Since 2024, I’ve been collaborating with COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning and Transformation), helping shape strategic visioning, produce visual storytelling, and co-design and facilitate several of their pioneering Bioregional Learning Journeys (BLJ). From the Westfjords of Iceland to Colombia’s Zaquencipa Valley, these immersive journeys invite participants to engage deeply with place through outdoor experiences, Indigenous knowledge, design, collective reflection, science, and art. My role has focused on bridging global concepts in sustainability, regeneration, and systemic design with local, place-based experiences—linking plural methods, fostering reflection, and visually communicating complex systems.

Most recently, with COBALT Director Glenn Page, I co-led a multi-day journey through Casco Bay, Maine by kayak, hike and bicycle. Bringing together scientists, policy experts, Indigenous leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, and community practitioners, the journey helped us celebrate differences and build shared understanding of the complex challenges facing Casco Bay. Through seagrass seeding, performative art, culinary experiences, visits to local institutions and regenerative farms, we explored the bay by land and water, creating space for reflection, collaboration, and imagining regenerative futures together.

Through the Living Atlas for Bioregional Regeneration—a prototype weaving initiative—COBALT is connecting plural practices, visualizing emergent regenerative processes, and strengthening system-seeing capacities to scale impact up, out and deep. Learning journeys like Casco Bay serve as living laboratories within this larger vision.