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❓ What is Ecovillage Design Education?

EDE is a 4-week course of intensive training for those who create and develop sustainable communities and organizations, with a focus on practical skills, project work, transformational practices and exchange of experience.
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💚 unique certified international course
💚 foreign and Ukrainian facilitators
💚 28 days of immersive training

Ecovillage Design Education is a journey through four key aspects of sustainability:

Social dimension 😉

🌱 Leadership and empowerment
🌱 Nonviolent communication
🌱 Facilitation and sociocracy
🌱 Common decision making
🌱 Art and ceremonies

Worldview dimension 🌎

🍀 Spirituality and self-development
🍀 Personal and planetary health
🍀 Women's and men's circles
🍀 Reconnection with nature
🍀 Spiral dynamics

Economic dimension 🌟

🪴 Global economy: a course towards sustainability
🪴 Banks and currencies in communities
🪴 Comon resources
🪴 Eco-preneurship
🪴 Legal expertise

Ecological dimension 💧

🌳 Smart design of your own homestead
🌳 Infrastructure, water, and energy
🌳 Natural construction
🌳 Permaculture
🌳 Local food

The components of these dimensions comprehensively cover the issues and approaches that underlie successful projects aimed at regeneration, sustainability, adaptation to change and development of communities.

This course will help you gain skills to develop your projects in times of uncertainty, find new solutions and test their effectiveness.
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❓ When and where?

The course will last four weeks without a break from 1 to 28 August 2022.

We will spend 2 weeks at Obyrok Art Island (https://obyrok.com) and another 2 weeks at Tepla Gora Eco Centre (https://teplagora.org).

🔴 An important requirement is the presence of every participant during all 28 days of the course.
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❓ Language?

The main languages of the course are English and Ukrainian. The facilitators will work with an interpreter.
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❓ How much?

EDE 2022 in Ukraine will be cheaper than a similar course in any country in the world.

The full EDE course participation will cost approximately UAH 15 000 / $550 (the exact sum is currently being discussed and will depend on receiving a grant to partially cover the expenses)

The price of the 28-day course includes training and workshops, field trips, 3 vegetarian meals daily, accommodation in a community hostel or in your own tent, transfer between venues.

We offer a 10% discount for the members of national ecovillage networks, who paid the annual membership fee before 01.01.2022.

🔴 Transportation to and from the venue is covered by the participants themselves.

🔴 Attention❗️ If you need to receive partial compensation for the cost of training, please provide detailed motivation for participation and the reason for compensation.
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❓ What is the size of the group?

The maximum number of participants is 25.
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❓Who is organizing the course?

The course is organized by Ukrainian NGOs "Global Ecovillages Network Ukraine" (GEN Ukraine), "Obyrok", "Tepla Gora Foundation" in partnership with the Danish Ecovillages Network (LOES) with the assistance of an international program Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) by Gaia Education. The course is based on the experience of the most successful ecovillages and green projects around the world.

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❓ How to enroll?