Mr Mark Munnings1, Mr Mark Hassell1 1Scotch Oakburn College I love the power of stories, they help paint a mental picture, they  and provide metaphors that help everybody create meaning.  Stories have been told since the beginning of human history...

Mr Brendon Munge1, Dr Glyn Thomas1, Associate Professor Deborah Heck1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast Background Many disciplines utilise outdoor fieldwork (OFW) as an experiential learning method in higher education. Although there has been an increase in research into the...

Dr Marcus Morse1 1La Trobe University Wild Pedagogies as an idea and practice has generated considerable interest over the last few years. It has arisen out of a convergence of ideas about wilderness and the wild, education and the emerging...

Miss Rachel Mcmurtrie1 1St Peter Chanel Primary School Outdoor Education in a Primary School can be more than just camp.  The main idea of this presentation is to show that you can let children play outdoors during school time and...

Mr Shane Mcaloon1 1The Hutchins School Education is a dynamic environment.  Full of promise and potential, with an equal dose of pressures and pitfalls. Students and teachers of today need to navigate their way through this environment, with its ever...

Mr Anthony Mangelsdorf1 1La Trobe University Education ‘in, for and about the outdoors’ is often quoted as a definition for outdoor education – but how much of outdoor education is actually ‘for’ the outdoors? Further, to what degree does outdoor...

Amanda Lloyd1 1Outdoor Connections The nature play phenomenon is gaining momentum in both rural and urban settings around Australia. Planet Ark alarmingly reports only one in four Australian children has ever climbed a tree and half of them have never...

Miss Catherine Lamb1,2 1The Institute Of Positive Education, 2Timbertop, Geelong Grammar School The Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School has grown fairly organically since 1952. It is a unique, year-long residential outdoor educational experience. The ‘wisdom of the past’ was...

Mr Ken Kingston1 1Hutchins School Rites of Passage and mentoring young people is becoming increasingly important and along with concepts of positive psychology, is contributing as key components of experiential and outdoor education programs.  Although not a new concept, Rites...

Mr Adam Kershaw1 1Survive First Aid As a Wilderness First Aid provider Survive has recently introduced a new session within our courses to address the importance of mental health in the outdoors, and how to appropriately respond to anyone who...