2023 Here we come! Plan to attend the 2023 WRMC in Portland, Oregon. Celebrate 30 years of Facing Challenges Together. Save the Date: October 18-20, 2023; Pre-Conference October 16-18, 2023.
Location: Holiday Inn Portland - Columbia Riverfront, 909 North Hayden Island Drive, Portland, OR 97217
Presentations: Presentation slides that are available will be uploaded to Sched in the next few days. Video Recordings: You might have noticed that some sessions were recorded. WRMC is experimenting with video recordings and has not yet decided how those will be utilized. If the recordings are able to turn into high-quality learning, they will be made available to conference attendees at no additional cost through the conference app Sched. Sign up to receive WRMC updates to be notified if recordings become available. The core objective of the Wilderness Risk Management Conference (WRMC) is to offer an outstanding educational experience to help you mitigate the risks inherent in exploring, working, teaching, and recreating in wild places. The WRMC is a collaboration between NOLS, Outward Bound USA, and the Student Conservation Association, in partnership with the WRMC Steering Committee. See the guiding purpose and tenets.
Overall Description Affinity Spaces are offered for people with common backgrounds and experiences to come together to connect, learn, and support each other. Identity breakout groups create space for empowerment, affirmation, and a sharing of personal narrative that we all so desperately need. With the goal of creating community and connection for identities that have experienced historical disinvestment, our hope is to offer a meaningful shared experience that aims to amplify diverse voices and lived experiences and support sustainable and substantive change in service of striving for equity and justice.
Note - these spaces are designed for individuals who identify as members of the communities underneath these categorical umbrellas. They are not spaces intended for allies of these communities.
We recognize that many folks hold multiple identities / competing schedules. The three Affinity Space choices will include BIPOC, Queer/Trans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
BIPOC Come join the BIPOC affinity space on Thursday and Friday during lunch time 12:00pm to 1:30pm. We are excited to connect WRMC BIPOC attendees for conversation and reflection! Bring your own food and come for as long as you’d like! Lastly, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm on Friday, you are invited to meet one final time, and discuss and share your feedback with the WRMC as we look to improve and elevate for 2023.
Location: We will be in Emerald Promenade on all three occasions.
