Human Flourishing
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Tov is a movement for Christ-centred human flourishing.
tov means good, whole, purposeful & life giving.
Through twelve domains of life and three domains of practice,
tov offers one simple integrated ecosystem (of formation).
Bringing together learning, wisdom and work; tov helps people
rediscover ancient goodness and become who they were created to be.
Discover the inspiring voices behind Tov, what it means and why it’s important.
Tov Academy Formerly aifc
Choose where you want to grow
Diploma of Counselling
For people ready to begin a meaningful career in counselling
Build foundational counselling skills, spiritual formation, and practical readiness for real-world client support.
Graduate Diploma of Counselling
For degree-qualified professionals ready for advanced counselling practice
Develop evidence-informed counselling skills, complete placement, and begin the first phase of a Master of Counselling pathway.
Certificate IV in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care
For those called to care in schools, churches, and community settings
Gain recognised training, practical skills, and placement experience for chaplaincy and pastoral care work.
Bachelor of Counselling
For diploma and advanced diploma graduates ready for higher education study
Build on your counselling foundation through broader theory, critical thinking, and a clear pathway towards long-term professional practice.
Master of Counselling
For graduate diploma students ready for the next stage of professional formation
Continue into advanced counselling study through a clear, cost-effective pathway with trusted higher education partners.
Three expressions. One integrated system.
Because formation is whole-of-life, tov is integrated by design.
Curious how it all connects?
Tov Academy – formerly aifc
Tov Academy, formerly The Australian Institute of Family Counselling (aifc), is the training and learning hub within the tov ecosystem – created to help people and organisations learn and grow in wholeness, wisdom, and skills for today and the future. We offer accredited training, nationally recognised qualifications, and practical pathways that equip people for real life and real leadership. Alongside this, our microcredentials and short courses provide flexible, targeted learning for today’s needs – personal formation, professional capability, and vocational preparation. For workplaces and schools, Tov Academy delivers tailored training that strengthens culture, leadership, wellbeing, and the conditions for human flourishing. If you studied with aifc over the past 30 years, you’re not losing anything – you’re coming with us into an expanded identity with greater clarity, richer resources, and more opportunities to learn and grow. Same heart. Stronger pathway. More to explore. Welcome to Tov Academy – formation made practical, learning made life-giving.
Abound Flourishing Workplaces
Abound is the Workplace Flourishing and EAP within the tov ecosystem – supporting organisations to build healthy cultures where people can truly thrive. We provide confidential, timely counselling and leader support, alongside practical wellbeing tools that strengthen resilience, relationships, and day-to-day capacity. But Abound goes beyond reactive support: we integrate care with capability and culture—helping leaders and teams address real pressures, navigate conflict effectively, and cultivate workplaces that are safer and more life-giving. As we grow, Abound is becoming a leading Australian provider of integrated workplace flourishing, combining responsive EAP support, leader care, psychosocial health & safety, workplace learning and development pathways through Tov Academy, and insight and measurement through the Centre for Human Flourishing. The result is a whole-system approach: support for individuals, strength for leaders, and sustainable change for organisations – so people and workplaces can abound in life.
Centre for Human Flourishing
Our vision is a shift from a reactive disorder model to a proactive culture of flourishing across the full breadth of life – relationships, purpose, health, character, faith, work, and more – so goodness that gives life becomes visible and sustainable for generations to come.
Tov News
Faith, Psychology, and Formation in Christian Counselling
Read MoreLearning to Hold It Together: Why Formation Matters in Christian Counselling Christian counselling is never just about learning techniques. It is about becoming a particular kind of person — one who can listen deeply, reflect wisely, and respond faithfully in the complexity of human lives. This commitment to Christian counselling formation recognises that who we…
Read More Tov Academy Counselling Courses Receive ACA Accreditation Tov Academy is pleased to announce that the Australian Counselling Association has approved accreditation for both the 11384NAT Graduate Diploma of Counselling and the 11207NAT Advanced Diploma of Integrative Practice (Counselling). This means that all Tov Academy counselling courses are now ACA accredited. ACA accreditation is a…
Read More Build the Highway: Preparing Pathways for People to Return to God
Read MoreBuild the Highway: Preparing Pathways for People to Return to God There is a kind of need that is hard to ignore. We see it in the exhaustion of leaders, the anxiety of young people, the grief sitting quietly beneath the surface of families, the loneliness in our communities, and the spiritual confusion many people…
Read More Christian Counselling Training Built on Human Flourishing
Read MoreMore Than Managing: Why Christian Counselling Training Built on Human Flourishing Changes Everything Something has shifted in Australian culture over the past decade, and most of us who work in churches, ministry, and the helping professions have felt it. Mental health has moved from the edges of public conversation to the centre. Diagnoses that once…
Read More Created in the Image of God
Read MoreCreated: Who Tells Us Who We Are? Part 1 of the Created for Tov series: Six movements in God’s story of human flourishing. We live in a culture that gives us extraordinary freedom to express ourselves, yet often leaves us with the exhausting task of first deciding who that self is. We are encouraged to…
Read More Human Flourishing, easy or hard?
Read MoreBroken: Why Human Flourishing Feels Harder Than It Should There’s a question that follows a lot of us around, even if we never quite say it out loud. Why is this so hard? Not just “why is life painful” — we all know the answer to that one. The harder question is why human flourishing…
Read More Connection matters – let’s stay in touch.
