# cards

name: Taisa Mattos
email: taisapmattos@gmail.com
description: xx
country: Brazil
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created_at: 2025-03-17 22:32:37
updated_at: 2025-03-27 16:33:55
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/taisapmattos@gmail.com?signature=d23eafec95af2e7d73b77bb1fff31670a747ccb9ca9e85e15517a5d44f57bf2d


name: Macaco Tamerice
email: macaco@damanhur.org
academic_titles: BA in Sociology
country: Italy
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created_at: 2025-03-27 15:14:48
updated_at: 2025-03-27 16:34:02
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/macaco@damanhur.org?signature=4176c63f553ba9823cbcebaf00abcfca3704c594d59697187e7e55a7a571811e

description:
  Macaco Tamerice (Martina Grosse Burlage) is a sociologist, a life coach for meaningful relationships specialized in trauma work, inner transformation, community-building, leadership, and conflict resolution.

  She has been living at Damanhur, Federation of Communities, since 1993, where she has held many roles of social and artistic responsibility, including serving as a Guide of the Federation. 
  In 2008, she became Vice President and later President of the Global Ecovillage Network-Europe (GEN Europe) until 2015. She now serves on GEN’s Network Steward Circle, as one of GEN’s UN representatives, and as President of the NGO Damanhur Education.

  In recent years, she has deepened her expertise in trauma work, studying extensively and earning certifications from renowned experts such as Gabor Maté, Richard Schwartz, Thomas Hübl, Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, Peter Levine, and others.
  Macaco is an international speaker, facilitator, Gaia Education’s face-to-face programmes consultant and certification manager, and a certified GEESE Educator (Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth). She has taught over 20 EDEs and several ToTs in various countries.
  Trained in music and voice, she toured as a professional jazz singer in Europe, Canada, and Japan for over twenty years and has taught voice and led classes and seminars since 1984.


name: Pedro Pedrosa
email: pedro.pedrosa@gaiaeducation.org
description: fa faf ewf qwef qf qwf qw fqw fqf
academic_titles: dsf a asfd
country: Portugal
created_at: 2025-04-10 11:14:21
updated_at: 2025-06-23 00:59:26
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/pedro.pedrosa@gaiaeducation.org?signature=4cdc2e0da1414704c4cec20e314883b650aad4554b2f7ab492fefe0a6440a46b


name: llll
email: macaco.tamerice@gaiaeducation.org
description: ccc
country: Andorra
created_at: 2025-05-10 16:05:35
updated_at: 2025-05-10 16:05:35
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/macaco.tamerice@gaiaeducation.org?signature=d2bd1ea8234616c56091b53c661f3011190665ad6316b8f6d03b40b2e101baea


name: Ainoa Soler
email: ainoasoler@yahoo.es
country: Spain
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created_at: 2025-07-17 09:26:23
updated_at: 2025-07-17 09:26:23
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/ainoasoler@yahoo.es?signature=a3789bd27740e8ee216ce889a272c84fb50a2e0c8c21affff92c2cf0d52415b8

description:
  Ainoa is a creator and co-creator of educational projects.
  Facilitator in learning and self-knowledge processes, Ainoa has worked and continues to research with different body disciplines such as dance, Dalcroze, Laban and Feldenkrais, uniting his teaching and pedagogical vocation with her artistic curiosity and her creative exploration. She currently develops integration work in interdisciplinary fields, creating bridges between ecological consciousness, social consciousness and artistic self-awareness, of other people, of groups and communities, and of ecosystems.


name: Pupak Haghighi
email: hoopoesong@gmail.com
country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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created_at: 2025-07-17 10:36:37
updated_at: 2025-07-17 10:36:37
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/hoopoesong@gmail.com?signature=1ebe7c31a4d3f4df6cb3b1f6531ab5a26a15d645bd7f60f1a5a9f7657a5757b1

description:
  I participated on my first EDE in 2013 in Findhorn, Scotland.  I was fascinated by the energy EDE generated.  I was fortunate to do the TOT training with May East, Jane Rasbash and Pracha Hutanuwatr in Scotland, in 2016.  Subsequently I held the first  EDE course in Northern Iran in 2017, and held the four modules in partnership with Youth Link in Auroville, India in 2019.  
  I have founded the Scottish charity Trees for Hope in 2017.  We are engaged in practical rewilding work in the West Coast of Scotland, in Moidart.  We are also engaging with friends in Iran and the wider Fertile Crescent to support their community and land regeneration processes.


name: Rob Wheeler
email: robwheeler22@gmail.com
country: United States of America
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created_at: 2025-07-17 12:12:01
updated_at: 2025-07-17 12:12:01
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/robwheeler22@gmail.com?signature=91c28cb89a1f51dcf9cda98c6b6783042080eb30f02cdbb8a60ed33d590ad581

description:
  Rob has represented the Global Ecovillage Network at the United Nations and in its sustainable development and climate summit processes for the past 25 years. An environmental education professional he has taught youth and people of all ages to appreciate and understand the workings of, and humanity’s dependence upon, the natural environment. He founded and chaired the EcoEarth Alliance UN Partnership Initiative on developing an integrated, multi-sectoral community based approach to sustainable development beginning in 2001.
  While being knowledgeable about all areas of sustainable development Rob is particularly well versed in both applying and understanding the inter-relationships between and among regenerative agriculture; ecosystem restoration; watershed management; water retention landscaping and restoration of natural water cycles; passive solar, green and natural building practices; renewable energy options; and all of their impacts on and the need for adaptation to global warming and climate change, etc.
  Rob presently serves on the Board, along with the Network Stewards Council, of the Global Ecovillage Network; the Advisory Board of the Ecosystem Restoration Communities; and the Board of the Global Village Institute.
  Rob lives at the Ecovillage Training Center on The Farm in Tennessee in the United States. He is the Farm’s representative and serves on its coordinating committee for the Global Ecovillage Network’s Keystone Climate Resiliency program and community of practice. He also lived for a number of years at the Heathcote Ecovillage Community in the US, serving on the Garden, Visioning and Education Committees. He coordinated Volunteer Day activities and supervised interns. He has also worked as a Carpenter and Handyman and on Sustainable Building Projects. He is a Master Gardener.
  In the 1990s Rob co-founded and coordinated the Santa Cruz County Sustainable Community Campaign, along with co-chairing the county Earth Day Committee. In the 1980s and 90s

academic_titles:
  Masters Programmes in Environmental Education and Political Science; Social Sciences for Teaching Credential, Pre-school thru Adult Education


name: Cornelia Fey
email: hallo@cornelia-fey.de
country: Germany
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created_at: 2025-07-17 12:40:15
updated_at: 2025-07-17 12:40:15
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/hallo@cornelia-fey.de?signature=69e1df69c59ce36fea19351b500d44a88c7d25cd876f89122ba6f41f402c6bee

description:
  Cornelia is fun and wise, curious and relaxed, guiding individuals and communities toward healing, connection, and regeneration. With over 25 years as a trauma therapist, she has supported  groups, individuals, and communities, holding space for deep transformation, trust, and renewal.

  As a medicine woman, she honors the Earth and all our relations, working with the wisdom of the earth, ritual, and deep listening to restore balance between humans and nature. Her passion lies in recreating sustainable rituals, weaving together ancestral traditions with present-day awareness to foster nurturing environments for children, women, and men—rooted in respect for self, others, and the Earth.

  While much of her work has been centered on women’s empowerment, she holds an open and inclusive space for all gender identities. Cornelia embraces a queer-conscious approach, aware of the power dynamics that shape our relationships, communities, and access to healing. Using tools from Emotion Work, the Wheel of Consent, deep listening, authentic sharing and many more, she helps individuals navigate connection with self and others in ways that are empowering, consensual, and liberating.

  Work & Experience

  🌿 Co-creator of the SHE EDE (Italy, 2023)—bringing a gender-conscious lens to Ecovillage Design Education
  🌿 Facilitator of the Ritual Team at the German Goddess Conference (2024)—weaving ceremony and sacred connection into community spaces
  🌿 Trauma-informed and queer-inclusive approach to sustainability, healing, and community building
  🌿 Reviving and co-creating rituals with plants from my surrounding nature
  🌿 Creating nurturing, consent-based spaces for authentic relationships and connection

  Cornelia facilitates Gaia Education programs with a holistic and embodied approach, empowering individuals and communities to reconnect with themselves, each other, and the Earth in ways that are joyful, wise, and deeply sustainable


name: Daniel Sheinwald
email: danielsheinwald@gmail.com
country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
created_at: 2025-07-17 14:46:26
updated_at: 2025-07-17 14:46:26
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/danielsheinwald@gmail.com?signature=6913f44da991d02d2785a6da36f71d7c6125cb6a51b7a14341ff217241b10401

description:
  Daniel is a passionate advocate for experiential and participatory learning. Daniel has run participatory learning programmes for children, university students and adults in Thailand, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, USA, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Dubai, Germany and across the UK. 
  Daniel also facilitates teacher training such as a UK government funded program that builds the capacity of teachers to integrate nature-based experiential learning into their curriculum. 
  He also facilitates Leadership Development programmes for NGO workers, community leaders and government officials as well as a Training of Trainers (TOT) on how to facilitate Participatory Learning for Empowerment. He is a Forest School leader and a certified Gaia Education trainer in Education for Sustainable Development. 
  Daniel graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc in Biological Sciences with honors in Evolutionary Biology.


name: Peter Gringinger
email: peter.gringinger@gaiaeducation.org
country: Austria
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created_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
updated_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/peter.gringinger@gaiaeducation.org?signature=2d1e20445c6c2adf4ec3dd680037be1a0d1f4aa7041b685c1cba6de7018973e1

description:
  Educator, Trainer and Facilitator, Whole Systems, Transition & Regenerative Designer, Project Manager & Coordinator, Environmental/ Sustainability Consultant & Advisor

  Peter is a change agent and works with the use of whole systems, transition and regenerative design approaches, principles and methods to provide support through integral and participatory facilitation for individuals, groups, neighborhoods, communities and organisations to co-create and co-design our sustainable futures of regenerative and thriving cultures, places, environments and local but globally networked livelihoods.
  Peter believes in order to tackle and resolve the many interconnected issues and threats we are facing we need to take a whole and integral person and systems approach so that we can strive to (co)-create true sustainability and regeneration of our presence on this planet and to create health and well-being for all (humans and non-humans). We have to work on creating bridges between the various ideas and views of the world, to embrace the diversity and work through use of transformative innovation to shift us into a new worldview of cooperation, abundance regeneration and using transformative resilience for a just and equitable future founded on self-reliant local but globally connected communities.

  Peter is an Austrian/EU citizen and holds permanent residence status in Australia and New Zealand

academic_titles:
  MSc, DipGeothermTech, PGDip Env Sci, PGCert Cont Hydrogeology, GradCert Sustainability, Cert Regen. Entrepreneurship


name: Allen Walker
email: allen.walker164@gmail.com
country: United States of America
created_at: 2025-07-19 21:38:34
updated_at: 2025-07-19 21:38:34
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/allen.walker164@gmail.com?signature=37f4a5d469e6337ceba660aa0ef30d627c400730b85788310473a3abb7e21088

description:
  I spend my time working on three matters 
  1. Large scale multi purpose panel systems.for infrastructure projects 
  2. Basalt rebar  production as alternative to steel.
  3. Hydrokinetic turbine energy generation systems.
  I would like to see intentional communities owning the technology using it internally and generating revenue for the community as part of regenerative economic activity


name: Allen Walker
email: allenw@tritekbrsystems.com
country: United States of America
created_at: 2025-07-19 21:50:03
updated_at: 2025-07-19 21:50:03
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/allenw@tritekbrsystems.com?signature=c348a4afa5fc490884a6dcb1011e781367640ac138a96f11a9791297ef99b59e

description:
  I work in three areas
  1. Retaining walls for large scale infrastructure projects 
  2.Basalt rebar reinforcing production as an alternative to steel
  3 Hydrokinetic energy turbine systems.
  My aim is to see intentional communities own the technology, use it and sell the systems to third parties to generate revenue for the community


name: sabina santovetti
email: sabinasantovetti@gmail.com
academic_titles: 1 PHd ; 5 Masters,
country: Italy
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created_at: 2025-07-20 14:35:15
updated_at: 2025-07-20 14:35:15
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/sabinasantovetti@gmail.com?signature=2ae7576acb31277f5b0419ba6e039ea1d3413f12e4b71ba2f46e68d45361501e

description:
  Italy 

  WOMAN, MOTHER, ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, ARTIST, FEMINIST, ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, SPIRITUAL SEEKER

  Sabina Santovetti, 65 years old, Italian, mother, architect, designer, teacher, spiritual ecologist and artist runs a Boutique Architecture & Design Firm in Rome. The firm’s philosophy gives exclusive attention to Eco-design and sustainability issues. In the last 30 years, she is committed in designing new and old residential buildings, with all respect to their contest and life quality. Her focus is to use energy saving principles and ecological certified construction materials. She also has been involved in designing textiles, products, furniture, interiors, events, theater and cinema sets as part of a personal vocational formation. She also paints subjects related to Feminine Energy and currently she is writing and researching for a book on the Energy of the Feminine. In the last five years, she has devoted her time in learning feminine spiritual ecology, being in activism for Extinction Rebellion, facilitating the Work that Reconnects, Community Building in the Transition Town Movement and Gaia Education Ecovillage Design Education, She-Ede as a certified trainer. She is currently studying at the International Academy Hagia, Modern Matriarchal Studies with Heide Goettner-Abendroth, as well as re-thinking and embodying her life as a new journey of discovery, healing and dedicated commitment to develop new strategies of resilience to the climate and ecological crisis. She is the President of the Association BestUp-BelloEquoSostenibile-Rete per la promozione dell’Abitare Sostenibile APS, association that is working for the empowerment of women. Her Eco-sophy focus on Spiritual Feminine Ecology. She is starting a school retreat ecovillage on the hills of Umbria in Narni with the name of MatriCulture.The opening will be in July 2024 welcoming the Cultural Dimension of the second edition of SHE-EDE


name: Petra Čarman
email: carman.petra@gmail.com
academic_titles: PhD
country: Slovenia
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:02
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:02
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/carman.petra@gmail.com?signature=60ff758804740744092ece509bc07c6b3232a5773745d0a25304edf9537a8fae

description:
  Petra Carman is a freelance facilitator and educator from Slovenia, working at the intersection of inner transformation, collective learning, and regenerative community building. A certified EDE trainer with a Ph.D. in social psychology, she specializes in the Worldview/Cultural and Social dimensions, with a research background in ecovillages, human-nature relationships, and transformative change.

  Since completing the Gaia Education ToT in Scotland in 2016—under the mentorship of the late Pracha Hutanuwatr and Jane Rasbash—Petra has facilitated EDEs and ToTs exclusively in Asia. She lived and practiced for extended periods at Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research (UK) and Wongsanit Ashram (Thailand), deepening her inquiry into participatory education and intentional living.

  Rooted in mindfulness, Petra’s approach integrates meditation, yoga, and dance-based embodiment practices. She is particularly passionate about holding spaces for women’s empowerment and collective healing through movement, reflection, and dialogue.


name: Ellen Rocha
email: ellenrolive@gmail.com
academic_titles: Psychologist
country: Brazil
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created_at: 2025-07-27 22:04:20
updated_at: 2025-07-27 22:04:20
url:
  https://certified-trainers.gaiaeducation.org/trainer-profile/edit/ellenrolive@gmail.com?signature=caddef75d7493dff8a21a7eb0dab20070d48f82324c4da857f6bd97136566bfd

description:
  I am a wandering psychologist, moving through places and inner landscapes with the same awe for life in all its forms. My work is to weave people together, opening spaces where hearts meet, where we remember that meaning is something we build side by side. I fall in love daily – with the whisper of nature, the quiet wisdom of animals, and the infinite beauty I find in human connection. With every step, I commit my skills and my being to care for this living planet, trusting that even the smallest act of awareness can ripple into transformation.


# press_articles

title: A Quest into Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation
outlet_name: Ecoversities
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
description:
  A reflective article on the experience during a month-long residency at Deer Park Institute in India, exploring the intersection of Buddhist philosophy, meditation, and alternative education.

url:
  https://ecoversities.org/a-quest-into-tibetan-buddhist-philosophy-and-meditation-petra-carman-residency-in-deer-park-institute-bir-india/


# other_programs

title: Village Development Program
url: NA
country: Australia
published_at: 2018-01-01
created_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
updated_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
description:
  The Village Development Program (VDP) is a series of workshops over a 7-day period that will begin the collective creation of an ecovillage or intentional community. It lays the foundations of the necessary knowledge for regenerative projects in more general. It follows the Gaia Education 4-D framework as well as the GEN 5-D Mandala as well as the core content of the EDE curriculum (now offered as mini-EDE).


title: Youth Glocalisers for Change: Local, Global, Ecological
url: https://www.gaiaeducation.org/past-projects#youthglocalisers
country: Austria
published_at: 2019-01-01
created_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
updated_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
description:
  The Youth Glocalisers for Change training programme holds the vision of an informed, empowered, imaginative and inter-connected generation of Austrian Youth Glocalisers, able and willing to adapt lifestyles and consumer behaviours to planetary boundaries while achieving the SDGs by 2030.
  The project has developed a series of workshops for secondary schools, combing content from Gaia Educations SDG workshops and Ecological Footprint workshops, adapted with innovative, experiential and project oriented learning experiences and outcomes. The project was implemented at a number of schools in Austria and a number of teacher multiplier training programs at schools and teacher colleges were completed between 2019 and 2023.


title: Greenskills Course
url: https://www.greenskills.at/
country: Austria
published_at: 2020-01-01
created_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
updated_at: 2025-07-18 07:00:06
description:
  My engagement for green skills includes supporting the development and delivery as well as facilitation of a holistic and whole systems based program for transformative innovation and regeneration through the use of transformative pedagogy in the greenskills course and other educational offerings.

  Living Green Knowledge
  The greenskills training course (10 modules over 10 months = approximately 40 days of contact time)
  Tools for shaping socio-ecological Transformation (various formats like lectures, short workshops, seminars)

  An experience-oriented course on core regenerative topics - from permaculture to community life and sustainable construction. The course covers many aspects and topics of the Gaia Education 4-D framework.


title: Eco Living
url: https://centresculturals.santcugat.cat/10912/descriptiu/
country: Spain
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 05:55:28
updated_at: 2025-07-19 05:55:28
description:
  ECO LIVING

  Un taller trimestral, dins la Xarxa de Centre Culturals de Sant Cugat del Vallès,
  al Casino de la Floresta
  Octubre-Desembre 2025

  Aprendrem pràctiques per a viure de forma sostenible. Repensant els nostres hàbits i accions quotidianes, de forma senzilla i eficient. Descobrirem des de tècniques per a una alimentació conscient i responsable, fins a propostes per a cultivar el nostre propi jardí. 
  Eines pràctiques i recursos, útils i accessibles per a qualsevol llar. 
  Per a deixar una empremta del nostre pas, més lleugera i responsable.


title: Cultural Guided Visits
url: https://www.ainoasoler.org/post/taller-visitem-exposicions-d-art
country: Spain
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 05:58:36
updated_at: 2025-07-19 05:58:36
description:
  With this programme, we are invited to discover the huge amount of cultural and art projects that seek to transform our reality and bring into action new possibilities for our world.
  Is a weekly meeting, on Tuesdays.

  The city on which we discover every week a new art space, work or artist, is Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.


title: Creative Gardening
url: https://www.ainoasoler.org/post/creative-gardening
country: Spain
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 06:00:17
updated_at: 2025-07-19 06:00:17
description:
  A long year project in which we meet different times around the seasons to co-create a relationship with Nature.
  Embrace diversity, and hold community.
  You are very welcome to come and join us in one of the worshops!


title: Talks with Soul
url: https://www.ainoasoler.org/post/talks-with-soul
country: Spain
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 06:06:58
updated_at: 2025-07-19 06:06:58
description:
  We long to hear what is about living in a community.
  We wish we can talk with some of the people that already is living in some kind or other of Ecovillage.

  That's why we create this space, in which we interview persons that are living or have had the experience of living in one ecovillage.
  They explain us their feelings, perspectives, adventures...

  And they share with us a deep meaning of community: we can create it, in wherever place we find ourselves in.
  No matter about the urban or rural.
  No matter about how small or how big.

  With every single step we are aware of, we can walk towads community living.
  In harmony and respect for the big community we are all in our planet.

  Looking forward to meet you too, you are very welcome to join is our talks, as a guest, or as the one we interview. 
  Just, send us your proposal: ainoasoler@yahoo.es


title: Findhorn Dinners
url: https://www.ainoasoler.org/post/findhorn-dinners
country: Spain
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 06:12:17
updated_at: 2025-07-19 06:12:17
description:
  Once a month, we meet and share a dinner together.
  We talk about Findhorn Values and Visions, and also about the eco or social projects each of us is working on.
  That's a huge oportunity to get  in contact with other people who are already walking into the same goals.

  As the months go by, we are creating a kind of net: art, science, education, spirituality, politics, social, ecological perspectives,... all are welcome to speak and to be listenned to in our dinners.

  Looking forward to meet you there!


title: Childhood in Nature
url: https://www.ainoasoler.org/post/espai-familiar-valldoreix
country: Spain
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 06:19:11
updated_at: 2025-07-19 06:19:11
description:
  That's a programme to meet once per week, and get to know more families with children, while spending time to play in open air, and surrounded by Nature.
  I've had the chance to be the facilitator for this space and accompany the families, welcome them, and propose some activites, and I must say these programmes are a huge opportunity.

  Not just for children to get to know Nature by themselves, while getting to know new friends, but also to create connections and community around the neighbourhood. One of our favourite term activities is the day each of us brings seeds to our meeting, and we plant them together in the soil.

  By learning together, we grow together.
  Looking forward to meet you there next term!

  In La Rural de Collserola, an Eco-Cooperative based in Collserola Mountain, next to Barcelona:
  https://www.laruraldecollserola.com/


title: MINDFUL FACILITATION FOR EMPOWERMENT (Training of Trainers)
url: https://dynamiceducationuk.com/experiential-and-participatory-learning/
country: UK
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 12:23:59
updated_at: 2025-07-19 12:23:59
description:
  Mindful participatory facilitation is an invaluable skill for leaders in a shifting paradigm as it is equalising and empowering. 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.


title: World Peace Game Masterclass
url: https://worldpeacegame.org/
country: USA, Ethiopia, Thailand, Germany, UK, Australia, Kyiv, Dubai
published_at: 2025-07-19
created_at: 2025-07-19 12:26:54
updated_at: 2025-07-19 12:26:54
description:
  Guiding philosophy and pedagogical principles that underlie the Game
  Identifying the essential attributes necessary to facilitate the Game through a series of reflective questions and activities
  Designing learning inspired by the principles and spirit of the game


title: Mindful Facilitation for Empowerment / Training of Trainers
url: https://gaiaschoolasia.com/events/training-of-trainers-certified-by-gaia-education/
country: Thailand
published_at: 2024-01-01
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
description:
  This 15-day Gaia Education certified ToT, rooted in the legacy of Thai activist Pracha Hutanuwatr, equipped participants with the skills and presence to lead participatory, regenerative, and community-based learning. The program emphasized experiential methods, mindful facilitation, and group process, preparing facilitators to support meaningful social and ecological change. Delivered with expert guidance including Jane Rasbash, it was designed for those seeking Gaia Education Trainer certification.


title: SDG Training of Multipliers
url: https://gaiaschoolasia.com/events/training-of-trainers-certified-by-gaia-education/
country: Thailand
published_at: 2024-01-01
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
description:
  Delivered as part of the Mindful Facilitation for Empowerment / Gaia Education Certified Training of Trainers (ToT), this participatory workshop equipped facilitators with tools to localize the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).


title: Mindful Facilitation for Empowerment / Training of Trainers
url: https://www.programmes.gaiaeducation.uk/tot-thailand-2020
country: Thailand
published_at: 2020-01-01
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
description:
  This 14-day Gaia Education certified Training of Trainers was held as part of the Awakening Leadership Training (an extended Ecovillage Design Education program) in Thailand. It was led by Pracha Hutanuwatr and Jane Rasbash, and grounded transformative, engaged education. The training focused on participatory facilitation, group process, and regenerative learning design for community-based change.


title: SDG Training of Multipliers
url: https://www.programmes.gaiaeducation.uk/tot-thailand-2020
country: Thailand
published_at: 2020-01-01
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
description:
  This participatory workshop was delivered as part of the Awakening Leadership Training in Thailand, within the Gaia Education Certified ToT. It equipped participants with practical tools and systems thinking approaches to localize the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and inspire community-led action.


# academic_articles

title: Finding Inner Chõwa Through Rewilding
journal: No journal, rather this is a public talk.
url: https://vimeo.com/882105166?share=copy
created_at: 2025-07-17 10:36:37
updated_at: 2025-07-17 10:36:37
abstract:
  This is a talk I gave at a conference in Northern Japan for an adventure travel organisation.  They are interested to make their industry more sustainable and nature friendly.  That is why they invited me to inspire their delegates to how travelers could change the story of travel organisers into an eco-friendly one.


journal: European PhD in Social Representations and Communications, Sapienza Università di Roma
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
title:
  Seeding the Spirit of Ecovillages: Tensions within the Representation of the Human-Nature Relationship

abstract:
  This doctoral thesis looks at ecovillages – commonly defined as human-scale settlements consciously
  designed through participatory processes to secure long-term sustainability – as first, communities
  where the human-nature relationship is being re-presented, and second, active minorities engaging in
  prefigurative politics seeking to make an impact in the world.
  It is expected that within this process ecovillages are actively striving to resolve the tensions between
  different dimensions of the social representation in order to effectively put it in practice. Additionally,
  it seems that they have also incorporated the psychological construct of spirituality, as one’s striving
  for an experience of connection with what is within and outside oneself, which includes feelings of
  connectedness with nature.
  In order to see how ecovillages are re-presenting the relationship with nature and the role spirituality
  plays in it, an exploratory ethnographic study of two ecovillages (Damanhur, Italy and Braziers Park,
  England) has been performed. Modelling approach was used, comprising participant observation, semistructured interviews, document analysis and a short analysis of community art. Additionally, in order
  to evaluate how ecovillages are perceived as political actors in the wider political arena, a media
  analysis of both Italian and British newspapers was incorporated.
  Results show that while both selected ecovillages are challenging the current hegemonic representation
  of the human-nature relationship based on modification and science, they are addressing the tensions in
  different ways, and are therefore using two alternative prefigurative paths. These conclusions underline
  the role of normative facets in regulating stress fields in social representations. Moreover, they not only
  pave the way to further investigations concerning issues of similarity and diversity, individual vs.
  collective, and implicit vs. conscious intentionality within prefigurative movements, but also the
  interesting role spirituality can play in environmentalist movements.

url:
  https://www.academia.edu/download/38391410/Carman__P._2015._Seeding_the_Spirit_of_Ecovillages_Short_article.pdf


journal: Revue internationale de psychologie sociale
url: https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychologie-sociale-2015-4-page-81.htm
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
title:
  Beyond wind turbines, solar panels and beautiful landscapes: Figurative components of sustainable energy in Italy

abstract:
  This study extends previous research conducted on textual data and focuses on the figurative components of the social represen- tation (SR) of sustainable energy currently shared in Italy. Our aim was to examine images as products, sources and forms of transmission of SRs and to answer three main questions concerning the SR of sustainable energy: Can a shared figurative nucleus be identified? What alternative images do these components activate? And how are images used in the making of SRs? Mixed methodology was used to examine a large set of photo- graphs (N=167), collected from two independent competitions on the theme of energy transition.


journal: Frontiers in psychology
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01229
url: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01229/pdf
created_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
updated_at: 2025-07-23 14:15:05
title:
  Recycling alone or protesting together? Values as a basis for pro-environmental social change actions

abstract:
  Social change can be pursued by participating in a public protest, joining a community gardening initiative, or recycling at home. However, little research has investigated how individual differences in values relate to people’s engagement in different types of social change actions in the context of pro-environmental behavior. We hypothesized that values would be differentially related to different types of social change actions, based on different goals that each of these actions may have (e.g., changing one’s own behavior or influencing others). A survey among people engaged in pro-environmental activism during the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference supported our predictions. Specifically, we found that individual behavior and community-based actions were uniquely related to biospheric values (i.e., a key concern for nature and the environment). However, other social change actions (e.g., public protest) were uniquely related to altruistic values (i.e., a key concern for the welfare of all people), and pro-environmental lobbying was positively related to egoistic values (i.e., a key concern for power and achievement). Our findings suggest that different behaviors directed at pro-environmental social change may be based on different values. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.


