AORE On Demand Education Content
The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) is the leading organization in the United States dedicated to serving the needs of outdoor recreation professionals and facilitators. We work to provide valuable content to our members through our benefits, including virtual education and professional development. Below are recording our education offering from 2024. If you are looking for previous years, please log into your member portal for access.
Unless otherwise noted, access to on demand videos are FREE for members and $10 per video for not yet members.
Critical Incident Simulations: Facilitating Training for Effective Response
We already know that practice and role plays make for highly effective training for outdoor educators. Critical Incident practices are no exception and can provide a lived-experience foundation to respond to difficult situations as they occur in the field. In this session, you will learn how to facilitate your own Critical Incident Simulation, including assessment of training needs, crafting of a scenario to actualize learning objectives, logistic organization and outreach, coordination with outside agencies, social media simulation, and debriefing. Examples of actual simulations will be presented and a review of incident command structure will be discussed.
Building Inclusive Cultures and Hiring
Are your best practices "best" for everyone? Sometimes, core policies can be harmful for individuals. Most people believe that diversity and inclusion work can force people to be marginalized. In this workshop, we'll talk about the "Eight Inclusion Needs of All People." We can understand and read policies that can improve cultures and retention across all organizations.
The Science Behind Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace is grounded in science and research and has been since its origins in the field of recreation ecology. This has evolved over the years as recreation-related impacts and associated monitoring has incorporated human dimensions of natural resources, striving to understand how and why humans cause impacts and, ultimately, how to influence behaviors to decrease recreational-related impacts. Leave No Trace continues to inform educational programming through research, and this talk highlights recent studies and associated implications for educating outdoor recreationists.
Understanding Stress & Using Nature for Stress Management
Discover how to distinguish between toxic stress and resilience-building stress. The session will also explore effective strategies to manage stress using the outdoors and local surroundings. Participants will walk-away with further understanding of lifelong stress and strategies to transform stress to enhance well-being through practical, nature-based solutions.
Leave No Trace for Outdoor Leaders: Teaching Tools for Responsible Recreation
The Subaru/Leave No Trace Teams provide proven, research-based skills and education for getting outside in an environmentally sustainable way.
Diversity Education In Nature, The Earth as a Role Model for Building Belonging
The Diversity Education In Nature (DEIN) program uses outdoor education as a classroom for teaching how to build more equitable and inclusive human ecosystems through the design principle of biomimicry. First, the program uses the outdoors to build the skills of attentiveness, pattern-seeking, wondering, and creativity which helps to increase DEIB in all communities.
The Role of Standards in Outdoor Safety
How safe is safe enough? How do we know if our risk management practices are adequate? Who gets to decide? Answering these questions is where standards in outdoor safety come in.