Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - Training of Trainers Incorporating Transition Towns Training
17th June 2010 |
Project summary:
2 October - 29 October 2010
Participants 2009
Image by Gabrielle Hamm
For more details download pdf here
Presented by the Findhorn Foundation in partnership with Gaia Education
and Global Ecovillage Network
A Training of Trainers programme based on the four core pillars of the Ecovillage Design Curriculum: the social, economic, ecological and worldview dimensions of sustainability. The curriculum draws on the experience and expertise developed in a network of some of the most sucessful ecovillages and community projects across the Earth.
Facilitated by: Pracha Hutanuwatr - Director, Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand
May East - Director, Gaia Education Jonathan Dawson - Senior Lecturer, Findhorn College
Michael Shaw - Director, Ecovillage International and
Findhorn Ecovillage experts
Module details:
Social Design – Week 1: Oct 2 – 8 Building Community & Embracing
Diversity; Communication and Facilitation Skills, Decision-Making and
Feed-Back; Conflict Facilitation; Personal Empowerment and Leadership;
Celebrating Life: Creativity and Art
Economic Design – Week 2: Oct 9 - 15 Shifting the Global Economy to
Sustainability; How Money Works: Community Banks and Currencies; Right
Livelihood; Social Enterprise- Nurturing Local Economies; Legal and
Financial Issues
Ecological Design – Week 3: Oct 16 - 22 Whole Systems Approach to
Ecological Design; Appropriate Technology: Water; Organic Agriculture and
Local Food; Appropriate Technology: Energy; Green Building & Retrofitting
Worldview – Week 4: Oct 23 - 29 Holistic Worldview, Listening to and
Reconnecting with Nature; Awakening & Transformation of Consciousness;
Personal Health & Planetary Health; Socially Engaged Spirituality and
Bioregionalism
Social Design – Week 1: Oct 2 – 8 Building Community & Embracing
Diversity; Communication and Facilitation Skills, Decision-Making and
Feed-Back; Conflict Facilitation; Personal Empowerment and Leadership;
Celebrating Life: Creativity and Art
Economic Design – Week 2: Oct 9 - 15 Shifting the Global Economy to
Sustainability; How Money Works: Community Banks and Currencies; Right
Livelihood; Social Enterprise- Nurturing Local Economies; Legal and
Financial Issues
Ecological Design – Week 3: Oct 16 - 22 Whole Systems Approach to
Ecological Design; Appropriate Technology: Water; Organic Agriculture and
Local Food; Appropriate Technology: Energy; Green Building & Retrofitting
Worldview – Week 4: Oct 23 - 29 Holistic Worldview, Listening to and
Reconnecting with Nature; Awakening & Transformation of Consciousness;
Personal Health & Planetary Health; Socially Engaged Spirituality and
Bioregionalism
Gaia Education Ecovillage Design Curriculum - an official contribution to the United Nations
Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
Training fees
For the whole programme
£1675 payable by participants with low income
£1925 payable by participants with medium income
£2235 payable by participants with high income
£475/£545/£635 per module according to income
Fees include tuition, accommodation, vegetarian meals and field trips.
For more information please visit our website
or contact: sustedu@findhorn.org
For bookings
Please contact: bookings@findhorn.org
Booking Form: https://www.findhorn.org/GDSapplication2010.php
Lessons learnt:
This is a fantastic and empowering course that can be taken as a whole (one month) or in weekly modules.
Contact details:
| Organisation: | Findhorn Foundation |
| Website: | www.findhorn.org |
| Contact name: | Gabrielle Hamm |
| Contact email: | sustedu
 findhorn org |
| Address: | The Park, Findhorn, Moray, IV36 3TZ |
| Phone: | 01309 692011 |