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At this level of training Immersions become the best way to bond with other students.
Tuesday Talks is included in tuition hosted by teachers. It is an open zoom meeting room where curiosity, questions and concerns are addressed.
This level of training options does not qualify for an award.
It is a lifestyle support program.
Yes, you will receive some follow up videos if you also download our catalogs.
The classroom contains 300 video presentations.
If you need more details, just let us know.
The cost of your training is listed at the bottom of the descritpion page.
This is a great question to reflect on whether a culinary artist’s skills and knowledge will be marketable.
A successful graduate will have a level of mastery cooking whole, plant-based ingredients. Learning the structure in an artist’s training based on the creative process, you will be pushed to go deeper into how you organize and express dishes for any kind of diet.
We have been training people continuously for over 30 years. Some choose to work in a restaurant and others choose to create their own style of business. There are many styles of commercial food service venues from food truck to hospitals and schools. You will be taught how to cook and design menus for intimate and large groups. We usually recommend graduates identify and reach out to established businesses they admire to “learn” the rhythm of different kinds of “service.”
Your diploma from The School of Natural Cookery along with a letter of recommendation offers valuable confirmation of your accomplishments.
Private coaching from our successful graduates is also available.
Graduates lean toward private/personal cheffing, teaching, designing recipes for magazines such as Bon Appétit, Fine Cooking, VegNews, Dietitian’s Journal and others. Some graduates have written definitive cookbooks, gravitate to blogging, product development for the packaged food industry, and building their own business based on their passion. Other graduates are nutritional consultants and use their training to design menus for clients. Another business opportunity is available in a leadership role as an advocate for healthcare.
The Natural Cook training becomes a thread in the tapestry of your life. It will strengthen the courage in all aspects of who you are. If you are an athlete, coach, artist, musician, or person healing an illness, it will merge your identity into a marketable skill or service.
Many students like to earn the credentials from The School of Natural Cookery even if they have no clear professional goals upon entering the training.
The advantage to The Natural Chef training is the support from the platform, staff and the accountability a student has to move through a massive amount of experience and information.
The most powerful tool you will have from this training is the ability to adapt to all situations.
The goal is to use this training as a jumping off place to find the industry format that brings most of you and your interests together.
As an expert in plant-based ingredients from the “whole food” as the source, you will understand enough on how to do more than these careers:
The Natural Chef graduates with an 85% or higher GPA, participate in the lab sessions, and who have successfully passed the final exam will earn a Diploma.
The School of Natural Cookery does not offer a formal placement service.
However, we often receive requests for graduates and provide information about opportunities. If you are interested in hearing about them, you will know about the opportunities in our Alumni Forum.
We also try to match graduates with opportunities as they come into the school.
Chefs are managers. They manage multiple experiences inside and out. The Natural Chef – diploma program includes physical, mental and emotional strategies to support a student’s skills.
Communication with the teacher is key, including about how you are managing your schedule. Please review in the catalog options and policies for unforeseen circumstances that might interfere with you completing the training.
If you are cooking at least three times a week, your assignments can easily be worked into your schedule.
We recommend you find a rhythm in the week to study, shop, cook, upload assignments, and preview the topics in the upcoming lesson.
1 – 2 hours to acquire kitchen and pantry items
5 – 10 hours to study and take notes on the topics of the week. This should be done in a quiet place with access to high speed internet, but not a kitchen.
5 – 10 hours to cook the assignments
1 to 2 hours to record upload assignments
1 to 1.5 hours for weekly meetings with mentors and classmates online
You will need to arrange your life to fit the scheduled days and times for live meetings and lab sessions. During the enrollment process you will know the exact schedule.
Two lab sessions, six hours each: scheduled dates and time in the first month and the last month.
Four lab sessions, three hour each: 2.5 hours in the kitchen plus .5 hour in classroom
Please download a catalog for a full description of costs, payment plan options, partial scholarships, and enrollment process details.
If you have technical issues, please send a detailed message to support@naturalcookery.com. The support team will review your issue in get back to you within 24 hours. For urgent issues connecting to one of the web meetings, please notify the instructor facilitating the class. The instructor will do some basic troubleshooting of the issue and contact the support team directly if help is required.
There is additional technical information located in the resource library: Preparing for the Course e-book located in the online classroom.
Currently all of our programs do not require a student to study on-site.
The times for live classes are published in Mountain Time.
Make sure you are aware of the time zone for your live, virtual classroom.
Yes, you will receive some follow up videos if you also download our catalog.
If you need more details, or would like to see the classroom, just let us know.
If your goal is to have The School of Natural Cookery – diploma to begin or enhance a profession with whole food plant-based expertise, then The Natural Chef is for you. The Natural Chef training is approved by the State of Colorado Department of Higher Education as a Private Vocational School program. The training is experiential, highly accountable, requiring a commitment with mentor/teachers over nine months.
Independent Study with or without curriculum and mentor/teacher guide.
If you like to take your time, and have no pressure to accomplish this training in any kind of time restriction, The Essentials For Becoming A Natural Cook option offers all you need to travel through the self-guided curriculum. You will explore the topics in an Open Classroom while learning techniques, and slowly integrate concepts of The Language of Intuitive Cooking™.
The Immersion format brings the essence of a lifetime training into your own kitchen, with teacher-mentors.
Private and small groups help to go deeper using a format of combining the online classroom together with our unique guided curriculum with the structure of time.
For students who like the structure in live class/labs with the guidance of a teacher-mentor.
This is the most efficient and affirmative way to study The Language of Intuitive Cooking and technical details of cooking whole food plant based ingredients.
Students should allow a minimum of 25 – 30 hours a week to absorb content over 9 months.
Preparing for this 9 month training is important so we have request for early enrollment a minimum of two moths before the start-date.
Open Classroom: Independent Study
The Essentials For Becoming A Natural Cook
3 months studying 12 hours a week will give students a quick integration.
When you enroll in an Immersion Session, you will have access to the open classroom. It is recommended that you prepare a minimum of 1 month before you begin The Essentials For Becoming A Natural Cook immersion sessions.
Tuition cost varies according to the training option you select. There are monthly payment options and discounted prices for single payment options.
These tuition payments include access to the classroom and the benefits of upgrading or adding additional topics.
If you add individual topics or upgrade to other options, your enrollment in all the topics you purchase will stay in your dashboard.
After the enrollment period that goes with the tuition, you will have the option to maintain access through The Natural Cook – Collective membership $26.90 per month. Cancel anytime.
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