Six days in Florence. Thirty CE hours. The experience of a lifetime.

Arrive in Florence and settle into your boutique hotel in the heart of the city. That evening, we'll gather for introductions, a welcome drink, and our first educational session: stress physiology and burnout.

We'll begin slowly, giving you time to arrive, settle in, and shift from travel mode into the experience. Our first evening combines an open-air educational session with a traditional Italian dinner with the opportunity to meet your fellow participants and begin exploring the science we'll return to throughout the week.

Florence has been a center of medicine, pharmacy, art, and scientific inquiry for centuries. We'll begin at Santa Maria Novella, the world's oldest continuously operating pharmacy, where botanical preparations, fragrances, and medicinal traditions have been part of Florentine life since 1221.

From there, we'll move from the history of botanical medicine into the science of the modern practitioner, exploring hormonal health, neuroplasticity, and cognitive aging.

A traditional Tuscan lunch provides a chance to continue the conversation before our afternoon sessions.

Spend the day inside a working Tuscan distillery, following aromatic plants through the process of becoming essential oils.

We'll explore olfactory science, aromatic chemistry, quality, safety, and clinical application, with particular attention to trauma-informed and nervous-system-aware approaches to working with scent.

You'll see the distillation process firsthand, examine what determines the quality of an aromatic product, and connect chemistry to practical clinical decisions.

The day concludes with an NRI hands-on workshop where you'll create a custom aromatic blend based on published research protocols and develop the clinical rationale for its use.

Today we take the classroom into the Tuscan countryside.

We'll spend the day in Chianti, exploring the agricultural traditions behind two of the Mediterranean diet's most studied foods: grapes and olive oil.

A private visit to a historic winery introduces the science and traditions of viticulture, followed by time in the vineyard and a Tuscan lunch featuring freshly pressed olive oil and regional wines.

We'll examine polyphenols, bioavailability, cardiovascular health, inflammation, and longevity research, then see the agricultural systems behind those foods firsthand.

If time allows, we'll take a stroll through Greve and, of course, gelato.

For centuries, people have traveled to Tuscany's thermal waters in search of restoration. Today, many of the same practices are supported by modern research.

We'll spend the day experiencing a historic thermal spa while examining the science behind hydrotherapy, heat exposure, circadian rhythms, stress physiology, and vagal tone.

You'll experience the intervention yourself, consider what the research actually tells us, and explore how these practices might translate into practical approaches to stress and recovery.

The evening concludes with our farewell dinner, followed by time to experience Florence after dark.

We'll finish where so much of Tuscan culture begins: the food.

Join a professional chef for a walk through Florence's food markets, learning about the ingredients, traditions, and culinary practices that have shaped Tuscan cuisine.

Then we'll take what we've discovered into a private teaching kitchen for a hands-on cooking experience featuring ingredients sourced from the market.

As we cook, we'll connect the traditions of Tuscan cuisine with the science of nutrition, food quality, preparation, and health.

Then it's time to say goodbye, with new knowledge, practical tools, a collection of memories, and colleagues you've spent an extraordinary week getting to know.