Catalysing Change with Gaia Education’s Training of Trainers in Thailand
Gaia Education’s Training of Trainers seeks to provide educators with the tools to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals at a local level and catalyse change before it is too late.
Published reports by IPCC and WWF on the Earth’s current climate and wildlife state are demanding a transformative response from humanity and hence communities everywhere. We are faced with the challenge to redesign the human impact on Earth at local, regional and planetary scales within the lifetime of the generations alive today.
Gaia Education’s courses enable people everywhere to contribute to this necessary transformation by improving skills, regenerative literacy and the capacity for whole systems design. More specifically the next Training of Trainers in Bornok, Thailand (starting 5 January 2020) is answering an international demand for forward-looking, innovative educators and facilitators who can build capacity for regionally focussed regenerative development and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a local level. All of Gaia Education’s courses have a glocal focus, of catalysing change at the local and regional level to scale-out global impact with over 100 partner organisations on six continents.
The Training of Trainers, which is also referred to as ToT, is a course organised by Gaia Education that helps people deepen their experience in how to teach, facilitate and train people to become more effective local and regional change agents on the path to sustainability and a regenerative human presence on Earth.
The ToT is part of Gaia Education’s ‘professional pathway’ to becoming an official Gaia Education Certified Trainer. The ToT is the next step on our learning journey after a learner has completed the 125-hour face-to-face ‘Ecovillage Design Education’ programme, and at least one of the four dimensions of the Gaia Education Design for Sustainability online programme. Once the learner has completed the ToT and after passing a final interview the path towards working as a trainer and facilitator within our global network is open.
Participants who successfully complete the course will be able to coordinate Face-to-Face as well as Project-Based Learning programmes taking place in 54 countries.
By enabling collaboration and participation among a community of learners, participants are equipped with the skills and methodologies to facilitate transformative learning environments and host multi-stakeholder conversations that enable collaborative action. The curriculum primarily focuses on developing core skills of participatory facilitation and learning.
Gaia Education has partnered with the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) to work together with other organisations on supporting the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 at local levels. Capacity building at the scales of communities, cities and bioregions is a critical aspect of the transition towards a world that works for all.
In the face of this monumental task and such urgency, the upcoming 14-day Training of Trainers in Thailand offers you an opportunity to become an active part of the change you would like to see in the world. It will enable you to help others in your community to come together and co-create projects implementing the SDGs locally, building community resilience and contributing towards a regenerative future.
The Thailand ToT will be facilitated by Gaia Education trainers with great experience in their role as facilitators of positive change. The trainers of our ToT Thailand include Pracha Hutanuwatra, Jane Rashbash, Jessica Armour, and more.
Registrations for the ToT in Bornok, Thailand are still open and the training will run from 5 to 18 January 2020. Find more information and register at Gaia Education’s ToT in Thailand.
Develop your core skills of participatory facilitation and learning to unleash the creativity inherent in edge work.
Gaia Education is an international NGO based in Edinburgh that is actively involved in paving a more sustainable and resilient future and providing educational sustainability programmes to people of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
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