Meet the Founders
I always hold you in my heart and wish you the best. The inspiration of the flowers and their healing hope and strength to illumine human consciousness is what we now so urgently require. You saw that need to heal the earth and human trauma early on and you have never wavered in your steadfast devotion over these many decades.
I remain always grateful for your dedicated generosity.
Claire Joysmith, Poet and Women’s Cultural Advocate, Yucatan, Mexico
Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz are married and professional partners who have co-directed the Flower Essence Society since 1980. Through the Society, they have organized and inspired many educational, research, and publishing efforts throughout the world.
Patricia and Richard are authors of numerous articles and books about flower essences, including the best-selling Flower Essence Repertory, now in its fifth edition and translated into six different languages around the world. Richard and Patricia have traveled extensively, giving seminars throughout the world on flower essence therapy. They also manage Flower Essence Services, which produces flower essences and herbal products at Terra Flora, their 27-acre Biodynamic garden and wildlife sanctuary in the northern Sierra foothills of Nevada City, California.
Richard’s early background was in mathematics and physical science. He was awarded a scholarship to attend Brown University’s mathematics program. His considerable questions about the nature of science and scientific research then led him to a deeper study of the human being, and he completed a psychology major at California State University at Sonoma in 1974. He went on to study widely in several different apprenticeship programs in the fields of herbology, plant science, and meditation.
All of these various strands of knowledge culminated
in his research of flower essence therapy as a “living science of
Nature,” requiring an accurate understanding of subtle qualities of
plants, and also of the mental and emotional realms within the human
being. After working extensively with the original English repertory of
Dr. Bach, Richard went on to pioneer, since 1978, the development of
flower remedies from North American plants, which are now recognized and
used throughout the world. He specializes in FES botanical studies and
photographs many of the FES flowers.
Patricia first discovered the remarkable effectiveness of the Bach flower remedies in helping children with learning problems such as dyslexia, and then in a counseling program for juvenile offenders. She has studied widely in the fields of teaching, healing, and plant science, including Waldorf education and Goethean plant science. Patricia is currently active as a flower essence teacher and counselor and administrates the Society’s research and practitioner training programs. She is the Developmental Director for Terra Flora, a Demeter-certified Biodynamic production gardens and Nature Sanctuary located outside Nevada City, California.t
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