Climate, Identity, Community

Sunday, July 20 – Saturday, July 26, 2025
Pilgrim Lodge, West Gardiner, Maine

During this unique and powerful week, campers had the opportunity to explore themes of justice through the lens of imagination, kinship, eco-grief and the common good. Together, we delved into the deeply interconnected justice issues that impact our own communities, our identities, and within the context of a climate-changed world. We engaged the world as it is, as well as the world we are longing to make manifest. While spending a week on Lake Cobbosseecontee in West Gardiner, ME, campers befriended, honored, and learned from the lake and forest where Pilgrim Lodge is located, while being invited to hold an imaginative posture — expanding their vision from what is, to what if. Campers cultivated embodied, justice-seeking practices; learning about climate science as it relates to Maine’s ecosystems and watersheds; and to build deep and supportive peer relationships.