In 1999, a group of community members from the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Euro-American community, and our neighbors from nearby New Brunswick, Canada, asked the question, “What would improve life in our rural region?”

Cobscook Institute was born from community co-creation. Such creation is made possible by the gifts of wisdom and dreaming of many people.

Twenty two years later we are calling you back in - our Cobscook family and friends - to bring the gifts of your vision to programs and opportunities ahead. As shared by our Board Member, Newell Lewey in the opening letter to this newsletter - every being has an offering to make to the thriving, joy and wellbeing of our collective. If you are reading this and thinking “they are not talking about me,” you are mistaken!

Several years ago at TREE: Trauma-Responsive Equitable Education, we invited students to dream big by starting a vision of what they would see “Someday.” The creative answers that emerged were inspiring, moving, and fun. We did our best to make as many of those dreams come true as possible.

Inspired by this past experience and driven by a need to refresh our commitment to being a homeplace for innovation, we want to go bigger this year. We invite all of you to plunge into the collective dreaming space with us and answer: “What dreams do we have, stories we can envision for “Someday at Cobscook Institute.”

Please go online to cobscook.me/someday to share your dream with us! All of the answers we receive will be put into a collective mapping and collaborative design process in the early part of next year - and you will be invited!

You are also invited to share your contribution on your facebook, twitter or instagram profile with #somedayatcobscook -- if you take this step to share our collective dreaming with the world you will be entered into a raffle for a weekend for two at the Heartwood Lodge or a class of your choice at Cobscook Institute!

We look forward to strengthening a homeplace for innovation with all of you. Here’s what a few of our community members already shared: