• Our Story •
Who are we?
The Enlivened Cooperative is a growing collective of diverse and highly experienced learning practitioners, researchers and community organizers who have been actively engaged in the field as teachers, professors, researchers, activists, leaders, artists, filmmakers, programers, and learners. We have been re-imagining learning, education, research and leadership over many decades in schools, universities, indigenous communities and marginalized communities working at local, regional, and planetary levels. We come from, and dwell in places from around the world immersed in experiments in community activism, cross-cultural and eco-social learning, and the open source movement.
The Enlivened Cooperative has emerged partially out of the ongoing work of the Ecoversities Alliance, which has been active since 2015 and which came to fruition as a strategic response to the inability of current higher education models to adequately respond to our planetary crises.
How is our approach unique?
At the Enlivened Cooperative, we believe that how we learn and work together for eco-social regeneration and mutual flourishing involves different ways of organizing and leading than what tends to be offered in mainstream education. For us, this involves bringing together principles of cooperativism, learning from nature and intercultural (or cosmopolitical) learning. We are creating a new form of regenerative and dynamic learning organization which makes central the core values of: The Enlivened Cooperative has emerged partially out of the ongoing work of the Ecoversities Alliance, which has been active since 2015 and which came to fruition as a strategic response to the inability of current higher education models to adequately respond to our planetary crises.
Our Team
These are the current active members of the Enlivened Cooperative who have been sowing the initial seeds of this organization. Our current courses and projects also contain many colleagues with whom we are also collaborating. As the cooperative flourishes so does the list of persons who are active participants.