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Romana has given talks to large audiences on global platforms including Teach For All Global Conferences, Salzburg Global Seminar and TEDx as well as virtual platforms like Catalyst 2030 and EdHeroes Global Forum.
Her talks weave stories and lived experiences to unpack complex concepts including are on the themes of inner work, power and oppression, wisdom traditions and healing from trauma.
At the 2025 XxY Learning Festival, Romana conducts a session titled ‘Remembering our Wholeness’. Together, she facilitates reflections on what our “true power” feels like and what it may take for us to step into it. (2025)
Romana Shaikh joins Daniel Lobo for 'Stillness in Chaos Ep 23' to explore reconnecting with yourself, others, and nature in a vulnerable and meaningful conversation on reclaiming humanity amidst life's challenges. (2025)
In Reclaiming our human-ness, in the Diplomatic Courier, Romana unpacks the impact of the global polycrisis on mental health and invites us to reconnect with our human-ness. (2024)
In this personal reflection, That Moment I became the Other, in the The Beacon, Romana unpacks the experience of othering, unravelling the inner journey of reconciliation with ones identities in times of polarisation. (2023)
At the 2024 EdHeroes Global Forum: Cultural Heritage in Education, Shilpi Saini moderates a conversation between Romana Shaikh, Sreehari Ravindranath (Dream a Dream) and Samar Bajaj (MSDF) on Empowering Educational Transformation Through Collaborative Leadership in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Initiatives (2024)
"It is in this seeing through the heart that wholeness becomes visible, felt, apparent."
Romana Shaikh & Daniel Lobo discuss approaches to wellbeing and mental health drawing on the different paradigms coming from Eastern Wisdom traditions and the Western Medical model. (2023)
Eva Keiffenheim interviews Romana at Salzburg Global Seminar Education Futures: Shaping A New Education Story. She unpacks what it means for personal change to be systemic change and the urgent need to look at intersectionality and oppression. (2022)
At the Pune International Literary Festival, Romana joins Parag Manekar (RealLives, India) and Umaima Ehtasham (Slam Out Loud) in a conversation moderated by Helia Nazari (Salzburg Global Seminar) to discuss the important of Mental Health in times of conflict, polarization and climate crises. (2022)
In Responsive, Contextualized Education is a Human Right in the Diplomatic Courier, Romana takes you into the world of children and shows how standardising education fails to listen, understand and respond to the needs of the most vulnerable children around the world. (2022)