Face-to-Face programmes
See our variety of Face-to-Face programmes
EDE Programmes
Read about our Ecovillage Design Education programmes (EDEs), where you join an ecovillage for a four-week intensive living and learning course in sustainability.
Training of Trainers
Become a Gaia Education Certified Trainer. Get the skills and methods to facilitate transformative learning environments that enable collaborative action.
Sustainable Development Goals Training
Take part in the Gaia Education and UNESCO GAP SDGs Training for Multipliers to engage in conversations about how to implement the SDGs in your community
Sustainable Management of Cultural Landscape
Master’s level courses and didactic resources on Sustainable Management of Cultural Landscapes, Regional Development and Cultural Heritage.
Gaia Youth
Gaia Youth is empowering young people to actively engage in creating a sustainable future. Learn how to set up a Gaia Youth programme in your home country.
Gaia in School
Gaia Youth is empowering young people to actively engage in creating a sustainable future. Learn how to set up a Gaia Youth programme in your home country.
Bioregional Design Education
Become a Gaia Education certified Regenerative Bioregional Development Practitioner and join your regional Gaia Education agents of change network.
How to run an EDE
Several of our EDE graduates have carried on organising EDE programmes in their local areas, and you are warmly encouraged to do so after completing your course.
The recommended time frame of an EDE is four weeks, however this is not fixed and varies with each individual programme.
The material can be condensed into smaller workshops, spread out over a longer period, or distributed in blocks at different times and locations.
Meet the Gaia Education Certified Trainers
Albert Bates
Co-founder of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas and the Global Ecovillage Network. Author of a dozen books on energy, environment and history.
André L.A. Marins
André has been acting in a diversity of leadership roles in the past 20 years. He works at the Brazilian Research and Education Network and is an international project manager.
Antoni Camps Garmón
Curiosity for cultural, ecological, geographic, scientific and spiritual diversity has been the basis of Antoni's experiences and development of skills.
Brandy Gallagher
One of the original founders and developers of O.U.R. Ecovillage; designer and educator working with local to international community builders.
Cynthia Zanotto Salvador
Cynthia's work focuses on developing landscaping design projects aimed at awakening in people a loving relationship with nature.
Daniel Christian Wahl
Daniel is an international consultant and educator specialising in biologically-inspired whole systems design and transformative innovation.
Programme Reports
Over 14,000 students have joined the EDE programmes worldwide and we are happy to announce an impressive satisfaction rate of 95%.
To hear directly from them and their experiences, and for further information about past EDEs around the world, please visit our Reports page.
Gaia Education’s Ecovillage Design Curriculum
Gaia Educations programmes are based on the four core dimensions of Gaia Education’s Ecovillage Design Curriculum: the Social, Worldview, Ecological and Economic dimensions of sustainability.
The Curriculum was developed drawing on the experience and expertise developed throughout a network of some of the most successful ecovillages and transition settings around the world.
Raise awareness of the SDGs among local and national actors
Discover the new SDG Multipliers Handbook
The purpose of this SDG Multiplier’s Handbook is to support the participants of the Training of Multipliers in the process of stepping forward to act as multipliers and to offer a training themselves.
The highly interactive process invites participants to engage in constructive conversations about the local relevance of the 17 SDG based on a set of flashcards designed to help structure small group dialogues.
