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        <p class="eyebrow">Private Mentorship</p>
        <h1>Study One-on-One With Feather Jones and Build the Herbal Practice You've Been Dreaming Of</h1>
        <p class="text-lg text-neutral-700 mb-8">A private mentorship spanning 4-6 months, designed around your goals, your pace, and your life. Feather works with you personally to turn your passion for plant medicine into real skill and lasting confidence.</p>
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          <a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://calendly.com/feather-jones/private-mentorship" target="_blank">Book My Free Consultation</a>
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        <p class="text-sm text-neutral-500 mt-4 italic">A free 30-minute Zoom call to talk about your goals and see if this is the right fit. No pressure, no commitment.</p>
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          <blockquote>&ldquo;Herbalism is not just a study; it&rsquo;s a way of interacting with the world around us. I&rsquo;ve dedicated my life to this, and now want to share that wisdom with you.&rdquo;</blockquote>
          <cite>&mdash; Feather Jones, Registered Herbalist (AHG)</cite>
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      <div class="eyebrow">Is This for You?</div>
      <h2>This Mentorship Was Made for You If&hellip;</h2>
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        <h3>You&rsquo;re just getting started and want a guide</h3>
        <p>You&rsquo;ve read the books. You&rsquo;ve watched the videos. But you want someone with real experience to walk beside you and show you the path&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;not just point at it from a distance.</p>
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        <h3>You&rsquo;ve studied before, but there are gaps</h3>
        <p>Maybe you took a group course and loved it, but you have questions that need deeper answers. You want focused attention on the areas that matter most to you.</p>
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        <h3>You&rsquo;re a practitioner adding herbal skills</h3>
        <p>You&rsquo;re a nutritionist, naturopath, health coach, or acupuncturist, and you want to work one-on-one with a clinical herbalist who can help you apply this knowledge with real clients.</p>
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    <p class="transition-line reveal">No matter where you&rsquo;re starting from, Feather meets you there&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;and builds everything around where you want to go.</p>
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      <h2>What You&rsquo;ll Get in Your Mentorship</h2>
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        <h3>A Curriculum Built Around You</h3>
        <p>This is not a preset syllabus. Before your mentorship begins, Feather learns about your background, your interests, and your goals. Then she designs a curriculum just for you&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;whether you want to focus on clinical case work, remedy crafting, plant identification, or client consultations.</p>
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        <h3>Weekly Two-Hour Sessions With Feather</h3>
        <p>Every week, you meet with Feather face-to-face over Zoom for a full two hours. This is focused, personal teaching time. You can ask questions, work through case studies, and go deep on the topics that matter to you. It&rsquo;s real, sustained mentorship.</p>
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        <h3>Full Access to Feather&rsquo;s Online Library</h3>
        <p>Your mentorship includes unlimited access to all of Feather&rsquo;s online courses, including the 20-hour Women&rsquo;s Wellness Certificate Program. These serve as companion study between your weekly sessions.</p>
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        <h3>Custom Handouts and Resources</h3>
        <p>Feather creates materials tailored to your learning path. These aren&rsquo;t generic downloads&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;they&rsquo;re resources made specifically for you and your goals.</p>
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        <h3>Optional In-Person Botanical Field Trip</h3>
        <p>As part of your mentorship, you can attend an in-person botanical field trip. Meet the plants in the wild. Learn to identify, harvest, and prepare them with your own hands.</p>
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        <h3>Certificate of Completion</h3>
        <p>When you finish the program, you receive a certificate of completion from Feather&rsquo;s program&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;recognition of a thorough, professional-level herbal education.</p>
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      <a href="https://calendly.com/feather-jones/private-mentorship" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary">Book My Free Consultation</a>
      <span class="friction-text">Not sure if this is right for you? That&rsquo;s exactly what the free consultation is for.</span>
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        <h2>Why Private Mentorship Changes Everything</h2>
        <p>Group classes are wonderful. They give you community, structure, and shared energy. But they can&rsquo;t answer <em>your</em> specific questions in the depth you need. They can&rsquo;t adjust the pace when you want to slow down or speed up. And they can&rsquo;t build a learning path around your exact goals.</p>
        <p>Private mentorship can.</p>
        <p>When you study one-on-one with Feather, the entire experience revolves around you. Your sessions go wherever they need to go. Your curriculum shifts as you grow. And you get the full attention of a clinical herbalist who has been practicing since the early 1980s&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;not split across a room of other students, but focused entirely on your development.</p>
        <p>This is how Feather has trained herbalists who have gone on to start their own schools and practices. It&rsquo;s the deepest, most personal way to learn.</p>
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      <p style="font-style: italic; color: #888; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px;">Wondering how this compares to the Live Group Classes? Here&rsquo;s a quick side-by-side:</p>
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            <th>Live Group Classes</th>
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            <td>Format</td>
            <td>Group class, set curriculum</td>
            <td class="highlight">One-on-one, custom curriculum</td>
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            <td>Length</td>
            <td>11 Months</td>
            <td class="highlight">4-6 Months</td>
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            <td>Hours</td>
            <td>120 Hours</td>
            <td class="highlight">32 Hours</td>
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            <td>Schedule</td>
            <td>Fixed Sundays</td>
            <td class="highlight">Flexible weekly sessions</td>
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            <td>Access</td>
            <td>Shared class time</td>
            <td class="highlight">Feather&rsquo;s full attention, every session</td>
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            <td>Best For</td>
            <td>Beginners &amp; intermediates who want community and structure</td>
            <td class="highlight">Anyone who wants a fully personalized path</td>
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            <td>Investment</td>
            <td>$2,800</td>
            <td class="highlight">$2,200</td>
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      <p class="comparison-note">Both programs are taught by Feather. Both are excellent. The right choice depends on how you learn best.</p>
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        <h2>Feather Jones</h2>

        <p>Feather is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild and has been in clinical practice for over 40 years. She has served as president of the American Herbalists Guild&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;twice. She has been a Botanical Field Guide for the Sonoran University of Health Sciences, an international keynote speaker, and the author of the <em>Medicinal Herb Handbook</em>. <a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/about/' ) ); ?>">Read her full bio.</a></p>
        <p>But credentials only tell part of the story.</p>

        <p>Feather teaches because she believes the wisdom of herbalism must be passed down. She&rsquo;s watched too many aspiring herbalists feel lost because they lacked one thing: a mentor who could show them the way. That&rsquo;s why she created this program&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;not as a product to sell, but as a practice she&rsquo;s chosen, because mentorship is how this knowledge has always traveled.</p>
        <p>She has personally mentored hundreds of students over her career. Many of them have gone on to build their own herbal practices and schools. When you study with Feather, you&rsquo;re not just learning information. You&rsquo;re joining a lineage.</p>

        <div class="smaller-quote">&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t just teach the basics of herbal medicine. I teach how to work with clients, how to do a proper intake and formulation strategies. How to feel confident and armed with your knowledge in complex case studies.&rdquo;</div>
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        <p class="tq">Feather is generous with her knowledge, organized and thorough in her teachings, and a genuinely beautiful human being. I so enjoyed my apprenticeship with her and use what I learned all the time! It is a perfect complement and balance to any western medical or nutritional study.</p>
        <div class="ta">&mdash; Andrea</div>
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        <p class="tq">Feather&rsquo;s mentorship program has been a game-changer for me. Her personalized guidance helped me find my niche in herbalism, and I&rsquo;ve never felt more confident in my skills.</p>
        <div class="ta">&mdash; Emily</div>
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        <p class="tq">I was initially overwhelmed by the vast field of herbalism, but Feather made it so approachable. Her comprehensive knowledge and hands-on teaching style made all the difference.</p>
        <div class="ta">&mdash; Mark</div>
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      <a href="https://calendly.com/feather-jones/private-mentorship" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary">Book My Free Consultation</a>
      <span class="friction-text">Start with a conversation. See if it&rsquo;s the right fit.</span>
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      <div class="eyebrow">The Details</div>
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          <p>4-6 months of private mentorship, tailored to your goals.</p>
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          <p>Two-hour weekly Zoom sessions with Feather, scheduled at a time that works for both of you.</p>
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          <p>All weekly sessions, unlimited access to Feather&rsquo;s online course library, custom handouts, an optional in-person botanical field trip, and a certificate of completion.</p>
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          <div class="dl">Availability</div>
          <p>Feather works with only three private mentorship students at a time. That&rsquo;s how she ensures each student gets her genuine, undivided attention.</p>
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          <div class="price-amount">$2,200</div>
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          <div class="price-breakdown hidden">~$58 per two-hour private session</div>
          <p class="price-context hidden">with a Registered Herbalist with over 40 years of clinical experience. Comparable one-on-one instruction in health professions typically runs $150&ndash;$300 per hour. Everything is included.</p>
          <a href="https://calendly.com/feather-jones/private-mentorship" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary">Book My Free Consultation</a>
          <span class="friction-text" style="color: #999;">Start with a free 30-minute conversation.<br>No cost. No commitment.</span>
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          <p>Yes. Feather designs your curriculum around wherever you are right now. Whether you&rsquo;re brand new to herbalism or have been studying for years, the mentorship starts with you and builds from there.</p>
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          <p>It starts with a free consultation where you and Feather discuss your background and goals. From there, she creates a curriculum tailored to your needs. As your mentorship unfolds week to week, the plan adapts based on your progress and interests.</p>
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          <p>Yes. All sessions happen over Zoom. Students join from across the U.S. and internationally.</p>
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          <p>Life happens. Just give 24 hours&rsquo; notice and your session can be rescheduled.</p>
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        <button class="faq-q" type="button" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="faq-a-5" id="faq-q-5">How is this different from the Live Group Classes?</button>
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          <p>The Live Group Classes are an 11-month, 120-hour program with a set curriculum and a group of fellow students. Study With Feather is a 4-6 month, 32-hour private mentorship&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;fully one-on-one with a curriculum built around your specific goals. Both are taught by Feather. The group program is ideal for community and structure. The private mentorship is for people who want a fully personalized experience and flexible scheduling.</p>
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          <p>You receive a certificate of completion from Feather&rsquo;s program. The program is not accredited, but it provides a thorough, professional-level herbal education guided by a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild.</p>
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          <p>It&rsquo;s a 30-minute Zoom call. You&rsquo;ll talk with Feather about your background, your goals, and what you&rsquo;re hoping to get out of the mentorship. She&rsquo;ll answer your questions and help you decide if this is the right fit. There&rsquo;s no obligation.</p>
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          <p>Feather takes on up to 3 private mentorship students at a time to make sure each person gets real attention and care.</p>
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    <div class="eyebrow">Take the First Step</div>
    <h2>You Don&rsquo;t Need to Have It All Figured Out</h2>
    <p class="text-lg mx-auto mb-12 sub-line">You just need to take the first step.</p>
    <blockquote>&ldquo;Herbalism is not just a study; it&rsquo;s a way of interacting with the world around us. I&rsquo;ve dedicated my life to this, and now want to share that wisdom with you. Let&rsquo;s embark on a personalized journey to unlock the healing power of plants and transform your life.&rdquo;</blockquote>
    <cite>&mdash; Feather Jones</cite>
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      <a href="https://calendly.com/feather-jones/private-mentorship" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary">Book My Free Consultation</a>
      <span class="friction-text" style="color: rgba(255,255,255,0.55);">30 minutes. No cost. No commitment. Just a conversation about your goals.</span>
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    <p class="avail-note">Feather takes only tree students at a time to ensure everyone gets her full attention.<br>If spots are full, you can join the waitlist to be notified when space opens up.</p>
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