£1,999.00
Teaching Baking as Lifestyle Medicine is suitable for anyone with an interest in baking the most nourishing bread and bakes possible and teaching others to do so too. It will also suit people who work in the mental health sector, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational health practitioners, mental health nurses and social workers, as well as cookery teachers, chefs, food industry professionals and community support workers.
In this workshop, you will learn about the inner workings of The Sourdough School, as well as how to bake the most nutritious bakes possible. You will gain an understanding of how to teach and set up a course. You will learn how to prepare and teach a sourdough baking course and discover what it takes to deliver a five-star experience.
You will learn to use our BALM Protocol, which is based on Vanessa’s research for her doctorate.
Dates for 2024 are not yet set – for enquires, please email [email protected],uk
The Teacher Training Workshop can only be completed as part of the full Diploma in Teaching Baking as Lifestyle Medicine. If you have completed the Standard Prescribing Baking as Lifestyle Medicine Diploma within the last two years, you can apply to ‘top it up’ with the Advanced BALM Workshop and this Teacher Training Workshop.
After studying the BALM Practical and BALM Theory syllabuses, as well as attending the BALM Workshop, you will have built an incredible base of knowledge. This workshop is about bringing that knowledge together with who you are and learning how to share it with others. Your life experience and your story are just as relevant to your teaching as the bread making techniques you will share.
• This workshop shows you how to teach people to make the most nutritious bakes possible using The Sourdough School’s BALM Protocol and teaching style. You can only really learn this in person from Vanessa.
• By the end of the workshop, you will be able to not just teach, but really communicate the mechanisms of sourdough and why it is both more digestible and more nutritious.
• You will be confident in teaching people to bake delicious sourdough and showing them how doing so can optimise their health.
• You will be able to teach all bakes, from simple sourdough bakes including sourdough pasta, basic sourdough cakes and focaccia, to baguettes and open-crumb boules.
• You will know how to teach people to accompany their bakes with probiotics, by making fresh fruit compote, cultured butter and more. You will be able to chat about health topics, such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) and certain allergies, and you will also be able to explain why the gut microbiome is at the centre of the way we teach.
• Upon completion of the workshop, including written test and the completion of the course recipes, you will be a certified Sourdough School teacher.
• You are the magic ingredient.
By the time you attend the Teacher Training Workshop, you will already be most of the way through the BALM Practical and BALM Theory courses (unless you have already completed them and are doing the Teacher Training Workshop as a top-up module). In April, about three months before the Workshop, we will set you a series of mandatory practical tests and an online test. This will show us where to focus our attention before you attend the School in person, and will highlight any areas that you need to work on.
Yes, upon successful completion of your teaching certificate, you are now a certified Sourdough School teacher, and you may apply for your Sourdough School teaching licence if you want to be supported by the School and the team with your teaching.
No. It is not compulsory to have a licence. As a teacher, you may display your certificate and share that you are a qualified Sourdough School Teacher, and you are totally free to set up your own business or work for another cookery school and teach under your own name. Some students prefer this freedom as we have a very specific approach, so they may prefer to just teach in their own way.
No. We are The Sourdough School. It would be like graduating from Oxford University with a teaching qualification and wanting to call your cookery school Oxford University. It is not appropriate and goes against our terms and conditions. However, you can join The Sourdough School and apply for a licence to become a franchisee.
While successfully completing the Diploma in Teaching Baking as Lifestyle Medicine qualifies you as a teacher, this certificate alone does not entitle you to open your own Sourdough School. However, this qualification is the prerequisite for applying to open your own franchised
Sourdough School (see pages 54–55).
You may teach under your own trading name, as a sole trader or as a limited company with any name suitable for your business, or you may choose to contract yourself to another school as an independent teacher (as many of our former students have done very successfully). However, unless you are an official Sourdough School licensee, you cannot use our brand name within your business name.
