education

Begin your journey with Dermalogica D.N.A and become Dermalogica Certified

This exciting hands-on 3 part workshop  is delivered in a fun and open format that is designed to give you, the Professional Skin Therapist, knowledge and skills needed to achieve the first step in becoming a Dermalogica Expert.

Once you complete all three Dermalogica D.N.A. workshops, you will be Dermalogica Certified and you may register for any and all of our other workshops.

Click here to book!

Yes, our primary workshop prerequisite for Professional Skin Therapists is to be Dermalogica Certified or higher.

Become Certified by completing Dermalogica DNA.

Prerequisites for Non Therapists are  DNA Day 1 and DNA Day 2.

Some workshops within our curriculum may have additional prerequisites. Check what those are in the description box for each class you are booking in the Book a Workshop calendar.

Some workshops also have support materials - resources for you to review before your workshop. Click here to check them out!

All non-therapists (managers, owners, reception, makeup artist, hair stylists) are welcome to take Dermalogica D.N.A. Day 1 Discovering Tops Sellers. You will get to discover and play with our top selling products by experiencing them on your own skin, which is the perfect way to strengthen your retail knowledge.

Follow this workshop by attending Dermalogica D.N.A Day 2  Navigating Targeted Systems.

Navigating Targeted Systems is your guide to learning all about Dermalogica’s advanced retail product systems that directly work to prevent or correct specific skin concerns.  

 As you navigate through this workshop you will gain knowledge about the causes and influences of different skin conditions such as aging, sensitivity, hyperpigmentation and acne.

Once those are complete, check out and register for HAPPY Retailing, our Science Behind series and Get the Love, Get the Sale!

When logged in, select My Education - My Workshops.

You'll see your past, wait list and future workshops listed.

You will also recieve a booking confirmation email on the night that you book any workshop with basic details.

You may also opt into recieving text reminders that are sent 2 days prior to your booked workshop.

To cancel a workshop please call us at 1-866-618-1116 x 3 or email bookings.ca@dermalogica.com with all your name, the workshop name, date and location.

We are available Mondays - Fridays 9am - 5pm EST exlcuding holidays.

Cancellation Policy

A $25-$50 cancellation fee is charged per workshop, if 2 business days' notice isn't given.

Once you are registered for any workshop, you will receive an email with the workshop link and workbook one - two days before the workshop date.

If a public holiday is just before your workshop date, you may receive this email on the morning of your workshop.

Please also check your junk mail.

If you still did not receive it, please ensure that you did register for the workshop and give us a call.

Certificates are available to all employees of an authorized Dermalogica Skin Centre.

You will recieve a certificate for each completed tier of the Expert journey. So, when you complete all classes for the Certified, level you will get a Certified certificate, and so on for Specialist and Expert.

Certified and Specialist certificates are sent digitally to the students' email on file approximately 3 business days after you achieve this status.

Expert certificates are framed and shipped along with your Expert Pin and Apron to your skin centre on file approximately 10-14 business days after you achieve this status.

The only workshop that has it's own certificate is Pro Power Peel Workshop. A certificate is given based upon successful completion of a the entire workshop, including a hands on portion. At this time, we are not issuing certificates for this workshop as we do not presently offer a hands on portion.

Once you complete Clean Touch certification, you will be emailed your certificate.

Once you complete any class on the Learning Hub, a digital certificate will be available to you on the 'completed' module.

You can request a digital copy of any certificate (exception: Pro Power Peel) by emailing your request to bookings.ca@dermalogica.com

Check your journey when logged in as a student, go to My Education - View Expert Journey.

You can also follow along with our Expert Checklist. You can find this in the Expert Program section of this website.

If you need help understanding your status, please email or call us.

Online booking is not available for Expert Assessments, and there is not a wait list.

Once all required workshops are complete, you may call to book and please read below first!

To continue supporting you through your education journey we are offering d-streaming Expert assessments during this time.

Allowances have been made for these Expert assessments to be both relevant and flexible to our current reality of COVID-19 restrictions/regulations while respecting the integrity of these assessments.

Please see our document here before you call to book:

dstreaming Expert Assessment Expectation & Needs List

for all information you need to know before booking your assessment.

We are fully dedicated to helping you on your education journey and we can’t wait to see you become a Dermalogica Expert!

Any Expert is required to complete 4 workshops per calendar year EXCEPT for the year that you achieved Expert status.  You can take these 4 workshops at our On Tour locations, training centres,d-streaming east and west coast and Learning Hub**.

If you do not complete 4 workshops per calendar year, your Expert status will be set to Inactive. Consider your Expert status is now ‘asleep’.

Once 4 workshops are complete, your Expert status will be set to Active. Consider your Expert status is now ‘awake’ for the rest of the calendar year.

Check your education history (including future booked, wait list workshops) by logging into your profile on this education website here and selecting My Education – My Workshops in the menu bar.

***Please note, Learning Hub 'On Demand' classes do not count towards maintaining your Expert Status

Meaningful Connections is available on the Learning Hub under 'Resources" or by clicking here

If you already have a student profile, you can click here for more info and to get started

If you do not have a student profile or if you do not work with Dermalogica, you can click here to get started

it is estimated a student will take approximately 2 days to complete Learning Hub DNA Day 1 and 2.

In hours, it is estimated to take 8 hours to complete.

All other Learning Hub workshops take approximately 3 hours or less.

Please note that our workshops begin promptly at the workshop start time. Should you arrive 15 minutes or more late for a workshop you may be asked to retake the entire workshop in order to recieve credit.

Check our locations page for our addresses, transit and parking info to help plan your journey.

Some workshops have support materails for you to review before your workshop. Click here to access those materails.

If you are attending a d-streaming workshop, click here for more information on what you need to know before you begin your workshop.

Have questions? Click the contact us link!

If you do not see your employee listed, email or call with your employees full name, email, cell and designation (Professional Skin Therapist or Non Therapist)

You can reach us Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm ET excluding holidays at 1.866.618.1116 x 0 or bookings.ca@dermalogica.com

We require Professional Skin Therapist attire for all practical workshops.

You may wear your skin centre uniform, alternatively you may wear a pair of scrubs.

Additionally flat shoes, hair back (if applicable) and short nails are all required for workshop participation.

You can see which workshops require this uniform in the workshop description under Book A Workshop.

We hope that this Education website contains everything you need to know to plan and develop your education with Dermalogica, however if you would like to speak to one of our staff at 1.866.618.1116 or email at bookings.ca@dermalogica.com

We are available Mondays - Fridays 9am - 5pm EST excluding holidays.