The Sourdough School

BREAD COURSES || NUTRITION TRAINING || DIGESTION ANALYSIS || PERSONALISED BREAD

Learn to bake, eat, and share the healthiest bread in the world. Discover how to bake as Lifestyle Medicine from the walled gardens of Dr Vanessa Kimbell’s beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire in the UK, where we train healthcare professionals, teach bakers, and support individuals to bake personalised bread using nutrigenetics and gut health assessments.

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What makes a successful applicant?

We are interested in you and what you are proposing to do with the knowledge  and why this is important to you. We are not looking for what qualifications you have. It is more about understanding why we need change and attitude and intention to do so.

There are many ways to use this knowledge, including individually if you are looking after someone, or as a teacher, a professional baker, or a healthcare professional wanting to get your patient baking great bread.

Here are our tips for successful applications:

  1. Successful candidates will demonstrate a clear understanding of the needs of the customers or the patients in their community and propose how they will apply the knowledge. 
  2. We suggest that you provide a clear rationale, including who you feel that you will be prescribing for (if you are a healthcare practitioner) or who your customers are if you are a baker and why you are motivated in particular to improve the nourishment of bread.  Please include specific aims and well-defined criteria of how you will apply the knowledge.
  3. We recommend that you take time to write this and then cut copy paste it into the form.  Please keep this concise and make it as easy as possible for us to understand, and remember to include which country you are in, if you are not UK based.
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