ZIST is a center for personal and professional training in the development of human skills.

The ambition of ZIST is toward the development of human potential and resources to satisfy the human condition of individuals and groups in their social relations.

The approach of ZIST is based on Humanistic Psychology and how it was developed as a third force in the 1960s through practice and research in psychoanalysis and Behavioural Science.

Since its foundation in 1973, ZIST has been an independent, interdenominational seminary house offering its own unique programs and corework.