2009 AEE Northeast Regional Conference Call for Proposals

Outdoor Ed — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:34:13 GMT

For people interested in presenting a workshop at the Northeast Regional Association for Experiential Education Conference April 17-19, 2009 at the Becket-Chimnet Corners YMCA Outdoor Center in Beckett, MA. This includes all of the instructions for how to submit a proposal. The Submission Deadline for Peroposals is November 28, 2008.

The Proposal Submission Process is as follows:

1. Complete the application form.

2. Upload the form to the Workshop Proposal section at OutdoorEd.com: www.outdoored.com/Community/media/g/proposals/default.aspx.

3. You will need to have a User Account at OutdoorEd.com to upload your file. If you don’t, click the Join link at the top of the www.outdoored.com/community/ page.

The theme of this spring's conference is What’s Your Lens?

What perspectives do you bring to experiential education? How does this impact your practice?

The ‘lens’ of this year’s conference encourages us to Sharpen the Focus: examining our work, deepening our practice, and honing in on what we do best.

It also challenges us to explore A Wider View on what ‘experiential’ can be. How can we better integrate experiential learning into the classroom, the art studio, the boardroom, and elsewhere?

We encourage you to reflect on your ‘lens’: where we’ve come from and where we might go. Take full advantage of the conference to learn new ideas, gain new skills, make new friends and contacts, and discover something new.

The theme What’s Your Lens? sets the stage for the workshop proposals. Use it and the subthemes of Sharpen the Focus and A Wider View to develop exciting and creative workshops. As a presenter what perspectives can you bring to conference participants? I look forward to seeing workshop proposals from first-time, seasoned, and student presenters from the Northeast region.