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​❤️ The invitation

​Across Europe, many of us are hearing the call of cosmopolitical learning - an invitation to learn not just about the world, but with it. To enter into dialogue with the living world around us, to honour ways of knowing and sense-making at the intersection of different knowledge systems, worldviews and ways of living and relating.

​Beyond method and curriculum. As a shift in perception and a return to relationship.

​Cosmopolitical approaches invite us to move beyond human-centered perspectives and to engage with the plural, embodied memory rooted in place, relationships and diverse knowledges. It asks us to awaken narratives long suppressed by industrialization and extractive modernity - stories of reciprocity, care and belonging.

​If you find yourself longing to explore how pluriversal perspectives might help shift the dominant narratives shaping life, learning and belonging in the european context and how they are transforming our projects, our communities and the way we walk through the world, this invitation is for you.
Enlivened Cooperative invites you to join us for a 5-day gathering in Făgăraș, Romania, happening between June 16 –20, 2026.

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🌿 The story unfolding

​This is an invitation into encounter - between two cosmovisions, two mountain worlds, two lineages of knowing that have endured erasure and remain, in their own ways, alive.

​Two wisdom keepers, Carlo Brescia and Renata Borges are traveling from the high mountains of Cordillera Blanca in the Andes to meet this land. They bring ways of relating shaped by reciprocity, by mountains and waters approached as beings. Their arrival into Transylvania opens a space of contact with a landscape that also holds deep memory - carried in forests, villages, and quiet, ongoing practices.

​Many of us are drawn to forms of learning rooted in relationship - where attention replaces extraction, and where a place is not just observed, but engaged with.

​Făgăraș, nestled in the heart of Transylvania and held by the Carpathian Mountains, is such a place. A threshold shaped by layered histories of empire and resilience, where traditions have endured in subtle, often unseen ways. These are not remnants of the past, but living threads - inviting us to reconnect with plural ways of relating to land and life.

​Over four days at the end of June, a small group will gather here. The focus is on attention: what unfolds when different ways of knowing meet without needing to be resolved into one.

​We will walk, share meals, sit in silence, and stay with questions that ask for time. The Andean guests are part of this field, not its center.

​Unlearning grounds the journey - loosening familiar habits, and returning to a more attentive, relational way of being.

​🌿 Wisdom keepers

​Carlo Brescia. Born in Lima and has lived in the city of Huaraz for more than 24 years. He is a filmmaker, writer, researcher, teacher, communicator and independent consultant. He directs and is a founding member of the non-profit cultural association Vasos Comunicantes since June 2004, an institution dedicated to the design and implementation of intercultural and educational projects for sustainability based on respect for the ancestral, the natural and human dignity. He also conducts inter- and transdisciplinary research on the ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar. He has participated and co-organized events related to Ancash Andean culture in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Panama. In February 2020 he published a book on the Medicinal Plants of the Cordillera Blanca. In addition to her work in Vasos Comunicantes, she is co-leader of the WikiAcción Peru project that seeks to close encyclopedic content gaps and diversify epistemological approaches to knowledge related to ecology, gender and culture on Wikimedia platforms.

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​Renata Borges was born in São Paulo (Brazil) and is a therapist and body artist, investigating processes of refinement of perception and expansion of consciousness through breathing, movement, touch and sensitive communication practices with the beings of nature. She has been working as a body therapist since 2011, accompanying processes of self-knowledge and integration with the vital force manifested in nature through connected, conscious and integrative breathing (Rebirthing), Taoist Internal Alchemy and Traditional Oriental and Amazonian Medicine. Apprentice and practitioner of ancestral ceremonies, Danzante de la Luna, connected deeply with the curanderismo of the Peruvian Amazon, where she is still in the process of development, deconstruction and learning through plant diets with healers and healers of mestizo and native traditions. Since 2011 she maintains workshops and groups of deepening in conscious breathing and body movement, some of them in alliance with sound and visual artists, sharing them in Brazil, Peru and Chile.

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​Adriana Carnu. Passionate explorer of life’s intricate processes, from the mysteries of birth and death to the ebb and flow of social dynamics that weave the fabric of human connection. She walks a path of deep inquiry, dedicated to creating spaces where people can come together to reflect, feel, and envision ways to honor and defend communities in all its forms. Seeing this as part of a broader, planetary movement for relational, ecological, and ontological harmony, Adriana is committed to fostering a world of interconnection and coexistence. Drawing inspiration from the idea of a pluriverse—a “world where many worlds fit”—she seeks to engage in collective practices that nourish community, memory, and shared responsibility. Adriana is a seeker of spaces informed by love, awareness, and a commitment to healing. Their work spans the realms of land and territory, intimacy and relationships, labor and livelihood—an ongoing pilgrimage toward wholeness, justice, and renewal.

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​Ana Marica. Community weaver, facilitator and learning designer exploring the ways knowledge is woven across communities, cultures, ecologies, and ways of being. Through projects and innitiatives such as Interbeing Learning Journeys and @Home in Fagaras, Ana is currently navigating learning at the intersections of geographies and worlds, designing unlearning journeys that invite individuals and communities to question, reimagine, and transform. Based in Bucharest, Romania, Ana moves between territories - both on land and underwater - seeking the wisdom held in diverse ecosystems and communities.

​📅 Logistical details in a nutshell

• ​Location: the town of Fagaras, Romania

• ​Closest airports: Bucharest (4.5 hours away by train), Brasov (1.5 hours away), Sibiu (1.5 hourse away by train)

• ​Host organizations: Enlivened Cooperative, Fagaras Research Institute, @Home in Fagaras

• ​Accommodation: @Home in Fagaras community hub

​Schedule overview (more details TBD)

• ​June 16: Arrival in Fagaras & welcome

• ​June 17: Opening circle & grounding the encounter.
  We open the space together: intentions, context, and the meeting between Romanian and Andean lineages. Slow grounding practices, listening to land, shared meals.
  
  In the afternoon, meeting the ecosystem of local organizations.

• ​June 18: Greet the mountains
  Travel into the mountains, spend the night in a cabin refuge. In the night open the field for an evening gathering/ceremony held with care and attention to the territory and the space.

• ​June 19: Integration
  Slow integration of the experience. Sharing circles, reflections, and harvesting what is emerging from the encounter.

• ​June 20: return to Bucharest
  
  
  🏡 Our Hosts

​@Home in Făgăraș opens its doors as a home for ideas, connection and regeneration. More than a co-living and coworking hub, it is a living invitation for thinkers, doers and dreamers to co-create futures grounded in care, purpose and place.

​Alongside it, the Făgăraș Research Institute nurtures knowledge, policy and education rooted in the needs and potential of the region - an anchor for reflection, innovation, and deep listening to the land and its people. One of its core initiatives, Calbor College, is a project in development dedicated to hosting learning programs that hold space for social imagination, cultural renewal and the emergence of new forms of learning in the rural space.

​Enlivened Cooperative is a global collective of educators, researchers, artists, and community organizers reimagining learning, research and leadership as living, relational and regenerative practices.

​We envision learning, research and community weaving as practices that nourish the flourishing of people, collective spaces and the planet: grounded in relationship, shaped by place and enriched by multiple cosmovisions. Rooted in diverse knowledge systems, we create place-based, cross-cultural, and community-led learning experiences that support collective action and seed pathways for regeneration and flourishing.

✨ Abundance and financial reciprocity

​We believe in the abundance that emerges through trust and reciprocity, and this gathering will be offered in the spirit of gift, with multiple ways to contribute according to your capacity.
Throughout the gathering, we invite each participant to contribute both financially, according to their capacity, but also through the unique gifts they carry - be it stories, questions, songs, practices, or perspectives. Together, we will co-create a space where learning flows in many directions, and abundance is shared in more ways than one.

​Financial costs involved

​For this journey, we are inviting a blended sustainability model combining a sliding-scale model and gift economy principles rooted in trust, generosity and mutual care.

​To honor this, there is no fixed contribution to participate, with a minimum that covers exclusively the logistical and transportation costs of our international guests. Beyond these basic costs, you are invited to offer a gift from the heart, according to your reality and capacity.

​Those who are able to give more help sustain the journey, support the people holding the space, and make it possible for others with fewer resources to participate. In this way, your financial contribution becomes part of a cycle of generosity and community support, moving beyond transactional payment for a service.

To join us, we invite you to make contributions that range between 700ron and 1000ron.

We are doing our best to make participation accessible by covering as much of this cost as possible through shared resources:

• ​Accommodation and gathering space is generously offered by the hosting organization (@Home in Fagaras) in the limit of 10 spots

• ​logistical and organizatorial support is offered by the local stewards of the project (Adriana Carnu & Marica Ana)

• ​Facilitation & space holding is offered in a gift context by both the local hosts and the international guests

​To help make this gathering possible, we invite the following contributions from participants:

• ​Transportation to and from Fagaras (Romania) should be covered by each participan.

• ​Food should also be covered by each participant. As much of the meals as possible will be shared, with the possibility of home & collective cooking.

• ​a financial contribution between 700 - 1000 ron, to help cover exclusively for the transport,food and costs related to Carlo and Renata's arrival.

​✏️ Sign up

​If you feel called to join, please fill in our sign up form: https://forms.gle/aVmLnx22D8SAeHP67

For questions, please reach out to
Ana Marica (+40737356538, [email protected])
or
Adriana Carnu (+40724293493, [email protected])

We’ll follow up with more details on travel, schedule, and how to prepare.