I changed my victim mindset

"During the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program I was able to change my victim mindset and embrace taking control of my life in every manner. This has been such an exciting step for me and I am totally loving moving forward. As a result, I am looking forward to putting my knowledge and experience into living a luscious life and starting my own business venture, knowing that I have a better chance of achieving great results than I would have before."

Suzanne Brereton
Interior Spatial Designer, New Zealand

My unique soul intelligence, experience, wisdom and understanding grew and evolved

“I initially resisted enrolling in the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program as I could not see how I could be a healer. I would dream of doors shutting me out and struggling with a door not letting me through.

While online one day, I ‘accidentally’ arrived 5 mins before Franchelle’s webinar, ‘Avoid Healers Burnout’ was about to start. With this signpost, I enrolled two days before the New Moon when the program was due to begin.

As soon as I enrolled in the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© all the doubts, concerns, dreams of struggling with doors disappeared. I stepped into the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program celebrating, honouring and upholding those who have walked this path before me, those in front of me and those to follow.

Prior to beginning this program my life and environment has always been, and is full of knowing ‘a world which is never spoken of, but revered’.

Within the sacred container of the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program and in collaboration with the First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand® healers teacher plant essences, my unique soul intelligence, experience, wisdom and understanding grew and evolved. I am now able to know, understand and communicate with wisdom that which is seeking to be revealed.

The Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© turned my world upside down, inside out and I am forever changed. I loved this program as it was all about ME. And with the empowerment of ME, my world benefited and my relationships with others continue to flourish.

With knowing, experiencing, understanding and wisdom of my unique soul truths, I am able to make decisions that resonate on a cellular level and gift peace and right relationships on all levels and layers of my world. From this place of wholeness, I am able to attract all that I seek.

Though the biggest challenge for me was time, I enrolled in the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© to learn and to maximise my investment. I invited Spirit to be “First”.

There were many moments, and time flew out the door when I experienced those connections and linkages. I would absolutely recommend this program.”

Peggy Rangi
New Zealand

Able to manage emotions better

"Doing the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program has made me a better person. I am able to manage my emotions better and to stand up for myself. The tangible results I got from this program were spiritually, and with my health and relationships. My biggest challenges were the cutting of ties to people and situations that were bringing me and my energy down, but I kept at it and made sure that I came first and these people and situations did not bring me down to their level. Completing the program has inspired me to recommend this program to others, and enrol in other Medicine Woman Centre for Shamanic and Esoteric Studies® programs. It was an amazing year long journey and benefitted me greatly and I am very thankful for that."

Judy Harriman

My light is shining brighter with a radiance of clarity

“The Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© has truly been a life transforming and magical journey exposing many hidden buried treasures within my holistic being, those treasures were always there just waiting for the right time to be revealed through an awakening and each beautiful healer’s teacher plant essence in their uniqueness activated the magic of necessary change, as a soul I was ready to embrace with grace their wisdom.

As a result of stepping up and embracing this program I don't look back, life up till now has been rejuvenated and embraced in my magical weaving of a colourful tapestry that is ever evolving in my new dance of life.

I feel my light is shining brighter with a radiance of clarity, I know where I am going and being solely in charge and responsible for every aspect of my multidimensional being is so very exciting. I have begun my own healing practice from home and have also been asked to be a part of a new crystal shop in town. The magic has begun, I feel aligned with my craft and journey of my blueprint.

For the most part of my life I was always trying to fit in even if it was uncomfortable, I would lose my sense of identity in relationships, always giving my power away to another or outside influences not really knowing or feeling that I belonged anywhere.

Through this exceptional program I now have the necessary tools in my Kete and know how to draw on them through the taught soul qualities, disciplines and ancient wisdom of each of the powerful energetic qualities of each teacher plant essence. There has been a monumental shift with my consciousness.

The commitment I made to the program required a shift within my discipline practices around finances and time management with my employment. I would fear I wouldn't have enough money and now the shift in consciousness has brought abundance.

It took me some time to get my head around the new concept for me of studying in a virtual classroom. I have been used to being in a physical classroom with a tutor on site, I feel very blessed and thankful for this new concept and way of learning, this opportunity has enabled me to open my mind & challenge old mind sets making way for change.

To be totally honest this process has brought my relationship with self into a deeper level of self awareness and mastery. My relationship with each individual healers teacher plant essence and learning the language of spirit through my multidimensional self has dismantled many mind sets.

My favourite things about the online program: Right from the beginning I felt like I was on this amazing magical mystery tour that was going to transform my life, I was hungry for change, I was ready and open for that special energy of a life changing elixir.

My chariot had been ready for some time just waiting for me to get out of my own way and say yes here is the opportunity for change, get on board and buckle yourself in the time is now.

The new moon of each lunar cycle was exciting for me as I knew meeting a new teacher plant essence was going to bring new growth, I welcomed with love and respect the wonderful new challenges I would face and the beautiful sacred soul qualities that would emerge.

I really enjoyed with each rite of passage designing my Healers Necklace, this was something entirely new for me, I enjoyed bringing out my creative skills.

The dark of the moon phase in the lunar month was very special for me, the storytelling aspect allowed my creative mind to be free and connect with that magical, mystical scribe that had needed to write without restriction of the critical mind.

Like a dance through the expression of words weaving my craft through my soul brought healing in abundance, looking back through my journal brings tears of great joy and feelings of immense love.

The Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program would have to be the most powerful life transforming journey I have ever undertaken, it is definitely not for the faint hearted, I feel so very blessed to have been a part of an exceptional program with the loving support of Franchelle and the school fairy, other fellow travellers and all the sacred healers teacher plant essences. Love in abundance.

Jennifer Tuffin
Reiki Master, Community Support Worker, Whanganui, New Zealand

It has up-levelled my work with clients hugely

"I have been on a spiritual path for quite some time and working as a coach quite therapeutically, as well as doing a lot of my own healing. Throughout all of this I persistently had unanswered questions and was looking for guidance. After talking to a friend who has done a lot of study with a Medicine Woman Centre for Shamanic and Esoteric Studies®, I realised that the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healer Studies© program was a wonderful fit. It was an overnight and very unexpected decision!

This program solidified and clarified many understandings and experiences that I have had in relation to Spirit and the metaphysical. It has up-levelled my work with clients hugely. It has enabled me to do some powerful healing and become stronger in myself emotionally and energetically, as well as feel more connected to Spirit and the support around me – particularly of course from my esteemed healers teacher plants.

I feel I’ve reached a new level of flow through all areas of my life. I look forward to embarking on another Medicine Woman Centre for Shamanic and Esoteric Studies® program in the near future."

Karen Ross
Business Coach and Intuitive Healer, Northland, New Zealand

I feel a deeper connection to soul and spirit

"The Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© journey has personally influenced me in the way that personality has been dialled down a little and soul has been dialled up a notch. Previously perhaps I was operating more from the personality level of myself where now I feel a deeper connection to soul and spirit. There is also a sense of being more aware of when I revert to old habits. I certainly would recommend the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program to a friend or colleague and in fact I already have. I loved the self-agency and self-study aspect. It really is up to the individual to make the most of the journey. The support from the Classroom Elders and study team was quick and the online school was easy to navigate. I never felt I was on my own. I am super grateful to the whole team."

Fiona Ross
Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher, New Plymouth, New Zealand

New client and an increase in finances

"I had been looking for a way to honour, nurture and deepen the spiritual aspect of my life. On the night when I was making a decision to join the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program, I was lying in bed feeling emotionally upset about something that happened that day. I tried various techniques to shift that feeling unsuccessfully. For some reason my thoughts then went to thinking about the studies with Franchelle Ofsoské-Wyber, and as soon as I thought of that – “a blanket of calm” descended on me, emotions dissipated, and I fell asleep. I registered for the program the next day. Before doing this program I was not committing to myself and my path in this life, i.e. spiritual practice, interests, education, being with myself. With this program I gained and have been sustaining a focus on my path. I am more aligned, collected, focused, and easier balanced within my own energy, i.e. can let go of other’s energies easier. In my life path I am now more focused and purposeful. The last two months of the program brought a few new clients and an increase in finances. Also, I’d like to comment on the impeccable attention to detail - the structure and the beauty at every level are exquisite, and I appreciated this so very much. From my heart much gratitude and admiration to Franchelle, the support team and the tradition."

Fiona Ross
Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher, New Plymouth, New Zealand

My soul's ticket

"When I signed up for the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program, I really had no idea what it was all about. It was like buying a season pass to the fairground without knowing what rides you have signed up for. It was my soul’s ticket to a fairground of discovery, recovery and reinvention."

Adrienna Bullock
Sage and Spiritual Emissary, New Zealand

My energy is strong

“Undertaking the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program allowed me to create space for my Healer self in my everyday life and I began to embody the Healer that I am and had spent years studying to be.

Through this program I was able to connect with the gnosis that what I had to offer was helpful and useful and of value. It also enabled me to connect with the fact that I’d always been a Healer, that it is part of who I am and it just took a while for my personality to catch up with that reality.

I had a habit of undermining my wisdom and knowing by saying ‘but, I don’t know’ after I’d just shared profound insights and enlightened wisdom to my clients. Through doing this program, I have stopped doing that so much.

I was able to slow down in my daily life, slow down to the pulse of the Earth and realised that when I did this I got more done. I was able to be more present and aware of the nature around me, even if it was just a pot plant!

I already had my qualifications as a Naturopath and Medical Herbalist, but had yet to fully step into the role of Healer with the Spiritual gifts and protections that this program uncovered for me.

Before doing this program, my boundaries were not as strong as they needed to be, and my desire to help clouded the way I could be useful to my clients. An example of this was when I had a client who was an insomniac with a complicated case history. I woke up during the night and couldn’t stop thinking about her and was churning over issues in my head all night. I saw her the next day when she came to pick up something and told me she’d had the best night’s sleep she’d ever remembered having! That was a real lesson for me with the healer's teacher plant First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand® No 87 Maire Tawake - Autonomy, that I worked with as part of my Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Program©.

Prior to that, I had researched how to protect my space and stop that happening but hadn’t been able to actually stop it from happening until I met the healers teachers plants and was taken through the rites of passage that gave me the skills to be able to do this effectively and consciously.

During this program I became a lot more mindful of being a conduit and not so invested in my clients progress. I always wanted to do my best, but it is not helpful to feel invested in another’s healing. Learning how to be continually responsive, objective, neutral and empathic has been invaluable in my practice and to my clients.

I am now able to be 110% with my clients in our consultation and very clear when I have finished my work with them. My time limits are now firmer and my energy strong."

Stephanie Young
Tarot Reader, Medical Herbalist and Astrologer, New Zealand

It helped me to really trust myself

"I had been interested in shamanic studies for a while and I was searching so many places to find one that resonated. I finally came across the Medicine Woman Centre for Shamanic and Esoteric Studies® and felt called to start with the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program.

I felt super aligned with everything I saw on the website and the program felt perfect, but I had a concern if the program was really what it seemed. And the other thing I was worried about was if it would really be something that I could learn from. I meditated and asked the questions that were on my mind and I felt very clear.

Before undertaking this program, I had a lot of fears around what my strengths and gifts were metaphysically and what would happen if I opened to them. Now I feel much more confident and excited and naturally just tuned in.

I was able to see a lot of parts of me that I was hiding from and also different areas of my life where I was still holding onto things. The First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand® healers teacher plants that I was working with during this program were an incredible blessing for me. I feel more vibrant and I literally look younger. My relationships are more fulfilling.

One challenge I had during the program was feeling like I was not doing it right and I kept questioning myself. Then I just realized that there was no perfect way to do things and to just tune in and feel into the energy. Then I felt like it was more easeful because I was trusting that how I was doing things was perfect for me.

I am so grateful and feel so blessed that I was able to be part of this program. It helped me to see deeper parts of myself and to really trust myself."

Amber Toner
Relationship and Connection Coach, USA

A range of skills that are applicable in my daily life

“The skills and knowledge I've gained from the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program have become invaluable to me in daily life.

I have a new-found awareness of how all living things are energetically connected and how by changing my energy creates a flow-on effect in my reality and beyond.

The teachings and practices I've learned are simple but not always easy to master yet are also complex as they fit like puzzle pieces into the greater matrix of our universe. I found the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program to be a brilliant, enlightening and inspiring program that awakens the soul and brings incredible transformation. Looking back, I can see I had a basic awareness of spiritual and energetic matters, but my learning had been somewhat haphazard.

The Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program provided a logical progression of knowledge and skills to practice, enabling me to build a solid understanding along with a range of skills that are applicable in daily life. Creating sacred space, re-calibrating my energy and practicing neutrality are my three favourite skills I use daily.

I had some concerns over whether I had enough knowledge in this area and whether the program would be too advanced for me. I resolved this by reading everything about the program several times, also reading the FAQ's and testimonials and came to the conclusion that what I did know was relevant to being able to do the program, so I joined.

I enjoyed Franchelle's videos and found I had to pause them often in order to take notes as they contained so much information.

The program taught me terms or names for different things I had experienced but didn't know what they were e.g. creating sacred space. It also gave me sound teachings in these areas.

I enjoyed learning and practicing the skills for each teacher plant. I also enjoyed how my daily life lessons and life events synchronized and brought new awareness to the teachings of that month's teacher plant. It was amazing how relevant these life experiences were to the month's teachings and how much they allowed for a greater understanding of the subtleties of the teacher plant skills and wisdom.

Rebecca Stenbeck
Naturopath and Business Owner, Auckland, New Zealand

I feel calmer, wiser and more empowered

"The path of learning from the great Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© teacher plants has been a journey of a lifetime. A journey to look inward and find the truth of my soul. I can clearly see how over these few years my life is enriched by bringing me closer and closer to a life of connection to the great Oneness. On an everyday level also I feel calmer, wiser and more empowered and able to offer my best to the varied situations of my life. Each month I look forward to the wonderful journeying and insights and lessons that challenge me yet will step me up vibrationally more and more as healer and as a human. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in my spiritual life at this time. It is a great mission to be a part of and I feel privileged to be a Medicine Woman apprentice."

Gillian Crundwell
Ecologist and Herbalist, Australia

It works on a very deep level

“The Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© is a truly unique program. I am so glad that I discovered it. It works on a very deep level.

This program completely deepened my awareness of how much healing is needed on this planet. The planetary transformation work we do in this program is incredible, and I believe it brings results. Personally, my life feels more magical and more connected.

Before I enrolled the cost and time commitment were my main concerns. It took me a while to enrol and the cost was easier to manage because my household finances improved. The time commitment can still present a challenge but I do the work in earnest and try my best. So far I have always managed to succeed and complete what I have signed up for and do my best.

I undertook the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© during Covid, so my entire experience of leaving the clinic I was working in, and graduating from my Master's program and passing ALL my (6) board exams was all during this program.

I had challenges getting through some months with my teacher plants, but the whole time I realized that they were with me, leading the way.

The ending of the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© healer's rites of passage corresponded with a dramatic improvement in my health and wellness. I had found a new therapy to help me with my back pain. I was for a long time completely blocked from getting relief from pain in a real and sustainable way.

The end of the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program also corresponded with big movements in terms of feeling like I can take a step forward with my passions in life.

Also my relationships are much richer, and I have healed a very important relationship during this program.

By the end of the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program I found myself being able to reflect deeper. I returned to balance and equilibrium. I experienced a lot of resolution in many areas of my life with family relationships and etc.

I now want to do the 2-year Medicine Woman Certificate in Shamanic Studies© program.”

Kaitelyn Hammond
Licensed Acupuncturist, San Diego, USA

I was able to release the grip of the past

“This was my second time undertaking the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program. My first experience was in 2012. Each month, my relationship with the teacher plants deepened, and I built upon my previous understanding and knowledge. I was able to gain greater insights from my day to day experiences.

I have built upon the knowledge I already had, and my capacity to make changes, big or small, are achievable.

I was able to see events unfold from a different perspective, and to release the grip of the past, and move through challenges with greater awareness and insight.

I can see the benefit of undertaking the Medicine Woman Centre for Shamanic and Esoteric Studies® programs and the depth of insight that I have gained through each and every experience.

Thank you so much Franchelle, and everyone on the team, that make these programs possible and accessible, worldwide.”

Elizabeth Marino
Auckland, New Zealand

Freedom, lightness and strength

“Undertaking the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program has been a journey that brought me many gifts. One of these is the sense of freedom I now experience thanks to the healing and letting go of energetic stuff that held me in certain ways of being and thinking. With this freedom comes lightness, strength and greater capacities.

I wear many hats, the hat of a mother, a transpersonal coach, a flower essence practitioner, a disability support worker, a child carer, and a child of Papatuanuku. Each role is one of service. Before undertaking the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program I worked mainly from my personality as a sensitive Piscean, not always clear as to what was mine and what was another person’s or, what was the energetic nature of my surroundings. Consequently I could take on other people’s problems or take things personally. Now I have gained knowledge and developed capacity in the necessary skills to be effective in my roles without it being of detriment to myself. My energy is constant and my boundaries clearer.

Another gift has been to come to experience the importance of my soul in my role as healer and woman in service to others. I now value the role my soul has as I wear my many hats and realise its connection to our natural world and the greater energetic matrix we are inseparable from.

Undertaking this year long program that requires some self discipline to do what is required initially had me questioning can I fit this in? I am now finding I miss the rhythm and routine of following a programme that links me in with the rhythm of the day, the Luna cycles and mother nature.

Another gift has been the creating of my personal healers story. This has given me a beautiful reference tool to remind me of where I have come from, where I am now and where I am going.

The interactive Medicine Woman online school has been great and that is coming from someone who has had trouble studying remotely before. I loved receiving new information each month, digesting it and seeing how it relates to me and my situations, leading to expansion of who I am with new ideas and understanding.”

Maria Gerathy,
Transpersonal Coach, Disability Support Worker, Sydney, Australia

I am feeling truly more connected

"Totally magical experience. The Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program was the journey of self discovery to my full potential in this life time and how to take the work out into the world. I am feeling truly more connected and sensitive to the sacred, to the Earth, to myself on the Earth."

Gabrielle Parson
Raglan, New Zealand

I now have more energy, confidence and I became more creative with my gifts

“Doing the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program helped me recognise myself as a healer and to stop seeing myself as separate from healers or healing. I saw myself that way even though I was a qualified health professional at the time.

It helped me develop confidence in my abilities, and I was able to begin creating a meaningful financial base and to start building my foundations based on my skills.

I now have more energy, confidence and I became more creative with my gifts, and my own unique way of utilising my healing modalities.

I developed deeper more meaningful relationships with others and the quality of my existing relationships was enhanced. I was able to give more of myself to relationships because it was safer for me to give more.

This program took me through a process of great professional development and success in my chosen field as a natural health practitioner.

Doing this program soothed my soul at the deepest level; it brought peace and light into places that had not been able to be expressed or felt. My ability to have a vision for myself and manifest that vision became possible.

The one main thing I have realised about the Medicine Woman Certificate in Healers Studies© program is that it is still happening - I'm still on the path of the healer, learning, growing and evolving as a result of undertaking the rites of passage of the healer.

I know this momentum and growth is entirely due to the teacher plants and the magical process that occurs as a result of following the structure of this program - it creates within us a new world of possibility - infinite and growing alongside us at all times. I'm so grateful for this.”

Lynda Earl
Holistic Practitioner, New Zealand