Pracha Hutanuwatra’s Legacy Training
Programme Overview
Type: Face to face
Dates: Sep 28th - Oct 12th 2025
Place: Wongsanit Ashram
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Join our intensive residential program, 'Mindful Facilitation for Empowerment,' held at Wongsanit Ashram from September 28th – October 12th 2025. This legacy training program, inspired by the teachings of Pracha Hutanuwatra, an engaged Buddhist activist, offers participants invaluable skills in mindful participatory facilitation, community building, and more. It's designed to empower leaders, educators, and community workers who are committed to sustainable and regenerative futures.
This program is one of the most comprehensive and intensive Gaia Education Training of Trainers (TOT) available and a vital step on your journey to becoming a certified Gaia Education Trainer.
Discover how this training can empower you and inspire you to become a certified Gaia Education Trainer. Find out more at [https://gaiaschoolasia.com/training-of-trainer/] and register to secure your spot. Be part of the change and connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion for empowerment, sustainability, and community building.
For more information and registration, visit [https://gaiaschoolasia.com/training-of-trainer/]. Don't miss this chance to be part of a transformational journey toward a better future!

WHO IS PRACHA HUTANUWATRA?
Pracha Hutanuwatra was an engaged Buddhist activist, social critic, new paradigm leadership trainer and mentor. Pracha established the intensive Training of Trainers where participants gain skills, concepts and attitudes to work in their local communities, appropriately identifying needs and actions with the local people towards sustainable, regenerative futures.
Our dear teacher and mentor Pracha Hutanuwatra passed away on 13 May 2023. He has left behind a huge legacy in the many students, colleagues and friends whose lives he inspired to ‘be the change’.
“Decision making is education
Relationship is education
Self-cultivation is education”
– Pracha Hutanuwatra
WHAT IS PRACHA HUTANUWATRA'S TRAINING OF TRAINERS LEGACY?
This special Legacy ToT will stay as true as possible to Pracha’s incredible teaching that he developed over decades. Every aspect of human interaction needs facilitation.
Mindful participatory facilitation is an invaluable skill for leaders in a shifting paradigm as it is equalising and empowering rather than hierarchical and dominating. In this experiential training participants will co-create a safe space and gain ample facilitation practice in a supportive environment.
They will deepen awareness and experience in how to teach, facilitate and train people by enabling collaboration among a community of learners. Participants will flourish in a dynamic balance of mindfulness practice and open experimentation within the design and facilitation of holistic education sessions.
The course will inspire you to know what you are most deeply called to teach and why this kind of empowerment education is critically important for the future of life on Earth. The training will be certified by SEM College & Gaia Education. Content will be adapted and designed to meet the needs of participants drawing from the following topics. This training forms one of the requirements to become a certified Gaia Education Trainer.
WHAT TOPICS OF LEARNING WILL THIS TOT COVER?
TOPIC |
LEARNING OUTCOMES |
Introduction to Participatory Learning & Building Community |
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Trust-building and Learning Community |
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Holistic Perspectives |
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Emergent Design, Group Eergy and Mindfulness |
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Participatory Learning for Empowerment |
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Practice Teaching* |
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Edge Work |
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)** |
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* During the Practice Teaching topic participants will facilitate their sessions in English
** The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) topic is an optional 3-hour module for Gaia Education Certification

HOW ABOUT THE LEARNING PROCESS?
- Participatory & Experiential
- Contemplative & Reflective
- Creative & Transformative
- Active & Practical
- Intensive
AN EXAMPLE OF PRACHA EDUCATION FOR EMPOWERMENT
MEET THE PROGRAM FACILITATOR TEAM
- “Aoy” Waraporn Luangmanee
- “Om” Sunisa Jamwiset Deiters
- Petra Carman, PhD
- Daniel Sheinwald
WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS TRAINING OF TRAINERS PROGRAM?
- Those who look for personal empowerment and leadership training
- Teachers and facilitators who are interested in participatory and empowering methods of delivering content
- Facilitators who are looking for methods to draw collective wisdom from group learning processes
- Community workers
- Ecovillagers who are looking for facilitation skills that help to build a community
PROGRAM VENUE
This program will be held at Wongsanit Ashram near Bangkok, Thailand.
Address: Wongsanit Ashram, Rangsit, Klong 15, Nakorn Nayok Province
Food: Wongsanit Ashram serves delicious Thai food using ingredients from the garden and local market. Vegetarian, vegan and dietary restrictions can be accommodated.
Lodging: Thai simple style shared accommodation is included in the course fee.
COURSE FEE
- Full Fee
47,500 THB
- Early bird ticket, Register and pay deposit before 31st March 2025 (only 5 tickets available)
43,500 THB
- Discount for NGOs (only 5 tickets available)
Food & Accommodation are included. All fees preferably paid in Thai Baht.

