laurakate
Well-Known Member
LauraKate, it's not all about the products. Reading your posts over the years, I don't think you've grasped that. Being an expert in every product line will not make you a better therapist, or more popular with clients. It's YOUR skill, and YOUR personality that counts, not knowing if a cleanser has parabens in or not, the will make you successful.
I work as a stylist. Do people pay top money for me to cut their hair because I use Pureology to wash it? Or because they like the way I cut and dry it? Do they come to me because I know the shampoo ingredients or because I have many years of cutting experience (not gained through doing continual courses, gained through slogging along on the salon floor.)
So please don't over react, and take a step back before you throw a wobbly about a course being withdrawn.
When you put it that way I have come across therapists who have been given more product training than me who still work too close to the spine in a massage or have a limp looking pressure for facials. Product training really isn't everything.
Maybe I've been sucked in by the politics of it all a bit much...in my last job there was a culture of "you've not been put on many training courses have you?" said in a really condescending way by other therapists but in fairness, the clients weren't bothered about that and my feedback reflected that. Hmmm, maybe it's more of a prestige thing than an example of skill level.