In November 1994, Leadbeater left England and in Egypt joined Madame Blavatsky, then on her way to India. She immediately started training him for his work. One thing, Leadbeater relates, that he learned from her, was not to worry about what people thought:

"When I came into her hands, I was just an ordinary lawn-tennis-playing curate -- wellmeaning and conscientious, I believe, but incredibly shy and retiring, with all the average Englishman's horror of making himself conspicuous in any way or occupying a ridiculous position. After a few weeks of her treatment I had reached a stage in which I was absolutely hardenend to ridicule, and did not care in the slightest degree what anybody thought of me. I mean that quite literally; it was not that I had learned to endure disapproval stoically, in spite of internal anguish, but that I actually did not care what people thought or said of me, and indeed never considered that matter at all. And I have never cared since! I admit that her methods were drastic and distinctly unpleasant at the time, but there was no question as to their effectiveness."