• Welcome to a holistic one-week training on:
  
  - participatory education for sustainable development (ESD) and holistic workshop designs,
    including head (theory), hand (practice) and heart (vision, team and group building);
  - raising students' ecological awareness and inspiring behavioural changes of citizens in the EU;
  - working with and teaching green technologies, mainly related to private consumption and the housing sector.

• The training will comprise interactive teaching about:
  - how to create holistic learning experiences with different methodologies of participatory teaching;
  - the 'Be The Change – Symposium' as a holistic, interactive technology for raising socio-ecological awareness and active citizenship
  - the Ecological Footprint as a tool to educate individuals of all ages and educational background about Europe's as well as individuals' contribution to climate change;
  - the holistic concept of Integral Ecology.
  - the European Transition Town Movement, a growing network of active citizens and of people working in ESD;
  - modern Sustainable Technologies in the housing sector, including:
  * solar systems for heat and electricity,
  * fresh water and waste water management,
  * natural building and strawbale construction,
  * regenerative heating systems,
  * shared facilites for mobility.

• In the 'Ecovillage of Sieben Linden' many effective solutions in the different sectors as nutrition, housing, energy and water supply, and mobility are being successfully used and can be studied on site.
  

• The course will also include
  - phases of working and sharing knowledge in groups also inviting peer learning and teaching amongst participants;
  - a world cafe as a way to invite collective creativity in ESD;
  - an Open Space as a method for peer teaching in ESD;
  - a variety of “ice-breakers”, warming up games and group building elements;
  - guided tours concerning different sectors of green technology;
  - short movies illustrating different topics;
  - a meeting with the regional transition initiative and an excursion to a local supply company of regenerative energy;
  - evenings will be dedicated to meeting and exchanging for intercultural awareness;
  - intentional breaks for personal and group reflection on how and what to integrate into participants' own teaching will be part of the course design.

Arrival 17:00, Dinner 18:30, Start of workshop 20:00

course-fee: 580 €;
food, accomodation and organisation: 364 €
cancellation fee: 300 €
Pre-registration is completely unbinding.
After final confirmation from your side this confirmation stays unbinding until May 12, 2012; cancellation between May 13 and May 26, 2012 is
charged with a cancellation fee of 150 Euro. Cancelling later or not coming to the course at all is charged with 300 Euro.
Please contact us in any case of delay with your Grundtvig InService approval.

Facilitation: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Stengel, Julia Strehler, Beate Walsdorf and others

Information and pre-registration:    workshops@siebenlinden.de

Enrollment: Freundeskreis Ökodorf e.V., Tel. 039000-51235 Email:   info[AT]siebenlinden.de

This Training takes place in the Ecovillage of Sieben Linden: