A Good Old Rant! Trainers Should Be Properly Qualified!
It really is as simple as trainers should be properly qualified. Thank you to those who have emailed us questions about who our trainers are, and who is and who isn’t qualified. I’ll answer those questions for you now.
I am always told that sometimes I would do myself more favours and probably earn more money for myself, by being ‘softer’, ‘easier’, or not as ‘indignant’, when I hear blatant lies or exaggeration out there in the world.
You can probably tell, this is going to be a bit of a rant-brace yourself!
Let’s improve the training across the firewalk and empowerment industry
By reading this and engaging with us, you simply must be a person who wants to improve themselves. And in doing so, wants to improve the lives of those you touch, in an even more credible and authentic way. I salute you!
You may actually be my competition, because if I help you to be awesome, you’ll no doubt be trying to compete in some circles for the same business as me. But you know what, that doesn’t matter, because you’ve raised the bar, and the whole industry has improved on average.
But what really ticks me off, is when people try to copy the great work we do to improve ourselves, but want to do it without investing the money, and without investing the time.
So, just so that you can be absolutely certain that we completely value the time and investment you make with us, we’d like you to know some facts.
Firewalk training facts:
Firstly, there is only one institution in the UK that set out to purposefully train people to facilitate firewalking events, and that organisation is ours, Firewalk UK. Having been trained by Tolly Burkan, of The Firewalking Institute which was the original body that set out to train firewalking instructors. We were all trained to the basic standard by The Institute who firmly believed that trainers should be properly qualified.
Secondly, there are a number of Master Trainers, around the world, who have persevered and paid to be trained to the next level. Firewalk UK holds Master Certifying status. Some have let their certifications lapse, but there are only about a dozen of us in the world, and we know who they are. In the UK, there is no one that trains to our standard.
Firstly, anyone else who claims that they are competent to train anyone in this field, have all learned only to produce an event.
In order to be qualified (in the same way any teacher is qualified), you have to go through a thorough facilitation training, where you are assessed, measured, tested for safety information transference, and mentored by a collection of people. You have to train to teach, as well as learn the latest advances in the scientific and business community world, so that you can be accepted credibly, otherwise, you’ll just end up selling for the lowest fees possible.
It is worth remembering that not long ago, a businessman, who ‘modelled’ the firewalk seminar- in other words copied it, without taking the course, ended up sending most of his Eagle Star Insurance delegates to hospital!
Comparing good with bad
However, if you are in business, you will know that you can only really comment on what is out there, when you get a testimonial from someone who has done both courses, to compare them.
So last year, we received a call from a very unhappy delegate, saying that he had received training to be a Firewalk Instructor, and felt that the training was wholly inadequate and that he couldn’t believe that what we had promised him from us, was what he had received.
Of course, he had bought the course, because it was cheap, and because he had been sold on the quantity of work the Firewalking Trainer had done, rather than the quality of his work, or quality of his training.
Well, I’ll leave the rest to be explained by OUR delegate. He came onto our course, and afterward was so livid at how much he was mis-sold the quality of the material, training, interaction, and safety, he wrote to us, and to this previous provider and gave him both barrels. He couldn’t believe how succoured he’d been.
Now, I am a firm believer in awesome quality and these are two of my mantras:
Price
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man’s lawful prey.
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)
Quality
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, severe effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
William A Bernhardt
So, of course we have a 100% guarantee.
Now, if you want to train to do this fantastic event, to make sure that trainers should be properly qualified, I can promise you that if you cannot do it here in the UK, I will tell you who is the best person in your country, or close to your country. That’s my promise, and if you call us, and are open with us, we’ll tell you, because if you’re going to be changing people’s lives for the better, we want you to do it in the best way possible. That’s in our interest as well!
Okay, that’s it rant over, and we look forward to meeting you as a future superstar of empowerment in the future, if you want to look conscientiously at this path.
Steve Consalvez