Confluence: First Light Learning Journey (Cohort 3)

Thank you for your interest in Confluence, the upcoming First Light Learning Journey.

This page will be updated with additional information as the course develops. If you have any questions that aren't addressed here, or want a further conversation about this course, reach out to members of the Core Planning Team: Kara Wooldrik, Ethan Miller, Lokotah Sanborn, Ellie Oldach, and Peter Forbes. If you're looking for a starting point, please contact First Light staff  and we'll get you connected.

Learning Journey as River Trip: the participants are paddling with teachers that paddle alongside us. Rocks create rapids for us to navigate, challenging but necessary. Dams are structural barriers harming the rivers and ourselves, we'll work to remove these. We'll follow currents throughout the journey: Wabanaki perspectives, conservation legacy, organizational change, personal experience, affect and embodiment. Embankments are places to rest and reconnect at in-person gatherings.

Enrolled Organizations

We're excited to welcome these organizations into the course:

  • Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation
  • Appalachian Trail Conservancy
  • Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area
  • Blue Hill Heritage Trust
  • Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
  • Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
  • Coastal Mountains Land Trust
  • Conservation Law Foundation
  • Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Conservation
  • Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
  • Forest Society of Maine
  • Frenchman Bay Conservancy
  • Friends of Acadia
  • Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters
  • Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
  • Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust
  • Greater Lovell Land Trust
  • Island Heritage Trust
  • Northern Forest Center
  • Maine Audubon
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
  • Maine Conservation Voters/Maine Conservation Alliance
  • Maine Community Foundation
  • Maine Farmland Trust
  • Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
  • Mass Audubon (Massachusetts)
  • Momentum Conservation
  • National Audubon Society, Seabird Institute
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Onion Foundation
  • Open Space Institute
  • Quimby Family Foundation
  • Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust
  • Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park
  • Somali Bantu Community Association
  • Somerset Woods Trustees
  • Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire (New Hampshire)
  • The Nature Conservancy in Maine
  • The Nature Conservancy, New Hampshire (New Hampshire)
  • The Trustees of Reservation (Massachusetts)
  • Trust for Public Land
  • Vaughan Woods & Historic Homestead
  • Wells Reserve at Laudholm
  • Western Mountains Explorers
Flyer is text-heavy, information found in linked Living FAQs document.

Learn more & join us.

  • Have questions? Check this living FAQ doc for common questions and answers. We'll continually update this doc as the course approaches.

    Living FAQs

  • Use the link below to submit your organization's expression of interest in joining the Learning Journey! This form will be open until September 30, 2024 (deadline extended!).

    Expressions of Interest