Design your sustainable lifestyle today!

From Anxiety to Tranquility

We will, Insh’Allah, help you to reach a higher state of self-sufficiency - or as we’d rather put it, “God-reliancy” - in the face of the current global situation through this series of workshops at our new Holistic Sustainability Centre in Marj al-Hammam. We will address a variety of issues such as:

How to start saving natural and financial resources by becoming zero-waste
Start Re-using, Recyling, Upcyling and Repurposing everything around you
How to grow your produce locally and organically for optimal nutrition
Composting in order to achieve a fertile soil, whether you have a land or not!
What tools can be used to design your different living and growing spaces in the most functional way

The Trainers

Aimed at anyone wanting to reconnect with natural ecosystems and incorporate these skills into their own lives, this exceptional series of workshops will be led by specialists in permaculture training:

Basia Dworak-Bahan, Lead Instructor (Australia) — **Basia Dworak-Bahan**, Lead Instructor (Australia)

Basia Dworak-Bahan has a background in industrial Design as well as Teaching specialising in Early Childhood Education. She has been teaching sustainable practices in all her professional teaching positions. She was a gardening mentor to many Australian kindergartens and primary schools where she shared her knowledge of establishing and maintaining kitchen gardens, community gardens and food is free projects.
She was trained in Eco-Smart, Education for Sustainability by Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board (required for the National Quality Standards in Australian Education).
In her personal life she has maintained a zero-waste lifestyle for many years, long before the term was popular, gaining a wealth of practical ideas which she was keen to continue and pass on to others after her move to Jordan. She has been in Jordan for two years, where she joined the team of Inaya Permaculture as the lead instructor for zero waste, sustainable living and urban gardening workshops.

Abla Abu Elhajj, Composting Lead (Jordan) — **Abla Abu Elhajj**, Composting Lead (Jordan)

Abla Abu Elhajj is a Composting expert and a true Permaculture enthusiast. Originally a Palestinian refugee who grew up in al-Baqaa, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, Abla used to work as a teacher in Amman until she found out about permaculture. She quit her job and the city life in 2017 and bought a small piece of land in the Dead Sea valley where she now lives and grows her own produce. She trained herself in the various subjects of permaculture, got hands-on experience by implementing those strategies in her farm, and has now successfully converted her 600 square metres of rocky arid land into an increasingly fertile garden that stands as an exemplary model for all permaculture students.

She is producing her own food, collecting eggs from her chickens, making compost, planting nitrogen-fixers to build up the soil. She’s got sugarcane, olives, mangoes, spinach, tomato, potato and what not! Abla is now heavily involved in teaching permaculture and her mission in life is to green the deserts in Jordan through the strategies she’s learnt. Watch her story.

Antoine Bernardeau & Kadidia Sanogo, Inaya Permaculture (FR) — **Antoine Bernardeau & Kadidia Sanogo**, Inaya Permaculture (FR)

Antoine Bernardeau and Kadidia Sanogo are permaculture consultants from France and are the co-founders of Inaya Permaculture. In late 2012, they left Paris on a woofing trip traveling without planes across 35+ countries in five continents to learn indigenous farming methods and techniques from various organic permaculture projects. The journey culminated in Mecca where they were able to perform Hajj, the sacred Islamic pilgrimage.

After successfully making their own transition from being city dwellers to permaculturists in the last 7 years, they now train, teach and consult for people in the Middle East and Europe through the permaculture collective they setup. They currently live in Amman, Jordan with their two beautiful daughters.

The Course Schedule

Dates : August 2nd to August 6th, 2020

Training Hours : 9 am - 5 pm

Day 1: Introduction to Permaculture Design

Overview of Permaculture principles
Basic systemic ecology concepts
Observing techniques
Design patterns
Hands-on activities

Day 2: Zero Waste

Overview focusing on Permaculture principle #06: “Produce no waste”.
Bathroom, Kitchen tour. Rethinking current practices, benefits analysis. Introduction to Composting.
Hands-on activities
Design follow-up

Day 3: Composting

Understanding processes
Sourcing materials
Various composting methods: Bokashi / Cold compost / Hot compost / Worm compost
Hands-on activities
Design follow-up

Day 4: Recycling, Upcycling & Repurposing

Overview focusing on Permaculture principle #05: “Use and Value available resources”.
Rethinking current practices.
Thinking globally, acting locally.
The what, where and how of recycling in Jordan.
Hands-on activities
Design follow-up