Discover what happened during our Second Salon and enjoy the resources shared by our growing community
Our Second Salon on Nature, Place and Education happened on Saturday, January 31st, 2026. The guest speakers were Dr. Sherry Johnson, Tribal Education Director for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Deepak Ramola, a wisdom historian and award-winning educator, and Charlotte Hankin, an international educator and PhD researcher interested in how education might respond more carefully to nature, place, and multispecies relations in increasingly fragile worlds.
Here you can see the main takeaways highlighted by the educators who joined us in this insightful event, and what are the next steps that they can take moving forward.
More resources
Charlotte Hankin shared with us a free link to her book "Life, Death and Everything In-between".
Dr. Jane Spielman, a participant during our First and Second Salons, shared with us a link to her most recent Substack "It's a War Zone".
Next Steps
If you would like to create a network around a focus that you are particularly interested in, or if you'd like to see who might be interested in joining a WhatsApp or GoogleGroup around this, we'd be glad to help by helping to set it up and sharing the idea and your contact info with all the other participants. Please e-mail us at info@globalconversations.net.
We are talking on WhatsApp!
Participants of our First and Second Salon are sharing questions and insights in our WhatsApp group around themes such as "Nature in urban classrooms: practical city-proof practices", "Working with standards & principals : 'both/and' playbook", "Storytelling & folklore for healing: deployable classroom rituals", and "Sound, senses & attention: simple sensory practices". Our team is proposing a few ideas so people can stay active between the salons (see below). If you would like to join this WhatsApp group conversation, click here.
Our Next Salon
Our Third Salon on "Nature, Place and Education" will happen on Saturday, February 21st, at 8:30am (EST). See below a short bio of the speakers:
Kerry Kirk Pflugh is the executive director of the New Jersey School of Conservation. She also comes with extensive background experience at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Tom Roderick is the author most recently of Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education. He was also the Founding Executive Director of Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.
Deb L. Morrison is a Learning Designer and Advisor at the University of Washington and a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 7.
Make sure to save your spot here.
See you soon!