Dear kindred folk I have been following with interest the activities of the PeDAGoG list but have not yet introduced myself. My name is Udi Mandel, currently based in Hawai’i (originally from Brazil, with sometime in the UK and Costa Rica). After spending a number of years teaching in academia in the UK (mainly social anthropology and international development), and fed up with the neo-liberalisation of higher ed, with my wife Kelly Teamey (who is also following on this list) we left academia to explore a number of alternative higher education places around the world through the project enlivenedlearning.com (and made two films in the process: Re-learning Hope: A Story of Unitierra <https://vimeo.com/172681670> and Re-Learning the Land: A Story of Red Crow College <https://vimeo.com/128091605> <https://vimeo.com/128091605>). With other friends encountered in this journey we then co-founded the Ecoversities Alliance ( http://ecoversities.org/) as a community of learning practitioners from around the world committed to re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing and learning from each other in solidarity . More recently a group of us have started the Enlivened Cooperative (a non-profit, organized as a worker-owned cooperative) offering courses, programs and research with a perspective of bringing different knowledge systems and paradigms together for eco-social flourishing. We envision the Enlivened Cooperative as a platform through which to bring together kindred folks to offer various learning-related possibilities collectively. Here is a link to our website: http://enlivenedcooperative.org An example of the kind of course we want to offer, this summer we have - *Arboreal Learning with Cacao: Fermenting Beans, Community and Planetary Solidarity* - a delicious experiential 12 week online course (that tastes different) learning about cacao, chocolate and eco-social regeneration through the lens of cacao. Through the relationship of cacao to multiple cultures (Mesoamerican, Afro-Caribbean, regenerative agroforestry, craft chocolatiers), and through the perspective of a cacao tree, learners will experience different phases of the chocolate-making process (from bean to bar), experiment with recipes and tastings at home and explore their own place - local ecology and community through a series of lectures, conversations and invited tasks. Here is the link to the course: https://enlivenedcooperative.org/courses/cacao/ I wanted to make this introduction too at this stage as there is a meeting on the 6th (too late for us here in Hawai'i) and we would be interested to see ways of collaborating on collective teaching and research. With aloha Udi