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Change your bread, change your life. Discover how sourdough helps make bread more nutritious and why it is easier to digest, as you learn to bake eat and share extraordinary bread to support both mental and physical health.
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Vanessa Kimbell

Teaching Bread for Health Diploma

£10,000.00

  • DURATION: 1 Academic Year
  • LOCATION: Online & 2 Week in Person Workshop
  • START DATE: 22nd September 2022
  •  REQUEST COURSE PROSPECTUS

Category: Courses
  • Description
  • Your Last Lesson of the Course

Who does this course appeal to?

This course is for people who want to teach sourdough bread making for health.  Previous students have been bakers & healthcare professionals with an interest in teaching. It particularly suits people who  want a career change or want to add an extra income stream to an existing business.

The course is suitable for anyone with an interest in baking the most nourishing bread possible, and teaching others. It will  suit people who are already bakers, or people who want a career change. It is also a superb way to add a complimentary income stream to an existing business or practice.

We find this course particularly appeals to:

  • GP’s including healthcare professionals who want to include lifestyle classes to their practices.
  • People who work in the mental health sector such as psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational health practitioners, mental health nurses and social workers.
  • Bakers who want to teach more than just bread making.
  • Cookery teachers, chefs, food industry professionals and community support workers.

What is the most important thing I need to understand about this course?

The most important thing. YOU. One of the most amazing things I have discovered over many years of training teachers is that you bring with you a unique set of skills that are a part of the magical ingredient. It is the combination of your life experience and qualifications that will make you an amazing teacher; you will be able to apply your life skills to your teaching.

Multi disciplinary

The course is taught by both Vanessa Kimbell and a multi disciplinary in house team including our in House GP and Medical Director; Dr Alex Davison, our Director of Research; Dr. Miguel Mateas and Nutritionalist Venetia Mitchell, as well as guest lecturers from all over the world delivering lectures on their specialist topics.

This is Lifestyle Medicine – with the evidence that it works.

Vanessa teaching a mother and daughter to make a Chocolate, Rye & Buttermilk Sourdough Bread

The syllabus covers topics such as Bread and the Impact on the Gut Microbiome, Bread and Balancing Blood Sugar,  Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) Bread and Mental Health, Wheat Allergies, Bread and Obesity.

You will also learn extensively about the gut microbiome and how to bake to nourish both physical and mental health.  So when you are teaching your course, you will be able to combine techniques that apply both evidence of positive impact of our bread protocol to physical health, as well as  focusing on the person in front of you.  In this sense, the courses you will learn to teach are lifestyle medicine.

  • You will teach about eating to support the gut microbiome, and the course includes nutritional tutorials.
  • Whilst you will be teaching the impact of bread on the body, you will additionally teach that making bread is also about stress reduction and mental wellbeing.
  • Our style is about making bread part of everyday life, so we include lessons in shopping habits in the sourdough bread making schedule that encourages physical activity and exercise as part of the way we teach.
  • Our ‘bake two, give one’ philosophy is taught through all our courses to encourage healthy relationships with  family, friends and communities. It is a beautiful way to teach people to connect with themselves, to the people they love, and to build confidence and self esteem.

How is the course taught?

This is our most advanced course, and is made up of a combination of 2 online syllabuses and 2 ‘in person’ workshops.

  • The Advanced Nutrition & Digestibility of Bread Diploma (this includes a 5-day Baking Workshop)
  • The 1 year Bake for Health Syllabus)
  • + a 5-day Teacher Training Workshop.

(Please note that the two workshops have been scheduled together back-to-back to make travelling easier with one visit for 2 weeks to The Sourdough School.)

You will learn about the inner workings of The Sourdough School, the secrets and support needed to teach a sourdough for heath baking course, and discover what it takes to deliver a five-star experience.

  • There is also a 1 year support pack available when you graduate
  • You may also apply for a Sourdough School Licence and open your own Sourdough School.  Please note there are terms and conditions, and we highly recommend that you read them before applying.
  • We highly recommend that you request our Prospectus here: REQUEST FULL COURSE PROSPECTUS before enrolling. The Prospectus provides full syllabus details.

Limited places

There are very limited places on this course.  We keep numbers low so that we can give you the support you need to succeed.

CLICK TO REQUEST FULL COURSE PROSPECTUS .

Your Last Lesson of the Course

Part of the course is being a member of our Sourdough club, and the very last lesson of your course set a task for you to continue your learning by supporting and sharing your knowledge with someone you are connected to.

So we invite you to stay as a member of The Sourdough Club for another year and we gift a membership code to you to give a young baker that you nominate as the final step in your syllabus. It means you can keep baking and learning from your course and you can support a young baker anywhere in the world virtually through the club and the forum – because our connection to each other is the real secret of why sourdough is good for us.

HELPING EACH OTHER IS ABOUT BEING PART OF SOMETHIN HELPING EACH OTHER IS ABOUT BEING PART OF SOMETHING MORE….and great baguettes..

I read today that @tommyandatticus is over over 70% funded on their Kickstarter! Please help push them the ladt 30% & spread the word by sharing our campaign with your community!
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Once we open our retail bakery, baguettes will be available daily at the bakery and at our markets. Folks who have followed Tommy and Atticus since our home delivery days may remember our baguettes. Once we started selling at farmers markets two years ago, I had to drop baguettes since baguette shaping didn't fit into the increased production schedule required for farmers markets. Many more items will be available at our retail location but I'm super excited to bring back a favorite! #tommyandatticus #letsdough #comingsoon #smallbusiness #kickstarter
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TURMERIC PICKLED VEGETABLES We made these delici TURMERIC PICKLED VEGETABLES 

We made these delicious Turmeric Pickled Vegetables with some students who were attending one of our Sourdough School Diploma courses. 

We added the wonderfully golden turmeric for it’s amazing health benefits, and its beautiful colour of course. Not only that, but we also use our raw apple cider vinegar – live vinegar that is actually beneficial to your health. 

Add these Turmeric Pickled Vegetables to any meal as a side, a filling or a topping – they will increase your consumption of probiotics and the diversity of your diet.

At The Sourdough Club, we're not just teaching you to make sourdough, we'll teach you to make nourishing dishes to accompany your bread! Follow the link in the bio to learn about joining the Club 

#guthealth #healyourgut #healthygut #guthealing #guthealthmatters #letfoodbethymedicine #foodasmedicine #gutbrainconnection #nutrientdense #micronutrients #digestivehealth #nutritionfacts #microbiome #breadandguts #zoe #bluepoo #bluepoochallenge
🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉 We’ve givIng all our 🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉 

We’ve givIng all our UK members a chance to be gifted one of these black barley flakes so we thought we’d do a giveaway here on our instagram account too. We’re super excited about this. So yesterday @vanessakimbell baked a 10 minute style bread for her meeting with @kylebooksuk to start on her 4th sourdough book…. and we thought as a celebration that you can have the chat to win her first sourdough book that has this excellent black barley recipe in 👆🏼

WIN
👆🏼a copy of “The Sourdough School Book” 📖 & a 1 year self prescribed bake for health Sourdough Club membership (RRP £490.88 pa) 🍞
,PLUS 1kg of black barley flakes 🌾 
➕an invitation to a live conversation with @vanessakimbell & @hodmedods about the history and nutritional values of the incredible grain. ( date being announced in a week)  FIR YOU & YOUR 2 NOMINATED FRIENDS 

Here’s 4 different ways to enter:
1️⃣ Like this post ❤️ & comment why you would like to learn more about this relationship between bread and health 
2️⃣ Follow @sourdoughclub 👥 @hodmedods & @vanessakimbell 
3️⃣ Tag 2 friends who love baking! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳
4️⃣ Share this post in your story & tag @sourdoughclub 📲

Boost your chances:
🔄 Each additional friend tag = 1 extra entry!

Hurry, contest ends on 16th April 🗓️ Good luck! 🍀

*UK residents only, 18+. T&Cs apply. This giveaway is not affiliated with Instagram.

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SOURDOUGH CLUB LIVE: BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE SOURDOUGH CLUB LIVE: BAKING AS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE SESSIONS – MONDAY 7PM

Monday's live Baking As Lifestyle Medicine Session is with Venetia Mitchell, our in-house Nutritionist. She I kicking off April's theme, which is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)!

We will talking about IBS and sourdough bread all month. Our students will be looking at why commercial bread can be so difficult to digest for so many people. 
Why people suffering with IBS or IBD need to move slowly to wholegrain in their sourdough baking. They will also be looking at a feature and study showing the potential of aniseed for improving IBS and mental health.

Venetia is able to discuss all areas of nutrition, particularly in relation to the health benefits of wholegrain & sourdough. In addition, other areas of physiology in relation to nutrition would be gut health, brain & mental health and immunity.

See you at 7pm Club members 👋

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🫘 BLACK BEAN & RED PEPPER SOURDOUGH NAAN 🫘 🫘 BLACK BEAN & RED PEPPER SOURDOUGH NAAN 🫘

This recipe is for a beautiful wholegrain flatbread is high in fibre and bursting with a hearty filling.

This is one of those breads I turn to when I need to keep my mood level, especially if I am trying to maintain my weight, because it keeps me fuller for longer.

Sourdough Club members can find this in the flatbread recipe library 

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