What must a Gokhale Method franchisee complete to be qualified to teach the Gokhale System?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
Your rights to teach the Gokhale Method depend upon your completion to our satisfaction of not only your Initial Training but also such other and further training classes or refresher courses as we may authorize or direct from time to time. We may suspend your right to teach one or more courses or formats if you have not completed to our satisfaction all required training or refresher requirements, programs or courses.
Before opening your Franchised Business, you must successfully complete the Initial Training to our satisfaction, including memorization and recitation of scripts that we will provide. The Initial Training consists of one week of training in the Gokhale Method at our headquarters in Palo Alto, California or at other designated locations (the "Immersion Week"), followed by participation in at least twelve teacher webinars (live or pre-recorded), self-study of the Gokhale Foundations course script and materials, and teaching the full six-lesson Gokhale Foundations course in a one-on-one setting to two separate practice students. As part of teaching your practice students, you must prepare at least six videos in which you record yourself teaching each one of the six separate Gokhale Foundations lessons accompanied by self-critiques of each lesson. These recordings will be reviewed by your peers, and you will be required to view recordings submitted by other trainees and to evaluate them. Once reviewed, each lesson will be submitted for approval. If a lesson video is not approved, you will be required to submit another video of the same lesson. A video of each of the six lessons must be approved before you can become qualified to teach.
If you do not complete all of the Initial Training and have not qualified to teach within six months of attending the Immersion Week, we may terminate the Franchise Agreement upon 30 days' notice and your failure to cure.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, AND TRAINING (FDD pages 18–23)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to the 2024 Gokhale Method Franchise Disclosure Document, to become qualified to teach the Gokhale System, a franchisee must successfully complete the Initial Training program to the franchisor's satisfaction. This includes attending a one-week Immersion Week course at the Gokhale Method headquarters in Palo Alto, California, or another designated location. Franchisees must also memorize and recite scripts provided by Gokhale Method.
Following the Immersion Week, franchisees are required to participate in at least twelve teacher webinars, which may be live or pre-recorded. They must also engage in self-study of the Gokhale Foundations course script and materials. A critical component of the training involves teaching the full six-lesson Gokhale Foundations course in a one-on-one setting to two separate practice students.
As part of the practical teaching experience, franchisees must create at least six videos, each recording themselves teaching one of the six Gokhale Foundations lessons, and include self-critiques for each lesson. These videos are then reviewed by peers, and the franchisee is required to evaluate recordings submitted by other trainees. Each lesson video must be approved by Gokhale Method before the franchisee is fully qualified to teach. Failure to complete all Initial Training requirements and become qualified to teach within six months of attending the Immersion Week may result in the termination of the Franchise Agreement.