Applying For A Place On This Course

Entrance to the course is by interview. We want to ensure that taking part in the course is the right thing for you at this time, that you will be able to fully participate in the whole course, and there are no foreseeable problems with you completing the first year course successfully. Further guidelines on what we are looking for are given below.

If after reading through these Course Details you decide you want to join this course, please complete the application form (click here) and send to us. We will then telephone you to arrange a mutually convenient time and place for an interview with either Oliver Cowmeadow or Marijke De Coninck. It is preferable that this is in person, but if you are living at a great distance it may be by telephone. You will normally be told the outcome at the end of the interview. On being accepted, you can then pay the deposit to reserve a place on the course.

Please note that if there is a shortage of places on the course, we will consider applications in the order that we receive fully completed application forms, including photo.

The main qualities we are looking for in prospective students are as follows.

• That you have already made a start studying macrobiotics, and have been applying its philosophy and healing to developing yourself and your health, including cooking and eating using macrobiotic principles, for sometime. The minimum level of previous studies is that of the Looking After Your Health course at the Holistic Cooking School, which includes basic yin yang philosophy applied to diet, health and illness, Oriental diagnosis of the main organs and systems of the body, developing a clear understanding of your own main physical or emotional imbalances and how to heal them, and ten cooking classes. The Looking After Your Health course consists of fifty hours of study. If you have not studied macrobiotics before then you can attend a Looking After Your Health course or equivalent studies elsewhere before applying for this course. This requirement is to ensure that you have some understanding of what you are going to study, and also means that we can immediately start teaching in greater depth. If you need any clarification about what you have studied before etc., please ask us.
• An enthusiasm and passion for this training and what you will be learning, and an appetite for going through change and inner development. These qualities will mean that you will get more from this course, and the student group will be dynamic, enthusiastic and fun!
• That you have the time, energy, money, childminders or whatever practical means you need to attend and participate fully in the course, including home study.

We do not require any particular educational qualifications to join this course, but if your knowledge of western physiology is slight, you may need to put in extra work in this area of studies before or during the course.