What instructional materials might be used during Gokhale Method training?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
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The following summarizes the training:
Training is held during various intervals during the year depending on our need to train new franchisees. The instructional material may consist of our Teachers Manual or Policy Statements, scripts, images, checklists, demonstrations, practice and quizzes. Currently Esther Gokhale conducts the training; she has been teaching postural methods for health improvement since at least 1992. The cost of Initial Training is included in the $4,000 franchise fee. You must pay food and lodging expenses in connection with attendance at Immersion Week. The Gokhale® Active (Premium) fee of $140 must be paid yearly from the time of acceptance to the program. Gokhale Active helps prepare accepted candidates for the Immersion Week. Upon completion of Teacher Training Immersion Week, you must pay $240 a year for teacher webinars. Once a year you must pay $450 for the annual teachers' meeting, for which you will also pay food and lodging. This is a required fee and attendance is mandatory. We do not at the present time have any further continuing education requirements, but we reserve the right to add them if we add new approved formats or new continuing education. All franchisees must attend training and complete it to the franchisor's satisfaction.
We estimate that the time from the date you complete your Immersion Week until you start teaching classes to be between three to six months. If you do not complete the Initial Training within six months of attending your Immersion Week, we may terminate your franchise agreement.
Additional training and refresher courses are required, including attendance at the Annual Meeting (or an approved alternative continuing education program) and participating in teacher webinars.
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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, the instructional materials used during training may include the Teacher's Manual or Policy Statements, scripts, images, checklists, demonstrations, practice exercises, and quizzes. The Teacher's Manual also serves as the Operations Manual and its table of contents is annexed as an exhibit to the FDD. The Gokhale Method retains the right to update or modify the Teacher's Manual at its discretion.
Prior to opening a Gokhale Method franchised business, franchisees must successfully complete the initial training, which includes memorizing and reciting scripts provided by the franchisor. The initial training consists of an Immersion Week at the Gokhale Method headquarters in Palo Alto, California, or other designated locations. Following the Immersion Week, franchisees must participate in at least twelve teacher webinars (live or pre-recorded), engage in self-study of the Gokhale Foundations course script and materials, and teach the full six-lesson Gokhale Foundations course in a one-on-one setting to two separate practice students.
As part of teaching practice students, franchisees must prepare at least six videos in which they record themselves teaching each of the six separate Gokhale Foundations lessons, accompanied by self-critiques of each lesson. These recordings will be reviewed by peers, and franchisees will be required to view recordings submitted by other trainees and evaluate them. Each lesson will be submitted for approval, and if a lesson video is not approved, another video of the same lesson must be submitted. A video of each of the six lessons must be approved before a franchisee can become qualified to teach. Failure to complete all initial training and qualify to teach within six months of attending the Immersion Week may result in termination of the Franchise Agreement.