Wisdom Apprenticeship

An intimate 6 month mentorship program for radical womb wisdom keepers.

Applications are now closed for the 2024 program.

Join the waitlist to be the first to learn about 2025’s program.

 

Objectives

  • Identify, define, & embody your own unique mission statement, guiding values, & protocols for your personal &/or professional womb wisdom praxis

  • Build tangible skills, practical knowledge & resources for providing intelligent & heart centered counsel, care & education for avoiding &/or ending pregnancy outside the clinical paradigm

  • Final Project: facilitate an in-person skillshare in your local community, focusing on your choice of radical womb-wellness centered curriculum. *Apprentices are given full permission to use any of the professional materials & curricula I have created, with credit, as foundations for developing their own.

 
 
 

This program does not exist to train an apprentice to do my job.

Rather, its purpose is to inspire & inform the apprentice as they build a dynamic relationship with their own distinct medicine, power, & praxis.

Each program is uniquely crafted to nurture individual interests, goals & needs.

Our study & discussion may include any of the following areas of my expertise:

cycle + hormone healing

plant medicine

nutrition + food as medicine

somatics, sexuality + pleasure

STIs, vaginal ecology & pelvic wellness

pregnancy / release : all outcomes, all settings

peri-menopause + menopause

trauma resolution, somatics, poly-vagal theory

social & repro justice

anthropological context & ancestral practices

witchcraft

mytho-poetic & archetypal thematics

energy anatomy; tao, tantra, kabbalah

rites of passage + ritual

general bizwitchery, networking, marketing

community organizing

 

What it is…

  • decentralized power; a mentor who is your ally & does not seek to be your authority

  • radical love & education from an anarchist animist Jewitch with over 20 years of experience tending the womb continuum

  • accessible biochemistry, anatomy & physiology education

  • conventional learning through reading, writing & discussion

  • intuitive learning through ritual, play, & story-telling

  • an experienced perspective & supportive presence to improve &/or create your client care / teaching / bizwitch / activist praxis

What it ain’t…

  • a certification or training

  • a strategy that ensures success in capitalism

  • validation or instruction from an external authority

  • therapy

  • instruction or practice of any particular dogma, modality, or ideology

 


Apprentices Receive

  • Discounts on wholesale orders of my books

  • 12 1:1 Mentorship Sessions (roughly every other week) over 6 months

  • Access to additional drop-in sessions during Fruit of Knowledge Office Hours

  • Ongoing text, voice memo & email support with expectation of my reply within 24 hours (except for on Shabbat & the first 3 days of my moon lodge, which will notify of)

  • Copy editing & organizational support & cheerleading for revising or creating any or all of your:

    • Intakes 

    • Protocols

    • Mission Statement

    • Handouts / worksheets / teaching materials

    • Website copy

    • Curricula

 
 

Aspiring & professional practitioners of all types of healing arts serving the womb continuum of fertility, pregnancy, & sexuality are encouraged to apply, including but not limited to:

  • doulas

  • midwives

  • medical professionals

  • body & energy workers

  • social workers & mental healthcare providers

  • life / sex / cycle / health coaches

  • fertility awareness educators

  • herbalists

  • witches

  • yoga & mindful movement instructors

  • rites of passage ceremonialists / moon & womens’ circle leaders

Qualifications for Application

  • A palpable sense of internal authority & soul purpose

  • Experience working with community &/or clients in a womb wellness care-giving or educational capacity

  • Enjoy learning by reading, listening, discussion & journaling

  • Prompt & effective verbal & digital communicator, comfortable speaking up kindly & clearly when or if discomfort, disconnect, or conflict arise

  • Able to invest an average of 3-5 hours per week in this program

Priority acceptance will be awarded to folks who have already:

  • Completed the Conscious Contraception Skillshare or equivalent in-person workshop with Sam

  • Completed Miscarriage & Abortion Support Ecourse or live workshop with Sam

  • Been a member of Bodies of Wisdom; Tier 3 of FoK for a minimum of 3 months

 
 
 

Praise from past participants . . .

 

Sam's encouragement, support, & guidance was thoughtful & wise. I came into the mentorship expecting to only grow in my knowledge with the womb continuum, & I definitely am so much more knowledgeable in that realm now.

What surprised me was that during our mentorship relationship I became more connected to myself & the communities I exist in. She provided the space for me to go within to connect to myself in a way I didn't know was possible, empowering me to fully step into autonomy & sovereignty over my body & choices in a way I wasn't provided in so many other spaces. She gave me space to explore in a way that was non-judgmental & gentle. These feelings of empowerment have spread to every other area in my life in such an awe-inspiring way I never could have expected, & gave me so much hope for the future.

Although the mentorship is over, I am still seeing daily the huge impact it had on the way I interact with the world around me, provide support as a friend & community member, & the respect & trust I have in myself.

Chaney Williams Doula Author, Herbalist, Activist

 

“Experiencing mentorship with Sam was immeasurable to my life on an individual level, as well as the path that I now lead in my women’s work. I began working with Sam at a time when I was stuck between exiting the western realm of women’s specialty nursing and starting my own holistic practice of wellwoman care.

When I was first introduced to Sam I recall sensing a degree of power that was not familiar to me by my direct environment, but that was familiar to me by the deeper truths & knowings of my womb. I could feel the clarity, depth of knowledge, wisdom, & fierceness for liberation that Sam carried & it struck me in a big way.

Sam leads from a place of circle, not hierarchy, she is a pillar of deep remembrance for all womb bearers, & is one of the greatest mentors & teachers I have ever been blessed to experience. Being in her field & space alone is sacred & healing.

Throughout our time together Sam witnessed me so completely & fully as she held me through the dismantling of so many projected narratives to uncover the compass of my own womb & center.  She supported me in climbing out of the systemic indoctrination that was keeping me small to light & liberate my own medicine path & inner fire.

Sam possesses a rare weaving of knowledge that permeates all sectors of womb health & woman’s care & my time with her was beyond anything I could have asked for. I can fully say that it was because of the work that I did with Sam that I was able to root into the rich field of sovereignty within my own womb to exit the nursing realm & say yes to the true care I believe in for women. My experience with her had immediate impact, nourishment, & healing expansion & continues to be a tending & awakening light in my life.

For any person seeking a space of depth, essential remembrance, & rich guidance in the realms of womb medicine I could not recommend Sam more. Sam, thank you, you have forever impacted my life and returned me home to my own womb & knowing.”

Alexandra Durrigan, RN BSN, Women’s Pelvic Care & Womb Guide

 
 

“Working with Sam was truly transformational! I was able to gain incredible insight in starting a business from scratch & how I can thrive. The tools I was given from her will help to continue to support my path both professionally & personally as a healer. Additionally I was able to digest & attain amazing information centered around conception, fertility& sexuality that I utilize to help support my clients & self. I would highly recommend working with Sam, she is a beam of light & an inspiration to all!”

Mary McCallum, Herbalist

 
 

“Samantha comes to each session truly herself, making it easy for me to be authentically my self with her. She carries seemingly endless resourses & knowledge, has a cunning intuition that makes every conversation seem magical!

I have grown so much & been more & more inspired after each session to live by & be closer to my truth!

Samantha is the wicked (in a good way) womb witch of the west, a sweet ‘n sassy faithful ally for the journey of living an authentic life. There is no pressure to be a certain way, to do certain things; come as you are, receive respect & be truly seen by Sam!”

Madelyn Telford, Witch, Artist, Ritual Tattooist

 
 

Reciprocity

$4444 for the full 6 month program

*note, this includes 1 year of membership to Fruit of Knowledge Learning Community on tier 3, a $1332 value

Payments can also be made in monthly installments of:

  • 6 monthly payments of $777

  • 12 monthly payments of $377

Space is extremely limited.

Scholarship & sliding scale position(s) will be made available after at least 1 full pay application has been accepted & contract signed. Please do not hesitate to apply if your heart is singing YES, though you would require scholarship or sliding scale to participate.

I will conduct interviews with folks I feel would be a good fit regardless of their ability to invest financially.

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