Training of Trainers and SDGs Multipliers in Gaia Ashram, Thailand
Programme Overview
Type: Face to Face
Start Date: September 28th, 2025
End Date: October 12th, 2025
Residential: Yes
Certificate: Yes
Language: English
Location: Ongkharak, Thailand
Organised by:
This is an intensive residential program held at Wongsanit Ashram from September 28th – October 12th 2025.
*The course will be taught in English.
Gaia Education Training of Trainers (ToT) course is answering a worldwide demand for skilled facilitators able to facilitate transformative learning environments and host multi-stakeholder conversations that enable collaborative action.
The aim of the Training of Trainers is first and foremost, to help you deepen your experience in how to teach, facilitate and train people by enabling collaboration and participation among a community of learners. In addition, we support and hope to inspire you to identify what you are most deeply called to teach, and most importantly, why participatory methods are so critical for the engagement of communities and societies.
Addressing the urgency of accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at local level, Gaia ToT also includes the SDG Multipliers Training, including a module utilising the whole-systems inspired SDG Flashcards.
The course will be taught in English.
Why Tulum?
ToT Tulum will take place right after the RegenWeek '24, a gathering of regenerative leaders taking place in Tulum, Mexico, from March 21-28, 2024.
Programme Overview
Type: Face to Face (5 days)
Start Date: March 30th, 2024
End Date: April 3rd, 2024
Residential: Optional (See notes below)
Facilitation: With Facilitators
Certificate: Yes
Location: Tulum, Mexico
Organised by:
In partnership with:
Learning Outcomes
- How about the Learning process?
Participatory, Experiential, Reflective, contemplative, Creative, INTENSIVE, PRACTICAL, ACTIVE and Transformative
Program Venue
This program is not held at Gaia Ashram but at Wongsanit Ashram, Nakhon Nayok Province. Wongsanit Ashram is our partner organization.
Wongsanit Ashram was founded in 1984 by social activist Sulak Sivaraksa and colleagues, as a spiritual activist community devoted to developing and promoting a model of sustainable living that is grounded in engaged spirituality, cultural diversity, and environmental integrity.
Food: Wongsanit Ashram serves delicious Thai food using ingredients from the garden and local market. Vegetarian, vegan and dietary restrictions can be accommodated.
Lodging: Thai simple style shared accommodation is included in the course fee.
How to Become a Gaia Education Certified Trainer
Taking the ToT is part of the Gaia Education learning journey and brings you one step closer to becoming a certified trainer. The minimum requirement to be certified is to complete the following:
- Attend a full Gaia Education Certified Face-to-Face Ecovillage Design Education programme (EDE)
- Complete the minimum of one dimension of the Gaia Education Design for Sustainability (GEDS) online course, focusing on the area you want to teach
- Attend the Gaia Education Training of Trainers (ToT) course
- Pass an interview during the Gaia Education ToT. This will ascertain your suitability to be certified and included on the Gaia Education Certificated Trainers’ Rosteror determine any additional steps required to fulfil this.
Maintaining the Certificated Trainer Status
A Certified Trainer is involved in a continuous process of emergence, active engagement, innovation and development. To maintain certificated trainer status you must:
- keep up-to-date information on the Trainers Directory.
- regularly contribute articles, exchange ideas and share relevant information with the Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth (GEESE) and through other Gaia Education communication channels.
- have a consistently positive facilitator evaluation from students and organisers.
- have facilitated at least one Gaia Education certified face-to-face programme within two years of receiving your certification.
