SURF Wilderness Herbal First Aid Certification - FALL 2026

24-Hour Wilderness Herbal First Aid Certification on-site at the Sustainable University of Redlands Farm (SURF). The course will be taught by Sam & Suchil Coffman.

This is a 24 hour course taught over 3 days (8 hours per day) and includes both a conventional 16-Hour Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Certification through Herbal Medics Academy as well as more than 8 hours of herbal first aid training.

Herbal First Aid information is integrated into the curriculum every day in order to create a holistic model of remote or post-disaster care that emphasizes the essentials of first aid care while also introducing fundamental plant-medicine concepts that apply to austere or post-disaster environments.

The tuition for this course support the Free Herbal Medicine Community Clinic on SURF and includes:

Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations. 3rd Edition, Jones & Bartlett Press

24-Hour WFA certification subjects include:

·       Primary and secondary survey

·       Extrication

·       Field expedient methods for moving a victim, basic knot/lashing concepts

·       Diagnosing and treating a wide variety of trauma and life

·       Threatening situations

·       Splinting & bandaging plus ankle and knee stabilization for walking

·       High altitude injuries, heat and cold injuries

·       Disease and infection

·       Snake and insect bites & stings

·       Shock

·       Head injuries

·       Water purification & fluid replacement

Herbal First Aid subjects include:

·       Fundamental herbal care concepts

·       The necessary shift in thinking

·       Wound Care and Infection Management using herbs

·       Injury, shock, pain and herbs

·       Respiratory herbal first response

·       Gastrointestinal herbal first response

·       Urinary herbal first response

·       Planning, preparing and administering herbs

Hands-on training and practice is emphasized very strongly throughout this 3-day intensive.

The certification testing for certification is both hands-on (done as teams) and a written test.

Wilderness first aid certification is provided by Herbal Medics Academy. An HMA certification card is issued which is valid for 2 years.

For registration information please contact:

Suchil Coffman-Guerra, BSN-RN, Director, The Human Path / Herbal Medics Academy

thehumanpathschool@gmail.com