Working at National Holistic Institute

It is a unique experience to help train the next generation of massage therapists.

Managers are passive aggressive and do not treat any issue seriously. There is a company culture of gaslighting and absolutely no accountability amongst campus managers. Management will actively harrass you, and makes continuous attempts to push you into doing things that are out of the scope of practice, violate the ethical codes of our industry, and generally demonstrate dehumanizing behavior towards staff. This mistreatment also extends to the students on some campuses. In the campus I worked at 2 entire crews of teaching staff, which includes myself, were bullied out of our jobs by the manager who routinely engaged in passive aggressive harassment, micro managing, and active promotion of a toxic culture in which he is always the “good guy” despite everyone who has worked under him unanimously agreeing that he is a vindictive manipulative poser with little to no relevant work experience in the past 6 years. The company is rife with under qualified personnel that somehow or another find themselves in positions of power, which they promptly begin to abuse. No room for advancements. Annual raises were paused for approx 6 years, and when they were restored the raised were a whopping 16 cents an hour. The pay at other massage schools is on average twice what NHI pays. If you point out the disparity, they tell you “you don’t have to work here.” There is no value placed on instructors. They prefer to hire graduates. It does not take long to realize that what you are doing as a teacher is essentially training entire cohorts of people who will someday replace you once NHI has sucked the life out of you.

None. The benefits package is a joke, and the HR manager will straight up tell you that she doesn’t have a background in HR and does not know how to adequately perform her duties. Numerous colleagues had issues with their benefits administration, and could not use their healthcare. This resulted in one of my colleagues almost losing their life to an internal bleed.

The CEO honestly seems to care, but does not have much ability to change the conditions as the rest of the management group does not seem to accurately report the happenings within the company to him. The management group is ineffectual and retaliatory.

The company is sick at its core. It needs to be rebuilt from the ground up with an entirely new management team. The curriculum is at minimum 20 years out of date and needs serious revision to compete with the current ideas and sciences behind massage therapy.

It is below average. I couldn’t afford to take care of myself on the salary I was given. When I asked for a raise so I could eat more regularly I my manager literally laughed in my face.

They make attempts to look diverse but their actions don’t match their words. There is currently a discrimination lawsuit against the company on the grounds of wrongful termination because an instructor acted “too gay” in the classroom. When a teaching assistant was outing my gender identity to students and I complained amounting manager his response was to tell me “it’s easier to just be out.” The DEI committee is largely performative. They talk, and they discuss, but there are no actual changes to the company that benefit the people they are trying to help n

It is not an environment where one can feel joy. It is hostile, cold, toxic.