Working Groups and Organizational Profiles

Gaia Education has an international membership of experienced educators with academic and professional backgrounds in a wide range of disciplines. It is a programme of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). As a non-governmental organization, GEN has ECOSOC consultative status with the United Nations since 1999.

Gaia Education has developed the Ecovillage Design Curriculum that has the endorsement of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and is as an official contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

The organization was set up after two meetings of the international consortium of educators called "GEESE" (Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth), which took place at the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland in June of 2004 and again at Galgafarm, Hungary in June of 2005.

The current members of GEESE compose the Board and various working groups of the organization.

Gaia Education remains open to the contributions of new potential members and partner organizations. If you would like to become involved, please consider offering a certified course in your own region. This may also involve you eventually joining one of the Gaia Education working groups.

Working Groups:

Programme Development
Course Certification
Outreach
Publishing
Strategy and Finances