Hey Praccie.
You are here because you might feel doubtful, disillusioned or disenchanted.
Perhaps even a little lost?
Questioning why you got into wellness in the first place.
A reminder: You were never the problem.
The problem is there was never a space dynamic and big enough for you to really grow.
Until now.
That voice inside that keeps whispering I want to do this differently.
Listen to it. Learn to trust yourself again.
I am not here to press on your pain points.
Nor am I going to sell you a ‘transformation’.
The Root Network is not so linear.
It is not about results.
It is about building alternative ways of practicing health, healing and wellbeing.
It is about training ourselves to see things in an entirely new way.
Ecological. Relational. Complex.
There is no map, and that is the point.
If I could tell you where we were going to end up, I would be failing you.
Just like mycelium, we are finding our way in the dark.
That’s not necessarily sexy or sellable.
But it is the medicine our practice, our industry, and our culture needs right now.
A part of what drew you here is that sense of wanting something deeper.
Something rooted.
A place where your questioning, curious and critical mind is seen as a strength, not a liability.
Where you do not have to hide, dilute or censor parts of yourself.
Where you have the freedom, safety and support to explore how to become the practitioner you want to be.
WHAT GOES DOWN UNDER THE GROUND
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INDUSTRY DISRUPTORS
Expand the horizon of what is possible. LIVE workshops and conversations with industry leaders who are living the alternative.
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UNFILTERED CONVERSATION
You are not alone! A judgement-free, caring and bubbling forum space where you can speak with praccies who get it. Be seen and heard as you are.
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ANIMATE YOUR PRACTICE
Monthly LIVE clinical & case mentoring with an industry expert literate in the both the magic of of traditional medicine and evidence based care.
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MYCELIAL MIND MELD
Ain't no gatekeeping here! A whole section where we freely share the books, poddies, articles…any resource that has informed or inspired our collective.
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THE COMPOST PILE
A living archive composed of all of our past workshops, conversations and more! Ready for you to dig in whenever works for you.
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REAL RELATIONSHIPS
Heart to heart connections built through care and trust. Opportunities to meet and hang with your people offline through in-person local meet ups.
Three Tiered Access
Prices are listed per month, and charged every three months
Doors close April 21st
ACCESSIBLE
$45
Supported by your peers
Popular
SUSTAIN
$55
Covers your subscription
SUPPORT
$65
Supports you + your peers
ABOUT EQUITY PRICING
The Root Network offers a three-tiered pricing structure so that quality practitioner support is accessible and affordable no matter your circumstances.
You are invited to join at whatever price you can contribute, and consider whether you might be able pay at the higher end of the scale, to support folks at the lower end.
Every tier gets access to the exact same offer.
If you need additional financial support, please contact us.
FROM THE COMMUNITY
Tamara - Student Herbalist
Shereen - Clinical Herbalist
Gemma - Clinical Naturopath
Hi, I’m Miriam, and I am an interstitionary.
Strange word – I know. It basically means I am a FACILITATOR of CONNECTION.
For a long time, I believed that I had to be one thing, or the other.
Clinical or grassroots
Evidence based or traditional
Political or professional
Until I realised that was not only BS, but compromising my ability to be an excellent practitioner.
I did not want to squeeze into an either/or box, or cleave off half of myself in order to fit in.
And I knew there must be other praccies who felt the same way.
I created The Root Network for those of us who wanted to do our work differently.
A gathering place for everyone who did not want to fit inside spaces that were small, straight and narrow.
Because alongside all our tools and techniques, the medicine the world needs is people who are able to hold conflict and complexity with compassion and curiosity.
For outsiders who find themselves inside wellness wondering…where are my people?
❋ Accessible pricing
❋ No hierarchy, no gatekeeping, no BS
❋ Collaboration & collective action
❋ Safety to say what is really on your mind
❋ Confidence to practice how you want to, instead of how you think you should
The missing piece in industry support isn’t more advice about what to do, but rather spaces to hold complexity, tension, and explore who we are as practitioners.
AN UNDERGROUND CLUB…
Where EVERYONE is welcome
We are not about burning down the old…
But building the new, in small, yet powerful ways.
And most importantly, we do it together.
This industry can be lonely.
We need relationship and connection.
Not only for our practise of health.
But the health of our practice.
If you’ve been craving:
More depth in your work
More honesty in your conversations
A truly caring collective of practitioners
A place where all of you is welcome and celebrated
Somewhere innovative, funky and truly different to anything else out there
…then you have found your home.
Wellness is about so much more than celery juice and supplements
The healer in their original form was the edge dweller, the radical, the village witch who lived at the frontier of the wild and the known.
The truth seeker.
The one who saw the relationship between the health of their community and the health of the environment, and whose job was to hold those things in balance.
Now health has become granular, sanitised and tame.
You came to wellness because you heard the deeper call.
And were left feeling dissatisfied - desperately craving something you couldn’t quite articulate.
Asking yourself, is this all there is?
No, this is not all there is.
There is way more depth, wonder and world-changing potential to our practice.
Let’s take wellness back to its radical roots
“I found in The Root Network a place of recalibration. A place to grow — not just in knowledge, but in integrity.”
— Jade Flint, Clinical Naturopath
Frequently asked questions
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An online community!
Think of it as a virtual rolling radical-practice conference.
Each month there will be special guests, community conversations and clinical mentoring, plus a private community forum where you can connect with new friends any time day or night
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The Root Network is for studying or qualified herbalists, nutritionists and naturopaths of any level who want to work and play at the crossroads of clinical and collective care.
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You have to be qualified in OR studying any of these three modalities. Please respect this!
There are lots of great offers out there for folk and community practitioners. I wanted to create something for those who found themselves on the inside, feeling like an outsider.
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I welcome and encourage students! You will get a serious leg-up for your practice.
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When you join TRN, you are committed for three months at a time.
The Root Network is about depth, and breathing space.
It is not about optimising, quick fixes or consuming content on hyper speed.
It is about the slow and intentional work of building relationships.
For this reason, you are invited into a three month cycle, so that you have time to sink in, dig deep and digest.
At the end of every three month cycle you will be automatically re-billed, unless you choose to opt out
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How is it not different?!
The Root Network has a level of community safety, care and collaboration that is absolutely not present in your average FB group.
We are not a bunch of individuals, but rather a collective, willing to challenge wellness culture, with conversations and content that goes far beyond anything of the basic stuff will find on a NatMed FB group.
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I get it. There are a lot of costs when you’re fresh out and building a practice.
TRN is priced with equity in mind, with the lowest tier coming in far below the average price for practitioner support and monthly mentoring.
The level of support in the community exists to save practitioners time and money having to carry everything on their own.
All that said, if the pricing still feels inaccesible to you, please reach out.
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Absolutely! We have lots of qualified praccies who are not actively practicing, who are taking a break, or who are in the process of returning. This is a great space for navigating those return-to-practice wobbles.
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I can never guarantee when the next round will be, because life is in flux! So far we have launched TRN twice per year.
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The Root Network is a mix of both live, recorded and written content, to cater for all the different styles of learning!
If you love to participate in real time, we got you. If you enjoy being in the background and chewing on stuff at your own pace, then you are also covered. If you love a conversation but can’t make a live call, there are recordings and also plenty going on in our forums and other chatty spaces.
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You’ll get access to The Root Network within 24 hours of signing up.
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Absolutely!
A part of equity pricing is that there is enough flexibility to be responsive to a life and world in flux.
If you’re feeling squeezed, you are welcome to go down a tier.
If you’re feeling a bit more abundant, you are welcome to go up!
There is no limit to how many times you can do this, just know that it can only happen for your next billing cycle, three months at a time.
Just reach out if at any point you would like to change your contribution.
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The Root Network is designed to be super do-able. It’s been running for nearly two years, and I have put so much effort into adjusting it so that it is full of value, yet fits within people’s capacities.
The important thing to remember is there is no falling behind. This is a community, not a course.
Even if you can’t attend everything live, you will still get major value from showing up imperfectly, whenever you can.
How much time you spend in there is up to you! As I said, it’s designed to not feel like another thing to do, but to be a place you actually feel like hanging out in.You get out what you put in, but there is absolutely no pressure either.
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Heck no!
Once you sign up, you will be seamlessly directed to the platform the membership is hosted on – Circle.
You will the be guided through a very short and easy orientation process, which includes video walk throughs of how to use the community.
I promise I have set up the space with the tech illiterate in mind. After two years of running this community, I have not had one person say it is difficult to use.
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That’s cool, things change!
You’re welcome to opt out of TRN if you need, simply cancel your subscription and your access will end at the completion of your three month billing cycle.
You will get an email toward the end of each billing cycle from Stripe that will remind you of your upcoming auto payment. Keep an eye out for it and be sure to have the three-monthly amount in your account in order to avoid any hassle.
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Yes we do! Right now we make a monthly contribution to Seed - Australia's First Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth-led climate justice network.