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Foundation Certificate in Innate Botanical Selections.

 

Our Foundation Certificate fills the gap between our introductory and Diploma training. This offering enables you to become a practitioner facilitating healing for animals using the power of botanicals in a structured, manageable framework. It is aimed at those wanting to learn the method & turn professional but may not be able to commit to the full Diploma. 

Our Foundation Certificate lays the groundwork ensuring you have the knowledge and skills to harness the healing properties of botanicals effectively, safely and competently

  

 
 

Empowering animals to intuitively and innately select their own herbal medicines.

🐾To assist you in your journey you receive a dedicated 1-1 mentoring session. 
 
🐾 You receive a full Innate Botanical Selection Kit containing over 38 ethically sourced absolute essential oils plus a host of dried herbs, powders and hydrosols.
 
🐾You receive certificates and awards as you work through your modules. 
 
🐾At the end of your course you gain an Innate Botanical Selections Foundation Certificate.

 

🐾 Our foundation certificate is accredited by UK Rural Skills. 

 

🐾This training is fully online with additional mentoring throughout the year. 

 

This is a profoundly effective method for restoring health and equilibrium. This approach respects an animals natural inclinations and promotes well-being on the animals terms.

 Start with the essentials:   

 

🐾 You master the art:
Learn to safely provide herbs to animals within a supportive, structured environment. You learn the comprehensive world of botanicals with confidence and clarity.
 
🌼 You immediately apply your knowledge:
You offer botanical products to your animals at the start, building confidence and facilitating healing & enrichment.
 
🍃You engage in hands-on learning:
With clear demonstrations and a dedicated 1-1 mentorship.
  
🌺 Explore the vast world of botanicals:
Go beyond essential oils. Learn the practical use of herbs, essences, powders, hydrosols, fresh and dried produce, teas, decoctions and more.
 
🛠️ Hone your craft in creating herbal products:
Making hydrosols, balms and fruit leathers, to making essences and infusions and more. Herbal products from your own reliable stores. 
 
🌿 Training in local forage and wild medicine:
Know what to forage, why we forage and how to utilise it effectively.
 
🌱 Learn the medicinal properties
of 38 essential oils and over a selection of popular native herbs.
 
🐾 Learn the fundamentals of animal behavior:
Observe and respond to preferences discover how animals are guided by their intuition.

Here is the breakdown

Module 1: Science & Theories'.

🌿 Explore the history, significance and science of animals self-medicating. You discover the use of herbs by wild animals and indigenous cultures, including ethnobotany, ancient historical context and modern application.

🌿Learn how the language of herbs assists in the development and methodology of animal self healing. Discover the terminology used in the medicinal and herbal world.

🌿Gain insights into how animals select and use medicinal plants and understand the pathways by which these botanicals enter their bodies.

🌿Explore the reasoning behind animals choosing toxic substances in everyday life and why they do this.

🌿Discover how to effectively store your produce herbal products looking at hydrosols, hydrosol making, best methods and practical application.

🌿Learn a selection of Autumn oriented forage herbs, their actions and uses.

Module 2. Guidelines and Methodology.

🌿 Learn the essential rules and guidelines for safely offering botanicals, including legal requirements, legislation and Veterinary collaboration. Discover how the guidelines work alongside animal behaviour and how the two combine for effective therapy.

🌿 Discover how animals communicate their preferences and needs for specific botanicals through behaviors and body language.

🌿Interpreting equine and canine behaviour cues to provide effective and personalized care through Innate Botanical Selections.

🌿Learn about regulations and our ethical framework. How we communicate and work alongside vets and how we fit into the integrated health of animals.

🌿Discover the details required for case note taking and how the details become effective tools in herbal management plans. 

🌿Training in animal behaviour, body language and ow applied behaviour can be used to undertake sessions. 

Module 3. Kit Discovery.

🌿Explore all your botanicals for supporting animal well-being. Uncover how different plants can play a crucial role in enhancing the health and happiness of animals. From calming herbs to nutritional powders, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of how to use your bespoke kit to support animal wellness.

🌿 Learn about essential oils, dried herbs, nutrient and herbal powders, hydrosols, spiritous waters, and essences. This segment introduces you to a wide array of botanical forms. Discover how each form can be used in animal care, catering to different needs and preferences. This module covers all 38 of your essential oils and all herbal powders, dried, local and wild medicines.

🌿  Engage in hands-on learning through demonstrations that show you how to safely and effectively offer botanicals to horses and dogs. These interactive sessions will equip you with the confidence and skills to apply your knowledge in real-life scenarios, ensuring you can support the animals in your care with a natural, holistic approach.

🌿Learn about a selection of native Spring herbs their actions, uses and indications. 

Module 4. Practice & Demonstrations. 

🌿This aspect of your learning journey is designed to broaden your knowledge base and to significantly improve your hands-on skills in applying botanical selections for animal well-being. By delving deeper into the practical applications, you'll emerge with a stronger, more intuitive understanding of how to use botanicals effectively in various scenarios.

🌿 Explore the actions, uses, and benefits of summer herbs for innate Botanical Selections. 

🌿 Through step-by-step guidance, you'll learn how to create a safe, inviting space for horses and dogs to explore and select botanicals,. 

🌿Learning how essential oils can be administered, best practice and practical application. Ingestion, topical and inhalation practices.

🌿Discover how working with hydrosols can be a potent and subtle use of botanicals and is wholly animal dependent. 

🌿Discover how topical applications fit into the healing session with demonstrations and downloads.

 

Module 5. Structure & Framework.

🌿 Focus on the essential skills of joining, sequencing, and grouping botanicals to enhance the healing space. Designed in such a way that maximizes their therapeutic potential. 

🌿 In this module, we look into disorders and dysfunctions. This segment delves into botanicals for common disorders and dysfunctions, offering insights into how you can adjust your botanical selections to address these  challenges.  

🌿To solidify your learning and ensure you're ready to apply your skills in real-world situations you train in and discover the exact framework I use to support animal healing and health. 

 Module 6. Recording your Sessions.

🌿 The ability to forge strong, positive relationships with your animals is at the heart of a successful healing session. This segment of your learning journey emphasizes the importance of empathy, active listening, and clear communication as tools for building these relationships. Your train in how to effectively record your session so you know and can beging joinging the dots in your own animals journey.

🌿 This module concludes with insights in to consecutive sessions and some choice winter herbs. 

 

Want to get started with our Foundation Certificate but have questions? Lets talk

Why You Can No Longer Ignore The Call To Empower Your Horses & Dogs.

 

🌳 If your stuck in a rut and your not getting the health results you would like to see in your animals, this course is for you.
 
🌳 We show how the Innate Botanical Selections method facilitates release of physical, spiritual and emotional disorders, so animals can rebalance, realign and repair, even the most stubborn behaviours and illnesses. 
 
🌳 If your animals are on allopathic medication and your struggling to offer suggestions. Innate Botanical Selections can be combined with veterinary medicines.
 
🌳 Herbs and natural medicines have fewer, if any side effects, meaning you have the ability to bring animals into a clean holistic living environment. Free of toxins and inflammation.  
 
🌳By using our method your animals gain a greater sense of purpose, freedom and choice.  
 
🌳We provide you with a structured way to profound healing for your animals. 
 
🌳This path offers continuous learning and development opportunities, both personally and professionally.
 
🌳As the preference for natural and holistic care grows the demand for experts in herbal animal care is on the rise. Be part of the positive change.
 
🌳By incorporating herbalism into animal care, you embrace a holistic health model that treats the underlying causes of health issues, not just the symptoms, ensuring more comprehensive care and permanent changes.
 

 

Find Your Purpose!

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Make profound heath changes to animals. 

 

 The biggest mistake I see with people trying to support animals with herbs. 

Overwhelm!

Too much information with a lack of guidance and clarity! 
 
With Innate Botanical Selections those mistakes are eliminated and you discover the structure and framework that facilitates animal herbal health on the.
 
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
 
With our method and guidance you will no longer be left looking for answers.
 
This is your chance to learn the skills!
 
There's a Pay in Full and SAVE option or Pay in Installment option.
 

Enhance your expertise to maximize your impact on animal well-being. To help we've added these special bonuses for you.

#Bonus 1 Making & Creating. (Value £900)

 

🌿 Learn how to make a variety of herbal products, starting with hydrosols and fruit leather. 

🌿 Lessons on effective herbs for making herbal poultices. 

🌿Join the debate and discover the importance and qualities of herbal macerates. 

🌿 Business lessons on moving forward in to practice, marketing tactics and developing your business.

 

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#Bonus 2. Exclusive Discounts (10% Off in store)

 

🌿Gain exclusive discounts in our Animal Botanical apothecary online store.  

🌿 Gain early bird access to a host of our additional resources, online course and one off webinars.

🌿 Receive the biggest discounts to our in person workshops, retreats and in person herbal learning events.

#Bonus 3. Free Access to our Private WhatsApp group and Inner Circle Facebook groups. (Value, Priceless)

 

🌿Personal contact with a host of practitioners and owners, all supporting their animals naturally and holistically. 

🌿Group support and friendship from trusted and heartfelt individuals. There to help lift you to become the best practitioner out there. 

 

Get started with our Foundation Certificate!

 

This is Rachael & this is one of her dogs,Tiz

 

 

Rachael Maxwell is a holistic therapist, Innate Medicine practitioner, horticulturist & Medical Herbalist, MNIMH. Rachael also has qualification in equine chiropractic, equine massage and has undertaken a host of continuing professional development in the manual therapy fields too.

 

Rachael is an incredible teacher and has a wealth of knowledge and expertise that is shared via various platforms

Animal Herbal Health

Innate Botanical Selections Foundation Certificate

 

This course is designed for individuals who are passionate about facilitating healing for animals using a herbal method that prioritizes the animals' well-being.

 

We specialise in providing herbal products to horses and dogs however consideration towards other species is given and covered. 

 

 

By enrolling on our Foundation Certificate training, you will benefit from being:



  • A Safe Provider

'Foundation Certificate students are equipped to provide customized medicinal herbs safely to animals using the Innate Botanical Selections method.

  • A Competent Facilitator

You will become a comprehensive facilitator. learning all the methodology and practical applications of the Innate  Selection herbal Medicine for animals.  

  • A Knowledgeable Owner  

Emphasis on learning essential oils, forage herbs and animal behaviour is a key component of the course. As our course is also built around herbal medicine we teach you a vast materia medica to complement your training.  

A Discovery of Interconnectedness.

 

We created our Foundation Certificate to provide a simple and clearly structured way for owners to provide herbs to their animals.

 

Our course is fully online and self led giving students the time and space needed to commit.

 

Students receive a personalised 1-1 mentoring session at the start of their studies.

 

Students receive a full Innate Botanical Selections kit at the commencement of the course which enables them to start offering herbs straight away. 

 

Students receive our Field guide to common plants and hedgerow herbs at commencement of the course. This makes a handy additional resource for forage and homework. (Value £15.99)

 

This Is For:

People seeking to master a holistic modality that will heal, rejuvenate, restore.

  • Those individuals who are looking for a solution to chronic or acute illnesses who do not want to seek an allopathic pathway.
  • Those individuals who are looking for the foundation stepping stone to working with animals and herbs.
  • Individuals who are looking to enrich and supplement the lives of animals, including being able to work alongside medications and with the veterinary profession. 
  • Individuals looking for a modality that addresses the psychological, physical and spiritual traumas experienced by animals.
  • Those looking for a new modality to enrich the lives of animals.

This Is Not For:

Those people looking for prescription and dose based herbalism

  • Our Foundation Certificate will not provide prescriptive, dose based herbalism for animals. 
  • Those looking for a quick fix answers to chronic disorders and dysfunctions in animals
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2025 Price

£2372

Pay in Full and Save 10%

  • Innate Botanical Selections Kit (Value £380). UK ONLY. Please contact us direct if you live outside the UK and we will forward your kit list and deduct this from your price.

  • Pay in full and save 10%

  • Life time access to the training including all updates and additions.

  • Downloads, handbooks, workbooks all yours to keep forever. 

  • Dedicated 1-1 mentoring session.

  • 10% discount at the Animal Botanical store.

  • Free 30 minute discovery call.

  • Ability to top up to Diploma.

  • Free seasonal foraging guide.

  • Discounts on all Animal Botanical Courses.

  • Free continuing professional development hours.

  • Bonus lessons on making and creating.

  • Join one seasonal series with our sister platform HERBAL SHENANIGANS for FREE

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12 Monthly Payments

£217

Pay in Installments

    • Innate Botanical Selections Kit (Value £380). UK ONLY. Please contact us direct if you live outside the UK and we will forward your kit list and deduct this from your price.

    • Life time access to the training including all updates and additions.

    • Downloads, handbooks, workbooks all yours to keep forever. 

    • Dedicated 1-1 mentoring session.

    • 10% discount at the Animal Botanical store.

    • Free 30 minute discovery call.

    • Ability to top up to Diploma.

    • Free seasonal foraging guide.

    • Discounts on all Animal Botanical Courses.

    • Free continuing professional development hours.

    • Bonus lessons on making and creating.

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Innate Botanical Selections

Innate Botanical Selections Kits

At the start of the Foundation Certificate you receive your Innate Botanical Selections  Starter kits enable you to start providing herbs to your animals straight away. Our kist contain 38 high quality absolute essential oils and a host of dried herbs, powders and hydrosols.

 

Field Guide

At the start of the Foundation Certificate you will receive our Field Guide to common plants and hedgerow herbs. This will assist you in learning all the forage herbs required.   

Certifications

Upon completion of the courses students receive a formal 'Animal Botanical - Innate Botanical Selections'  Foundation Certificate.  

 

Herbal health and wellness for all animals

Gain your Foundation Certificate in Innate Botanical Selections & start helping animals to heath, wellness and enrichment.

12 Monthly Payments

£217

Pay in installmets

    • Innate Botanical Selections Kit (Value £380). UK ONLY. Please contact us direct if you live outside the UK and we will forward your kit list and deduct this from your price.

    • Life time access to the training including all updates and additions.

    • Downloads, handbooks, workbooks all yours to keep forever. 

    • Dedicated 1-1 mentoring session.

    • 10% discount at the Animal Botanical store.

    • Free 30 minute discovery call.

    • Ability to top up to Diploma.

    • Free seasonal foraging guide.

    • Discounts on all Animal Botanical Courses.

    • Free continuing professional development hours.

    • Bonus lessons on making and creating.

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2024 Price

£2372

Pay in Full and Save 10%

  • Innate Botanical Selections Kit (Value £380). UK ONLY. Please contact us direct if you live outside the UK and we will forward your kit list and deduct this from your price.

  •  Pay in full and save 10%

  •  Life time access to the training including all updates and additions.

  •  Downloads, handbooks, workbooks all yours to keep forever. 

  • Dedicated 1-1 mentoring session.

  • 10% discount at the Animal Botanical store.

  • Free 30 minute discovery call.

  • Ability to top up to Diploma.

  • Free seasonal foraging guide.

  • Discounts on all Animal Botanical Courses.

  • Free continuing professional development hours.

  • Bonus lessons on making and creating.

  •  Join one seasonal series with our sister platform HERBAL SHENANIGANS for FREE.

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  • Welcome emails and full email support.
  • Course syllabus outlining topics and objectives.
  • Course schedule with important dates.
  • Access instructions for course materials.
  • List of required materials.
  • Dedicated WhatsApp & Facebook group for sharing and reaching out.
  • Support resources for assistance
  • Next steps for students to take.