Confluence: First Light Learning Journey (Cohort 3)

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

This learning journey will begin on November 14th. At this point, we are no longer registering new organizations for the cohort, but we welcome your interest and invite you to check out course materials below. With great thanks to the Core Planning Team: Kara Wooldrik, Ethan Miller, Lokotah Sanborn, Ellie Oldach, and Peter Forbes.

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
  • Mount Grace Land Trust (Massachusetts)
  • 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)
  • Trustees of Reservations (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 about the course.

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

    Living FAQs

  • From the history and ongoing legacy of colonization, to Wabanaki land care and sovereignty, take a look at the topics we'll travel through together.

    Curriculum Overview