Intensive Floral Design Class
Floral Design Basics is a necessity if you are pursuing a professional career in the floral industry or starting your own shop/studio. Flora Elements has an intensive basic floral design class. In these classes, you will learn flower and foliage identification, bench basics, care and handling of flowers, mechanics, techniques, principles and elements, floral seasonality and substitutions, and a range of design shapes along with a few field trip opportunities. Flora Elements Education and Design is focused on feeding your curiosity just as if you were touring a foreign city by exploring all the important aspects of floral design. Lisa Belisle AIFD is a fun and innovative instructor who uses all of her senses to teach and adapt to those around her. Repetition is key—you will create floral designs more than once to test your skill set and to ensure that you retain the skills you learn. Your accuracy and timing will improve with each class so that when it is time for you to be working in a shop scenario or on your own, your work will flow with grace and ease.
The Intensive Floral Design course is two or three four-hour days a week during retail hours to ensure that you have a working school environment grabbing every opportunity to learn more. If there are orders to do, we will do those together before lectures and coursework. Wedding work is a possibility if we have one booked and you will be invited to the setup to ensure you are seeing the entire possibilities of our industry if you have already completed the nessassary classes. Other jobs, and opportunities will also be discussed as Floral Designer is not the only job available in our industry.
What to Expect:
- Daily hands-on floral design instruction. Plan for 10 am to 6 pm
- Principles and Elements of Floral Design explained and implementation for further understanding
- Work with some of the best flowers from all over the world!
- Take home floral and practice, practice, practice!
- Business principles and how to buy flowers, calculate costs and profit and loss
- Coaching: where do you want to be in the floral industry later?
- Influence: What inspires you to grow and design?
- Repetition: Make your designs more than once to retain verbiage and skill set.
- Road Trip: Visit a wholesaler, on-site setups when the opportunity arises
- Interaction: Real customers visit us, phone calls and orders, corporate designs, and bridal consultations. Note – if you do not wish to participate in bridal please let me know during our get to know you session.
After your 12 sessions, you will receive a Certificate of Completion and a photo SD card with all of the designs that you completed during class. We have a professional studio set up, so feel free to bring a camera and take your own also. Your camera is your worst critic!
Fee $2,500 You will receive a book, workbook, pruners, scissors, and a wire cutter with your fee.
When you register, I highly recommend using PayPal Credit, this will allow you to receive 6 months of zero percent interest-free to make payments and tackle the course fee over that time. All fees are non-refundable as this secures your supplies, fresh flowers, foliages, hard goods, and your instructor’s time. Please note you will sign a contract of expectations on your first day to remind you of your obligations and that this is intellectual property acquired from over 20 years of experience and continuing education of the instructor.
Required: We require a short phone consultation to make sure this is the correct class for you and to customize the curriculum to your expectations post classroom. Please click the Book Now to schedule a chat with Lisa.
