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An Unforgettable Learning Journey – Training of Trainers Thailand
The upcoming Training of Trainers programme (ToT) is the 13th co-facilitated at Bornok Beach with Pracha Hutanuwatr and Jane Rasbash. Participants wake up every morning to the sound of gentle waves as a tropical beach is the wonderful setting of the Thai ToT programme. The Training of Trainers course uses a participatory learning approach that builds a community of learning and draws deeply from participant experience and knowledge. Thus, conditions for empowerment are seeded and nurtured as…
An Unforgettable Learning Journey – Training of Trainers Thailand
The upcoming Training of Trainers programme (ToT) is the 13th co-facilitated at Bornok Beach with Pracha Hutanuwatr and Jane Rasbash. Participants wake up every morning to the sound of gentle waves as a tropical beach is the wonderful setting of the Thai ToT programme. The Training of Trainers course uses a participatory learning approach that builds a community of learning and draws deeply from participant experience and knowledge. Thus, conditions for empowerment are seeded and nurtured as…
10 Things I Loved About Training of Trainers on Mindful Facilitation for Empowerment + Global Goals for Sustainable Development
- The people: facilitators, staff, volunteers, participants, resort staff
- The circle of friends, with whom I laughed and cried
- Strong connection with nature
- Ability to learn in a safe environment
- Beauty of co-creation & diversity
- Introduction to community living
- Journey towards becoming a mindful facilitator, for helping people to empower themselves
- Learning to listen deeply, balance “being” & “doing”, have compassion for others
- Time for self-reflection, opportunity to know…
Die Lernkarten der nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele für Jugendliche sind ab sofort auf Deutsch erhältlich!
English translation below.
Wir freuen uns sehr, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass unsere Lernkarten für nachhaltige Enwicklungsziele für Jugendliche in unserem Gaia Education Shop ab sofort auch auf Deutsch erhältlich sind! Mit Unterstützung von Claudia Kälin (Übersetzerin) und Plattform Footprint konnten die SDG-Flashcards für Jugendliche vereinfacht ins Deutsche übersetzt werden und somit stehen unsere Lernkarten der Nachhaltigkeitsziele nun auch allen deutschsprachigen Jugendlichen zur…
Clean City – An enterprise founded by a Graduate of the Gaia Education Design for Sustainability (GEDS) Course
Clean City is a social enterprise founded by Taylor Smythe, a graduate of the Gaia Education course. Taylor and Clean City work to educate local individuals and communities on how to segregate waste, build a waste management facility and implement the first trash collection program of its kind in Chitwan, Nepal.
Learning in times of rapid and uncertain change
In these fast changing times, our skills and abilities as a species, as citizens, and as individuals will be tested as never before. We need to build on success and discard the unworkable. We need to discover the thus far elusive ways through our inability to respond politically and economically, and maybe even spiritually, to the global challenges we face. For this we need an education that will enable us, particularly our young, to work effectively, collaboratively and creatively to solve …
Training of Trainers at Findhorn Ecovillage – Could you train environmental trainers?
Upcoming Gaia Education ‘Training of Trainers’ will catalyse change on local and global levels.
Published reports by IPCC and WWF are demanding a transformative response from communities everywhere. We are faced with the challenge of redesigning human impact on earth at local, regional and planetary scales within the lifetime of the generations alive today.
Gaia Education’s courses enable people everywhere to contribute to this necessary transformation by improving skills, regenera…
PDC Case Study in Bangladesh – Organic Vegetable Cultivation
Since mid-August, 2017 to 31 March 2019 many refugees who are staying in different camps and communities at Teknaf and Ukhiya Upazilla under Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh, are struggling with many difficulties and challenges for living better in refugee life. Many of the INGOs, NNGOs and LNGOs are working for the betterment of their livelihoods, health, nutrition, protection, and rights.
In this circumstance, the BASD has implemented the Permaculture Training & Follow-up Project for the Ro…
SDGs Training of Multipliers in Vienna
Presented by Plattform Footprint, Gaia Education and UNESCO.
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Learning in times of rapid and uncertain change
In these fast changing times, our skills and abilities as a species, as citizens, and as individuals will be tested as never before. We need to build on success and discard the unworkable. We need to discover the thus far elusive ways through our inability to respond politically and economically, and maybe even spiritually, to the global challenges we face. For this we need an education that will enable us, particularly our young, to work effectively, collaboratively and creatively to solve …