Endeavour College of Natural Health

Before she came to Endeavour in Adelaide, Irene Schonberg studied nutrition online. It started from a personal desire to understand what healthy eating meant. It evolved into helping others with complex chronic health conditions, inspired by her husband’s fight for life.

Five years ago, Lucy Burgess dipped her toe into naturopathy studies. Within a semester, she’d left the heady world of corporate finance behind. It was a complete change in career and lifestyle, but she’s giving it her all.

Nutritionist and Endeavour Clinical Supervisor Heike Hohaus is no stranger to starting again. She recently moved from the Melbourne suburbs to the seaside, where she’s relishing the opportunity to create a garden from scratch, organising a new local farmer’s market and sharing her belief in food as medicine.

The majority of Australians regularly use or have used natural and complementary medicine and therapies. They are an established part of how our population manages its health. But as health practitioners, how far have we come towards integrative medicine?

Nestled on the rooftop of Endeavour College’s Brisbane Campus is a bee colony busy creating natural, raw, delicious honey from nectar and pollen gathered in nearby urban green spaces.

Endeavour graduate and former employee Jennifer (Jen) Osborne loves to support the natural health industry because, as she says, it has served her well.

Endeavour academic Patricia (Patty) Stuart-Macadam was stuck in a stuffy office during her summer holidays when she decided to apply for work on an archaeological dig in British Columbia, Canada.

Claudia Ioulianou is the first to admit she loves food and is passionate about feeding her family well. So much so that instead of returning to her law career, she’s pursuing her dream to study Nutrition.

Ashlea Howard had been in the Navy for more than four years when she stumbled across naturopathy. It drew her in, and she started gathering books about natural health. Having grown up around conventional medicine, Ashlea had no idea what a naturopath was.