Career Choices

We offer flexibility to help each student to find their life path, whether it is:

  1. Full-time or part-time studies
  2. Full-time or part-time work
  3. Entrepreneurial opportunities: create a company, non-profit, or community-based organisation
  4. Full-time personal growth opportunity as part of the Invincible South Africa programme

All programmes at the Maharishi Institute are grounded in the daily experience of ourselves, to awaken our inner genius and full potential.

The Maharishi Institute has an open access policy as we believe everyone has their own unique talents, and deserves their place in the sun


UPCOMING COURSES

Introduction to Transcendental Meditation
The first course is a 2 (two) week course that introduces the students to the unique technique known as Transcendental Mediation (TM). TM is a scientifically proven technique for maximum personal development. This course is subsidized 100%, which allows the institution to offer it free of charge to you the student. The actual cost of the course is R 2 800.

Course Dates for 2008: This course is run at least once, at the start of each term, ie four times per year
Cost: Free to students planning to enrol in the 2-year Foundation Programme


Personal Leadership 1
Personal Leadership 1 is a 5-month course, which focuses on the personal and professional development of each student. This is the foundational course to be completed by all students enrolling in the Maharishi Institute. Leadership comes from within, and this course awakens within every student their own inner leadership compass. The course content includes the Science of Creative Intelligence, Yoga, and other programmes to develop and refresh your body, mind, and spirit. This course provides students with a true turning point in the lives, providing the balance in their lives to ready them for fruitful academic studies and a prosperous career ahead.

This course is designed to develop in the student:

·         Happiness, peace, and inner calm, less stress

·         Cognitive ability: clear thinking and logic

·         Learning Ability, comprehension, concentration

·         Creativity

·         Memory

·         Maturity & Inner Wisdom

·         Self confidence, self esteem: ‘this is who I am and I love who I am’

·         Concentration

·         Love and acceptance of others

The course also includes a strong grounding in African Authentic Leadership, and the deeper reality of Ubuntu.


Course Dates:
Cost: R 550 per month for five months
Entry requirements
: completion of TM training
 

Personal Leadership 2
Personal Leadership 2 is a 2-month course, centering on the TM-Sidhi course, the most powerful self development programme and leadership development tool we have ever found.

This course greatly extends the inner development in Personal Leadership 1 and further develops and entrenches in the student:

·         Happiness, peace, and inner calm, less stress

·         Cognitive ability: clear thinking and logic

·         Learning Ability, comprehension, concentration

·         Creativity

·         Memory

·         Maturity & Inner Wisdom

·         Self confidence, self esteem: ‘this is who I am and I love who I am’

·         Concentration

·         Love and acceptance of others


Course Dates:
Cost: R 1 500 reduced fee for Maharishi Institute students. Normal cost: R 17 000
Entry requirements
: completion of TM training and Personal Leadership 1.

 

High School Completion and Matric Re-write Programme
We offer all students the opportunity to repeat Matric if their marks are not good, or to actually complete the last two years of high school with us, on a part-time basis, while enrolled in the 2-year Foundation Programme with the Maharishi Institute.

This is done through our high school: Maharishi Invincibility School of Management

See:  www.maharishischoolsa.org

Course Dates: 3'rd week February to end November for Grade 11 programme
Cost: R 900 per subject
Entry requirements
: completion of TM training


Professional Skills 1

Professional Skills 1 is a 5-month course, which focuses on the focused upskilling and professional development of each student. This is a basic course to be completed by all students wishing to proceed with academic programmes or vocational studies with the Institute. Academic and professional skills are the fundamental tools for ongoing success with an academic or professional career.  After the 5-month period, these skills are continually taught for the remainder of the 2-year Foundation Programme, and beyond.

Skills are taught in classroom workshops, through e-learning, campus-based work opportunities, and through part-time experiential learning work in companies.  These are all designed to develop in the student: competence; efficiency and effectiveness; and the ability to add value

Skills covered are drawn from the following list:

·          Communication Skills: able to express verbally and in writing

·          Basic mathematical literacy and numeracy

·          Thinking, Problem-Solving and Logic Skills: analysing facts and presenting arguments with clarity

·          Building simple spreadsheet models in excel

·          Business acumen – understand contexts

·          Professionalism skills: high standards of excellence

·          Ethics in business and society

·          Goal setting skills: personal and professional 

·          Feedback skills

·          Leadership skills

·          Teamwork skills

·          Career skills and career guidance

·          Learning skills

·          Creativity skills, including brainstorming, and mind mapping

·          Management skills                                              

·          Time management, efficiency, and effectiveness

·          Basic administration skills

·          Telephone skills

·          Basic research skills

·          Internet competency, including search engines, email, learner management systems

·          Computer user skills: touch typing, word processing, email, powerpoint, excel

·          Using technology: fax, photocopier, calculator

·          Sales skills

·          Customer service

·          Negotiation skills

·          Project management skills

·          Networking and relationship skills

·          Systems thinking

·          Personality profiling

·          E-learning skills

·          Social skills

·          Dress sense

·          Etiquette
 

Course Dates:
Cost: R 1 750 per month
Entry requirements
: completion of TM training and Personal Leadership


Certificate in Business Administration
Certificate in Business Administration is a 1-year course, which gives every student a basic grounding in business principles. We recommend this course to all students, whatever career track they wish to choose.  This one year course completes the 2-year Foundaton Programme through the Maharishi Institute. 

Course Dates:
Cost: R 1750 per month for eleven months
Entry requirements
: completion of TM training, Personal Leadership 1 and 2, and Professional Skills 1


Two-Year Foundation Programme

Holistic Curriculum Framework to Maximise Success for Every Student

The framework of the Foundation programme is built around three core courses above, which represent the three aspects of the educational process, the Learner, the Content Learned, and the Process of Learning. 

This foundation process takes two years of intensive bridging, including developing:

 Step 1. The learner/ knower:  Personal Leadership 1 and Personal Leadership 2; a 5-month (1 semester) leadership and personal development programme for everyone

Step 2. The process of knowing: Professional Skills 1; a 5-month (1 semester) fundamental skills development programme for everyone

Step 3. The known:  Certificate in Business Administration 1; academic (1 year basic business, organizational management skills for everyone)

 

Vocational Programmes

After completing the Foundation Programme, including Personal Leadership 1 and 2, and Professional Skills 1, and Certificate in Business Administration, the basic development courses at Maharishi Institute, students will have a lot of opportunities available to choose from. These include a 1 (one) year vocational training program that is job skills and industry specific, in Call Center and BPO training, banking, Administration, Book-keeping, and IT. There are also opportunities for Entrepreneurs who want to set up their own businesses.

Vocational programmes will also begin at Ezemvelo Nature Reserve in terms of: Conservation; Eco-Tourism; Organic Agriculture.

These are designed to give the student:

·         Employment and income

·         Relevance in the economy

·         Fulfillment of personal destiny

·         A continual growth path, and lifelong learning

Whatever your life path, the Maharishi Institute will help you realize your dream, or even to create jobs for others.

 

Degree Opportunities

Students will also have an opportunity to get an international degree, through the Maharishi University of Management (USA) study centers around South Africa.

• Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration

• Masters of Business Administration
Ph.D in Business Management

Distance Education offerings of Maharishi University of Management, USA, offering the American degree, through MUM Study Centers in South Africa.

Course Dates and Costs: see www.mum.edu/southafrica
 

 

 

 
   
   
 

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www.ezemvelo.co.za

 
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