Ecovillage Education - GEN Ecovillage Trainings on Sustainability and Resiliency

Resources and Skills for Ecovillage Living and Community Action

Ecovillages have spent decades researching ways to unleash human creativity and solidarity in the design of social systems where both people and planet can thrive. GEN’s Ecovillage Education turns that research into tailor-made learning journeys for individuals, organisations and communities across the world.

Upcoming trainings:
Costa Rica Learning Immersion: March – April 2020
GEN Training of Trainer Course @ Rancho Mastatal, March 21 – 25
GEN Introduction and all inclusive Ecovillage Tour of Tacotal, Alegria and La Ecovilla communities, March 27 – 29
Ecovillage Startup Training @ Punta Mona, March 31 – April 5
If you 2 of these trainings together, we are happy to offer you a 5% discount on your course fee – and if you book all 3, you get 15% off. Special discounts for Costa Rica nationals, GEN Ambassadors, EDE Trainers and Friends of GEN!

Our passion is to facilitate hands-on, participatory and positive transformation. Our vision, a world where empowered citizens and communities design and implement their own pathways to a regenerative future.

Together with some of the world’s most exciting laboratories for regenerative living, we offer learners direct experience of ecovillage living and a rich combination of local expertise and international certification.

From finding inspiration and understanding the impact and nature of ecovillages, through applying ecovillage principles in the creative redesign of lifestyles and communities, to deepening skills and capacities needed to implement ecovillage innovations and solutions in every dimension of sustainability – we have the tools, expertise and experience.

Ecovillage Education Offers

A flexible core curriculum of ecovillage-based skills for personal, social and planetary thriving

– Design your own ecovillage education pathway by creating unique combinations of trainings to build a portfolio of regenerative skills and knowledge

A certified global learning journey of applied and holistic trainings

– Access and attend trainings in ecovillages around the world, all linked through an overarching framework of GEN certification

On-demand training tailor-made for your organisation or group

– Work directly with GEN Education to design a training that fulfills the needs of your organisation

An international pool of ecovillage trainers, facilitators and experts

– Meet and learn from some of the world’s experts in regenerative living, either through attending trainings in ecovillages, or through GEN trainers travelling to you.

A campus made up of leading-edge local experiments in regenerative living

– Experience immersive learning and direct exposure to ecovillage life in communities in every part of the world.

The chance to join a growing global network of changemakers able to unleash the power of community for a regenerative future

– Link up with learners, experts and ecovillages through our online platform and networks for GEN Students, Ambassadors, Trainers and Consultants.

The GEN Learning Journey

GEN Education actively collaborates with Ecovillages and Ecovillage Trainers around the world to deliver unique immersive learning experiences. Our certified trainings either take place in Ecovillages around the world, or through our expert trainers travelling to your group or organisation to deliver bespoke workshops.

Together, learners, educators and ecovillages form a growing community of practice, sharing and spreading holistic and community-led action for regeneration around the world.

If you are interested in ecovillage training tailor made for your group or organisation, you are warmly welcome to write to us an [email protected]

If you are interested in exploring or becoming a member of our GEN Trainers collective, take a look at the GEN Trainers page.

And if you want to learn more about our transformative curriculum for community-led change and ecovillage implementation, you will find more information about the GEN Learning Journey and upcoming trainings here.

Ecovillage Education Resources

We know that each journey to ecovillage life is unique, so our offerings are modular, flexible, and designed to fit different contexts, aims and situations. Whether you want to dip in for an inspiring online session or set up a year-long process to create and implement a community resilience plan for your entire bioregion, we have something for you.

GEN Webinars –Interactive online sessions hosted by experts from our network

The Solution Library – Gathering best practices and concrete examples from around the world

Ecovillage Design Cards – A flexible and creative way to explore holistic sustainability and whole-systems design, available for purchase in several languages

GEN Trainings – Our flexible learning journey, delivered by expert ecovillage trainers from a great diversity of cultures and backgrounds.

GEN Trainers – Connecting you with ecovillage experts and facilitators grounded in ecovillage living and a shared committment to community-led action

GEN Consultancy – Seeks to share some of the world’s best practices in the field of community, sustainability and resilience through a highly skilled and diverse network of expert consultants

Through our collaborations, network and partner organisations, you can also:

Browse events, internships, trainings and workshops in our network of ecovillages across the globe

Take part in the month-long and UN-supported Ecovillage Design Education, EDE, certified by GEN’s longstanding partner Gaia Education

Explore social entrepreneurship to marry personal skills and passion with actively strengthening community well-being through Social Innovation for Resilient Communities, SIRCle

Get support developing your ecovillage or community-led project for regeneration through the emerging Community Led Incubator Programme for Sustainability, CLIPS

Access a free online youth sustainability toolbox to empower the work of youth and youth workers through Bridgedale360

Create a custom-made programme run by your institution in an ecovillage campus through CAPE – Custom Academic Programs in Ecovillages