This is our four-month interdisciplinary co-learning programme to get our heads, hands and hearts together and test some ways in which we can share tools, skills, knowledge and build the capacities we need to face effectively -and gracefully- the struggles of today and tomorrow.
We built this dense programme of sessions off the back of our longstanding alliances and recent Autumn Gathering, to follow up and put heads together with old and new people working at different frontlines for radical change. Registrations for the full journey through all events and workshops are now closed, but you can still join one-off events by registering here.
With Pirate Care, La Laboratoria, Territorio Doméstico, the Resist Glencore Network, Scuola Contadina and Coltivate Gaia of Mondeggi Bene Comune, the Borderlands Farmworkers Project in El Paso, ver.di organizers, the IDRA cooperative, Radical Abundance, European Legal Support Centre and radical legal scholars, Polekol as well as many more radical journalists, researchers and organizers from all over!
Knowledge is our Sweet Power?
Knowledge is a weapon, a tool, or even better: our sweet power. This year more than ever, we need skills and strategies for making our knowledges useful in the struggle for justice, care and collective liberation. This is why we put our heads together to gather up tools to produce alliance, leverage and literacy. The proposal we come with is to hold a common space, by joining our co-learning circle, where we will sit together, share, learn, test and build capacities to more effectively face current and future struggles while feeling empowered, inspired, joyful and not alone. In this season we aim to address the question: what do we need in order to build powerful common struggles and webs that allow us -not only to survive 2026- but to embolden us and forge the type of worlds we desire?
We believe we need to cultivate some capacities together:
Literacy: to read and understand each other and our situations, across different experiences and ways of being affected. How do we come together when we can read each others situations?
Alliance: to use processes of knowledge production to collectively build strength and power. From co-research to shared campaigns, self-education and more, how can we learn and grow together?
Leverage: to use specific knowledges in the face of institutions and powers that become tools to build counterpower and effect change. From legal to media to political contexts?
Our 2026 programme is a space for learning with others in different places and situations. We will go through different strategies about using knowledge for building sweet power, meaning to put knowledge at the service of our movements and initiatives more effectively through:
radical transition plans, feminist and anti-racist co-research, internationalist learning, autonomous agroecological education, counterplanning and radical think tanking, ecosyndicalist grassroots organizing knowledges, radical care, situated knowledges, just energy transition, biosyndicalist tools, sentipensar, borderlands work, strategic institutional research, public-commons partnerships, strategic litigation and movelent lawyering, power mapping, boycotting and divesting from toxic and destructive knowledge regimes and their institutions …
The programme comes with a special call for you to join our co-learning circle, a space to come as you are, build alliance and questioning more deeply:
Co-learning Circle 2026 [registrations now closed]
The co-learning circle is a collective journey for those who want to adapt tools and strategies for knowledge production to their contexts and needs, in good company!
From March to June 2026, as per our programme, it involves a co-learning session roughly every two weeks, with three co-learning circle workshops. The plan is to skill-up and face the struggles and challenges this year by feeling a bit more empowered, emboldened, inspired, and not alone – and to build collective translocal continuity.
This call to co-learning is meant for anyone urging to turn knowledge processes into something more than an intellectual fascination. To community organizers, teachers, activists, researchers, students or anyone else wanting to strategically and carefully produce knowledge for radical change, and be part of a lively mycelial web of learning, strategizing and acting, across places and contexts. The co-learning circle will likely spiral and re-emerge into our autumn gathering and further plots – facilitated by Manuela Zechner, Laura Mendoza Sandoval and Bue Rübner Hansen.
This co-learning journey includes:
- continuous exchange and mutual accompaniment, a shared chat
a free Pluto Press Book- 30% discount on the Pluto Press books
- six online co-learning sessions: a one hour workshop followed by a one hour public event, with guest speakers and collectives to learn from
- three co-learning circle workshops:
- in March: introduction to situated knowledges and mapping our contexts and issues [context literacy]
- in April: thinking through sentipensar for a politics of affectedness, alliance and abolition [imagining/mapping alliances]
- in June: strategizing for change [building leverage and power]
- special background materials to our programmed events
- a likely in-person follow-up at our autumn gathering (likely in October), probably in Serbia, possibly with travel support
‼️Registrations are closed now! We are thankful for everyone who is joining us in the co-learning circle. If you are still interested in attending one-off, but wont be part of the whole journey, please fill up this form. We welcome any new donations or commoners becoming monthly subscribers, to support our work. You can chip in here via our Open Collective Europe page.
For any donation: please write your name in the donation form, or send us privately the confirmation, so we can reserve your seat right away! We also welcome monthly subscriptions starting from 5€. This way you become a Common Ecologies Commoner and support the work we do on a more regular basis.*
* The registration form will be open until capacity is reached. Reserve your seat at the co-learning circle now <3. Your place will be confirmed once we receive any such gesture of financial support: this is important for us to build our work sustainably. If you can’t afford to support this work financially, tell us in the registration form and we look for other ways for you to actively support us. These are solidarity based contributions – give what you can – for allowing us to continuing doing our work in the service of movements (in non exploitative ways) and to feed on our vision to set up a translocal education cooperative in the long run; this is not a paywall! 10% of our budget always goes our solidarity fund destined to collectives that urgently need support.
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Note: all our events will be open and free as always, but for those of you wanting to do more than pop your head in, we call you to join the co-learning circle and make a contribution. This is our wager for building sustainable learning, reciprocity and movement infrastructure.
See detailed programme with dates and guest speakers and sign up below or by clicking here.
