Gaia Education · Virtual Laboratory
Where Gaia Education
practitioners gather.
A workshop space — not a marketing site — for the people running Ecovillage Design Educations, catalyzing regenerative projects, and putting Gaia Education's curriculum to work in real places.
Access to the Lab is by invitation — Gaia Education adds new trainers, organizers and project leads as they come on board.
Forum
Conversations between trainers, organizers and project leads. Threads that don't belong in a public Slack and don't belong in a course portal — they belong here.
Project directory
A map of the regenerative work happening across the Gaia Education community — who's doing what, where, and who they're looking for. Coming soon.
EDE calendar
Upcoming Ecovillage Design Educations around the world — where they're running, who's organizing, how to join. Coming soon.
Who's here
Five kinds of practitioner.
The Lab is shaped around the people who actually move Gaia Education's work forward in the world. Each role unlocks a slightly different set of tools — but everyone shares the same forum.
Certified trainer
Lead Ecovillage Design Education programmes.
Gaia-Education-certified trainers carry the EDE curriculum into their bioregions — running cohorts, mentoring participants, keeping the methodology alive.
EDE organizer
Convene an EDE in your place.
Hosts and project leads who pull together venue, learners and trainers to run an Ecovillage Design Education on the ground.
Project catalyzer
Seed and steward regenerative projects.
Practitioners turning EDE thinking into real ecovillages, regen farms, neighbourhood projects — and looking for collaborators, advisors and peers along the way.
Project participant
Join a project on the ground.
Learners, volunteers and team members contributing to live projects — picking up skills, finding kin, doing the work.
Lab administrator
Tend the Lab itself.
Gaia Education staff who curate the directory, moderate the forum, vouch for certified trainers and keep the space healthy.
The Lab is small, slow, and built around practice.
If you've been added by Gaia Education, log in with your usual GEDS account — the same login works across both sites.