About Our Program

Thank you for visiting David Winston’s Center For Herbal Studies’ (DW-CHS) website. David Winston, RH (AHG), an internationally respected herbalist, is the dean and one of the primary instructors for this program. He teaches throughout the US, Canada, and the UK and has been teaching the two year DW-CHS program for over 40 years.

Our philosophy: Great herbalists treat people, not diseases, and in our program we strive to teach the skills necessary so that each student can accomplish that goal. We focus on differential diagnosis skills, materia medica and therapeutics which are essential to individualize treatment and help patients to not only resolve symptoms, but create constitutional change needed for physical, emotional and spiritual wellness.

The program runs from September through August for two consecutive years. The class will be held online via live webcast and we will be arranging live herb walks for people who are local, which will also be filmed and put up online for students who cannot attend.

For more information about the course please refer to the Herbalist’s Training Program tab. If you have any further questions please feel free to contact us.

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After studying Ayurveda intensively for several years, I was eager to jump into a program in Western herbalism, hoping to expand my herbal knowledge and repertoire to include more plants that are local to me in the U.S. and that might be more familiar to my clients. None of the programs I researched at first felt right, and at the time David Winston’s two-year class was not open for enrollment. I am so unbelievably glad I waited to join this outstanding course—and community. The two-year program has become a highlight of my week, being able to gather with fellow herb-enthusiasts and be in the presence of teachers who have committed their lives to herbal medicine. Between the abundant resources (which would take any individual years to compile—that individual being David!), the range of expert faculty who all bring a different energy and expertise to the program, and the opportunity to explore topics in plant medicine through our projects and questions—this has been a truly transformative two years that will inspire many more decades of study, practice, and sharing. I feel so proud and honored to have had the opportunity to study with David. His mission to treat people, not diseases, and to help his students become not just good herbalists, but great ones, is undoubtedly changing the world for the better.
—Jennifer Kurdyla, Brooklyn, NY; coauthor of Root & Nourish: An Herbal Cookbook for Women’s Wellness
Jennifer Kurdyla | Class of 2024