Welcome to Experience 3 in our Guided Journeys. This experience’s theme is Data & Experience.

To restore Passamaquoddy Bay, we need to understand the tools we are using in that endeavour. In this Experience, we will hear about the tools of direct experience, paddling in the bay on a daily basis, diving deep below its surface, gathering data with the eyes, the ears, every sense, the brain (which also holds traditional stories), the heart which falls in love with the place.

Experience Navigation Map

1. Moment of Stillness & Preparation (5 min)
2. Perspectives (text, 2 min)
3. Perspectives on Prediction with Fred Page & Jack Fife (video, 20 min) – could other fred talk go here?
4. Valued Relation: Zooplankton (image and text, 3 min)
5. Panel on Direct Experience of the Bay with Claire Goodwin, Bruce Smith, and Briana Cowie (video, 55+min)
6. Writing/Multimedia Walking Exercise (1 hr)
7. Lisa Hrabluk Moment: “Building A Shared Understanding” (video, 5 min)
8. Can I Make a Difference in Restoration? with Harvey Millar (video, 55+min)
9. Scavenger Hunt: A Collective Research Game – Claire Goodwin’s Dive Deeper online marine experience (website, 1 hr)
10. Zooplankton PLK

We will also hear about the Western scientific tools of data collection and analysis in the Bay which, like direct experience, are collated over time but, unlike direct experience, can model vast maps of ecosystemic activity to find correlations insensible to human perception.

The insights of both of these knowledge systems validate the traditional ways of knowing and caring for the Bay that the Peskotomuhkati have been practicing for 14,000 years. Supported by the findings of Western science and direct experience, the ‘lifeways’ of the Peskotomuhkati, as well as the modes they devised of encoding those techniques (stories, Elders), pulls the other two systems into a larger coherent whole, where the gifts of the different perspectives can operate together.

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