Reflexology

[Steve-O In AZ]

Hello

I am a new member and am thinking of doing a reflexology course with The Central London School of Reflexology and wonder if anyone studied there or has donea similar course I would be interested to hear what you thought and what career prospects you nowhave.

thanks
Polly

 

[Dancer101]

Hi Polly,

Having talked with a number of reflexologists and other complementary therapists, we've all been in agreement that while adult community college training is OK, and can in some instances be good, you really do get a better level of training at private colleges. This is mainly because class sizes are smaller, you spend more time doing practicalsand you get much more comprehensive training in A&P- although someschools (likethe British School of Reflexology run by Ann Gillanders and Doreen Bayly's school) have the A&P as home study, which isn't as favourable. So theoretically, the Central London College of Reflexology should be good choice!

I looked at the website, and I have to say the syllabus looks great.It seems to be much more person centredthan the averagecoursethat focusses mainly on theory and just about covers the bare basics of client care.It seemsthorough andyoulearn hand reflexology too, which courses seem to be cutting out these days.The thing that really caught my eye was that the course meets the requirements set by parliament, and because of all the recent dvelopments that's a really positive thing...especially if you want to work in the NHS or a healthcare setting.

As for career prospects- well, the best training doesn't necessarily guarantee you more clients and getting a good client base can still be really slow.A successfulis dependent on a lot of factors though, and if there's a will there's definately a way...unfortunately you just can't afford to assume that good training makes it any easier![&:]

I'm not sure if that helps, but keep us all in the loop and let us know what you decide.

 

[Karen Mccaleb]

Hi

I studied there, when it was Central London School of Reflexology. I take it you mean Michael Keet's school? It is certainly a well respected reflexology school. I think I got a good grounding in reflexology there, and met some really great people. With any school, you need to get a good feeling about it and its staff and teachings, and what suits one person may not suit another, so I would advise you to make an appointment to visit. Good luck!

 

[ChristelW]

I also trained at the CLSR and I have to say that it was a great course. Quite apart from Mike, who was a fantastic tutor who really put across his enthusiasm for his therapies, the sheer range of what was covered, whilst still managing to cover things in depth, meant that we were all very much able to deal with clients, even when we started doing our case studies and were really pretty inexperienced at dealing with people in that kind of setting.

In addition to the standard treatment, which was learnt by doing a full afternoon of practical reflexology on every day of the course, we covered hand reflexology, clinical nutrition (which, for some reason, had me running to McD's straight after the class [&:]), a full weekend of A&P (during which we covered more and in more depth than my cousin did on her course, which was a full year of A&P alongside her reflexology course), client care and business skills. It was a really good grounding in reflexology which gave us solid foundation for good practice.

In case you haven't noticed, I couldn't praise the course highly enough. (If Mike's reading this, I'll have my fiver now thanks [8D])