Gaia Education’s graduates have amazing stories to share, and Oscar Gussinyer Galceran is one of them. Oscar has been involved in sustainability for over two decades and with permaculture for the last 15 years. During these years Oscar has co-created communities, cooperatives and a social centre. In 2017 he took part in Gaia Education’s Training of Trainers (ToT) in Findhorn. Nowadays, he is dedicated to co-creative facilitation, community resilience, regenerative development and transformationa…

Gaia Education has so many inspiring past students enacting positive change around the globe. Monika Hösterey is one of these students. Monika has spent the last eight years in an intentional community (Inla Kesh), embedded in an indigenous community, in Mexico. Monika has engaged in so many amazing pursuits, including but not restricted to: being part of the Global Campus of the Peace Research Community in Tamera, Portugal and part of C.A.S.A Mexico; bringing knowledge in action to Water and La…

Meet Steven England, an experienced practitioner/guide in meditation and mindfulness, and one of Gaia Education’s esteemed Changemakers. In 2016, Steve completed the Training of Trainers (ToT) course at Findhorn. In the same year, he took the Gaia Education Design for Sustainability course (GEDS). Through the Design Studio, Steve collaborated with others to produce The Art of Sustainability (AoS)—a creative forum towards sustainable thinking, through experiential educational events, facilitation…

Meet Juan Sebastián Cárdenas Salas, one of our many inspiring Changemakers. His consultancy aims to harmonise the fractures between human economics and natural ecology by viewing them within one interconnected system.

Since 2005, we have certified over 300 Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) courses, reaching over 17,000 students. The courses have taken place in many different settings, from intentional ecovillages to traditional communities, from urban slums to universities. One such unique environment is Damanhur ecovillage – an inspirational sustainable community in the Valchiusella valley, Italy.

Reinvigorating to be learning at the National School of Tropical Botanics, embedded in Tijuca Forest Rio de Janeiro, the largest urban forest of the world, covering some 32 km², home to hundreds of species of plants and wildlife, many threatened by extinction.

“Gaia Education’s Training of Trainers (ToT) programme was a truly empowering and enlivening experience. I stretched my skills and built on new ones, elevating my facilitation tool kit to the next level. My biggest take away was an inner sense of confidence in my facilitation, voices of anxiety (Will my audience like my work? Will I get through all my content? Will my points be understood?) stilled and a quiet sense of knowing that I am enough, ready and able to share my passions with the world,…

“When I first joined a Gaia Education EDE hosted by NextGenOA it changed my life. Taking the Training of Trainers in Thailand was the next step for me as I wanted to strengthen my skills in becoming a qualified project leader. The course demonstrates distinctly what is participatory learning; the content is rich and the learning process fluid. What impressed me the most was the talent of the facilitators to get participants to understand and practice Meta-Skills such as compassion. The class was…

“For many years my community has been experimenting with different approaches to education as we know that modern society is in crisis. Having forgotten or dismissed our traditional values of sharing and connection with the land, our education system has created a culture where children and the adults they become are isolated from, and in competition with each other, consuming unnecessarily, and disrespecting the rest of the natural world.

Meet Monica Picavêa – a former Gaia Education graduate who is following her path as a change agent. This Brazilian EDE Graduate sets up prize-winning B-Corp and is nominated Rockefeller Foundation Social Innovation Fellow.