Watershed Moment: Wisdom Up Close
2021
Watershed Moment was co-developed as a creative intervention within the Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy to help leaders reconnect with their watersheds through imagination, emotion, and proximity. The bookelet was designed with visual storytelling in mind—utilizing youth perspectives through art, providing reflective practices, and narrative grounding to shift the often technical nature of conventional watershed planning and restoration to a more embodied one.
Skills Used
Project role(s)
Values and Ethos
Relational Stewardship
Centers care that emerges from genuine closeness—aligning with the booklet’s guiding question: How do we move from watershed management to watershed relations?
Community Voice & Shared Imagination
Lifts youth art and indigenous understandings as legitimate ways of knowing.
Depth Balancing Efficiency
Contributes additional knowledge to purely technical means of restoration—affirming emotional presence, wonder, and attentiveness.
Inclusive Invitation
Uses accessible language, contemplative prompts, and participatory practices (e.g., observing animate/inanimate, nature looms, land acknowledgment) to expand a sense of belonging.
Courage & Integrity
Signals a willingness to challenge norms, face ecological grief, and seek more honest, humane approaches to watershed care.
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