Course Structure…
The facility will have a capacity for 25 students in addition to five full-time staff. Based on a mentoring system, the three month lecture phase will provide a stimulating, thought provoking and fun approach to study with a minimum of twelve hours of lectures each week.
During the three month lecture phase, the courses taught will offer practical teaching on general life principles including, relationships, personal responsibility, making right decisions, discovering one’s life purpose and understanding true spiritual values. There will also be opportunity to focus in specialised areas including medical issues, matters of justice and with creative the arts.
The instructors will teach for a week on their particular subject. There will be a mix of local and international lecturers, each a proven specialist on issues that are central to the concerns of today’s young people.
The three month lecture phase will be followed by two months of practical field experience. The students will be able to apply the skills they have acquired both here in New Zealand and overseas in developing nations. Working with a variety of humanitarian organisations and mission agencies such as Marine Reach’s medical ships, or a land based program. They will have the opportunity to visit hospitals, prisons, schools, orphanages and serve in the poorer more isolated islands of the South Pacific.