I second the Natural Health courses. School of Natural Health Sciences. I got my Aromatherapy diploma last year. Also studying Reflexology and Colour Therapy with them, although haven't started that yet.
Highly recommended. They are very affordable at £95 self study and around £135 with tutor study. Stonebridge I found extortionate.
thank you Angelic Light and Heaven Spirit
i will look in to the website now
thank you very much for taking the time to respond and read my post
bless you
love and light
Not another outrageous thread on distant learning courses. Distant learning have there place in education, but the only proper way of studying CAM is through attending proper college courses.
Would you study to be a doctor, nurse, physio, forklift truck driver, potter, butcher or even a farmer through this route? No you would not! So why on earth would you study CAM therapies via distant learning???
Say you decided to become a farmer. So you decided to study with the British School of Agricultural Associated Colleges (made up name, don't try to google it). So you go for the Diploma in Dairy Herd Management, then the Diploma in Pig Breeding, then you wake up one morning with a bright idea and purchased the Diploma in Chicken Chasing. You really enjoyed the chicken chasing course as it burnt a few calories off, so go for the Advanced Diploma. Eventhough you paid with easy term payments it cost quite a few several £100's. To justify this expenditure you went out and brought a cow, two pigs, and a chicken for the back garden. But does this make you a farmer?
Well this is how these DL therapy courses are constructed. By themselves they are next to useless, so you do another course and another course and another. And still you haven't got the skill to be a professional practitioner. The main professional associations do not recognise these courses anymore as they are substandard and provide very little in practical training.
Of course there is nothing wrong in studying a therapy as a hobby, making a few aromatherapy creams up to give to friends and family, or to give your partner a foot rub, or meditating on a crystal. Like there is nothing wrong with having farm animals as pets in the paddock at the back of the house (as long as they have been looked after properly).
Best Wishes
A very un-apologetic Pixie 😉 lol
Say you decided to become a farmer. So you decided to study with the British School of Agricultural Associated Colleges (made up name, don't try to google it). So you go for the Diploma in Dairy Herd Management, then the Diploma in Pig Breeding, then you wake up one morning with a bright idea and purchased the Diploma in Chicken Chasing. You really enjoyed the chicken chasing course as it burnt a few calories off, so go for the Advanced Diploma. Eventhough you paid with easy term payments it cost quite a few several £100's. To justify this expenditure you went out and brought a cow, two pigs, and a chicken for the back garden. But does this make you a farmer?
I can choose to study with the British School of Agricultural Associated Colleges to get the theory, and then gain the experience by going to work on a farm. 😉 Then go into farming myself. 🙂
When it comes to CAM, therapists I know are capable of deciding that they need practical experience or supervision, and there are a lot of people out there prepared to offer it at workshops or through private tuition. A lot of us are already qualified in similar subjects and get the distance learning courses to add to our skills. And I know people who are leaving the professional associations because the PA won't recognise some courses, yet accept complete cr*p as CPD.
A very unapologetic occasional distance learning school student, 😉
Rustic :wave: