Learning About Invitations

Invitations to trail-off may take different shapes and forms. They can look like giving someone a ride, playing bingo or staying around to drink a cup of coffee.

It is up to you to decide whether you want to accept these invitations or not. If you accept, they allow you to divert from previous trajectories and extend towards a practice of wayfaring and dwelling. Being receptive and open to such invitations is also the most effective way in this Knowledge-Land-Scape to attune to their corresponding insights. When it comes to better understanding how “ethical engagement” comes to matter in community-based polar bear research, I have found that the most insightful moments happened, through responding to unanticipated encounters and phenomena with attuned curiosity and attentive openness.

Sometimes invitations, consist of more than one event or encounter, and lead to their own trails. Keep following such side-trails until you run into a "dead-end". Once you reach one of those dead-ends, you are offered to return where you came from to find another way.

“Keep Going”, until you have to find another way.

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