While shaking and sipping, participants will learn essential mixing ratios, ways to incorporate herbal energetics and actions, and (I hope!) join the movement to reclaim the healing potential of cocktails. Throughout, we'll discuss traditional and folk wisdom as well as history and recent research, roll up our sleeves, have some fun, develop practical skills, and get inspired to be creative with our own local flavors and herbs.
Suggested donation: $15 to help cover the cost of ingredients
Online Marketing for Herbalists
Does the idea of online marketing make you feel confused, overwhelmed, or icky? Does your website look like it was built in 1992 (or never)? Are you wondering what to post on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/social platform du jour? Do you wish you could help more people? Then this class is for you. I have spent many years developing online presences for individuals and businesses in the wellness field. It is my belief and experience that good marketing can be a powerful tool for connecting with your community and helping you make a living. It doesn't have to take hours a day, nor does it have to cost an arm and a leg. Best of all, you can feel authentic and genuinely of service while doing it.
In this class you will learn practical skills for online promotion and marketing, plus some exercises for dealing with the mindset challenges that can arise. We will examine a case study (marketing Plant Healer Magazine and the Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference) as an example of strategies, tools, and steps that you can apply to your own business. As much as possible, I will share recommendations that are free, low-cost, and easy to use for the not-so-technically-inclined. By the end of class, you will have created specific, actionable steps that you can apply to your own business when you return home.
David Hoffmann
Radical Herbalism:
Root & Vision
The root of the word "radical" comes from "radix," meaning "root." We invite you to join visionary herbalist David Hoffmann for an evocation of an herbalism rooted in place and purpose, impelling each of us to play a vital role in the healing of the ailing earth and our unhealthy society as well as our bodies and spirits. What are our responsibilities as plant medicine practitioners, what are the internal and external threats to folk herbalism, and what are the insights and strategies that empower our response? David has been encouraged to forget the normal reservations and tell it like it is, from the systemized evils and fearful habits that impact our effectiveness, to herbalist activism and the creation of a healing counterculture. The 2000s are the new 60s, alive and well again in the hearts and actions of todays generation of radical folk herbalists.
Post Disaster & Post Paradigm:
Herbalism in a Remade World
Traditional herbal clinics work to serve communities in normal times, offering an alternative to institutionalized medicine... but what about during times of social disruption such as after natural disasters like hurricanes, or in times of protest and unrest? What are the skill sets most needed for effective treatments under these conditions, how is herbal availability addressed, and patient access? Additionally, we might be prudent to ask what form effective herbalism might take after the future inevitable dissolution of the corporate/political system and industrialized health-care paradigm. And it may be that no one can lead us in an exploration of these issues and skills than the renowned herbalist elder David Hoffmann.
Phyllis Hogan
Native Plant Walk:
Wendy Hounsel
Introduction to Lab Values & Diagnostic Testing
In this introduction, we'll learn how to interpret basic allopathic lab work as well as the differences between various allopathic diagnostic tests and what information can be learned – and not learned – from these tests. We'll cover basic labs such as the CBC, CMP, thyroid panel, lipid panel, urine analysis, and various markers of inflammation, adrenal function, and autoimmunity. We'll also discuss the paradigm and new frontier of functional medicine and its contribution to lab value analysis.
Julie James
Urban Wildcrafting
There is a very different sort of beauty in cities, and a different way of seeing nature. But beauty, nature and herbalism exist as much in Los Angeles as they do in the Appalachian mountains, and a working knowledge of the diverse plants of the urban wilderness is of great importance for any herbalist. Those plants may become your food and medicine in a SHTF situation, and they may be the food and medicine for many people who don't have the options of going out to "real" wilderness, to the mountains, the river's edge, the seaside. Especially if you are working with lower income folks, homeless or transient populations, you will serve them well by showing them the abundant medicine all around them.
And too, it's important to know your neighbors, whichever form they take, as we are so much more a part of our community when we know each others' names. And it is a truly fine thing to walk down a street and, rather than focusing on the rampant growth and concrete, to give your attention to the determined purslane and filaree and pineapple weed growing through the small cracks in the sidewalk, to see all the abundant medicine of the trees and shrubs, to find plants for healing even in the rigidly geometric patterns of an uptight landscape designer.
Some of the finest medicinal plants are considered weeds, and grow wild in vacant lots and along the side of the road. Come transform your relationship with your urban space, and learn the best ways to harvest and use this abundance that truly does surround all of us, no matter where we live.
Phyllis Light
The Four Elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water
From a traditional point of view, four basic elements, fire, earth, air and water, help to create who we are, how we behave, and our health tendencies and influences. These four basic elements can be found in cultures as diverse as Native American, Greek, and European. They also influence Alchemy, the Zodiac, and a number of modern video games and anime.
In Southern Folk Medicine, each of the four elements are associated with certain characteristics that can be applied holistically as a constitutional system. For the individual this may encompass Vital Energy and the body, mind, and emotions, offering a means of greater understanding of self and personal growth. Also, understanding constitutions offers a very practical and traditional avenue of assessment for the practitioner as well.
This class will explore the four elements and their corresponding characteristics. Are you an airhead? How much fire is fueling your drives? Can you hold your water? Are you grounded? To find out more about yourself, your personality and your challenges, join Phyllis is understanding the elements.
Folk Herbalism and Science
Folk herbal traditions rely on observation and experience, the know-how that has been passed through mostly oral teachings down through the generations. In addition to oral teachings, traditional knowledge may also have secret methods of communicating information such as information gathered in dreams, truths revealed by God, Spirit, or land-spirits, and intuitive gleanings.
Tradition links present practices with past ones and is concerned with truths revealed by living with natural phenomenon. Currently, science is concerned solely with truths that are revealed by man through measurement. It is based on observation, theory, predictions and experimentation. The scientific method, once used to explain natural phenomenon, is now used to garner economic rewards and create a power base, historically based on the foundation of the church, now based on the foundation patents.
How old does a tradition have to be to be a tradition? What is the nature of statistical evidence? Who funds herbal scientific studies? What about alchemy? And, what's the big deal about that isolated phytochemical constituent anyway? Join Phyllis for an exploration of where folk herbal traditions and medical science intersect and how you can use both in your practice.
Old Thyme Stories
Come and join Phyllis as she talks about her very traditional Southern herbal training beginning at the age of 10. What it was like growing up in the woods and cotton fields of Alabama and what it was like to depend upon the wild plants for good health and as a livelihood.
Phyllis will share stories about her most influential teachers, her grandmother Rosie Light, a Creek Native American midwife, whose family made their cash money wildcrafting because herbalists didn't get paid during that time period. And herbalist, Tommie Bass, one of the most widely known folk herbalists in this country to date. She'll talk about their more unusual but effective approaches to assessment and herbal remedies, how each served their communities, and their influence upon her teachings today.
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Jim McDonald
Fight, Flight, Freak & Freeze:
Understanding Sympathetic Stress
If you ask someone if they feel like they're sympathetic dominant or excess, most won't know what you mean. But ask if they feel like they're "stuck on alert" or in "fight or flight" mode, you'll get lots of nods and, quite likely, pleas for help. This is a main theme in the story of many of those around us, and not just a few among us... chronic sympathetic nervous system excess is the pandemic of our time, affecting and complicating seemingly all other issues person might have. Jim McDonald will discuss how to tell when you're "stuck in the sympathetic", offer ways to break that pattern in acute and chronic situations, and expound on and differentiate between herbs that restore, relax and (if needed) chill you the hell out.
Tending The Choleric Fire
Choleric is the humour of fire; it is active, outward, and transforms it's environment. In it's most balanced state, it is akin to the hearth; the hub of the home that feeds and warms and provides a center for activity. Of course, balance is a tenuous state, and fires can roar out of control, or else dwindle till they threaten to falter. Join Jim McDonald as we explore the choleric humour, looking into the helpful and problematic patterns they're inclined to fall into, and how herbs, lifestyle and understanding can help tend the hearth.
Experiential Energetics:
Sensation as The Language of Plants
(1.5 hrs.)
Plants communicate with us in many ways, and while visioning and journeys may provide profound insight, this is no more valuable than the way they talk to us at every moment using their tastes, smells, and form in this physical world. If you want to communicate with plants, start by listening. Sit down and drink tea. And then feel as the plant enters you, looks around, moves things, enacts its virtues. As you are infused by it. Each session we'll blindly taste some or another plant and see what it tells us and where it takes us.
Ramona Rubin
The Role of Cannabis in The Herbal Tradition
A noticeable effect of cannabis is the psychoactive "high", but what other actions are going on?
Many people begin using cannabis on their own, for treatment of various conditions, or as a recreational herb. Many people seeking healing are interested in cannabis, and many people are wary or sceptical of the psychoactive effects. What do we really mean when we talk about recreational vs medicinal use? What does it mean when a patient says they are self medicating? Trained herbalists, in my opinion, have a role to play in bringing additional insight into medical marijuana treatments, as well as expanding treatments to include beneficial and synergistic effects with other herbs.
This class is for herbalists who wish to play a vital and knowledgeable role as medical marijuana use becomes more common. Topics include:
• brief overview of the chemical constituents of cannabis and receptors
• properties of different varieties and strains
• types of preparations and extracts now available in states with medical or legal cannabis programs
• CBD and THC-A as both protective and treatment agents
• differences between hemp-extracted CBD and high-CBD medicinal strains
• dose titration best practices with regard to cannabis use for symptoms
• how decarboxylation with heat alters molecular forms and activity
• herb-drug interactions to watch out for.
Dara Saville
Knowing the Locals:
Practicing Bioregional Herbalism
There are many ways to engage our practice of herbalism and a multitude of influences that shape our approach. Whatever our philosophies and teaching influences may be, we can apply those to plants offering themselves to us in our local environment. Almost every bioregion has its own herbs offering the full range of medicinal actions and we can embrace those closest to us to create a more sustainable and satisfying practice. When we make the common plants around us everyday the foundation of our work, we can develop a deep connection with the medicines we use and take our healing and wellness to a new level. It is the relationship between the person and the plant that opens the door.
In this class we will explore the bioregional approach to practicing herbalism. Discussions will focus on how to engage your local surroundings with knowledge and awareness for the purposes of creating a sustainable and fulfilling herbal practice. Based in local plants, bioregional herbalists work with herbs that are most readily available and abundant where we live. We develop a close relationship with these 'commoners' in order to align with the medicine that is offered in our bioregion and to be able to learn directly from the plants themselves. Practicing in this way, we become more deeply connected to where we live and we become strong healers with the power of the land behind us. I will illustrate the potency of the connection between people and plants through a few of my favorite commoners: Chaparral, Mullein, and Yarrow.
John Slattery
Wild Edible Plants of The Sonoran Desert:
A Seasonal Approach to Foraging
The Sonoran desert has over 4,000 species of plants within its ecological borders. Over 375 species from the lower desert have been recorded as edible. Once included, the higher elevations would at least double that number of edible species found here. Seasoned wild food foragers often agree that the greatest variety of wild plant foods are found in the Sonoran desert. Diversity is not without scarcity, however, and the indigenous hunter-gather and agricultural peoples of the region knew it often. In turn, they developed ingenious ways of preparing and storing foods to save for lean times. Working with one's environment engenders a sense of knowing through experiential insights. In this class John will share his insights learned and gleaned through over a decade of foraging in the vast Sonoran desert and learning from indigenous elders who once foraged as part of their livelihood. How did these people know what to eat? What guided them to prepare, store, and eat these foods of the desert? How could someone who has no knowledge of foraging begin to understand what could be eaten and how to go about it? John will address all of these questions and concepts while presenting on some of the more widely available, delicious, peculiar, and fascinating wild edible plants of the Sonoran desert. John believes that wild food foraging is about developing relationship, a sense of intimacy, from one's home place and cultivating that through participation, observation, exploration and patience. There are unlimited possibilities for the commited and creative wild food forager simply awaiting discovery. As the Earth turns the proverbial lazy susan of our landscape we are given "a little piece of her heart" with each mouthful we ingest. The act of foraging for one's food can bring fulfillment at all levels of one's being providing sustenance, healing, and deeper relationship with Mother Earth.
The Marvels of The Malvaceae
The resplendent beauty of the Malvaceae from rocky desert hillside to Pacific island beach; from bayou to community garden; from Walmart parking lot edges to overgrazed pastures they are nearly always with us. They clothe us, brighten our day with their beauty, grace our dinner plates, assuage our deepest desires, endow us with tremendous stamina, satisfy our cravings, beautify our gardens, capture our imagination, and so much more. Malvaceae are as common as chocolate, cotton, and cola, and as peculiar as durian. They are as obscure as Ayenia, Guazuma, and Allowissadula, and as amazing as Sida, Althea, and Abelmoschus. Plants of this family exist across continents, they are annuals, herbaceous perennials, woody shrubs, tropical trees, and cultivated crops of varying stature. If you can't find a Malvaceae in your garden or untended sections of your yard, you will likely find a representative at your local food mart, co- op, thrift store, cafeteria vending machine, neighbor's yard, vacant lot or your local herbalist's farmer's market table. They make food, medicine, clothing, shelter, and various utilitarian objects. Not surprisingly, we are discovering novel applications of several species as unique medicines to address entrenched infectious epidemics now ravaging our population. In this class we will discuss the ways in which our lives are invariably touched by this ubiquitous plant family as well as uncovering some unusual and appropriate uses of some common, if not locally available Malvaceae species. All participants will take away a deepened appreciation of this wonderous plant family if not a renewed vigor to relate with and utilize the great variety of gifts they offer us.
Emily Stock
Star-Gazing Herbalists
Join Emily for a fun night, learning to orient ourselves to the night sky in the northern hemisphere. By learning astronomical landmarks, you'll be able to identify constellations, planets, major stars, and other wonders. We will be sharing myths and stories of visible constellations, and the physics of how the planetary and zodiac energetics affect us. Bring a camp chair or sleeping pad. Also, if you have strong binoculars, bring them too!
Jen Stovall & Janet Kent
Herbalism as a Tool for Social Justice
In the troubling history of this country, conventional medicine has too often been a tool of oppression rather than a means of healing. Traditionally, underserved populations (both rural & urban) often have more of a familiarity with herbal medicine than those with consistent access to health care. Ironically, plant medicine is now often seen as a luxury only afforded to those with money & education. Herbalists can utilize the connection to herbal traditions & empower those neglected or abused by the conventional medical system to take their health into their own hands. In this class, we will discuss tools herbalists can use to connect people with accessible & affordable plant medicine while acknowledging both limited access to resources and the constraints of each individual's life. Drawing on our experience working with both urban & rural marginalized populations, we will discuss ways to bridge this gap by putting the tools back in the people's hands, where they belong.
Asia Suler
Medicine of The Land
Land is the first medicine. Beneath and around and within the plants we harvest is an inherent essence, a healing force that permeates all dips and hills. Like people and plants, each place has its own energy and story. The land has an innate personality and uniquely ancient wisdom. When we take time to stop, listen and honor the places we move through we open ourselves up to the deepest healing of all—the healing that comes directly from the land.
Developing a relationship with the land around you is not only practical; it is a vital part of our role as human beings on this earth. As herbalists we act as important place holders, reminding the human community at large of the sacredness of our primary relationship — that of beings to our beloved land.
David Wagoner writes "where you are is called Here, and you must treat it as a powerful stranger, must ask permission to know it and be known." In this class we will be introducing ourselves to the land that is holding us for this weekend. In this interactive workshop we will be connecting to the medicine of this particular land, exploring how we can utilize ancient techniques of intuition and interaction to enrich our relationship with the land and open up new avenues of understanding in our medicine practice. Through intuitive writing exercises, guided mediation and the creation of an earth mandala we will ground ourselves in this place, inviting in the medicine of this incredible forest and asking for one of the most lasting gifts of all— to know and be known.
(with Sean Donahue)
Katja Swift & Ryn Midura
To Baby or Not to Baby?:
When & How Herbs Can Help
Birth control, abortion, post-abortion support - these themes are taboo in much of society. Even if you don't think of yourself as an herbalist who specializes in "women's issues", these topics will find their way to you. How can we help women navigate herban legends on the issue of abortion and birth control? How can we provide support for women seeking not to get pregnant, or women who have and are making hard choices? What support can we offer to women before, during, and after their choice to have an abortion? Come find out! This class is open to women and men, and we encourage men to attend!
Inspecting the Spectrum:
New Insights on AD[H]D & Autism
We offer a holistic model for understanding these diagnoses not as illnesses, but rather as a range on the larger "Spectrum of Everyone". Everyone has to deal with the trickiness of interpersonal relationships, sitting still at school, doing well in a job, etc. For some people these things come easier than for others, but everyone has their challenges. We'll look at natural therapeutic options that can make these challenges easier for adults and children with ADD/ADHD and Asperger's, and dispel the need for pharmaceutical drugs. We'll talk about how to make life easier with herbal remedies, dietary interventions, and even simple life tricks to get you through your day with less disruption or frustration! Not only that, but we'll look at ways to turn the "symptoms" of ADD and Asperger's into tools you can use in life – it's not an illness, it's your super power!
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a resident of Atherton: Lloyden Park
on May 23, 2012 at 12:23 pm
The courts were first put in by resident donations. During the 1970s and 1980s more than 200 people had keys at $100-200.00 per year. For many years the town put the surplus in the General Fund and used it for other things.
As the courts aged, less people bought keys. Now the courts badly need repair and less people will buy keys.
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Cops Who Kill and the Limits of Self-Regulation
The grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri failed to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Then a grand jury in New York failed to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner.
This isn't just a matter of two high-profile cases in a row. Generally, grand juries are reluctant to indict cops. Not just reluctant overall, but comparatively reluctant. Because generally, grand juries do indict the people brought before them. Indeed, statistically, it is incredibly uncommon for grand juries to fail to indict. In 2010 (the most recent year for which data exists) U.S. attorneys prosecuted 162,000 cases, and failed to get indictments in just 11 of those cases. But grand juries don't like to indict cops.
And there's a certain logic to that reluctance. Police officers generally have a tough job. They are issued deadly weapons and asked to insert themselves into situations that the rest of us want desperately to avoid. This clearly requires a lot of situation-specific judgment. Most outsiders don't understand the principles of modern policing, nor the challenges presented by life "on the street." It's easy to imagine — even absent any conspiracy theory and minus any accusations of racism — why a grand jury, and the prosecutor that guides it, might be reluctant to indict a cop.
This reluctance is part of a general pattern in society. There are circumstances in which outsiders generally are and generally should be incredibly reluctant to judge. Courts are generally quite reluctant, for example, to second-guess the work of licensed professionals. A court won't typically tell a surgeon she's done sloppy work, even if the patient died, unless credible expert witnesses — namely other surgeons — swear that the surgery didn't meet their profession's own standards. What if those standards are themselves flawed? Here, too, courts are generally reluctant to intervene. Professions like medicine, nursing, and engineering are effectively given monopolies over fields of practice because (or so the story goes) their work is so complex, and requires such nuanced judgment, that only the members of the profession itself are qualified to set standards and to adjudicate violations.
This reticence to judge extends to the business world, too. Under the "business judgment rule", courts (in Canada, the US, the UK, and elsewhere) are generally reluctant to tell a corporation's board of directors that they've failed in their duty of care vis-a-vis shareholders, because the court lacks the competency to do so. So long as the board is found to have taken suitable care in their decision making process, the substance of their decision will not be second-guessed.
But there's a proviso, here, a limit. Reluctance to judge from the outside doesn't imply a license to kill, either figuratively or literally. The set of circumstances in which outsiders should be reluctant to judge the behaviour of a powerful occupational group is pretty strictly limited to circumstances in which the members of that group do a good job of monitoring their own behaviour and enforcing standards that serve the public well.
This means that any group — any group — that wants to be left to set its own standards, and to be largely free from external scrutiny, needs to work incredibly hard to set and enforce suitable standards internally. There are lots of ways of doing that, including codes of conduct, training, mentoring, and so on. Also useful is a general obligation on the part of members of the profession to call out other members who violate the rules. But tight self-regulation is the quid pro quo. Fail at that mission, and you are going to find the public sticking its nose in. This applies to boards who want to be free from meddling shareholders, accountants who resent intrusive financial regulations like those embodied in Sarbanes-Oxley, and cops who think the public just doesn't understand.
Making ethical decisions at work is easy. Speaking up is harder
Speaking up is hard. Going against the grain when the team's mind is made up is harder. And 'speaking truth to power' — especially when 'power' means someone who can end your career — is harder still. But speaking up is important. Sometimes, it is absolutely morally required. Other times, it might be strictly optional but is a way to demonstrate true leadership. It's an important skill, and a commitment worth fostering.
On November 24, the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Program (of which I'm director) had the pleasure of hosting Mary Gentile, a professor at Babson College and author of the book, Giving Voice to Values. The key message of Gentile's presentation, and of her book, is that the key ethical skill that business students and corporate employees need to foster is not skill at making ethical decisions, but skill at speaking up. Quite often we know the right thing to do, but have trouble doing it. When the boss wants us to fudge the numbers, or when the team decides to go with a plan that involves playing fast-and-loose with ethical obligations to a client, the problem generally isn't with figuring out what's right. The challenge lies in finding the right way, in terms of interpersonal and organizational dynamics, to make it happen.
As we've seen from the Jian Ghomeshi affair, speaking up isn't hard only within organizations. But certain facets of organizational life make speaking up especially challenging. Consider, for starters, the emphasis that every organization — every organization — puts on loyalty. That emphasis is a matter of necessity. You can't have a well-functioning company without employees who feel some level of dedication to the corporate mission, and you can't even have an effective team if all the members of that team don't, to some extent, put the interests and goals of the team above their own. From an organizational point of view, a certain amount of group-think is a feature, not a bug. But loyalty can too easily slide into a herd mentality, when people's brains shut off and they nod their heads out of habit, rather than true agreement. The result can be disastrous.
In her Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum, much of which is available for free online, and which has been adopted by literally hundreds of business schools and corporations across the globe, Gentile emphasizes practical exercises that build participant's skill and ability to formulate an effective 'script' for speaking up, and to deliver it. Importantly, GVV doesn't start with a list of abstract virtues or principles. It merely starts from the idea that all of us want to do the right thing, and that each of us has, in the past, found ourselves in situations in which we have drawn upon our own values to do the right thing under tough circumstances. GVV encourages each of us to figure out what our own best self is, what our best stories about ourselves are, and to draw upon those stories in moments of need. It's a very positive message, and an immensely practical one — one that serves to remind us that ethics isn't about being a saint. It's about doing our best to be our best selves, given the enormously complex and ethically challenging organizations that we all inhabit.
Chris MacDonald is founding director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Program at the Ted Rogers School of Management, and founding co-editor of the Business Ethics Journal Review.
Why Neil Young is wrong about genetically modified food labelling
He's upset that the Grocery Manufacturers Association, of which Starbucks is a member, is suing Vermont over the state's new law that will require labelling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients by summer of 2016.
In an open letter, Young claims that "we have a right to know what we put in our mouths." As I've argued before, that simply isn't true, at least not as a generalization. You certainly have a right to control what you put in your mouth, but that doesn't — and cannot possibly — include a right to know every detail of every thing you put in your mouth. If you don't trust something, don't eat or drink it. Don't buy it. But you don't have the right to insist on knowing everything about it. You might want to know whether your food was harvested by the light of a full moon, but you don't have a right to that information. A business that refuses to give you that information isn't violating your rights.
It doesn't help, of course, that one of the other key players in the lawsuit is Monsanto, a company that for many people represents evil incarnate. As I've written elsewhere, I'm no fan of Monsanto. But its involvement shouldn't blind us to the fact that GMO's (genetically modified organisms) are, as a category, no less safe than any other kind of food. Nor should it blind us to the fact that the GMO category is both over-inclusive and under-inclusive if what you're worried about is potentially-harmful forms of genetic modification. Scientists understand this. Neil Young does not.
Young is right about a couple of things, though. He rightly suggests, for example, that public pressure might get Starbucks to change its ways. This is quite plausible. Lots of companies are already caving in to irrational public fears regarding GMOs. Starbucks could be next, so Young's strategy, regrettably, just might work.
He's also right that there is more at stake, here, than what can be sold in one relatively small US state. It's entirely possible that if the Vermont law is allowed to stand, the precedent it sets will help make it easier for other states to jump on the bandwagon.
But what Young is right about is far outweighed by what he's wrong about. He claims that the lawsuit is trying to "stop accurate food labeling." That's a gross misrepresentation. There's nothing importantly "accurate" about a label that says "this product contains GMOs," even when it's technically true. For that to count as accurate labelling, it would have to be a meaningful label (one that distinguishes one kind of ingredient from an importantly different kind) and it would have to have some chance of being understood by customers. Such a label is much more likely to be misunderstood, misinterpreted, and mistakenly taken as a reliable guide to better purchasing decisions.
Consider: what if some jurisdiction foolishly passed a law saying that all foods containing carbon had to be labelled as such? What if someone opposed that law? Would they be fighting "accurate food labelling?" All food contains carbon. Pointing it out helps nobody. And claiming that they have a "right" to be told it is just plain silly.
Canada doesn't need to be an economic superpower to lead the world
Canada's place in the world has been in the news lately, for a variety of reasons.
For starters, Canadian jets have been hitting Islamic State military positions in Iraq. For American readers, who are more used to seeing their military show its muscle, I should clarify: this is newsworthy in Canada. Canadians have historically thought of themselves as peacekeepers — we have a long history of participation in UN peacekeeping missions — but have less often, in recent decades at least, been involved in outright warfare.
And on the economic front, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is just back from visiting China, a trip aimed at solidifying and expanding economic relations between the two countries. Not surprisingly, given the focus of the visit, a press release from the Prime Minister's Office makes no mention of human rights. But as others have noted repeatedly, China has a pretty bad record in that regard. A liberal democracy like Canada must be concerned (and has occasionally expressed concern) about China's record on human rights. So the trip to China meant the PM had to smile for the cameras while presumably biting his tongue. It's not hard to understand that decision: the trip reportedly resulted in $2.8 billion worth of new deals — a big amount for a relatively small economy like Canada's. The deal is less important for China's massive economy, naturally. But it is no doubt important for China's leadership to be seen shaking hands with leaders of respected liberal democracies. As political scientist Charles Burton put it, "the Chinese leadership got the affirmation of political legitimacy that they wanted from Canada." Is Canada hoping to demonstrate leadership here, helping its new best pal see the way forward on human rights? Or is Canada instead being led by the nose?
But Canada faces other challenges too on the global scene. Canada's dairy farmers, long protected by a system of quotas and price controls, are currently haunted by the spectre of international competition. In an era of free (or freer) trade, such protections are increasingly coming under fire. Most recently, New Zealand (charmingly referred to by some as the 'Saudi Arabia of milk') is pushing to gain access for its milk producers to the Canadian market. Is Canada going to lead in free trade, or in protectionism?
All of this is to say that the role of Canada on the world stage — the military stage, the political stage, and the economic stage — is evolving rapidly. High on the list of related questions is whether there is a leadership role for Canada, and if so, just what that role is. Canadians know that they aren't going to play a leadership role militarily. We aren't a superpower (we rank 57th, globally, in terms of active military personnel, and our defence budget is the 15th biggest in the world). And in terms of overall population, our 35 million puts us at 38th in the world, and our GDP is the 11th highest in the world — respectable for our size, but hardly an economic superpower.
But the truth of it is — and this is a point I work hard to impress upon my students — that leadership isn't a function reserved for the top of the food-chain. In a corporation, leadership isn't exclusively a function for CEOs and other C-suite executives. Leadership happens throughout an organization. And I don't just mean that there are managers at all levels. That's true, but not the point: not all managers are leaders in any meaningful sense. Leadership is a role, not a job title, and you (yes you!) can be a leader if you have the skills and use them to step up to the plate. So Canada (and other non-superpower countries) can still aim to play a leadership role on the international stage, if they are willing and interested to.
That's why the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre (of which I am Director) is proud to be supporting The Economist's first-ever Canada Summit. (You can get a $400 discount on registration by clicking on that link!) The overarching theme is the question, "how can Canada play a larger, global role?" The Canada Summit is characteristically ambitious (I've participated in one of The Economist's events previously), but the organizers have gathered together an impressive lineup of speaker to tackle the Summit's agenda. Of course, no one event can really answer such ambitious questions. But the conversation is important. Personally or nationally, the question of whether this is your time to lead is always an open one. But the right time to start thinking about it is always now.
Canadians trust CEOs more than politicians—but not much more
Canadians mistrust politicians at about twice the rate at which they mistrust CEOs. Is that good news or bad news for Canada's business leaders?
The numbers come from a new national survey*, conducted by the Gandalf Group on behalf of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre (of which I'm Director) .
The survey, which we believe to be the first of its kind, asked Canadian voters their views on a range of issues related to the ethics of political leadership. The full results of the study will be released on Wednesday, November 5, at a half-day event I'm hosting at Ryerson University, called The Ethics of Political Leadership.
Our goal in doing the survey was to go beyond the facile truism that voters don't trust politicians. We wanted to know more. Which ethical issues do Canadians believe to be the most serious? Do Canadians have greater faith in their federal, provincial, or municipal leaders? How common do Canadians think various ethical infractions are? How much do Canadians (mis)trust politicians, compared to other members of professions, such as CEOs, judges, and journalists? It turns out that politicians overall don't fare well: 50% of respondents said that they "do not trust" politicians, whereas only 25% said the same of CEOs. Journalists, and especially judges, fare much better.
How happy should Canada's business leaders be about the fact that they fare so much better than our widely-mistrusted politicians? The truth is that CEOs should be worried. Only 22% of Canadians say they trust CEOs, compared to the 36% who trust public servants and the 65% who trust judges. The numbers put CEOs just below the middle of the pack, among the 9 professions we asked about. That's higher than some of us might have expected, surely, but it's also much lower than we might have hoped for. The world of business, after all, runs on trust. Contracts and warrantees only go so far: without trust, markets suffer.
For that matter, CEOs should be worried too about the low numbers for politicians. Not only is a lack of trust in politicians bad for democracy: it's bad for business. How effective can politicians be in effecting smart regulations, smart tax policies, and smart public policy frameworks for economic development if they don't have the trust of the electorate?
Canadian democracy is in the midst of a crisis of trust. And while CEOs may be more widely trusted than politicians are, but they have little reason to celebrate overall.
*The survey was conducted between Oct 17 and 22, 2014, using an online panel. A nationally representative sample of n=1039 was surveyed. More information about the survey is available on the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre site.
Fame produces ethical blind spots we must be aware of
Canadians were caught off-guard recently when Jian Ghomeshi, the popular host of Canadian Broadcast Corporation's radio show "Q" was fired by the public broadcaster. This was not the traditional "he's moving on to other projects" kind of departure, but a clear and abrupt severing of ties. The statement issued noted that "The CBC is saddened to announce its relationship with Jian Ghomeshi has come to an end." Boom.
Just a day later, Ghomeshi fired back via Facebook, making clear that his departure was not amicable. Ghomeshi also revealed his version of what was at the heart of the matter: his sex life, and in particular his preference for rough sex. He said he was into BDSM, and asserted that those who shared his bedroom had participated in some rough play entirely consensually. He implied that his former employer, the CBC, was simply stuck up and couldn't handle his edgy lifestyle. That same day, Ghomeshi's lawyers filed a $55 million lawsuit against his former employer, for defamation, breach of confidence, and more. In the days since, a number of women have come forward to claim that they were subject to various kinds of abuse and assault by Ghomeshi—all of it decidedly non-consensual.
The case is ethically interesting—or is at least fodder for an interesting discussion—in a couple of different ways. Ghomeshi is of course just one case, and his firing was far from your run-of-the-mill dismissal. But the case helps us see a couple of different dimensions along which cases might vary.
One dimension has to do with, well, what in fact went on between Ghomeshi and the women involved. If—hypothetically, because the evidence really is mounting against him—Ghomeshi were telling the truth, then what happened was some "sexual practices that are mutually agreed upon, consensual, and exciting for both partners." And if that were the case—again, hypothetically—then the question would arise whether it is OK to sack an employee for participating in some sexual practices of which you (or your customers) might disapprove. The CBC is, by all accounts, a somewhat conservative organization (though Ghomeshi was part of the CBC's attempt, over the last decade, to become more hip). But even a conservative organization needs to be careful about holding an employee's off-the-job activities against him.
At the other end of the spectrum, if the worst case scenario is true, then the CBC was faced with the prospect of an employee being potentially charged with multiple accounts of both common and sexual assault. Here we see shades of the Ray Rice case, and need to ask whether criminal acts are sufficient reason, ethically, to terminate an employee whose on-the-job performance has been otherwise satisfactory. Legally, of course, guys like Ghomeshi and Rice often have a "morals clause" written into their contracts—clauses that permit their employers to terminate them if they cause substantial embarrassment to the organization. But ethically, it's not so clear: if someone does something illegal, the legal system has a million bits of due process that ensure that the investigation and trial are fair, and that the punishment fits the crime. Most employers are likely to be less thorough, and firing is a serious outcome. Ethically, firing isn't always going to be OK.
(This is not the first time the CBC has fired an employee for behaviour that threatened to cast a bad light upon the organization. In 2003, a CBC reporter was fired for rubbing raw chicken and dirt onto some chocolates and mailing them to a critic. After a protracted legal battle, the reporter was eventually reinstated.)
This brings us to the second dimension of this case, which has to do with fame and responsibility. Ghomeshi is a famous broadcaster, a man once plausibly on-course for one day being declared a bona fide Canadian icon. His face is—or, rather, was—plastered all over the walls at the CBC's headquarters. And as I suggested recently with regard to the Ray Rice scandal, cases involving famous men doing awful things don't necessarily help us understand the ethical subtlety of the more general problem of whether to fire employees who do bad things off the job. Famous people evoke all sorts of odd and perhaps extreme moral judgments in us. "He's famous and should have known better." "He's powerful and abused that power." "He's rich, so I hate him and he deserves what he gets." And so on. And all of those intuitions may, of course, be entirely on-target with regard to Ghomeshi. But to the extent to which they are intuitions, rather than conclusions reached based on careful reasoning, we ought to be wary of them.
When Keurig fights "coffee pirates," who loses? Loyal consumers
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Keurig's business model is pretty much the same as the business model used by most producers of desktop printers. Desktop printers have become almost trivially cheap — you can buy a laser printer for under a hundred bucks now — but the cartridges cost a bundle. That's where they make their money. Likewise, Keurig sells its popular single-cup coffee makers at astonishingly reasonable prices, and makes its money on the coffee pods. Naturally, given that the pods are lucrative and easy to make, there have been imitators. A large number of companies have sold, over the last few years, their own "K-cups," pods of coffee designed specifically to work in Keurig's machines. Consumers love this, both because competition lowers prices and because it expands the range of roasts and flavours available.
To fight the onslaught of packagers of (perfectly legal) pirate K-cups, Keurig recently starting selling its "Keurig 2.0″ line of coffee makers. The 2.0 machines incorporate a digital rights management (DRM) system, designed to ensure that Keurig machines work only with Keurig branded and Keurig licensed pods, effectively shutting out the competition, at least temporarily. The result is that all those non-licensed Keurig imitators won't work in the new 2.0 machines.
The result has included a $600 million lawsuit, along with some professional and some amateur attempts to break Keurig's DRM.
Who ultimately loses in this fight? Arguably the consumer. Not only has choice been restricted, but there's also an enormous information gap. Keurig has done a less than stellar job — I'm being charitable, here — of informing consumers about their new DRM system. The result has been frustration, both with the newly-limited choice of pods, but also with coffee machines that don't work as expected.
Take me for example. My beloved Keurig died a couple of weeks ago. Its high-pressure water pump moaned and groaned and finally gave up the ghost. So I promptly bought a shiny new Keurig 2.0 (with a number of fancy new features) at Costco. Nowhere on the packaging did Keurig inform me that most of the dozen or so boxes of coffee and tea currently in my basement (well over $100 worth) simply will not work in the new machine. And it's not just 'pirate' pods that won't work; nor will older Keurig-licensed K-cups, ones that bear the Keurig logo but that don't have have the DRM-ready labels that the new machines require. Those are essentially garbage now.
A call to Keurig resulted in an offer of three gift certificates, each good for a box of pods (worth $12 or so). But that doesn't come anywhere close to covering what I've lost, never mind the frustration.
And it's not just Keurig itself. Retailers have been complicit in this abuse of customers. Many of them still stock the 'pirate' pods, as well as older Keurig-licensed pods. In some cases (and Canadian Tire for example is guilty of this), they do this while aggressively selling the 2.0 machines, without any hint to the consumer of what the problem is.
The battle of the K-cups is about a bunch of things: intellectual property, competition, and innovation for starters. The back-and-forth of those things is pretty much standard fare in a thriving market economy. But ethical businesses — not to mention smart businesses — need to work harder to stay true to their goal of providing good value to their customers.
Chris MacDonald is director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Program at the Ted Rogers School of Management, and founding co-editor of the Business Ethics Journal Review.
Alibaba's charity is good for the developing world—but its business is better
"When you have $1 million, you're a lucky person. When you have $10 million, you have trouble. When you have more than $1 billion, you have responsibility." So says Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group. Alibaba — the Chinese e-commerce giant — gained international prominence after its recent record-breaking IPO.
The talk about responsibility is not just talk. Ma says he has earmarked $3 billion of his IPO earnings to donate to environmental and educational projects in China. So Ma is clearly a man who believes in giving back. On the corporate side, under his leadership Alibaba has pledged to donate 0.3% of profits to environmental protection initiatives. If 0.3% seems like a small amount, consider that that's a percentage of revenue, not profits. And on annual revenues in the $7.5 billion range, 0.3% turns out to be something a little over $22 million. Nothing to sneeze at.
So let me ask a silly question: why do we think such charitable moves are a good thing? Well, pretty simply because we think they produce good outcomes.
But if we commend such moves, ethically, because they are likely to produce good outcomes, then we should also praise Alibaba's business activities more generally. Ecommerce companies like Alibaba connect people together and enable commerce. They enable enormous quantities of mutually-advantageous exchange.
According to Wired,
Ma says part of his strategy for growing the company is to continue expanding into developing countries—countries where approximately 6.5 billion people don't use e-commerce today. "That's the opportunity we could have," he says. "We're trying to help Nigerian SMEs sell to the Philippines and the Philippines sell to Pakistan and Pakistan sell to Argentina."
If Alibaba can achieve that, it will have done more good in the world — and deserve more moral praise — than Ma and Alibaba's philanthropy combined.
Chris MacDonald is director of the Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Program at the Ted Rogers School of Management, and founding co-editor of the Business Ethics Journal Review.
Ray Rice case shows how difficult it is for employers to deal with off-hours misconduct
What are an employer's ethical obligations when an employee gets caught doing something bad off the clock? The example of the day, of course, is Ray Rice. As the entire universe now knows, Rice the football player who was caught on video savagely hitting his then-fiancée (now wife), knocking her unconscious. The incident, once it became public, left the his team (the Baltimore Ravens) and the National Football League with the question of what to do about it, and what to do about Rice.
Rice's case apparently posed something of a dilemma for the court system, too: back in May, Rice was indicted for third-degree aggravated assault, but those charges were later dropped.
Consider also the case of Centreplate CEO Desmond Hague, who was caught on video viciously kicking a friend's dog in an elevator. Hague was first suspended, and then eventually terminated in the wake of a public uproar.
Interestingly, in both cases the offences took place away from work. Neither offence was an offence against the employer, at least not directly. Yet it was widely believed that Rice and Hague's employers needed to do something, something beyond whatever legal sanctions might apply.
Of course, in those two cases, the employers' hands were forced by enormous public pressure. Bowing to such pressure is perhaps most understandable in the case of the NFL's (eventual) response to the Rice case. Football players are exceedingly public figures, and many people see them as actual or potential role models for kids. Rice is a crummy role model, to say the least, and is therefore a public relations nightmare for the NFL. The same reasoning applies to athletes losing endorsement contracts: it's no surprise at all that Tiger Woods, Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Vick lost major endorsement contracts after their respective scandals. Advertisers are buying the athlete's image and reputation. And when those are devalued, the athlete no longer has any value as a spokesman.
Legally, in Canada and the U.S., at least, employers don't need to give much reason for firing an employee. But what about ethically? Is bad behaviour (or even criminal behaviour) away from work a good enough reason to sack someone?
There are a few circumstances in which an employer is clearly ethically justified in taking action. First, if the bad behaviour suggests that the employee is liable to act badly on the job in a way that is going to pose a risk to customers, to fellow employees, or to the general public. This might have been the case with Hague. Although we don't have much evidence, the dog-kicking incident might suggest a man with a temper. What if he's inclined to treat subordinates the way he treats helpless animals?
Second, an employer is likely to be ethically justified in acting if the bad behaviour directly implicates on-the-job performance. Consider, for example, an airline pilot caught buying cocaine. A coke-head pilot simply can't be tolerated.
Third, if the bad behaviour in question suggests such poor judgment that the employee simply could no longer be trusted, then an employer might well be right to let him or her go. Some bad behaviour might just imply that the employee is a loose cannon. People are generally hired not just for their talent, but also for their judgment. No judgment means no job.
But what about beyond that? What about the sales clerk spotted smoking pot in the park? That's technically illegal in most jurisdictions, but does the employer have any business firing her for it? Or what about the salesman who is known to have been arrested for hitting his wife, tried, convicted, and released after a minimal jail term? Should his employer fire him, or consider him already to have been punished? Certainly, domestic violence might make us worry about how he would treat female colleagues. But what if, for whatever reason, that's not an issue? Is merely having done something bad in one's personal life any of an employer's business?
In some cases, such a wrongdoer would simply be impossible to work with, or impossible to have managing a team of employees. If the wrongdoing is widely known within the organization, reputation alone might be enough to make the employee a liability.
But it's also worth considering that an employer who fires an employee simply based on the wrongdoing itself is effectively imposing a penalty — acting like judge, jury, and executioner — without any of the due-process protections that accompany a criminal trial. It also implies a kind of double jeopardy: being tried and possibly convicted twice for the same crime.
Further, it arguably represents an intrusion of the world of employment into our personal lives. Just maybe we want to keep those spheres separate, not to protect the wife beater but to protect the rest of us from nosy and self-righteous bosses.
There's a saying in legal circles that "hard cases make bad law." In other words, our judgments about extreme or unusual cases can induce us to generalize in unhelpful ways. I think that applies quite nicely to our ethical judgment about Ray Rice and Des Hague. Rice and Hague are both wealthy, powerful men who did things that most of us find unthinkable. Before we leap to the conclusion that hell yes they should lose their jobs, we ought at least to think through what that conclusion would imply for a few million lesser offences.
Apple's new Watch and the Ethics of Disruption
Ok, pop quiz. How many people did Apple put out of work this week, when the tech giant announced the Apple Watch and the Apple Pay point-of-sale technology built into the new iPhone 6? How many hopes and dreams were dashed?
How many would-be smart-watch entrepreneurs are saying to themselves, "oh, well, maybe I won't go ahead with that Kickstarter campaign after all"? How many credit card company employees are now contemplating other lines of work? How many people at Samsung and BlackBerry and Pebble and Sony are going to be out of work, as the relevant corporate divisions get downsized as those companies lose market share to Apple's new products?
The exact number is hard to guess, but it's certainly not zero.
To lose one's job, even temporarily, is generally a very bad thing. It jeopardizes one's ability to house and feed oneself and one's family. Causing such an outcome would, in most circumstances, be a bad thing to do.
But for all the cynicism about the launch event and the products it featured, no one criticized Apple for having made life hard for executives and employees at other companies. No one is blaming Apple for the fact that its nifty new products are going to put people out of work.
Why? Because that sort of disruption is what capitalism thrives on. Capitalism is, and must be, subject to ethical constraints, but those are effectively just the rules of the game, not a denial of the nature of the game itself, and not an attempt to render it impossible to play the game.
Just imagine what it would look like if companies really were expected never to hurt anyone. That would mean never putting anyone out of work, which means never inventing anything new and never improving one's own products and processes in a way that might risk putting a competitor, no matter how poorly run, out of business. Such a standard is simply not plausible, not a reasonable limit on doing business.
For sake of comparison, consider a different set of limits on business competition, including things like the prohibition on violence, or the idea that you shouldn't actively disrupt a competitor's operations. Those are rules the observance of which doesn't stop you from getting on with your own work. It's entirely feasible to compete while observing those rules, where it's not possible to compete while promising not to put anyone out of a job.
The point here is a simple but deep one. Business ethics isn't about being a saint, or an angel, or about trying to make everyone happy. At heart, it's about finding reasonable limits on the pursuit of profit, or, more personally, on how we go about making a living.


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IBM has announced plans to invest US$1 billion in new Linux and open source technologies for IBM's Power Systems servers. The investment aims to help clients capitalize on big data and cloud computing with modern systems built to handle the new wave of applications coming to the datacentre in the post-PC era.
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This week I completed the uploads of red flower pictures. The series of photos loops and at the last red flower you will go to the beginning of white flowers.
Currently, White, Pink and Red flowers are all uploaded. Next installment will be orange flowers.
Here is a link that might be useful: Red Flowers, beginning with Amaranthus hybridus