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Whether you are upskilling, meeting CPD goals, or training your team:
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Our short courses are practical, flexible, and designed for real-world impact.

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February 2026
SLP Name Duration of SLP Mode of Delivery System Link Description
Advanced Financial Coaching 11 months Online APPLY NOW This programme will enable successful participants to apply advanced ontological and financial coaching principles. Secondly, it aims to enable participants to understand and apply the COMENSA coaching behavioural standards in their coaching.
Principles and Processes of Mediation 3 months Online APPLY NOW Understanding conflict, dispute analysis, and practical skills to resolve disputes across contexts (employment, commercial, consumer, neighbourhood, land claims, family, medico-legal, construction, etc.).
Basic Principles of Social Security Law 6 months Face-to-Face and Distance Learning APPLY NOW Basic legislative and theoretical principles regulating social security of employees (old age, death, unemployment, maternity, illness, invalidity, employment injuries, and health care).
Advanced Principles in Commercial Law 6 months Face-to-Face and Distance Learning APPLY NOW Legislative and theoretical principles regulating business enterprises (sole proprietorships, partnerships, trusts, close corporations, companies).
Basic Principles in Commercial Law 6 months Face-to-Face and Distance Learning APPLY NOW Principles regulating commercial law (contracts, delicts, agency, insurance, consumer law, credit agreements).
Alternative Dispute Resolution 6 months Face-to-Face and Distance Learning APPLY NOW Labour conflict resolution (negotiation, conciliation, mediation, arbitration, conflict analysis and sensitivity).
Advanced Principles of Labour Law 6 months Face-to-Face and Distance Learning APPLY NOW Advanced principles regulating individual and collective labour law relationships, including dispute resolution.
Basic Principles of Labour Law 6 months Face-to-Face and Distance Learning APPLY NOW Basic principles regulating employment relationships (contract of employment, BCEA basics, dismissals, unfair labour practices, industrial action, unfair discrimination).
Financial Coaching 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Ontological Coaching Principles with a specific context of coaching clients around their financial behaviour.
Financial Planning Case Studies 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Practical skills for modern financial planning (tax, estate, investments, retirement), behavioural finance, and legal/regulatory frameworks.
Parliamentary Decorum — Online APPLY NOW Role of Parliament/legislatures, democratic history, expectations of public representatives, constitutional references, rules/orders, and key judgements shaping decorum.
Afrikaans Competence for Foreign and Third Language Speakers 10 per semester Face-to-face; online APPLY NOW Comprehension of Afrikaans and simple conversational skills for adult learners in professional careers.
Dispensing for Health Professionals 3 days Face to Face APPLY NOW Evaluate prescriptions, assess history, dispense, counsel on safe use/storage, maintain records, manage procurement and distribution of medicines.
Stoma Care Nursing 6 months Face to Face APPLY NOW Prepare patients pre-op, establish pouching post-op, implement evidence-based discharge planning for patient and family.
Introduction to Building Materials 4 weeks Online APPLY NOW Learn building material solutions for a basic single-storey building while collaborating effectively with diverse project perspectives.
Sedation and Pain Management for Medical and Dental Procedures 1 year Blended APPLY NOW Teach participants to be operator sedationists, dedicated sedation practitioners and sedation trainers.
Afrikaans Language Acquisition for Foreign Language Speakers 10 per semester Face-to-face; online APPLY NOW Basic understanding and vocabulary of Afrikaans as a foreign language for adult learners in professional careers.
Dutch Language Acquisition for Beginners 10 per semester Online APPLY NOW Basic communication competencies in Dutch, linked to CNaVT; introductions, directions, ordering meals, accommodation/travel; includes Dutch culture.
March 2026
SLP Name Duration of SLP Mode of Delivery System Link Description
Financial Coaching 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Ontological Coaching Principles with a specific context of coaching clients around their financial behaviour.
Practical Theology in a Fast-Changing Environment 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Practical Theology as a discipline and basis for effective Christian ministry; pastoral care practices for fast-changing and extreme contexts.
Effective Bible Teaching to Children 6–8 weeks Online APPLY NOW Empower participants with knowledge to plan and implement effective biblical ministry to and with children.
Providence and Financial Planning for Pastors 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Explore the relationship between the Bible and financial management; manage budget, debt, investments, and retirement planning.
Executive Leadership in Military Chaplaincy 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Leadership role of chaplains; local African context and South African sociocultural/religious landscape; managerial leadership approaches.
Christian Ritual as a Verbal and Non-verbal Phenomenon 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Rituals as powerful verbal/non-verbal phenomena for contextual worship; focus on ritual opportunities to educate, comfort, celebrate, and bring hope.
Introduction to the Bible 6–8 weeks Online APPLY NOW Sharpen competencies for Biblical interpretation; internalise and transfer interpretation skills in daily life and context.
Burial Rites in the African Context 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Grieving, mourning, and funeral rites in African context; African spirituality/worship; planning Christian burial service and liturgy.
Introduction to Building Quantities 4 weeks Online APPLY NOW Introductory knowledge on developing/using building quantities across project stages (documentation, procurement, construction, close-out).
Infection Prevention & Control 5 days Online APPLY NOW Integrated theory/practice of IPC to equip practitioners for holistic high-quality care through implementation, evaluation, and improvement across workplaces and communities.
Christian Leadership in Contemporary Context 6–8 weeks Online APPLY NOW Leadership from a Christian perspective; contextual approach engaging African context and organisational leadership developments.
Audiometry (Bloemfontein) 3 days Face to Face APPLY NOW Skills to perform and interpret audiometric tests in occupational settings and refer when needed.
Executive Pastoral Care and Counselling in Chaplaincy 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW Spiritual caregiving in multi-cultural/multi-religious chaplaincy; develop empathetic communication and select appropriate caregiving methods.
Interpreting the Bible: A Historical Overview and a Practical Execution 12 weeks Online APPLY NOW History, theory and principles of exegesis and hermeneutics; apply principles to Old and New Testament interpretation.
Executive Development Programme 6 months Online APPLY NOW Develop leadership capacity and transition into senior managerial roles via a business-driven action learning model enriched through business coaching.
Wound Care (5 Modules) 1 year Blended APPLY NOW Enable practitioners to treat wounds comprehensively according to best practice principles for patients, families, and providers.
Dispensing for Health Professionals 3 days Face to Face APPLY NOW Evaluate prescriptions, dispense and counsel; maintain records; manage procurement and distribution of medicines.
Principles of Patient Blood Management for Medical Doctors 14 weeks Online APPLY NOW Implement PBM: detect/treat anaemia, minimise bleeding, conserve blood, optimise reserves, balance transfusion risks/benefits, patient-centred decisions, ethics, and interdisciplinary cooperation.
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