What are the requirements for approval to teach the Gokhale System?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
- 7.1. Initial Training. You will complete the Initial Training, which consists of Teacher Training Immersion Week and substantial follow-up training and practice requirements which will prepare you to teach the Gokhale System to groups and individuals. Approval to teach requires that you attend and successfully complete to our satisfaction the Initial Training and shall have passed all evaluations, and be formally approved by us to teach. If you do not complete all training and have not qualified to teach within six months of attending the Teacher Training Immersion Week, we may terminate this Agreement upon 30 days' notice and your failure to cure
- 7.2. Continuing Training. You must attend such additional courses, seminars and other training programs as we may reasonably require from time to time, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual, in order to maintain your approval to teach the Approved Formats for which you have been approved. Such continuing training may include, but is not limited to, attendance at the Annual Meeting, participation in such Teacher Webinars as may be scheduled by us, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active. Failure to attend and participate in such continuing training programs may result in suspension of your right to teach the Gokhale System until you have completed our required continuing training and you have been re-approved. If your right to teach has been suspended, and you nonetheless offer to teach, we may terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you. As part of your continuing approval we may request that you submit at reasonable intervals, and you agree to submit to us within such reasonable time as we specify, audiotapes or videotapes of you teaching, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual. We may submit such recordings to peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers, and you hereby grant us your consent for such submission.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 34)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Gokhale Method's 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, to gain approval to teach the Gokhale System, franchisees must attend and successfully complete the Initial Training to the satisfaction of Gokhale Method. This training consists of a Teacher Training Immersion Week in addition to follow-up training and practice requirements. Franchisees must also pass all evaluations and be formally approved by Gokhale Method to teach. If a franchisee does not complete all training and qualify to teach within six months of attending the Teacher Training Immersion Week, Gokhale Method may terminate the Franchise Agreement after providing 30 days' notice, if the franchisee fails to rectify the situation.
To maintain approval to teach the Approved Formats, franchisees must attend additional courses, seminars, and other training programs that Gokhale Method may reasonably require. These requirements will be detailed in the current Teachers' Manual and may include attendance at the Annual Meeting, participation in Teacher Webinars, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active. Failure to attend and participate in these continuing training programs may result in suspension of the franchisee's right to teach the Gokhale System until the required training is completed and re-approval is granted. If a franchisee teaches while suspended, Gokhale Method may terminate the Franchise Agreement immediately upon notice.
As part of the continuing approval process, Gokhale Method may request franchisees to submit audiotapes or videotapes of their teaching at reasonable intervals. These recordings may be submitted for peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers, and the franchisee consents to such submission. Franchisees must also comply with Gokhale Method's operating standards as expressed in the Franchise Agreement, the Teacher's Manual, and Policy Statements. Failure to maintain these Operating Standards may result in suspension of the right to teach or termination of the Franchise Agreement. Franchisees must only teach the Gokhale System in Approved Formats and must not deviate from Gokhale Method's standards and specifications without prior written consent. They must also discontinue selling any Gokhale Method branded class, service, product, merchandise, and equipment that Gokhale Method may disapprove in writing at any time.