Under what condition is a Gokhale Method franchisee required to attend the Annual Meeting?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
- 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 the 2024 Gokhale Method Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are required to attend the Annual Meeting as part of their continuing training. The franchisor, Gokhale Method, may reasonably require franchisees to attend additional courses, seminars, and training programs to maintain their approval to teach approved formats. This continuing training is detailed in the then-current Teacher's Manual.
Attendance at the Annual Meeting is specifically listed as one form of continuing training that Gokhale Method may require. Other forms of continuing training include teacher webinars, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active.
Failure to attend and participate in required continuing training programs, including the Annual Meeting, may result in the suspension of the franchisee's right to teach the Gokhale System until the training is completed and re-approval is granted. If a franchisee teaches while suspended, Gokhale Method may terminate the Franchise Agreement immediately.