In July, our partners, the Trust for Sustainable Living (TSL) held their annual online summit for students and educators with participants attending from all over the world. For those who don’t already know, The Trust for Sustainable Living is a UK based global education charity who, like Compass Education, believe that everyone should be ‘educated and empowered to achieve a sustainable future.’ The theme of the summit this year was “Partner Power: Climate Justice, with much discussion about strengthening youth collaboration to reduce climate injustice. I was honoured to represent Compass Education and present one of two live workshops at the event.
The first workshop focused on using the Compass to consider the value of intergenerational dialogue when working towards climate justice. With students (upper primary age and above) and teachers contributing their ideas, we briefly introduced the compass tool with some quick activities and then dug into the idea of raising intergenerational voices using the Compass as our starting point.
The next workshop, with Gitanjali facilitating, used the Iceberg to consider how we can drive gender equality. Gitanjali and the participants worked their way down the Iceberg to consider the issue of gender inequality and how it related to climate injustice and then travelled from the base of the Iceberg to the top to consider solutions and possible action.
As the summit had attendees from all over the world all on different time zones, many participants watched the videos of the sessions later and you (and your students) can do the same. Here are the videos:
Later in the year, Compass Education and TSL will team up again to deliver the first of hopefully many workshop collaborations as we will be holding a Level One Compass Practitioner, two day workshop at their UK base in The Living Rainforest – exciting times!
Kath Lane
Kath Lane is a primary school teacher from the UK who has a passion for educating about nature and sustainability. She has been teaching for over twenty years in the UK and at international schools such as Green School, Bali and United World College of South East Asia. She has a Master's in Educating for Sustainability and is now working as a Forest School leader and supply teacher. Kath believes that through systems thinking and connection to nature and community, we can all learn the skills and qualities needed for a sustainable world.