Navigating Our Future
Curated Conversations & Expert Perspectives
© Bob Friel/Seahawk Creative
land acknowledgment statement
We, the Navigating Our Future team and community, humbly acknowledge that the San Juan Islands archipelago is the traditional territory of the Straits Salish and Coast Salish peoples. We resolve to bring indigenous voices and wisdom to the forefront as we strive to become better stewards of the land and its history.
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Find out about the native land you inhabit here, and learn more about the tribal lands in Washington state here.
An Invitation to Contribute Insight
Navigating Our Future curates this video library in service to life — drawing from conversations, talks, and films that help illuminate the deeper patterns shaping our shared future.
We welcome recommendations from researchers, practitioners, educators, and thoughtful observers who are familiar with this landscape and can point us to exceptional public videos — interviews, lectures, panels, or films — that you believe belong in this shared commons and that we may not yet have discovered.
These may include:
Work created by others that you regard as especially clear, honest, or illuminating
Conversations or talks that have influenced your own thinking or practice
And, where appropriate, your own public work — if it meets the same standards of depth, relevance, and generosity
We do not host videos directly. Instead, we curate and reference work that is already publicly available, properly attributed, and offered in a spirit of learning, responsibility, and care.
Our role is to curate with discernment. Your contribution, if you choose to make one, is to help strengthen the collective understanding this library is meant to serve.
Submission guidance and review criteria are shared on our site.
Section 1
Curated Conversations & Expert Perspectives
Talks, interviews, and films from researchers, practitioners, and storytellers whose work informs the themes explored across our Wisdom Hubs. These videos are selected for their depth, clarity, and relevance — and are hosted on their original platforms.
Section 2
Community & Place-Based Stories (Coming Into View)
We are beginning to gather video stories from the Salish Sea and connected regions — voices rooted in place, lived experience, and local action. This section will grow over time as community members share their perspectives on what it means to navigate our future together.
The future is not shaped only by experts and institutions. It is shaped by people in relationship with place.
We are inviting community members from the Salish Sea and connected ecoregions to share short video stories grounded in lived experience — stories of care, grief, responsibility, resilience, repair, and hope.
These are not promotional videos. They are offerings — reflections on what it means to live here now, to pay attention, and to act with care toward one another and the living systems that sustain us.
Over time, this space will become a living archive of place-based wisdom, held in trust for present and future generations.​​
Guidance for sharing community stories will be posted here as this section opens.