Personal Consulting Course
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This course has been considerably expanded and is now part of the basic Professional Qualification Course program. It is carried out over six months - one weekend a month - constituting 84 hours' tuition + course work. To reserve your place, scroll down to the bottom of the page |
Who for?
Anyone who wishes to practise as a Professional Personal Consultant whatever your previous experience of colour.
The focus of this course is to familiarise students with the Colour Affects System in applied colour psychology. After successfully passing the course, and after undertaking a number of assessed private consultations, the student will be certified to give personal consultations in colour and is ideal for both existing image consultants and stylists as well as those with no prior experience at all.
Learning Outcomes
- Fundamental tenets of colour science.
- The physiological processes that determine emotional responses to colour.
- The difference between colour symbolism and colour psychology, with examples of both.
- The Colour Affects System and the theory behind it.
- The psychological properties of the main hues, both positive and negative.
- The behavioural patterns of the four psychological personality types.
- The four colour groups and how to classify colours correctly into one of the four fundamental colour palettes.
- The relationship between the four personality types and the four colour groups.
- Constructing a personal palette.
- Basics of promoting and running a colour consultation business.
- How to carry out a personal consultation with monitored consultations on volunteers.
- What jewellery, fabrics, makeup and hair colour best suits each person.
Students will be expected to be able to undertake a client consultation, correctly identify the primary personality type and subordinate influences, then create a supporting colour palette for that person.
Following the course, providing the colourist achieves at least 70% overall marks in the final exam the colourist will then be required to undergo a number of practice consultations, returning notes and a photo of the clients to Colour Affects, prior to certification and accreditation as a Colour Affects consultant. S/he will receive a joint Competence in Colour certificate from the SDC (Society of Dyers and Colourists). S/he is qualified to carry out personal consultations.
- Normal colour vision is a prerequisite of the course, and students' colour vision will be tested at the outset. If you have doubts about your colour vision, please contact Colour Affects for a test before you confirm your booking.
- There is no other pre-requisite to do the course, but there is a reading list that will be provided, and a few exercises set prior to commencing, to gauge your current understanding of colour.
Classes are limited to 10 people, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Fees in the UK: £2000
The fees include all materials during the course, the certificate, and a start-up set of materials to take home to do the practice consultations required prior to certification. This includes the definitives drapes and swatches (8 colours x 4 types) and a set of 10 charts with pouches (5 male, 5 female).
However, to practise as a personal consultant the purchase of further drapes and swatches will be required. Please ask for a price list.
Note: You probably need to be aware that Colour Affects teaching is not quite like other professional courses... there is far more to it than mere communication of information and facts. The study of human characteristics is by definition complex.
During this wonderful trip through the mysteries of colour, you will find yourself encountering challenges. In our experience, the understanding that students gain from meeting these challenges is a bonus that increases their confidence, not just in using colour, but in life. Colour psychology does not lie, and you will find yourself exploring aspects of yourself that might have been troubling you, or perhaps you were unaware of.
This course is extremely demanding. We therefore strongly recommend that students keep their social lives to an absolute minimum during the study weekends. From your own point of view, the more you absorb yourself into it, the more you will get out of the course.