Greater Victoria is learning to see and be itself.

An Awakening Lands place-learning experiment

A calm watercolor coastal landscape with forested islands and mountains across the water

A living geography

Greater Victoria

Our living geographies can be difficult to see in modern industrial landscapes, where roads, buildings, and infrastructure often determine how we understand and organize place. But beneath what modernity builds, water still moves through watersheds, species migrate, ecosystems connect, and communities depend on relationships that cross the boundaries that have been drawn. Here, we are learning to notice more of those living connections, make them visible, and reorganize ourselves around the life of the place itself.

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Where We Are Now

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What Greater Victoria is learning

    How Greater Victoria is learning

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      The path we’re on

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              Returning Home

              How anyone can enter into participation and deepen from there

              Returning Home cycle: cultivate the eyes, hearts, and minds of place; go on adaptive journeys; presence and integrate; take obvious next steps; deepen and begin again.

              The view remains partial

              Much of Greater Victoria remains unseen here.