Hi! My name is Althea Collier and I am a Senior at College of the Atlantic. Woven Futures is a workshop I have designed as my Senior Project, hoping to bring people together to share their experiences with ecological change, dive into their relationships with land and place, and create visions for a different
environmental futures. In other words – how do we stay human while reckoning with insurmountable change?

The Flow of each workshop will be different, but they will each loosely resemble Community Building circles from Restorative Justice traditions, which means that participants, where comfortable, will be asked to share stories about their lives, talk about their experiences with land and place, and listen carefully to others. Besides talking, participants will be asked to journal, tell imaginative stories, create collaborative art, do movement and mindfulness exercises, sing songs, spend time in silence, and build meaningful connections with others.

There will be four cohorts of Woven Futures, open to any community member. Each cohort will go through five workshops held as biweekly meetings over the course of ten weeks (first week of January – Mid March). If you cannot make every date of a series, still sign up! We can talk through details.
Two cohorts will meet at the Jesup Memorial Library on alternating Thursdays at 6:30pm.
One cohort will meet at the Ellsworth Public Library every other Wednesday at 4:30pm
One cohort will meet at the Southwest Harbor Public Library every other Wednesday at 6:30pm.
Each workshop will run 90 minutes.

SIGN UP WITH THIS LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiowSOMEP5uXOHQpwL5ENvg_0CPzf6JWTCKJahde59jBZ37g/viewform?usp=header