Ecovillage Design Training of Trainers 2008
Facilitators
Pracha
Hutanuwatr, Thai activist and intellectual, is
a former Buddhist monk with a socialist background. He has
worked under the guidance of Buddhadasa Bhikku, a renowned,
Buddhist monk and philosopher who developed the concept
of Dhammic Socialism; and Sulak Sivaraksa, an influential,
independent thinker.
In 1988 Sulak and Pracha founded the International Network
of Engaged Buddhists. Pracha's present positions include
Director of Wongsanit Ashram and Director of Spirit in Education
Movement, an NGO organising Grassroots Leadership Training
in South East Asia. He has published several major books
in Thai. Recently he and Ramu Mannivan published (in English):
Asian Futures: Dialogue for Change, which contained intensive
interviews with 14 prominent Asian thinkers.
May
East is a Brazilian social change activist who
has spent the last 30 years working internationally with
music, indigenous people, women, antinuclear, environmental
and sustainable human settlements movements.
Since 1992 she has lived at the Findhorn Foundation ecovillage
in Scotland where she is the Ecovillage Education Coordinator,
the Director of International Relations between the Foundation,
the Global Ecovillage Network and the United Nations. May
is a facilitator of the World Wisdom Council of the Club
of Budapest and works internationally as an ecovillage consultant
and educator. She is currently coordinating the establishment
of a UNITAR CIFAL training centre at Findhorn.
Jonathan
Dawson is the President of the Global Ecovillage
Network (GEN) and the Executive-Secretary of GEN-Europe.
He is a socio-economist, with over 20 years experience working
in the field of community economic development in Africa
and South Asia. During this time, we has worked for the
United Nations and may governmental and non-governmental
aid agencies.
For the last six years, Jonathan has been living at the
Findhorn ecovillage in northern Scotland. During this time,
he has been active in helping to establish the community's
alternative currency (the Eko) as well as teaching Applied
Sustainability and Sustainable Economics up to undergraduate
level.
Jonathan is a widely published author, with publications
on local economic development and various dimensions of
ecovillage living. Many of these articles can be found at
http://gen.ecovillage.org/iservices/publications/articles.php
Jonathan is author
of the book Ecovillages: New Dimensions of Sustainability
that has just been published by Green Books in the UK.
Michael
Shaw's field is ecological design. He is a founding
member of The Ecovillage Institute at Findhorn and is a
resident Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation. He pioneered
the Ten Stones ecovillage and cohousing community with others
in Vermont, USA. An engineer by training, he has been involved
in all phases of the development and implementation of natural
wastewater treatment and bioremediation systems including
Restorers since 1989 with Ocean Arks International (OAI).
With Dr. John Todd, founder of OAI, he is the author of
two wastewater treatment patents.
The EDE is being introduced
to the world at this time to complement, correspond with,
and assist in setting a standard for the United Nations
Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014.
Training fees
For the whole programme
£1595 payable by participants with low income
£1835 payable by participants with medium
income
£2125 payable by participants with high income
£455/£515/£605 per module
according to income
Fees include tuition, accommodation, vegetarian meals and
field trips.
Please complete the Application
Form and Enrolment Questionnaire
Enquiries by e-mail: bookings@findhorn.org
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