Community education

Developing Community Skills

Ecovillage Design Education (EDE)

Interested in building/living in sustainable communities?
Wanting to live and design regeneratively?
Longing for social skills to navigate conflict?

This education is lifestyle transforming. It equips you with powerful tools to contribute to co-creating a vibrant community where joy, resilience, and regeneration can grow.

What is this certified education about?

You will learn to design a successful community or business by using the sustainability wheel as a guiding framework.

You will explore how to create positive change in your (dream) community across social, cultural, ecological, and economic dimensions – while simultaneously enriching your own life.

A life-changing course for those who want to live in an ecovillage or ecocommunity or work in a community-oriented green project/business based on authentic relationships, shared values and permaculture design.

What will you learn?

Ability to engage actively in community life
Skills to design community and green projects
Knowledge to live in and build community
Increased self-confidence, mindfulness, self-management, teamwork and leadership skills
A network of like-minded friends from around the world
An experience of living in an international community
Better physical and mental health from nutritious meals, supportive environment and amazing nature around

What is special about this education?

It is offered in collaboration with Gaia Education and the Danish Eco-village Network (DEN).

It is based on the internationally recognized Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) curriculum, developed in 2005 by two pioneers in sustainable development: the Global Ecovillage Networ k and Gaia Education.

The modules

Building community. Welcoming you & building the base of our community during the course.
Social skills. Developing skills to become a valuable co-player. | 2-3 weeks
Green Economy Creating a fair organization and economy. | 2-3 weeks
Practical sustainability Growing food, building ecologically and living sustainably. Permaculture. | 2-3 weeks
Holistic Worldview Building a shared culture and working with limiting beliefs within a community. | 2-3 weeks
Whole system design Groups of students co-create a design. | 2-3 weeks

Excursions

During each module there will be an excursion to an eco-village or green project. On each excursion you will participate in some activities and teachings that are related to the subject of the module.

Who are the facilitators?

The main coordinators of the 2026 community Education is Kristiane Ravn Frost and Sandy. They are assisted by many very skilled people facilitating various subjects. To mention those on the photo: Camilla Nielsen Englyst, Rikke and Bernhard Schwegler, Lucia Biffi, Helena Marchenko, Dicte Frost, Bjarne Andersen, Isabel Corthier. Read more here.

Certificate

You will receive an Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) certificate from Gaia Education providing you attend 90% of the sessions and together with a group complete the community design in the end of the education.