Wary of claims made about prevention, pharmaceuticals and supplements?

Skeptical about research studies of herbs and other natural products?

Come to a FREE skill-building workshop on how to evaluate health information for use in health care decision making!

Critical Appraisal of Health Evidence

This interactive workshop will provide you with tools that will increase your ability to:

• Evaluate the validity of health research and other sources of health information
• Identify how studies can be biased and results misrepresented
• Use high-quality research and other sources of reliable information in communication with others and in your own healthcare decision making

Who:   Holistic health practitioners, students, and consumers of natural products

Facilitated by a clinical herbalist and UCSF researchers

When:   Saturday, April 10 10am-5pm

Where:   The Ohlone Herbal Center, 1250 Addison Street, Berkley, CA

Presented By: The Ohlone Herbal Center and researchers from the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco

RSVP by March 15 (510) 540-8010

Questions?  Contact Donna.Odierna@ucsf.edu or 415-502-8227

Workshop attendees will be invited to take part in a voluntary study about the effectiveness of teaching research evaluation skills to diverse groups of participants.

This walk will run from 11am until 1pm.

More information will be posted shortly.

Being a Western Herbalist means her focus is on using native plants to address imbalances, not just the symptoms, and to prevent dis-ease. Cheryl’s goal is to stimulate each individual’s innate healing power through the use of medicinal plants. Working with an herbalist is not a passive event, but a collaborative journey into self-healing. An herbalist is a knowledgeable healthcare practitioner, a good listener and wellness coach.

Her website is: www.northrosebotanicals.com

Pam has been working with herbs since 1986. She completed her studies at the California School of Herbal Studies in 1989. She has been teaching classes in medicine making, plant identification, wildcrafting, theory and practice of herbalism since 1991.   Pam began the BACHA (Bay Area Clinical Herbalist Association) organization in 1991.  In 1997 she became one of the first Western Herbalists on staff at Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic in Oakland.  Charlotte Maxwell clinic provides free access to alternative and complimentary medicine for low income women with cancer. Pam is a fourth generation Bay Area resident and has developed a deep love for native plants.

Marion is an organic grape grower and an instructor at Ohlone Center.  She has been studying herbal medicine for over seven years and is an aromatherapist.

Kara Sigler is a certified Western Clinical Herbalist that has a private practice in San Francisco.  She teaches at Ohlone, leads herb walks, manages an herbal apothecary and volunteers at Charlotte Maxwell Clinic for low income women with cancer. Her website is: www.sfherbalist.com.

Tony manages the pharmacy & dispensary at Ohlone Center where he teaches botanical medicine making.
He is a graduate of the California School of Herbal Studies & apprenticeship programs with Matthew Wood.
He has a private herbal practice in San Francisco.

Jim Hall MA CMT comes from a family of spiritual healers and has been intensively involved in various holistic healing modalities since 1979. He holds a master’s degree in Holistic Health Education from John. F. Kennedy University and has studied with healers from a variety of traditions, including Michael Moore, Kashaya Pomo elder Lorin Smith, Karyn Sanders, Chanchal Cabrera, and medical intuitive Laurie Schyriver. Jim currently teaches at  the Ohlone Center for Herbal Studies in  Berkeley CA, and at the California School of Herbal Studies in Forestville CA.  He also has a private herbal and energy healing practice, specializing in alternative treatments for cancer and soul retrieval.  He can be contacted by email at <ecomedicine@yahoo.com>.

Atava has studied with both western herbalists and traditional indigenous healers, including Mexican curandera Dona Estela Roman, Zapoteca midwife Dona Enriqueta Contreras and Dr. Apela Colorado,“the mother of indigenous science.”  Atava has researched extensively the indigenous healing traditions of both her indigenous Mexican ancestors as well as her Polish Slavic ancestors.

Atava completed her Western Clinical Herbalist training at the Ohlone Herbal Center in 2006.  In 2008 she was accepted as a professional registered member of the American Herbalist Guild.  Her teaching venues include Naropa University Oakland, the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium and the department of Holistic Health Education at JFK University.  Atava sees clients in her private practice in Oakland and also is a volunteer herbalist at the Charlotte Maxwell Center, a clinic for low-income women with cancer.   Atava’s teaching and healing work is a unique and powerful combination of herbal medicine, flower essence therapy, therapeutic dream work, spiritual counseling and energetic bodywork.  She also runs a small herbal product company that specializes in medicinal mushroom extracts.  Her website is: www.ancestralapothecary.com. 

Anna’s interest in plants started as a young sprout growing up in SF near Mt. Davidson.  All that green had to rub off and she found herself drawn into herbal retail at Scarlet Sage for several years and holistic healthcare with a Shiatsu practice. She is a practicing herbalist in San Francisco and attributes her eclectic herbal blend/brew to studies with a variety of herbal teachers in the Bay Area as well as studies at Heartwood Institute and in shiatsu. She has thoroughly enjoyed volunteering at the SF Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic for low-income women with cancer.  Anna is proud to be part of a vastly diverse and ever-expanding herbal community.

This herb walk will run from 11am until 1 pm.

More information will be posted shortly.

Visit the Presidio’s website for directions, historical info, and more: http://www.nps.gov/prsf/index.htm