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Article written by Bill Sharpe, the creator of the Three Horizons framework and the facilitator of The Patterning of Hope online course

How are we to act in the face of the existential risks we face? How can we meet the uncertainty and complexity of the future with hope?

If we are all to live well and thrive on one planet we must bring about profound changes in our ways of life 🌎

Coming out of my work with colleagues in the International Futures Forum and H3Uni, Three Horizons offers a simp…

In 2004, at the age of 26, I was at a crossroads in my life. I was heading back to the UK after two years teaching English in a Rwandan secondary school for the Voluntary Service Overseas.

I had gone out to Rwanda with the best of intentions - to help schoolgirls in a poverty-stricken country that was still recovering from a terrible genocide 10 years before. Many of the girls I taught had either suffered in the midst of the genocide or had been refugees in neighbouring countries. Whilst I defi…

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Multipliers Handbook offers a detailed description of how to prepare, promote and facilitate an SDGs Training of Multipliers or an SDG implementation workshop using Gaia Education’s SDGs Implementation Flashcards.

The intention behind offering this handbook is to make it easy for participants in a SDG Training of Multipliers to step into the role of a multiplier and to feel confident in offering trainings and implementation workshops to their business te…

We recently had the honour of hosting a powerful live conversation with Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Indigenous scholar, poet, and activist, to explore the themes and intentions behind our new course: Indigenous Knowledge Systems, starting September 8th.

During the session, Dr. June shared moving insights about the role of ancestral wisdom in today’s world, the importance of unlearning colonial ways of thinking, and how Indigenous knowledge systems can guide us toward a regenerative and relational f…

The SDG Implementation flashcards for community ownership & local implementation of the Global Goals   

It is firmly believed that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should not be separated from the global communities that forge them, and Gaia Education has developed this educational tool in collaboration with the UNESCO GAP Secretariat.

The SDG Teaching Cards contain more than 200 questions on the system-wide approach to achieving the 2030 Agenda.

These cards enable a participatory and…

SDG post #20 - SDGs & the Earth Charter

Hi #sustainability champions, as indicated in one of our previous posts you may have thought that we are all done and dusted with the SDGs having gone through all the individual SDGs one by one to polish our knowledge and upscale in SDG learning. As you know we send out a post approximately once weekly and you find previous SDGs explained posts on this blog roll. But we continue the journey with some additional explorations related to the Agenda 2030 and …

SDG post #19 - SDGs & the European Green Deal

Hi #sustainability champions, as indicated in our last post on the IDGs you may have thought that we are all done and dusted with the SDGs having gone through all the individual SDGs one by one to polish our knowledge and upskill in SDG learning. As you know we send out a post approximately once weekly and you find previous SDGs posts on this blog roll. But we continue the journey with some additional explorations related to the Agenda 2030 and the …

SDG post #18 - IDG - Inner Development Goals

Hi #sustainability champions, you may have thought that we are all done and dusted with the SDGs having gone through all the individual SDGs one by one to polish our knowledge and upscale in SDG learning. As you know we send out a post approximately once weekly and you find previous SDGs posts on this blog roll. But we continue the journey with some additional explorations related to the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, which we feel are important and worth…

Leyla Kazim is a TV and radio presenter, writer and journalist. She is a critic on BBC One's MasterChef, a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme and this year, she is transforming her life in ways she never imagined. Leyla is also the author of the bestselling newsletter A Day Well Spent, for people seeking pathways to more purposeful living.

In 2021 she participated the Gaia Education Permaculture Design course in Findhorn ecovillage which had a profound effect on her and changed the c…