Monday, May 26, 2008

Life Coach & Therapist Training Funded For You...Or Not?

As you did your training to become a Life Coach or Therapist, you might have come across training providers who were members of the Career Development Loan scheme.

This arrangement allows you to take out a loan from a high steet bank to fund your training, and you pay it back as you go along. Its a fairly good way for people to fund their qualifications.

Now I've run over 20 NLP Practitioner Certifications over the last 7 years and had Registered Provider status with the CDL organistion since 2003. After a
cabinet reshuffle within that organisation, I was recently asked to renew my status by reapplying. The whole process took over 2 months waiting to hear back from them.

Imagine my surprise last week when I was told they rejected my application, on the grounds that, and I quote: "There is no evidence to suggest that an NLP Practitioner can make an adequate income doing NLP".

I'd better go back to a 5 figure income and start lookin for a real job then...