Winter’s Night Lanterns
June 19, 2026
This term our theme is, “I Live my Life in Widening Circles,” and is a culmination of Buran Nalgarra, our pilot Senior School program.
The primary focus is embedding one’s own evolving identity into healthy relationships with our local place and its interconnections with the global. How can this program of learning become fuel on our paths into the future? How can we imbue life with meaning, finding our own purpose and place in the service of life?
We widen the concept of the internet to review the “Wood Wide Web” coined by Professor Suzanne Simard, and to explore the “internet of animals” in the work of Martin Wikelski. With James Bridle, we consider the significance of becoming more conscious of the “internet of plants and animals” just when the human society, is mired in the complexity of what A.I. futures might look like.
Could A.I. with its capacity for the destruction of everything we hold precious, be a “Copernican moment” for humankind, where instead of striving toward the ideal of one world, we acknowledge that we share a world and live in a world of many worlds.
Technology through this lens could engender communal sense making, expanding our connection in ways that engender ways of living that respect all life and live in service to it.
Bill Plotkin speaks of the importance of young people being SEEN, and the ongoing task of seeking mentors in how to live a transformative life. The graduation from Buran Nalgarra is a celebration of being SEEN for the present and with good will into the future.
On behalf of the wonderful Buran Nalgarra team (Georgia, Sarah, Curt and myself).
Originally a high school teacher in the public system, Lynn has also taught at TAFE and in community settings. In the Steiner context, she has previously been a kindergarten and primary school teacher. In addition to her roles as Chair and Principal, Lynn is High School Co-Ordinator, teaches Geography and History, and co-ordinates the Outdoor Education Programme. Lynn has a B. Arts (UWA) and a Dip. Ed. (WA Secondary Teachers College).
