Care Plans People Can Actually Do

A free online class with Dave Meesters

When herb formulas don’t get used or care plans don’t get followed, it's rarely due to a failure of will. More often, it's a failure of design—the plan didn't fit the life it was supposed to live in.

This class is about the gap between the two, and how to make it smaller.

We'll look at why care plans succeed or fail on logistics more than motivation, and what that means for how we build them. You'll leave with practical tools for:

• Starting from a person's actual daily rhythms and existing routines, rather than an ideal version of their life

• Spotting the physical, cognitive, and emotional friction that quietly derail good plans

• Designing a "bad day" version of any protocol, so the plan still holds when life doesn't cooperate

• Making it easier to remember and follow through, by habit-stacking, visibility, and borrowed structure

• Treating a care plan as a living experiment, refined in conversation, instead of a fixed protocol

Whether you're supporting clients, caring for family and community, or working out a protocol for your own health, these are the same skills.

This class also serves as an introduction to the philosophy that guides our full certificate programs, where we go much deeper into the art and practice of community herbalism.

Wednesday August 12, 2026 @ 7pm Eastern time · Free & online · Registration required