I offer a variety of workshops throughout the year on topics such as Tree Spirit Medicine, Plant Spirit Medicine, herbal medicine, medicine making, dream journeying, and more.
Workshop Registration
Registration for most of my workshops is through Living Earth School of Herbalism. When you click this link, you will be taken to the Living Earth School Online website. You will need to create a new account if you don’t have one already. The instructions on creating an account are on the right hand side of the entry page under “Is this your first time here?” Creating an account is quick and easy! If you have any problems creating an account, contact Talise at talise@livingearthschool.ca. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer your payment directly to me at info@monikaghent.ca.
April 26th: Medicinal Cream Making
The focus of this workshop is on making topical creams for therapeutic use using herbs and other natural substances.
The workshop will include both lecture and demonstration of how to prepare medicinal creams and extensive notes and recipes. It will cover all aspects of the process of making medicinal creams using only natural ingredients, including:
- Different methods for preparing creams.
- Understanding emulsification.
- Herbs used in medicinal creams.
- Using infused oils, teas, and tinctures.
- Adding Bach flowers, homeopathics, essential oils, and other natural remedies to creams.
- The healing properties of different base oils.
- Comparison with other types of topical preparations.
- Jars and equipment.
- Storage and preservation of creams.
Date: Sunday, April 26, 10 am to 5 pm.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom. There is a $20 material fee for those attending in person.
Cost: $80 by Zoom; $100 in-person. Those attending in person will receive samples of all the products we make during class and a booklet of the handouts.
Registration: Living Earth School. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer me your payment directly to the info@monikaghent.ca.
Questions: info@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
May 24th: Making Natural Suncare Products
In this fun and informative workshop you will learn the art of making your own effective, natural sunblocks, SPF lip balms and after-sun care products with no toxic compromises using only 100% natural and organic ingredients.
What you will learn in this workshop:
- What is SPF.
- Natural products that have SPF such as carrier oils, butters, essential oils, herbal infusions, etc.
- How to make light sunblocks for everyday use and stronger sunblocks for intense sun exposure, including waterproof for the beach.
- How to make SPF lip balms.
- After sun care: how to heal your skin when you’ve gotten too much sun.
- Repair serums: natural substances that reverse sun damage.
- Equipment, storage, and preservation.
Date: Sunday, May 24, 2026; 10am to 5pm.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom. There is a $20 material fee for those attending in person.
Cost: $80 zoom; $100 in-person (includes $20 material fee).
Registration: Living Earth School. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer me your payment directly to the info@monikaghent.ca.
Questions: info@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
June 7th: Sugar Maple Tree Spirit Medicine – Faith
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Sugar Maple is Faith.
Faith is complete heart-trust in existence itself. It is the innate knowing that there is divinity in everything – in the trees, the animals, the oceans, the mountains, the weather, the sky, the people – everything. Faith is also a deep sense of trust in the essence of who you are, and that who you are is born of Divine Consciousness. In faith, you remember the dream of your soul and your original innocence. This innocence is your inner sense of pure joy, your inherent worthiness, your belonging, your true essence. It is the heart-knowing that existence is taking care of you. In faith and innocence, you move unguarded into uncharted realms without worry and concern – open, listening, being – at home as an integral part of the wonder and beauty all around you.
In this workshop participants will directly receive Sugar Maple’s gifts of healing, wisdom and guidance by transmission through Monika. Experiences will be shared and interpreted so that we may all learn from each other the depth and breadth of Sugar Maple’s tree spirit medicine. It will be with you always whenever you need it.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom.
Date: Sunday, June 7th, 10:30 – 5 pm.
Tuition: $100.
Register: Living Earth School. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer me your payment directly to the email below.
Questions: monika@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
Tree Spirit Medicine 2026 Workshops
Saturday July 11 – Hop Hornbeam (“Deep Peace”); Saturday September 19 – Ash (“Sacred Pause”); Saturday October 24 – Red Pine (“Inner Unity”); Saturday December 5 – Cedar (“Protection, Safety, Purification”).
(See the Medicine Trees page for the Tree Spirit Medicine of each tree)
June 28th: Dream Journeying to the Plant People
Awaken your natural capacity to speak with the spirits of plants and trees.
Dream journeying is a simple and effective shamanic technique through which one can communicate directly with the spirit of plants and trees to learn directly from them their wisdom, blessings, messages, and medicines. We are all born with this capacity.
Dream journeying to the Plant People is not new. It is ancient and timeless. Traditional peoples from all over the world have always known that plants are fully aware, intelligent beings that possess spirit, profound wisdom, and healing that they are willing to share with us. They also know that plants are speaking to us all the time – we need only learn how to listen.
Tapping into the spiritual wisdom of plants and developing intimate communion with them through dream journeying is a rich and transformative experience. What you receive in your journeys with the Plant People will give you monumental support (physically, emotionally, spiritually) on your life’s journey. It will also awaken in you the remembering of your sacred relationship to the Earth and the unity of all of life.
Date: Sunday, June 28th, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm EST.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom.
Cost: $100. You will receive extensive handouts detailing the process of dream journeying and how to interpret your experiences.
Registration: PayPal or send an e-transfer the fee to the email address below.
Questions: info@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
July 11th: Hop Hornbeam (Ironwood) Tree Spirit Medicine – Deep Peace
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Hop Hornbeam is Deep Peace.
Hop Hornbeam brings you to the implacable peace at the centre of your being that remains forever untouched by the tumultuousness of outer life and the tyranny of an insatiable ego. Enfolded within this beautiful, soothing peace is a wellspring of deep stillness and tranquility where all desire, expectation and striving fall away. In the purifying and healing energy of deep peace, you expand into the sacred mystery of life with the receptivity and openness of the unconditioned self.
In this workshop participants will directly receive Hop Hornbeam’s gifts of healing, wisdom and guidance by transmission through Monika. Experiences will be shared and interpreted so that we may all learn from each other the depth and breadth of Hop Hornbeam’s tree spirit medicine. It will be with you always whenever you need it.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom.
Date: Saturday, July 11th, 10:30 – 5 pm.
Tuition: $100.
Register: Living Earth School. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer me your payment directly to the email below.
Questions: monika@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
September 19th: Ash Tree Spirit Medicine – The Sacred Pause
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Ash is the Sacred Pause.
The sacred pause is a temporary cessation of inner or outer movement towards any goal or outcome. It provides the necessary respite after periods of expanded growth and learning for reflection and integration, when the path ahead is unclear, or when we feel overwhelmed and confused about what to do or how to be. The sacred pause creates a space of inner quietude and expanded awareness in which to rest until we are ready and able to move forward once more. Within the sacred pause is the potential for something new to emerge, to be known, felt, sensed, opened to, and created, as well as the release from entrenched patterns of reaction, resistance, and response. Through the Tree Spirit Medicine of Ash, the sacred pause can be accessed whenever needed so that inspiration, inner-knowing, and right-action arise naturally in their own perfect timing.
In this workshop participants will directly receive Ash’s gifts of healing, wisdom and guidance by transmission through Monika. Experiences will be shared and interpreted so that we may all learn from each other the depth and breadth of Ash’s tree spirit medicine. It will be with you always whenever you need it.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom.
Date: Saturday, September 19th, 10:30 – 5 pm.
Tuition: $100.
Register: Living Earth School. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer me your payment directly to the email below.
Questions: monika@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
October 24th: Red Pine Tree Spirit Medicine – Inner Unity
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Red Pine is Inner Unity.
Red Pine helps weave together all the seemingly contradictory and conflictual parts within you – the exalted and the reviled, the claimed and the orphaned, the nourished and the starved – into a unified whole. When all the discordant parts are coalesced within, you become attuned with the resonant signature of your heart-truth and your inherent gifts and capacities are clearly revealed. Liberated from the suffering caused by inner disunity, life becomes more joy-filled, and in the peaceful sanctuary of your inmost nature you are no longer a stranger to yourself.
In this workshop participants will directly receive Red Pine’s gifts of healing, wisdom and guidance by transmission through Monika. Experiences will be shared and interpreted so that we may all learn from each other the depth and breadth of Red Pine’s tree spirit medicine. It will be with you always whenever you need it.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom.
Date: Saturday, October 24th, 10:30 – 5 pm.
Tuition: $100.
Register: Living Earth School. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer me your payment directly to the email below.
Questions: monika@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
December 5th: Cedar Tree Spirit Medicine – Protection, Safety, Purification
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Cedar is Spiritual Protection, Safety, Purification.
Cedar medicine protects us from unwanted or negative influences and energy and purifies our spirit and emotions. This protective and cleansing influence of Cedar stills our mind and opens our hearts so that we may connect to the deeper mysteries of life in safety, openness, trust, presence and wonder.
In this workshop participants will directly receive Cedar’s gifts of healing, wisdom and guidance by transmission through Monika. Experiences will be shared and interpreted so that we may all learn from each other the depth and breadth of Cedar’s tree spirit medicine. It will be with you always whenever you need it.
Location: You can attend this workshop either in person at Living Earth School of Herbalism in Maple, Ontario, or through Zoom.
Date: Saturday, December 5th, 10:30 – 5 pm.
Tuition: $100.
Register: Living Earth School. If you don’t use PayPal, then you can e-transfer me your payment directly to the email below.
Questions: monika@monikaghent.ca; 416-537-8842
Past Workshop & Events
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Birch – “Empowered Presence” (March 28th)
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Birch is “Empowered Presence.” Birch helps us to shed what is not needed so that we can enter into a place of Empowered Presence. This presence brings us to that liminal space, that threshold, between what has been and the Great Mystery where something incredible is waiting to be known. Liminal space ...Read moreThe Tree Spirit Medicine of Willow – “Clarity” (February 15)
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Willow is “Clarity – Knowing Your Path and Purpose.” Each of us has an inherent purpose and path that we are meant to live. To not do so is the cause of much confusion and suffering. The yearning to live our vision and truth may be postponed, avoided or stifled, ...Read moreMaking Medicinal Creams Workshop (March 15)
The focus of this workshop is on making topical creams for therapeutic use using herbs and other natural substances. The workshop will include both lecture and demonstration of how to prepare medicinal creams. It will cover all aspects of the process of making medicinal creams using only natural ingredients, including: * Different methods for preparing creams. * Understanding ...Read moreThe Tree Spirit Medicine of Basswood – “Surrender” (April 5th)
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Basswood is “Surrender.” Basswood gifts us the grounding energy of deep, wide roots which create a strong foundation and sense of security, stability, safety and trust. This place of deep rootedness anchors us that we may surrender wholeheartedly and courageously into the depths the Great Mother Mystery, the source of ...Read more