Our Team of Permaculture Educators

We offer a broad variety of courses and bespoke trainings.

Alfred Decker

Alfred Decker (he/him) is an award-winning permaculture designer; the Education Coordinator of Permaculture For Refugees; a certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain; a leading voice in Social Permaculture; and one of Europe’s innovative permaculture educators.
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Rosemary Morrow

Rosemary is known and loved worldwide as a permaculture teacher, practitioner, and activist. She has travelled the globe for four decades, often in countries shattered by war and disasters, sharing her passion for permaculture and social justice.

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Her belief is that access to useful knowledge is a basic human right. Several years ago, Rosemary decided to focus on teacher training courses in order to create a “multiplier effect” in spreading permaculture more widely. She created the Permaculture Teacher Training to give people the skills and confidence needed to take the big step from being a practitioner to becoming a teacher. Her pragmatic and effective approach working with and being lead by local people has created community-scale permaculture projects and outcomes across a broad range of environments from drylands in Ethiopia, to the wet tropics of Vietnam. The knowledge and experience she brings to creating abundance, food security and successful sustainable farming models is unparalleled in permaculture education today. She is the author of the Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture among other books.

Starhawk

Starhawk (she/her) is the co-founder and executive director of Earth Activist Training. One of the foremost voices in Earth-based spirituality, Starhawk is an author, activist, and permaculture teacher and designer.

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Her 13 books include such beloved reads as The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk drew from 30 years of living collectively to write The Empowerment Manual, which is the basis for her social permaculture course, Empowering Collaborative Groups. Starhawk has been recognized by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) as a leading figure in permaculture and has been awarded dual diplomas for excellence in education and permaculture site design. As a teacher of magical activism and permaculture education, Starhawk’s life work takes her across the globe. She currently lives part-time in San Francisco in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in Cazadero, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens and writes.

Habiba Youssef

Habiba holds a degree in Economics and Sustainable Development, and has worked in international development focusing on the regenerative and sustainable use of natural resources for income generating activities aimed for the reduction of poverty.

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Projects related to agroecology and the empowerment of women in rural areas in North Africa (Morocco and Tunisia) and West Africa (Mauritania and Senegal). She holds a Permaculture Diploma from the the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute, and is the co-founder of La Bolina, an Andalusia-based association working on land regeneration, capacity and awareness building on regeneration, sustainability. She is an expert in market gardens, short commercialisation channels, and agroecological techniques and strategies.

Jennifer McConachie

Jen is a permaculture facilitator and coach based in Norway. She is certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain and holds Permaculture Teacher Training, Work That Reconnects facilitator certificates and Permaculture Diploma.

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Her background was in music, until she discovered permaculture. She runs Earth Mentor Me for online and in person programs including Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC), forest garden design, Work That Reconnects and life coaching.

Yau Fan

Yau did his first PDC in 2017 and later studied with educators such as Lesley Martin, Hugo Oliveira, Mirka Faya Hlavacova, Patricia Pereira, Geoff Lawton, Daniel Halsey, Gérard Ducerf, Olivier Roberfroid, Bernard Claes, Alfred Decker, Samuel K. Cornier, and Dr. Elaine Ingham to name a few.

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After doing his first teacher training with Alfred in 2019, Yau has taught and organised several PDCs as lead facilitator, as well as facilitating on other permaculture courses for refugees in Brussels and teacher trainings with a focus on refugees. Yau is now working at “la Maison Verte et Bleue”, an association to protect the Neerpede zone in Brussels through education, soil remediation, and community building. He is also managing a piece of land and experimenting with Ernst Gotch’s Syntropic Agroforestry, and recently received a Permaculture Diploma from the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute (Australia).

Sonita Mbah

Sonita Mbah is a passionate food grower, facilitator and Applied Permaculture Designer – Certified by German Permakultur Akademie. She has led Permaculture courses in Cameroon, Germany and Kenya.

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For over 10 years, she was the Administrator of Better World Cameroon and co-initiator of Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center North West of Cameroon. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, she brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award by the Women and Gender Constituency for empowering women on the earthen cook stove technology and the One World Award for her work with the Global Ecovillage Network.

Daniella Querol

Daniella is dedicated to visual art combining different techniques, disciplines and materials including art and clothing with dyes made from plants, roots, flowers, barks and food waste.

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Originally from Mexico but now settled in Catalunya, Spain, she has completed a both a PDC and teacher training in Spain; a postgraduate degree in cinema photography; a Master in Documentary Film (ESCAC Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuals de Catalunya); and a Fine Arts degree in Germany.

Paulinho Muzaliwa Josaphat

Paulinho is a permaculture teacher certified by the Permaculture Education Institute; a Warm Data host certified by the Bateson International Institute; an Ambassador in SEEDS regenerative financial ecosystem; and founder of Unidos Social Innovation Center.

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Unidos Social Innovation Center is a refugee-led organisation that aims to empower refugees through inclusive entrepreneurial skills in order to enable them to create jobs and enhance their livelihoods.
His efforts have earned international recognition, including the Social Impact Award in 2022, the Permaculture Magazine Award in 2023, and the Ockenden International Prizes. Paulinho was also nominated for the Earthshot Prize and in 2024 received the prestigious Gene Dewey Refugee Award by the USA for UNHCR, honouring his exceptional leadership and dedication to helping forcibly displaced people.
Paulinho envisions transforming refugee camps into regenerative communities where refugees have access to clean water, abundant food, and quality education.

Leila Darwish

Leila Darwish (she/her) is a bioremediation specialist, permaculture practitioner, artist, and educator with a deep commitment to providing accessible and regenerative tools for communities dealing with the toxic contamination of lands and waters. She is the author of “Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes”.

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Bioremediation is the practice of working with plants, fungi, beneficial microorganisms, and other natural remedies to remove, neutralize, or break down the toxic contaminants, restoring ecological health and resilience. With a passion for applying regenerative remedies to toxic realities, Leila’s bioremediation work and teaching is rooted in environmental and social justice, ecological reciprocity, and community care. For over a decade, she has taught bioremediation and earth repair courses, and has consulted on bioremediation projects in North America, Europe, Palestine, and Lebanon. In addition to bioremediation, Leila also works in the field of emergency management, supporting communities on the frontline of climate change with community preparedness, disaster response, and disaster recovery.

Andreas Jonsson

Andreas entered the Permaculture mindset in the early 2000’s. He finished his Diploma work in Applied Permaculture Design in 2017 and has organized and facilitated many PDCs in a variety of formats during the last decade, and lately a few Permaculture Teacher Trainings with Alfred Decker and Cat Dolleris. Andreas was elected leader of Holma Folkhögskola in 2017, an adult school in Sweden with 20 staff members, based on the Permaculture ethics and organized Sociocratically.

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Holma has connected thousands of people to Permaculture thinking, doing and teaching, over the last 20 years. Apart from facilitating Permaculture, he is also an internationally certified trainer and consultant in Sociocracy, working daily in facilitating learning and joining the collaborative community forces of Permaculture and Sociocracy. Since 2017 he has been working with SociocracyForAll, where he is currently leading the work in aligning Sociocracy trainings globally. In 2020 he co-founded the Nordic Permaculture Academy (NPA) which is also organized through Sociocracy. NPA is a home for around 70 Permaculture apprentices, mentors and working members who aim to develop their Permaculture design skills reaching for Permaculture Diplomas. Permaculture ❤️ Sociocracy

Cathrine Dolleris

Cat is a mentor, educator and co-founder of the Nordic Permaculture Academy and the Director of Geoliv.dk. She is passionate about essential life supporting systems – like ecosystems and having clean water and fertile soils – as well as connecting with nature, plants, animals.

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She works as an educator to increase the understanding of what it means to be in balance with nature and then setting up structures like the Nordic Permaculture Academy.