Global Saturday Salon – Learning To Citizen: Tales of Youth Voice, Agency, and Care

#4th Global Saturday Salon by Educating for The World We Want

“Meet people where they are. To effect change, we must engage the agency already alive in the world—beginning with what people care about, and the places and contexts they inhabit.” – Deb L. Morrison

Our next series of salons builds on our previous series to take up that invocation: to meet agency where it lives and to honor learners already doing the work—practicing care and stewardship, enacting citizenship, and learning together how to heal, reimagine and regenerate the natural and human made world.

Learning to Citizen

The life of a democracy depends on children being surrounded by adults who are themselves practicing agency—thinking, choosing, and acting with care and conscience in the world. Schools cannot legislate trust or compassion, nor teach them as content to be memorized. These things are woven in the fabric of the day to day, over time into the culture of a place.

When schools and educators trust the natural dispositions of young people—their instinct for fairness, their attraction to beauty, their desire to contribute—something essential begins to ensue. Trust and purpose. Students don’t just learn about democracy; they begin to live it.

And in that living,  deepened by a sense of community and belonging, they come to understand what agency means.

DETAILS

🎓 Learning to Citizen: Tales of Youth Voices, Agency, and Care
📅 May 9, 2026 (Saturday)
⏰ 9AM (EDT) | 9PM (WITA)
💻 Online (Zoom)
🎟️ Registration is pay-what-you-can to sustain our collective mission.

This session brings together powerful intergenerational perspectives from the Green School Bali:

– Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.: Strategic Lead for Regenerative Education at The Green School Bali and Co-founder of Coconut Thinking.
– Manon Tiange: Grade 12 student mapping labor invisibility and systemic inequality in Bali.
– Scarlett Gonella: Grade 12 student investigating plastic pollution and advocating for clean water access in Indonesia.

👉 Secure your spot today: edfortheworldwewant.net

This is part of a growing global movement to rethink education as a force for connection, regeneration, and meaningful participation in the world. Share with educators, parents, and youth leaders in your network.