Nature and Conversation
Adult English Conversation
(free and children welcome)
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Fall 2025
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Nature & Conversation for Adult English Learners
Practice English conversation skills while walking in nature.
Make new friends, and learn about nature together.
Share tea and nature stories from our cultures.
Please dress for the outdoors.
Children are welcome.
Programs led by Syndallas Baughman and Jordan Wyant.
Practice English conversation skills while walking in nature.
Make new friends, and learn about nature together.
Share tea and nature stories from our cultures.
Please dress for the outdoors.
Children are welcome.
Programs led by Syndallas Baughman and Jordan Wyant.
Jordan Wyant comes to the Nature Learning Community with years of experience living and learning with young people outdoors. He has led conservation work projects for the Student Conservation Association in Detroit, the San Francisco Bay Area, Yosemite and North Cascades National Parks. Jordan has an M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon as well as an M.A. in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan. He is excited to learn alongside you and he hopes to foster a mindful and caring approach to relating with the natural world.
Syndallas Baughman grew up on the water and in the forests of Michigan and Florida and earned a B.S. in Biology at University of Michigan and M.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. Along the way she’s camped and studied plants and pollinators in the Siskiyous in S.W. Oregon, swamps, forests and fields of Michigan, Kauai, coastal and desert California, and the California Sierra Nevada. She taught at El Cerrito Preschool Cooperative, learning from wise and loving mentors to step back and follow and support kids’ ideas. At Wildcat Community Free School she followed kids through creeks and forests, set up experiments, supervised the use of power tools, knives and fire, facilitated democratic decision making and mediated a lot of arguments about Pokemon Card trades. She’s planted native gardens with preschoolers to high school students, and camps all over the U.S.A. with her two now adult sons. She holds her secondary teaching certificate in biology and recently spent a service year with Americorps working in adult literacy and English learning with Washtenaw Literacy. Syndallas is a certified Michigan Naturalist. The beautiful wild world is the place Syndallas wants to be! She loves sharing nature connection with people and other living things and you!
