Global Ecovillage Network

Online Learning

Online Courses

Access the knowledge, inspiration and wisdom of ecovillages around the world

Upcoming courses

£900

Ecovillage Design Education 2022

A special opportunity to participate in the full live and online Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course running from 12 March to 24 July, 2022 with top facilitators and experts from around the world, certified by Gaia Education and GEN. Explore social, ecological, economic and cultural regeneration and project design through classes, practice groups, sharing and exercises in a 5 month transformative learning journey.
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£1245

Permaculture Design Course 2022

Certified online permaculture design course starting on the 7th of May 2022. Live workshops, a vibrant online community, materials that are yours for life and support for your own permaculture project - giving you the tools to skillfully bring permaculture into your life. Facilitated by leading expert André Soares and live guest classes with guests.
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£135 - £585

REGEN-Nations

The REGEN-Nations program is a 6-month learning journey and prototyping lab using whole systems thinking to design solutions for sociological, cultural, economic, and ecological resilience and regeneration, created by the Global Ecovillage Network Oceania and Asia. REGEN-Nations 2022 will run from February to July 2022.
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Self-paced courses

€20

Ecovillage Economics: Abundance in Community

Can we build economies and businesses built on trust, community, wellbeing and ethical practice? This package features talks and workshops on social and solidarity economy, community businesses, ecovillage pensions and more.
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£25

Cultivating Community: From I to We

This package is essential viewing for anyone thinking of founding or joining a community: gathering recordings from the 'Cultivating Community: From I to We' event, it features talks and workshops on topics such as raising children in community, managing love relationships, decision-making, conflict resolution, and much more.
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£20

Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times: Low-Impact Technology Package

This package gathers talks and workshops from the What If? Gathering's Low-Impact Technology strand. It explores tools and techniques including permaculture, water retention landscapes and community biogas, as well as introducing ecosystem restoration as the great work of our time.
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£20

Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times: Sacred Activism Package

This package gathers talks and workshops from the What If? Gathering's Sacred Activism strand, which asked: what actions can we take to realise our personal and collective potential and accelerate global transformation?
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£20

Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times: Inclusion in Communities Package

This package gathers talks and workshops from the What If? Gathering's Inclusion strand. It explores the challenges of creating diverse communities and the hard questions privileged groups must ask themselves to truly address systems of oppression. It also takes in diverse approaches to spirituality, and how to invite everybody in during collaborations.
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£20

Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times: Community Incubation Package

This package gathers talks and workshops from the What If? Gathering's Community Incubation strand, where we asked: How can we start new ecovillages and strengthen existing ones throughout Europe? From the intricacies of communication and power in communities, to how to resource our communities and an introduction to the Community Learning Incubator, this package is a must-see for any aspiring ecovillage founder - or anyone who works in groups of any kind and wants to learn to live and work better together.
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£35

Research Colloquium Series

Ecovillage Research is relevant and evokes more and more interest in the mainstream world! GEN and other networks of like-minded movements are collaborating with universities and researchers from all around the globe and this course will give you an impression and access to the work of the GEN research group!
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£20

ReGENerative Schools Series

To expand from our Greening Schools Webinar Series, we continue to explore the interconnections between schools and communities, and how ecovillage principles can be applied in the most diverse contexts. Special case studies from Canada, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Iceland, Estonia, Portugal, Egypt, Zambia, Malwi, and India.
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£30

Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times: Panel Package

This package of panel discussions from the What If? Gathering is for you if you want to get the big picture and latest thinking on social, ecological, cultural and economic issues from an ecovillage perspective. The package features 7.5 hours of panel discussions with leading experts from the November 2020 online event What If? Ecovillage Solutions for Extraordinary Times.
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£35 - £80

The Art of Speaking and Presenting (GEN and your own story!)

This course will familiarise you with a wide range of techniques, materials, practices and inspirations for public speaking, presenting skills, storytelling, GEN, and becoming an effective leader and ambassador for the regenerative movement.
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£10

GEN Introduction course

For those curious about the Global Ecovillage Network, the organisation and network, this course gives an overview of the history, methodologies, resources, accomplishments, examples of well established ecovillages, and further opportunities for anyone to step (more) into GEN’s work. With almost 20 hours of content for you to explore, you will be able to jump between sections that interest you most to gain a deeper sense of what motivates GEN’s work and how we are catalyzing communities for a regenerative world.
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£30 - £75

Designing Regenerative Communities – with Kosha Joubert

Deepen your understanding of the 32 Ecovillage Design Principles and explore how to use them in your own life, community or organisation to cocreate a regenerative future now.
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What is GEN Education?

What makes ecovillages thrive – and what doesn’t? What are grassroots initiatives around the world already doing to create cultural, ecological, economic and social regeneration? How can you live an ecovillage lifestyle, right now and regardless of where you are?

Around the world, ecovillages are experimenting with regenerative living. From compassionate communication and self-governance to natural building, appropriate technology, social entrepreneurship, traditional crafts and participatory design – ecovillages are full of innovators, teachers and facilitators dedicating their lives to the creation of regenerative cultures. Our aim is to be a link between them and you, making it easy for you to:

Explore Ecovillages and learn more about where they are, how they work, and what it’s like to live in one
Get Resourced to work with the 32 Ecovillage Principles for cultural, ecological, economic and social regeneration
Take Action and start a community project, found an ecovillage or use ecovillage solutions in your life

About GEN

The Global Ecovillage Network envisions a world of empowered citizens and communities, designing and implementing pathways to a regenerative future, while building bridges of hope and international solidarity.

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Join us online for a series of interactive workshops on Ecovillage Design and the power of community in times of crisis. Hear from ecovillages on the ground, boost your inner resilience, and grow your capacity to design regenerative cultures and communities.

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