Training of Trainers and SDGs Multipliers in Tulum, Mexico
Programme Overview
Type: Face to Face (5 days)
Start Date: May 21st, 2025
End Date: May 26th, 2025
Residential: Yes
Facilitation: Taisa Mattos
Certificate: Yes
Language: English
Location: Tulum, Mexico
Organised by:
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.
*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
During the Training of Trainers, the participants will:
- develop core skills of participatory facilitation and learning
- gain confidence in holding groups and building resilient learning communities
- facilitate students engagement in critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making in contexts that are personally relevant to them
- decode UN conventions from concept to transformative action
SDGs Multipliers Training
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Multipliers Training is included in the ToT Tulum. This interactive course invites participants to discuss the implementation of the SDGs at the global and local levels. It is a question-centred training, designed to further SDGs education and engage local communities in a process that will turn the SDGs into meaningful projects that are locally relevant and collaboratively implemented by the communities themselves.
This training is designed to build the capacity of participants to become Multipliers – facilitators of vitally important conversations who can replicate and organise their own SDG Training of Multipliers. The goal is to create a ripple effect and multiply the implementation of the SDGs. In this training participants learn an easily replicable process to facilitate more of these conversations themselves in the future, with the SDG Flashcards and the SDG Multipliers Handbook as useful guidance tools to support the process.
Facilitator
Taisa Mattos
As a Gaia Education Face-to Face Programmes Coordinator, Taisa has coordinated and taught Ecovillage Design Education Programmes since 2009, having contributed to 30 certified EDEs all over in Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, Argentina and online.
Board Member of the International Communal Studies Association (ICSA). Education & Research Coordinator at the Global Ecovillage Network (2019 - 2023), she currently serves GEN as a consultant, trainer and project manager. Project Manager of the Erasmus+ partnership project Regenerative Communities for All (ReGEN4ALL) on Ecovillage research (GEN Europe/GEN Research).
Taisa is Brazilian and works globally as a trainer and consultant in the fields of sustainability, regenerative education and community life. Author of the book "Ecovillages: building a regenerative culture", she holds a master's degree in Psychosociology of Communities and Social Ecology (EICOS/UFRJ). Active member of CASA Brasil, co-founder of Terra Una Ecovillage (MG, Brazil), she also lived, for several years, in small urban communities in Rio.
What You Will Receive?
- Full tutorial support to complete the course and achieve all the learning outcomes
- Access to a online platform where you can interact with other participants, and access other materials such as:
- an expanded Teacher’s Manual (digital)
- a Gaia Youth Activities Guide (digital)
- Gaia Education Curriculum (digital)
- Gaia Education Training of Multipliers Manual (digital)
- Participation Forums and Debates
- a Certificate of Completion
- Gaia Education discounts in all online programmes;
- A pathway to joining the Gaia Education Certificated Trainers’ Roster
- Fast track Face-to-Face course certification
Setting and Investment
Regular Price
600
ToT Training of Trainers
+
SDGs Multipliers Training
SPECIAL EARLY BIRD PRICE:
540 USD
Available until January 31, 2025.
Venue
ToT Tulum 2024 will be held from May 21st to 26th, 2025 in Tulum, Mexico, at Ekumal Eco-Sanctuary.
At check-out you can add the cost of your desired accommodation to the registration fee (see options and prices below):
Single room: 1025 USD
Double room: 650 USD
Dorm 500: USD
Prices per person with food included (3 meals a day).
Certification
Certified by Gaia Education.
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the closest airport?
A: The new Tulum airport. Cancun would be the second best option.
Q: How do I get from Cancun to Tulum?
A: Check out the Ground Transportation options on our LinkTree here:
https://travelmexicosolo.com/cancun-to-tulum/
Q: Can we connect with other program participants to see if anyone is interested in roommates and splitting costs?
A: Yes, we will be hosting a call with participants to discuss logistics, as well as setting up a WhatsApp group for group communications.
Q: I want to arrive early to check out the archeological sites, beach, and Cenotes. Can I stay at Ekumal?
A: Probably, but it is subject to availability.
Q: Should I rent a car?
A: It is recommended if you’re planning to go out in the evenings/night, or drive to beach, archeological sites. However, there are other options for local transportation (bikes, scooters, colectivo bus, carpooling with others who do rent cars).
Q: Can I cancel and get a refund?
A: The Gaia Education programs and accommodations are NON - REFUNDABLE. Emergency exceptions will be made on a case-by-case basis.
More Information
Please fill this short form and we will contact you to support making the decision if this programme is suitable for you.
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.
