The CO Project Living Learning Lab

In 2017, Disrupt founder Dr. Leyla Acaroglu took on an abandoned olive farm in Central Portugal, and spent the next two years designing and building a regenerative living learning lab: CO Project Farm.

CO stands for creative optimism, and this is one of the core motivations and offerings that this beautiful rustic rural retreat offers: an inspiration and place of exploration and engagement with nature.

The farm hosts UnSchool programs and has developed unique off-site programs and farm-based immersive learning experiences in sustainable living, organic agriculture and creative changemaking. 

We offer corporate retreats and nature-based experiences on location at the CO Project Farm as an experiential knowledge-building nexus for advancing leadership and activating social change in the circular economy.

Through hands-on, immersive workshops and expert curriculum, our corporate clients engage with the core pillars of systems thinking, sustainability and applied design thinking to educate and empower genuine “leaders of industry” across a range of interconnected sectors and services.