Our Vision: To provide a diploma course of 220 hours for Holistic Culinary Instructors and personal holistic chefs. To provide twelve certificates totalling 160 hours to holistic caterers to be accredited and empowered to prevent disease. To provide home chefs to be smarter. To place instructors in every city in North America to guide shoppers to treat disease with organic whole foods, herbal tonics and quality supplements under professional advisement. To enhance bioavailablity with traditional food combinations. To support immunity with quality water, whole organic foods and a positive mental attitude. To broaden the taste buds to prevent food allergies. To sustain your local economy by empowering you to serve from your home, the nearest high school and college in Continuing Adult Education programs, and at community centers, cultural centers, spas, retreats, boats, and wherever you as an holistic alumni will live or travel.
The Academy welcomes students of nutrition both informal or formal and take them to a level to further advance their passion to a working career with practical application in kitchens. Use tools and techniques that give you speed in your kitchen and beauty on the plate. Learn of portions sizes that suit the weight of the person you serve and their lifestyle,
There are four tiers of training. 1. Enlightened home chefs 2. Holisitc culinary instructors 3. personal catering chefs done by Distance Education or in authorized classrooms and 4. Holistic catering chefs for special events. Applicants must be dedicated to knowing everything possible about food from the field to the fork and then about chemical individuality that affects absorption.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Holistic cooking is gaining global attention because it supports a true economy that supports life. Certified personal chefs and holistic catering chefs work to protect the public from a toxic world.
An estimated 80% of the population is affected by risng food intolerances due to GMO wheat, corn and soy, overuse of chemical antibiotics and toxins in the water, air and farmlands. Your holistic cooking instructor shows you how to replace these foods with excellent and safe food alternatives that taste good. All our classes show choices in flours and dairy.
Learn of the power of healing foods. Dr. David Rowland, Ph.D nutrition, (1983), a Canadian national hero and founder of the Edison Institute (1994). www.edisoninstitute.com cleared away all his allergies. We show you how this can be done for you.
What matters is not what we eat, but what we absorb. The Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada specializes in how to plan a meal to suit the four body types, the four blood types, and the four brain types. These cutting edge scientific tools build immunity one meal at a time in a toxic world. What foods affect your body, brain, and spirit most effectively and efficiently for you?
Follow our eleven principles to create nurturing and healing kitchens, as outlined in the "Class Topics" section.
Our program is accredited and developed by experienced clinicians who are members of our Advisory Board. It is under review by the International Organization of Nutrition Consultants. The program provides credits to students at the Edison Instiute, the School of Natural Nutrition, and the Institute of Holistic Nutriton. After accrediation is completed by June 2012, graduates from this Academy will be Natural Nutrition Practioners. Our program was registered in April 2007 for screening at the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, #204059, and with Industry Canada for tax purposes, corporate # 6727263 .
Distance Education - Learn at your own pace - for home chefs, catering chefs to become holistic, personal holistic chefs and holistic culinary instructors.
At the side bar, there are twelve cooking class themes, as described in "Class Topics." You may take them one at a time until 34 classes or 160 hours or class time passes, and 12 interim exams submitted and a grade of 80% or better is achieved. Phone us to get your detailed outline of these classes and a preliminary interview at 1-877-303-2085.
Your tutorial fees are $75.00 per DVD. For out of province residents, there is no tax, for Ontario residtents a 13% tax applie or $9.75. For four DVD's in one module tax is $21.00. Mailing charges are $10.00.
Designed to develop a higher sense of self awareness, which is an essential aspect to quality leadership, this Academy invites you to participate in a Body Talk Access Training Program nearest to you. If you have not had the good fortune to have already met them, this six hour seminar is presented by qualified teaching practitioners in Canada found through Body Talk Central in Barrie ON www.bodytalkcentral.com. or in the United States at www.bodytalk.com Also required for the diploma program to teach is a Live Blood Therapy interview to assess your current state of health. And a Hair Analysis Test for you to determine levels of metal toxicity if any in your body. This test also determines your current ability to absorb nutrients.
Culinary instructors or personal chefs are required to continue to Phase 2, the diploma program, for another 60 hours. The diploma program teaches you marketing savvy. Learn how to approach your market as a very unique professional and very needed in your community. Seven more DVD's, a Book Report on that book that most influenced you nutritionally, and then the last two exams. The practicum exam is three hours long, and is done in your home. Ask a freind with a home video to tape your performance, and send the DVD with $75.00 to have us critique your performing skills and knowledge expressed as a warm up exercise to prepare you to teach applied nutrition in any kitchen. Discuss details with me when you are ready to approach this stage of your diploma program. You must be wearing the corporate jacket and hat at this stage. You select the seven recipes, but must do at least one bone broth before the presentation to use it, and to express why this is so importnat to immunity. You then demonstrate to us how you put a recipe together, seven recipes. Invite a sous chef of your choice to be present to help you organize seven workstations,
Holistic Culinary Instructors and Personal Chefs - The diploma program
Please read the notes and enjoy the delicious and well tested recipes sent to you . Outside of classes, watch cooking films. Practice menu planning. Create the exact amount of protein, fats and carbs each person of different weights and activities needs. Develop your confidence to create balanced meals. This creates balanced brains, and balanced lives.
Instructors must have an aptitude for math. You learn nutritional analysis. This service earns you $70.00 per hour from restaurant chefs or food manufacturers. If dyslexic or English is a seond language, I conduct oral exams with you at $40.00 an hour.
Your final written exam is an open book exam that is mailed to us with $100.00 for it to be marked and graded. The passing grade is 80%. Re-writes will be asked of you if this level of excellence is not achieved. This exam is sent to you at the begining so that when reading our book list you know what we are asking of you to be most mindful. It covers Food Safety nd the various seminars taken. This last exam is likely to take you two sittings or three hours to complete.
After passing with an 80% or better average, a diploma is issued. You can work in spas, continuing adult education facilites at high schools or colleges, community centers, arts schools. As you get your kitchen ready to teach, we can then place your photo and profile on our website. Tell us what motivates you to want to be a holistic culinary instructor or personal chef or holistic catering chef to serve your community. The corporate logo on your jacket and hat means "The light of love is the strongest force in the universe."
Exams for the cooking classes are based on the audited Letter of Introduction, your audited extensive class notes and food charts, and six recipes per season, plus required reference books, the Nutrition Almanac, Nourishing Traditions, and Prescription for Nutritional Healing. The Letters are from 30 to 50 pages long. During the curriculum you are asked to phone us between exams to give a progress report
For our Alumni Association, the curriculum is updated annually, based on your month of entrance
Instructors are to find their own classrooms, and work it full time or part time. Personal holistic chefs are paid $30.00 to $40.00 an hour. There are many families in need of professional applied nutrtion in the treatment of or prevention of specific diseases in their own homes. You become an important centre in the fiber of your family or families. You can spiecialize as a doula to feed a child with special needs.
In the summer you can run classes five days a week for intensive training to those who can take a week or two off from work. Classes provide time to finish the exam for those coming to you to be certified.
Be the first in your area to be a holistic personal chef. We are getting calls for holistic personal chefs, as many individuals and families call us.
In Ottawa we have instructors at both Public and Catholic School Boards, on radio and TV, at events. serving food fairs, boot camps, day cares, spas, Abbeyfield House, women's retreats, special seminars, as well as in private and commercial kitchens.
In Toronto, soon the teaching ktichen will be available. Classes begin in New Market, at a new commercial kitchen at Canada's largest health food store, Nature's Emporium, anticipated by April 2012. For updates and details of the progress of this new kitchen, please contact Chef Sherri Doak at 1-905-898-1844.
Distance eduction
For $300.00 per module or $3500.00 for your diploma you can work from your own home at your own pace, and then create a learning center in your own town. Use safe, local organic foods grown around you as much as you can, even your own gardening, as we show you the cooking techniques via DVD's and holistic attitudes by emails and phone conversations. Start from scratch. Learn to apply certain foods to specific conditions to reverse disease and to balance your body for optimum health. For further questions, or to ask for your enrollment form call 1-877-303-2085.
Certified Holistic Catering Chefs
Create sweeter human relations with holistic cooking. The public will love what you are doing for them. Enroll in our DE program and work at your own pace using our recipes in your work. Phone 1-877-303-2085 to discuss it. As you work with us, your repertoire of foods will be expanded to include gluten-free products. Depression affects half the population. You can relieve pain in families with delicious gluten-free menus, which are the best shield against heart failure and cancer. "Fifty percent of cancer cases can be prevented through whole foods" said the Kellogg Report of 1982.
Upon qualification to be holistic with exams passed, ask for our beautiful corporate logo sticker to be put on your door. Your reputation will grow by word of mouth. All our recipes have nutritional analysis, which the public wants to see.
Enlightened Home Cooks
Health conscious home cooks in Ottawa and New Market can join our hands-on classes. More classrooms will become available in Toronto, Brampton, Barrie, Bowmanville, Markham, London, Calgary, and Kelowna. Call me for updates and inquiries as we are progressive.
HOme chefs are invited to enroll in our distance education programm as well as professionals.
