Four years to build on your calling.
The four-year vocational programme at MBO level 4 shapes you into a versatile adviser. The curriculum is designed so that your personal growth, professional expertise and work with Kingdom principles interlock more deeply every year.
MBO level 4 · accreditation in progress
01Your development
From foundation to mastery.
Each year builds on the one before: from who you are, through how systems work and where your specialisation lies, to giving independent strategic advice. Your placements grow with you, from orientation to your own advisory project.
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Year 1
Foundation & personal formation
Who are you as an adviser?
Orientation placements
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Year 2
Understanding systems & advising
How do groups and organisations work?
Operational placement
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Year 3
Specialisation & impact
Where does your calling lie?
Specialisation placement
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Year 4
Mastery & graduation
Advising independently and sustainably.
Graduation placement
02Year by year
Programme of the four-year, full-time day course.
Year 1The foundation & personal formation
You start with the basics of communication, conducting conversations and organisational studies. At the same time, you discover who you are in Christ as an adviser. You train your character and do short orientation placements in different sectors.
Year 2Understanding systems & advising
You learn to analyse groups and write professional advisory reports. We study the biblical blueprints for healthy relationships in schools, families and companies. You do an operational placement alongside an experienced consultant.
Year 3Specialisation & impact
You choose your specialisation (family, school, business or society). You study change management and learn how to bring shalom (godly order) and restoration to situations of conflict. You start your major specialisation placement.
See the four specialisationsYear 4Mastery & graduation
You focus on strategic advice, legislation and implementation. From the principle of stewardship, you learn to secure advice for the long term. You complete the programme with an independent advisory project during your graduation placement.
03Your field of work
Wherever people live together.
De Tarweaar's specialisations are deliberately diverse: society is, after all, God's field of work. During the programme, you choose a specialisation that suits your unique calling.
Family & parenting
Advising and supporting families and parents on family systems and parenting questions, from a Christian view of humanity.
Education & schools
Giving advice within school settings on social safety, identity, bullying and healthy dynamics between pupils, teachers and parents.
Business & organisations
Advising companies on healthy collaboration in the workplace, ethical entrepreneurship and creating a culture in which people can flourish.
Neighbourhood & society
Advising local initiatives, churches or welfare organisations on community building and on tackling loneliness and division.