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The Healing Herbs Symposium shares information and practices explored in the Community Gallery exhibition Herbs, Healing and the Natural Environment.

– Explore how we can use plants and nature to heal ourselves

– Understand medicine & history with community practitioners

– Learn more about the plants that grew in Gloucester

– Understand the power of water for our healing

In a panel discussion, learn about holistic health from leading professionals including:

Saskia Marjoram has been working with plants for her whole working life and making and working with flower essences(similar to the Bach Remedies) for the last 20 years. Many of her essences were made in the Stroud Valleys where lived for a large proportion of her life Susan Hepburn runs the Cook Speak Eat project, teaching English and wellbeing through food and cookery. A passionate believer in the power of food as a connector and taking learning out if the classroom, she has seen great success for speakers of other languages using this method and is developing culinary therapy techniques to help with wellbeing for everyone.

Simon Charter has both studied and worked creatively with moving water and the environment for over 30 years. He has collaborated in the fields natural water treatment systems , aesthetic water landscaping with Flowform water sculptures, holistic flow science and the developing understanding of the geometry in natural form. Running short educational workshops in the UK and abroad has become a major area of work . He lives in Chalford with his wife, chickens, a family of dippers, a 2 acre garden and the River Frome.

The audience will be able to engage through a Q&A panel.

Workshops will include:

1. Historic use of herbs in Gloucester – Tir Na Nog Heritage Education

2. Discover how flower essences can help you connect more deeply with nature, and yourself – Saskia Marjoram

3. The Language of Water – Simon Charters