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SDGs Training of Multipliers - Face to Face

 
Learn the skills on how you can support and lead your community or organisation to innovatively achieve more sustainable projects and initiatives and contribute to reaching the Agenda 2030 and SDGs in your context and locality.

 


We are faced with the challenge of collectively re-designing the human presence on Earth. NOW is the time for transforming humanity’s planetary impact from predominantly degenerative to regenerative!

SDGs Training for Multipliers is designed to build the capacity of facilitators and multipliers of the vitally important conversation about how to implement the 17 SDGs and their 169 targets at the local and regional scale in ways that are carefully adapted to the bio-cultural uniqueness of each location.

The SDGs Flashcards contain more than 200 questions relevant to the four dimensions of Gaia Education’s whole systems approach to sustainability (Social, Ecological, Economic and Worldview). Participants will explore these four dimensions of each of the 17 SDGs in question-focused small group conversations, to collaboratively identify actions and solutions aimed at implementing the global goals in ways that are relevant to their lives and their communities. This is an effective way of teaching SDGs and creating local community ownership of the SDGs.

Who is the training for?

Sustainability is not an end point in a journey; it is a community-centred process of learning how to live sustainably and regeneratively in a particular locality with its ecological and cultural uniqueness. If you want to teach SDGs, take part in SDGs education or facilitate such conversations where you live, this course is for you.

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The Training for Multipliers serves a dual purpose

What is the dual purpose of this training for multipliers?


  • The training will initiate community-focused conversations about local SDGs implementation

    The highly interactive SDG education process invites participants to engage in constructive conversations about the local relevance of the 17 SDGs based on a set of flashcards designed to help structure small group dialogues. Through these conversations participants will:

    • prioritise a number of goals that are particularly important for their community
    • begin to define how multi-stakeholder partnerships might be established in their community to support project-centred implementation of specific SDGs
    • ensure that SDGs are implemented in ways that are sensitive to the biocultural uniqueness of place
    • work in various small groups to identify policies, projects and resources that could support this implementation and categorise them into those already existing and those to be created
    • design strategies of how to mobilise local stakeholders around a feasible project to demonstrate implementation of those goals in their locality and
    • identify effective ways to spread successful projects throughout their community and beyond.

  • The training supports people to become multipliers of such conversations

    Achieving the Global Goals by 2030 requires initiating these kinds of processes in communities everywhere, and we are all called to become multipliers of SDG-focused conversations about the sustainable future of our community.

    The SDGs Flashcards in combination with SDG Multipliers Handbook and the experience of having taken part in the training, will turn most participants into potential multipliers of such community conversations. 

What are the main outcomes of participating in the training?

After completing the day-long training of multipliers you will:


  • be able to take a multi-dimensional perspective on all 17 SDGs and be aware of the 169 targets for implementation
  • have identified with other members of your community which goals could be considered priorities in your community
  • have participated in a series of small group conversations to brainstorm and prioritise possible multi-stakeholder community projects aimed at implementation of priority SDGs in your local community
  • have identified already existing as well as much-needed policies, projects and resources that might be drawn on, or required, for effective implementation
  • have explored with others how the different SDGs interrelate and how systemic projects can be created that aim to implement progress on various SDGs at the same time
  • have reviewed the wider context of the United Nations’ sustainable development process and its history leading up to the creation of the SDGs
  • have experienced an effective structure for a SDG training of multipliers so you could potentially use the workshop script in the SDG Handbook along with the SDGs Flashcards to teach SDGs and replicate such culturally-creative conversations where and when needed
  • have had an opportunity to work with like-minded people in your community who are also willing to collaborate on local SDGs implementation projects and have identified projects that might be considered ‘low hanging fruit’
  • have brainstormed ideas and strategies for how to mobilise support, how to demonstrate feasibility by implementing successful projects, and how to best spread initiatives that work throughout your community and beyond
  • have taken the first step to becoming a SDG teacher, an active multiplier of conversations that matter to your community and to humanity by teaching SDGs, helping others to ask important questions about how to implement the SDGs in locally meaningful and relevant ways

    At the moment there are no face to face Training of Multipliers workshops scheduled for 2025, however we will update the schedule as soon it becomes available. 

    In the meantime we offer the online SDGs Multipliers Training course, which starts on 17th February 2025, for which you can find more information and can register here. 

    If you are interested in an SDG Training of Multipliers at your location, for your community or organisation we are more than happy to work with you to make such an event happen. Please contact us here. 

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Past Events

  • Tolum, México
    March 2024
  • Damanhur, Italy
    September 2023
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    September 2023
  • Damanhur, Italy
    September 2022
  • Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland
    September 2022
  • Damanhur, Italy
    September 2021
  • Curitiba, Brazil
    30 Oct – 1 Nov 2019
  • Findhorn, Scotland

    12 and 13 October 2019

  • IPP - Porto, Portugal

    30 September 2019

  • Vienna, Austria

    9 September 2019

  • Municipality of Setubal, Portugal

    22 May 2019

  • ToM Rio de Janeiro

    19 – 20 April 2019

  • Setubal, Portugal

    11 April 2019

  • Santana de Parnaiba, Brazil

    8 February 2019

  • UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

    15 January 2019

  • Sustainable Development Goals Conference, Scottish Police College, Tulliallan Castle, Scotland

    4 December 2018

  • São Paulo, Brazil

    15-16 November 2018

  • Findhorn, Scotland

    10-11 November 2018

  • UN Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

    9 November 2018

  • Dundee, Scotland

    6 November 2018

  • Palermo, Italy

    24 October 2018

  • Liverpool Hope University, TEESNet Conference, UK

    11 September 2018

  • Santana de Parnaíba Municipality, Brazil

    4 September 2018

  • Santana de Parnaíba Municipality, Brazil

    3 September 2018

  • Instituto Coca-Cola, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    30 July 2018

  • BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    30 July 2018

  • High Level Political Forum - UN Headquarters, New York

    9-18 July 2018

  • Responsible Leaders Forum, Marseille, France

    30 June 2018

  • Global Diplomacy Lab, Berlin, Germany

    18 June 2018

  • National Performance Framework International Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland

    11 June 2018

     

  • Chiukhim, Kalimpong, India
    3 June 2018
  • Chalamthang, Sikkim, India

    1 June 2018

  • Darjeeling, India 
    30 May 2018
  • Makaiba, Kurseong, India
    29 May 2018
  • UNESCO Headquarters - Paris, France
    14 May 2018
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    2 – 3 May 2018