Monday September 30th
Afternoon: Arrival
Evening: Get to know each other, Introduction to the ToT

Tuesday October 1st
Morning: Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG flash cards and exercises
Afternoon: Facilitator skills, Learning Styles, Participatory Learning, Exercises
Evening: Self organised (movie, presentations)

Wednesday October 2nd
Morning: Key competencies, Comfort-Discomfort, How to give Feed-back, Mindfulness, 1 Minute Speeches
Afternoon: Leadership Presence, Story Telling, Exercises, Games
Evening: Self organised (movie, presentations)

Thursday October 3rd
Morning: Learning Cycles, Difficult people, Maximise-Minimise Learning, Facilitation Exercises in pairs, Games, Recap
Afternoon: Rank Awareness, Facilitation Exercises in pairs, 1 Minute Speeches, Recap
Evening: Self organised (movie, presentations)

Friday October 4th
Morning: Facilitation Exercises in pairs, Games, 1 Minute Speeches
Afternoon: Facilitation Exercises in pairs, Games, 1 Minute Speeches, Prepare Individual Facilitation
Evening: Self organised (movie, presentations)

Saturday October 5th
Morning: Individual Facilitation Exercises , Edge Work, Appreciation Game, Feed-back, Closing Round
Lunch Together
Departure

Sustainable Development Goals – Negotiating Tensions between Global and Local

The world is marked by a strong and creative tension. It is a tension between what is global and what is local. The global face is powerful, and seeking to be more so. But a tide is rising, steadily reinforcing the local, resulting in an increasing ‘Glocalisation’ as the global and local converge. This module will teach edge workers and facilitators how to navigate between the two spheres in language, ethics and implementation. It will support participants to decode relevant UN conventions into meaningful frameworks for transformative action at the local level. Topics include SDGs vertical integration, UNESCO Global Action Programme Priorities Areas, and how to translate global Climate Agreements into action through behaviour and life style changes.

Facilitating Participatory Learning Journeys

The aim of this module is for facilitators to gain the necessary skills and confidence to teach the four dimensions of sustainability in ways that support participants to empower themselves both inwardly and outwardly. These future facilitators will be expected to have knowledge in the areas they plan to teach and this module will prepare them to teach this material in a way that builds a learning community and draws deeply from the group with which they are working. Participants will ride a dynamic balance of meditation practice, experimenting with facilitation and clarifying principles to navigate a holistic educational experience. There will also be ample time for facilitation practice where all participants will gain confidence in using participatory learning tools by taking the lead in assigned sessions.

Deepening the Edge Work

The edge is the meeting point between the known and the unknown, between something being too well known, which makes it boring to us, and too unknown, which makes it confusing. The edge is a zone of high intensity, instability, creativity and innovation. Just as it is possible, through the design of ecological sustainable systems, to increase diversity and life by maximising the edges between neighboring biological communities, so it is possible to create a larger edge effect in community development thereby maximising its benefit to the society as a whole. This module will position Gaia Trainers as maximisers of edges between different communities with differing modes of operation, power structures, cultures, physical environments and worldviews. It will equip trainers with the skilful means to adapt to multiple scenarios and situations and ultimately thrive and help others thrive through creativity and playing for collaborative advantage.

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
• unleash the creativity inherent in edge work

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Training is a two-days course which can be taken as a stand-alone training. 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.

The Training of Trainers includes a SDG Training of Multipliers. You can choose to register for the two-day SDG Training only. Please note that if you wish to become a Gaia Education Certified Trainer, you must attend the full Training of Trainers and not only the SDG Training. Read more about the SDG Training

• 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

Notes:

• The training will start in the morning of the 30th, so your stay form the 30th to the 5th is included, arrivals after 16:00;
• The training will finish on the 5th around noon, it is also an option to stay until the 8th;
• There a minimum amount of students to proceed with the trainings, we will inform you until before the end of august;
• If the trainings are canceled or postponed you will get 100% of you investment back;
• Please see out cancelation policy here;
  
• In Damanhur smoking is not allowed even outdoors, so in case you smoke you can smoke outside the gate