Distance Learning FAQ'sWhen we receive your application form we send you lesson 1 and any books you ordered, and we also tell you the name of the Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner who will be your mentor and guide through the programme.
When you have completed the first lesson you send it direct to your mentor. She will mark your work and send it back to you with a letter answering any questions you have raised. She will also send you lesson two. When you send lesson two to your mentor you receive lesson three, and so on until you have finished the course.
There are five lessons in the DLP. When you have completed the last lesson the mentor will notify us and we will arrange for a Bach Foundation-approved Level 1 certificate to be issued to you.
The course meets the same criteria as the taught Level 1 courses, including those offered by the Bach International Education Programme. Topics covered include an overview of all the remedies, information on Rescue Remedy and Rescue Cream, how to select remedies, how to take them, and an introduction to using them to help friends, family and animals.
The course material itself involves a series of set tasks. You use the set books plus your own life experiences to find answers and write them down. Your mentor highlights areas where you may have missed something, and responds to any questions you have so as to clear up areas that you are not sure of.
We ask mentors to mark and return work within four weeks of receipt. In practice they usually turn work around much faster than that. If you work quickly it is possible to finish the whole course in three months. We don't advise that you try to hurry through the Level 1 Distance Learning Programme any quicker than this.
The taught Level 1 courses, which typically last a weekend, present all the remedies. You then need to spend about four months using the remedies so as to really learn them before you are ready to attend a Level 2 course. The DLP, however, includes all the personal experience that you need, so that you could if you wanted to attend a Level 2 course the minute you finish the DLP.
The DLP study programme relies on you having the information you need when you need it. It has been created around the set books, which present the original method as laid down by Dr Bach. So the answer is, yes, you do need to have the two set books even if you already own or have read other books. Also, be aware that some popular books on the remedies contain errors, so you may find your progress slow if you try to rely on other texts.
No. The Distance Learning Programme is an opportunity to learn and grow, and everyone who completes the course receives a certificate of completion. We only assess work in a formal way on the Level 3 practitioner course.
No, and we have no plans to make them available as distance learning courses. The Level 3 practitioner course in particular is an experiential course that requires attendance with a group of other students.
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