PHILOSOPHY A ‘living school’ demonstrates a vision for a sustainable culture. All over the world, models of best practice are showing that alternatives exist and that these alternatives can provide the same if not a better standard of living without impacting adversely on our ecology or fellow human beings. These living schools are in community gardens, schools, homes, farms and parks. Many exist in isolation, rarely seen but highly developed and functional. Living schools incorporate appropriate technologies and are designed using the principles of living systems. Living schools acknowledge the interconnectedness and complexity of current social and environmental problems, and the urgency of creating a new generation of informed and skilled community leaders. They foster a deep understanding of the natural world, grounded in direct experience that leads to sustainable behaviour. Living Schools aims to promote the development of these models and to build the capacity of the organisations and people creating them. Our workshops are stimulating and hands-on, calling on the participant to inquire into and develop their own solutions to the challenges of sustainable planning, resource management and community design. Details of our approach to learning can be found in our educational philosophy fact sheet. A more thorough discussion is contained in Facilitating transformative learning for ecological consciousness through mindful design of ecologies of learning.