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As this year draws to a close, we look back on another orbit around the sun ☀️—a year of learning, collaboration, and deepening commitment to regenerative futures.

Despite the challenges and hardship unfolding around the globe, we’ve seen countless examples of resilience, creativity, and hope—reminding us that people everywhere are ready to co-create systems that care for both people and planet 🌍

A huge thank you to our partners all over the world who have created online or in-person courses a…

Dear friends and fellow Transitioners, I hope you’ll join me today in celebrating the launch of Transition Network International’s first-ever “evergreen” course, Transition Launch Training! This self-paced and self-directed online version of our most popular training is now available for anyone, anywhere, to take for free at any time. It’s the product of 12 experienced Transition Trainers working together across nine countries and three continents over the past eight months, and having coordinat…

This December, we’re gathering our global community for something truly special: a celebration, a reunion, and a renewal of purpose.

✨ Coming Home to Place ✨
Online Festival and 20th Anniversary Fundraiser

🗓️ December 1–7, 2025

Learn more and Join the Festival

For 20 years, Gaia Education has been a meeting ground for dreamers, doers, and regenerators. People like you, who believe a better world is not only possible, but already growing in communities across the planet.

Now, we’re coming hom…

How can our work become an expression of care—for ourselves, our communities, and the planet?

When we think of livelihood as a form of service to the wellbeing us, our community and nature, new possibilities begin to open.

In a world where conventional notions of “career” often center on productivity and profit, the idea of a regenerative livelihood invites us to re-envision our purpose through a wider lens—one that honours interconnection, creativity, and care.

A regenerative livelihood is m…

This text was written by Daniel Wahl as an introduction to the 4D Regenerative Design Literacy online course.

The year 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of Gaia Education, as well as, my 20th anniversary of working with Gaia Education. So it is my great pleasure to invite you to the 3rd edition of the 4D Regenerative Design Literacy learning journey.

We live in turbulent and uncertain times, of rapidly deepening polarization and social, ecological and economic degradation, where are culture of…

The first “official” conversation I had as a new professor was not with a dean or a department head, but with the college’s study abroad office. I had, for a variety of reasons, never taken advantage of a study abroad program during my own academic journey. Perhaps because of that, I felt a deep, almost moral, obligation to ensure my own students didn’t miss out. I believed then, as I do now, that true education cannot be confined to a classroom; it must be lived. It requires stepping outside of…

At Gaia Education, we believe that regenerative futures are built not just through knowledge, but through the transformation of how we relate — to land, nature, each other, and to the systems we live within.

As part of our commitment to in-depth, holistic education, we are honoured to share reflections inspired by the work of Dr. Lyla June Johnston, whose upcoming course with us, Indigenous Knowledge Systems starting 8th September, opens a door to respectful, relational learning rooted in Indig…

What makes a community truly thrive?
Is it shared values, collective goals, or strong leadership? According to Root Cuthbertson and Joyce Peters, facilitators of Gaia Education’s upcoming Connective Roots course, the real foundation is connection.

In this video conversation above, Root and Joyce share why this nature-based framework has been so transformative in their lives and why they’re passionate about bringing it to communities around the world.

A Nature-Based Framework for Connection

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This article was written by Kazi Shahnoor Ashraf who took the Gaia Education full online course into Regenerative Sustainability.

At the moment we have a 50% discount on the full course price - If Kazi’s story inspired you, now is the perfect moment to take your first step.

Ready to begin your regenerative journey?

 The full GEDS course is your gateway to the world of regeneration—guiding you through its Social, Economic, Ecological, and Worldview dimensions in a transformative learning exper…