Pracha Hutanuwatr & Jane Rasbash

Facilitation for personal growth, spiritual enrichment and sustainable social action.

The aim of this week is to enable and support potential course leaders, facilitators, teachers and trainers interested in teaching EDE material to gain confidence and skills to work more effectively in ways that will empower themselves and those they work with.

The approach is to encourage participants to cultivate attitudes, clarify concepts and gain confidence in using participatory learning tools. Participants will ride a dynamic balance of meditation practice, experimenting with facilitation and clarifying principles by going through an holistic educational experience.

Learning Outcomes: 
Participants inspired to:  trust in participant-centred learning; value knowing oneself; practice self-cultivation for transformation of consciousness and nurture a deep self-confidence.

Participants gain skills for using participatory tools in facilitation:  e.g. organising effective group sharing to draw lessons learned from experiences and activities; leading exercises, games, role-play and group challenges; council for consensus;  preparing and designing workshops with feed back loop, etc.

Participants able to articulate concepts related to participatory facilitation e.g. the meaning of participation & participatory learning;  indicators of successful participatory learning and related concepts; skills and attitudes; cycle of experiential learning; self-confidence; team learning/team teaching, fun and learning.

Pracha Hutanuwatr is the Founder and Chairman of Executive Committee of Right Livelihood Foundation; Programme Director of Right Livelihood Academy
Pracha's areas of interest are Applying Buddhist Principles for Social Activism, Holistic Rural Development, Asian Spirituality, Deep Ecology, Social Justice, Meditation and Social Action, Green Politics, Alternative Politics for Asia, Holistic Education, Buddhism and Politics; Higher Education based on the integration of Grassroots Leadership Trainning and Ecovillage Design Education.

Jane Rasbash works in sustainable development using an empowerment and engaged spirituality approach.  She lives in Findhorn Ecovillage and has taught on EDEs in Findhorn, Sieben Linden and Thailand.  She is a Board Member of Gaia Education.  Jane is currently serving as strategic and technical consultant for community, sustainable education and rights based projects in Burma, Thailand and more recently with GEN in some African countries.  Jane is a life coach who mentors leaders in the south often working in incredibly challenging situations.  She is passionate about Traditional Village as Ecovillage and supports Gaia Education and GEN to take this forward. A new interest is Bioresonance, bringing together holistic worldview, planetary and individual healing, empowerment and cutting edge science.

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