Arboreal Learning with Cacao: Fermenting Beans, Communities and Planetary Solidarity

From its origins in Mesoamerican societies to today’s global commodity chains, cacao has continuously shaped and been shaped by the communities it has grown with. Through the lens of cacao and its relation to these cultures (Mesoamerican, Afro-Caribbean, regenerative agroforestry, craft chocolatiers), 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. 

As a participant what will I encounter in this course?

• Experience an elivened way of learning and being in a diverse learning community with faculty, practitioners and other participants from many regions of the world.
  
• The stories, practices, recipes and guidance of chocolatiers (including the many stages of making chocolate), cacao growers and thinkers.
  
• The ecology, processing, history, industrialization and political ecology of cacao and chocolate.
  
• Tasting and discerning different kinds of chocolate and understanding the different provenance and commodity chains that exist in the world of cacao (tasting package will be sent to you).
  
• The various ways cacao and chocolate have been used to regenerate communities and create international solidarity economies.
  
• Tools for and guidance in exploring eco-social regeneration in your own context. 
  
• Get to know other chocolate rebels!

Sessions will also be recorded and available on a dedicated course website alongside other course materials. In case you miss some sessions you can still participate in the course through the recordingds, shared materials and discussion spaces.

Who is the course for?

Lovers of all things chocolate; chocolatiers current or aspiring; those working with/in agriculture, food and sustainability/regeneration; activists and community organizers; ecologists and those excited about trees; educators, academics and researchers exploring another way of learning and making community in solidarity; families (including children) engaged in other ways of learning.  

Application Process

We have a limited number of places available in the course. The earlier you register, the better are your chances of availability to participate (and having your chocolate package arrive in time!). 

Registrations for this event have now closed, keep an eye out for the next time we will run the course sometime in early 2022.  

Any questions about this event and others you can reach us on: info@enlivenedcooperative.org

Want to know more about the course and its faculty? 
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