Blended Online/ 2-day Hands-on Training
Online plus 2 days Hands-on only $1095
Take the online training first.
Registration form
Five CEUs (Continuing Education Units) available from the University of Maine: add $25.
After submitting the Registration form, return to this Add To Cart button to finish.
The first 10 instructors who register for a blended training will receive it at a $200 discount.
Online course
30 hours/16 lessons online plus 2 days/2 nights hands-on training at a location where MSI's Beginning class is being taught within 6 months of completion of online course. Want to get started before your course begins? Read our book and see our DVD (required). $25 the cost of the book and DVD (or $20 for book/video) will be credited toward your training fee.
Our new Blended and Full Hands-on Trainings benefit the International Swimming Hall of Fame in a new partnership between ISHOF and MSI. The Hall of Fame's goal is that everyone learn to swim. It chose MSI to fulfill the part that is our expertise: afraid students who cannot learn in traditional lessons: 64% of American adults, and unknown numbers of children. Then, on to the rest of the world.
Online/2-Day Hands-on Training $1095
"My two little 4-year olds that I have been using the "method" on are both putting their faces in the water and floating on their backs!! The serious one has yet to smile, but the other one was laughing up a storm today! Way too awesome...
Thanks, Melon!!
—Judy Lemke, AquaMania Swim School
"You'll never teach the same way again once you've taken this training."
— 100% of our Instructor Graduates
Educational, enlightening, fulfilling. I would love to do something similar anytime possible! It allows you a different outlook on how people feel, learn, prosper, and grow naturally."
—Malari McMurtery, Bubbles to Butterfly Swim School
Registration form
Take the online training. Then come to 2 days of the Miracle Swimming Beginning class. Full comprehension of our system is accomplished by observing and testing it in person during the first 2 days of our Beginning class for adults afraid in water. You'll arrive in time for dinner the evening before the Beginning class starts. This is usually on a Sunday evening and will be the introduction to the hands-on training. You'll observe and participate in Days 1 and 2 of class (all day Monday, and Tuesday morning). Tuesday afternoon is wrap-up and send-off back to your home teaching environment to begin a new way of teaching! If you want to stay for the whole class, you may do so for the higher training fee.
CEUs
At this time, we anticipate that 5 CEUs will be available for completing the online/2-day training. (Continuing Education Units)
Next Hands-on Portions of 2-day Blended Training,
Palm Springs, CA November 2-4, 2008
Tampa, FL February 16-18, 2009
Boston, MA (tentative) April 12-14, 2009
Glenwood Springs CO, May 30-June 2, 2009
The first 10 instructors who register for the blended training will receive it for $895. It begins with reading the book and seeing the DVD. The online course begins September 1, 2008.
Licensing
The Licensing Agreement will be sent to you before your training. Please read it over and bring any questions with you to the training.
Licensing Agreement
The licensing agreement says, in summary:
- You as an instructor will take the online course plus the 2-day hands-on training, plus 6 monthly one-hour teleconferences.
- You teach 3 Beginning classes, minimum, in the first year, to practice what you learned: a lot is learned by teaching.
- Once you've taken the training and taught 3 Miracle Swimming Beginning classes in 12 months, you become a licensed instructor. Until then, you're a trained instructor. You need to keep teaching it to keep learning the material and stay fresh.
- The licensing fee is $100/year for an instructor. It's included in the training fee for the first year. We recommend that each instructor pay his/her own licensing fee.
- 10% of gross revenues of Miracle Swimming classes goes back to MSI/ISHOF. This percentage decreases as revenues rise.
- The course material is proprietary: you may not license someone else to teach it but you may inform your staff of the principles so they may use them.
- Books and DVDs and Student Handbooks are purchased from MSI/ISHOF (the source) at wholesale prices.
- In locations where there is currently a swim school that exclusively teaches Miracle Swimming, there will be a 15 mile buffer around that school as a protected MSI-territory. Currently these locations are: Brandon, FL, Berkeley, CA, and Sarasota, FL.
- In locations where there's an MSI-licensed instructor, there will be a 15 mile buffer around that school as a protected MSI-method territory unless those instructors okay the training of additional instructors in their territory. Currently these locations are: Dallas, TX, West Sacramento, CA, Seattle, WA, Bowie, MD, London, England, Redondo Beach, CA, Mill Valley, CA
- As of September 1, 2008, there will be no new territories since YMCAs and municipalities will need multiple MSI trained instructors. Territories will no longer be needed since virtually all adults taking swimming lessons at all swim schools and agencies need this course: the market is vast.
You may train also to teach our freestyle, snorkeling and scuba classes.
"Why I Love Teaching Miracle Swimming "
—Cori Myka, Owner, Orca Swim School, Seattle
Cori, left. Melon, right. Students who never would have been
underneath anyone in the water before, underneath.
When I was teaching a private lesson to an afraid adult today I had remarkable new learning for myself as I watched the leaps in learning my student was having. Driving home I was thinking about how I have been teaching MSI for 4 years and am still learning and discovering. I have been a great teacher these 4 years, yet still I'm able to learn and discover with my students. The more I get present to the teaching, the more learning I gain. With other teacher trainings I have felt I needed to get the drills, games, and tricks and it will help my teaching and then that's the end. I am left with wondering if someone else has a better game or drill I should be learning. I feel stifled in that learning. With MSI I get to continually learn while practicing the method of teaching... or rather the method of learning. After 4 years I get it (again)!
Thanks, Melon.
Cori
--Cori was the first instructor trained and licensed in Miracle Swimming (2004), other than MSI graduates.
Referral Discount Reduce your training fee by $100 for each instructor and $75 for each afraid adult you refer to us. Learn More 