About Us

WHAT IS TRAINING ADAM?

Training Adam is a spiritual non-profit with a peculiar vision: replanting humanity. Imagine humanity as a giant tree. We exist to tend that tree — its roots, its branches, its fruit. We believe humans are existentially and spiritually struggling in our postmodern, tech-infested, earth-separated world, and we are devoted to helping people dream, sketch, and try a different way of being human. Training Adam has six main branches. Three of them have their own dedicated initiatives below — here are the other three.

Rethinking Human.

We tease out the spiritual dimension of individual humans and our emergent connection to humanity as a whole. Dream it, sketch it, try it — rethinking what it means to be human through a philosophy of loving humans from the outside in.

Grow Up and Play.

Humans should not grow out of play — and true play should graduate into meditation. We bridge the generational divide through co-play, active LARPing, and creative RPG adventures that bring parents, children, and grandparents together.

Trash to Treasure: Clean and Restored.

We receive what others consider trash, restore and refurbish it into something beautiful, then redeploy it to fund our initiatives or give it as a gift to those in need. We also run cleaning services and a mobile cleaning unit to fund our work — clean and restored.

Shed Lite.

Shed Lite converts donated sheds into outdoor rooms, greenhouses, playhouses and garden structures that put people back into nature and reduce waste.

Permaculture Plants SC.

Permaculture Plants SC teaches sustainable gardening, food forests, and regenerative landscapes so communities can grow food locally and thrive together.

Tiny Village Healing Farms.

Tiny Village Healing Farms offers therapeutic tiny homes and farm experiences that support healing, community resilience, and meaningful work in the outdoors.