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Reinvigorating to be learning at the National School of Tropical Botanics, embedded in Tijuca Forest Rio de Janeiro, the largest urban forest of the world, covering some 32 km², home to hundreds of species of plants and wildlife, many threatened by extinction.

“The Brazil TOT reminded me of the importance of ‘who I am’ rather than ‘what I know’ in the process of building my own strengths as a change maker and edge worker.

It showed…

“Gaia Education’s Training of Trainers (ToT) programme was a truly empowering and enlivening experience. I stretched my skills and built on new ones, elevating my facilitation tool kit to the next level. My biggest take away was an inner sense of confidence in my facilitation, voices of anxiety (Will my audience like my work? Will I get through all my content? Will my points be understood?) stilled and a quiet sense of knowing that I am enough,…

The current framework of the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) will end in 2019 and a decision on the post-GAP period will soon have to be made by UNESCO Member States.

To that effect, the UNESCO Secretariat is launching a global consultation process to reflect on the post-GAP period and on the future direction of ESD.

For this purpose, UNESCO has drafted a position paper on the future of ESD through a series of mee…

“For this is part at least of what industrialism has done for us.  Columbus sailed the Atlantic, the first steam engines tottered into motion, the British squares stood firm under the French guns at Waterloo, the one-eyed scoundrels of the nineteenth century praised God and filled their pockets; and this is where it all led – to labyrinthine slums and dark back kitchens with sickly, ageing people creeping round and round them like blackbeetles.”

George …

The ‘Local Water Solutions for Global Challenges’ course took off at the World Water Day 2018 with 350 students enrolled online. Our largest online class ever!

The 5-week free MOOC, developed in partnership with Gaia Education, UNITAR, University of Strathclyde, the Scottish Government and CREW was officially launched on 22 March 2018 through two interconnected events taking place in Brazil and Scotland.

In Brazil, during the World Water Forum, the course was broadcast widely at the …

Meeting in Luxembourg on 28 March, representatives of 43 leading networks and organisations supporting community-led initiatives for climate change and sustainability have called on policy makers from the local to the European level to recognise and support the vital role that grassroots organisations are playing in the transition to a healthy and sustainable zero-carbon society.

“Thousands of communities across Europe are experimenting in new ways of living tha…

“When I first joined a Gaia Education EDE hosted by NextGenOA it changed my life. Taking the Training of Trainers in Thailand was the next step for me as I wanted to strengthen my skills in becoming a qualified project leader. The course demonstrates distinctly what is participatory learning; the content is rich and the learning process fluid. What impressed me the most was the talent of the facilitators to get participants to understand and practice Meta-Skill…

This Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) was integrated into a longer course called Awakening Leadership Training that took place 3 September 2017 – 25 January 2018 at various locations in Th…

in 2005 Gaia Education — a global network of sustainability practitioners and educators born out of a collaboration between the Global Ecovillage Network, Gaia Trust, the International Society for Ecology and Culture, Permanent Publications, and others — launched a practical 125 hours curriculum for a residential programme in Ecovillage Design Education (EDE).

The curriculum was structured into the four dimensions of Gaia Education’s whole…