Training of Multipliers - SDG ToM
Are you already familiar with SDGs but don't know how to integrate them into your projects? Do you want to become a facilitator that help others use the SDGs effectively in their projects?
Do you need to show that your organization carries out sustainable actions in line with the 2030 Agenda?
Do you want to learn how to improve the regenerative impact of your professional activities in an innovative way?
So, come with us!
Programme Overview
Type: Online
Duration: 6 week course (30h)
Start Date: May 1, 2023
Facilitation: With Facilitators
Level: Beginner
Certificate: Yes
Organised by:
Are you already familiar with SDGs but don't know how to integrate them into your projects? Do you want to become a facilitator that help others use the SDGs effectively in their projects?
Do you need to show that your organization carries out sustainable actions in line with the 2030 Agenda?
Do you want to learn how to improve the regenerative impact of your professional activities in an innovative way?
So, come with us!
Programme Overview
Type: Online
Duration: 6 week course (30h)
Start Date: GLOBAL SNIPPET
End Date: GLOBAL SNIPPET
Facilitation: With Facilitators
Level: Intermediate
Certificate: Yes
Organised by:
The enormous challenges our civilization now faces, and those yet to come, require our collective commitment to accelerate the implementation of systemic solutions.
The SDGs are now the best globally agreed description of which areas need our urgent attention if we are to create a healthy future that ensures the prosperity of our species on this planet.
But just naming Sustainable Development Goals will never be enough!
At TOM SDG, you will develop new skills for working with SDGs, growing your repertoire of questions and solutions, and standing out as an innovative professional in sustainability and socio-environmental regeneration.
With a low investment, you and your organization will get significant returns and leverage the changes needed to stand out as a global and local transition agent.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
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Become an SDG Multiplier with an in-depth understanding of the 17 SDGs and their various issues and challenges.
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Learn how to integrate the SDGs better to increase the impact of sustainability in any project, whether in NGOs, companies or governments.
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Develop a personal project to apply the SDGs to leverage solutions to a real challenge in your location.
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Practice consulting and facilitation skills for groups or individuals interested in sustainability.
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Design a customized workshop project for a specific context of your choice.
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Learn to use Gaia Education SDGs cards to accelerate the adoption of SDGs in any context.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The program's structure consists of the following:
- Exclusive didactic material with a systemic and innovative approach to the SDGs.
- Set of SDG Cards prepared by Gaia Education that received endorsement and support from UNESCO.
- Set of exercises and activities that work with the participant's local reality, leading to the design of solutions and products applicable to their real-life projects.
- Online working groups to practice consulting and facilitation on SDGs.
- Proactive and responsive facilitation, mentoring students in their personal projects.
- Live online meetings with facilitators and working groups.
- Forum space for asynchronous dialogues and direct interaction with the facilitators and the whole class.
The course runs on GE's e-learning platform, plus online apps such as Zoom and Miro.
Facilitators
Macaco Tamerice
Macaco is a sociologist, a life coach for meaningful relationships specialized in community-building, inner transformation, leadership and conflict resolution. She has been living at Damanhur since 1993, where she has held many roles of social and artistic responsibility, not last leading the Federation. In 2008, she became Vice President and then President of the Global Ecovillage Network- Europe (GEN Europe) until 2015. She is one of GEN’s UN representatives and the President of the NGO Damanhur Education. Macaco is a multi-lingual international speaker, facilitator of many courses and seminars and a certified GEESE Educator (since 2011) Trained in music and voice, she has toured as a professional jazz singer in Europe, Canada and Japan and has lead voice classes and seminars since 1984. In her life she has been active in many fields of sustainability, from the social realm and engaged spirituality to economy and eco-building. She lives in a straw bale house that she built together with her husband.
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 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.
More Information
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