Enlivened Cooperative
The raw material of an un/learning journey is time. With care, we curate, knead, craft and, sometimes, even co-create it.
They are an interruption, a slowing down, many openings.
They are brave passages to possibilities, invitations to go out of the familiar zone and expand our sensibilities to let ourselves be undone so that we can suspend the noise of the routine and be attuned to dreams, stories and practices that instigate a process of becoming guided by the calm whisper and the joyous dance of the Earth.
Unlike tourism, this is not about consuming experiences, places, or people.
It is about engaging with the land and her guardians (human, non-human, more-than-human).
It is about activating the memory that walks to the encounter of what is different — tastes, landscapes, textures, languages, rhythms, ways of knowing, modes of being — with curiosity and respect.
The journey is simultaneously a retreat, a ceremony and a ritual that embraces the unknown as a fertile soil for radicalizing imagination and a pathway to deepen the relations to self, life, consciousness and the many worlds that constitute the pluriverse.
https://enlivenedcooperative.org/
Contact
Gerardo Amaro
Email: info@enlivenedcooperative.org
Upcoming Events (more to come!)
The homecoming journey: Colors of Holi and regenerative responses to the Meta-Crisis in India.
March 1-16, 2025
Join us for an immersive journey through India’s sacred lands, where you’ll explore the power of regeneration and community-led change. Together with a group of activists, regenerative leaders and youth changemakers, we’ll honor the earth and co-create a path of ecological harmony, inspired by ancient wisdom and the vibrant colors of Holi.
Re-created by Sound: Refining the Art of Listening
Morocco, June 18-30, 2025
This is a pilgrimage to the heart of sound and silence, to a sanctuary of listening, a deepening of how we are present to hear the voices of those who fight for the dignity of life, and an invitation to open ourselves to the colors and constellations of sounds spoken by rivers, clouds, mountains, seas, and stars. Every antenna must be tuned to process the correct frequency. In this sense, this journey is a practice of tuning into life. We will travel through various landscapes of Moroccan geography: near Merzouga Ouarzazate, our feet will feel the fine caress of the sand and the majestic silence of the desert; in the Atlas Mountains, we will follow the routes of transhumance, tracing the footsteps of shepherds and memory; we will be captivated by the abundance of paths and stories found in the market of Djeema el-Fna square in Marrakesh; and we will be moved by the liberating notes of Gnaoua and world music in Essaouira.
More info and registration link to come.
Walking to Chavín: A regenerative pilgrimage of becoming and re-rooting in the Central Andes of Peru.
August 6-17, 2025
This is a call to participate on a pilgrimage of deepening and encounter to the ancestral ceremonial center of Chavin de Huantar. Chavin (chawpin: ‘the center’) has been a point of encounter (‘tinkuy’) since at least3000 years ago, where people from different places and paths would prepare and walk to reach this space of initiation, un/learning, exchange and transformation. The temple and its fascinating architecture is designed as a labyrinth palace dedicated to memory and interconnection of life forms and beings. This is an invitation to be present in an initiatic journey to meet the tsatsakuna (‘elders’) that dwell in the most intimate of our blood and bones, recognizing ourselves as part of a community of humans and non-humans, holding the responsibility, joy and wisdom of Buen Vivir, impregnated by the colors, textures and smells of the lands where we come from and those where we dwell.
More info and registration link to come.
Borderlands: Celebrating Life, Celebrating Death.
Mexico, October 23-November 4, 2025.
In the geographic center of Mexico, there is an area where diverse realities converge, showcasing the richness of borders and margins—spaces brimming with creativity, portals to other landscapes, realities, and forms of consciousness. At this intersection, bridges are built, perspectives shift, transitions are experienced, rigid predefinitions of reality are questioned, and one steps into an active world in the process of becoming. This journey is a pilgrimage to that membrane of the borderlands.
This two-week pilgrimage takes us to inhabit several of these edges, moving between the mystical desert of Wirikuta and the humid mystery of the cloud forest, being reborn in the swollen belly of the temazcal and in sacred caves—the very entrails of Mother Earth. We will reinvigorate the body with ritual fasting and celebrate the abundance of the harvest in family and community banquets. We will weave the cosmos with the ethereal dance of the hawk or renew our pact with life in communion with the desert. We will move through the solemnity of mourning, and the colorful joy of cemeteries and homes as we celebrate the return of our loved ones during the Day of the Dead.
More info and registration link to come.