SiebenLinden EDE 201.. - Gaia Education

SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON PARTICIPATORY PEDAGOGY, INTEGRAL DESIGN AND
CONCRETE FOLLOW-UP PROJECTS
Like every year, many of our participants are experienced trainers and facilitators
themselves – and come with the aim of starting up EDEs in their
home countries. This year, we made the ‘Training of
Trainers’- aspect, which is a part of every EDE, more
explicit. Our focus on participatory pedagogy has always
been strong, but was vastly intensified.
An introduction to both Permaculture Design and Dragon
Dreaming (a holistic participatory method for the realisation
of outrageously successful projects through dreaming,
planning, doing and celebrating) is included in this EDE and highly
appreciated by participants. Including these helped for a process
of creating follow-on projects to emerge from the group. This
year, we included more sessions on the actual creation of project
designs, business plans and concrete funding applications towards
the end of the course.
FACILITATION TEAM
Martin Stengel Robin Alfred Kosha Joubert Paulo Mellet Christian Felber
Beate Walfsdorff Silke Hagmaier Eva Stützel Jane Rasbash
Kosha Joubert served as main focaliser of this course. Martin Stengel and Robin
Alfred both collaborated in the overall facilitation of the course.
Other trainers included: Chistian Felber (economist, teaching at university in Vienna
and author of several books on a new economy of solidarity), Paulo Mellet (Permaculture
teacher and connecting link to LUSH), Silke Hagmaier (Horse whisperer),
Beate Walfsdorff (Permaculture Trainer and EDE-alumni), Jane Rasbash (Board-member
of Gaia Education) and Eva Stützel (Project Coordination 7Linden).
The community of 7Linden welcomed the participants from all over the world with
open arms and played their role in creating a supportive learning environment and sharing
experiences.
The presentations of participants were essential: the richness of wisdom and experience
they shared were central to the aims and effects of this course!
FINANCES AND BUDGET
The registration of the 7Linden EDE Course as an official
course with the European agency for lifelong
learning continues to be extremely helpful. This provided
funding for 9 participants. Now, after 3 years of
preparation, we had support and funding for the non-
EU participants, too.
We were invited to put in funding applications to the
climate funds of German embassies worldwide and
took great care in selecting participants carefully through
our GEN-networks. In the end, so many individual embassies were interested in funding
participants from their countries, that the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin found
it more efficient to arrange one central funding proposal to go through them.