2025 Wilderness Risk Management Conference

Main Conference: Tuesday, September 30 - Thursday, October 2, 2025

Preconference: Monday September 29 - Tuesday, September 30, 2025

*Schedule subject to change.

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8:00am EDT

Risk Management Training for Administrators

Monday September 29, 2025 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT

To register for this preconference workshop, CLICK HERE - Additional cost $925

Course Overview
Whether your program is small or large, wilderness based, or study abroad, you have the responsibility to your staff and participants to invest in risk management planning. Building a comprehensive risk management plan can feel daunting. Our goal is to provide you a structured approach and tools to build a risk management plan appropriate for your organization. We've spent more than 50 years managing risk in wilderness environments around the world, and we're always learning. Join us to connect and share your valuable experience with peer programs, and let us share our experience and lessons learned with you.

Monday September 29, 2025 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT
Oxford / Somerset Holiday Inn By the Bay:88 Spring St, Portland, ME 04119

Preconference

8:00am EDT

Hybrid Wilderness First Responder Re-Certification

Monday September 29, 2025 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT

Connecticut / Rhode Island

To register for this preconference certification course, CLICK HERE. Additional cost $385

Course Overview
Our Hybrid WFR Recertification includes an online component in addition to the traditional scenarios and skills. The online pre-course work allows you to review the curriculum at your own pace, and focus on the hands-on element during your two days on course. The pre-course work must be completed by the course start date. Once on course, the scenario-based approach to recertification provides you the opportunity to test your skills against realistic situations. You'll practice and relearn wilderness medicine protocols, review evacuation and decision making guidelines, and receive the latest updates in wilderness medicine over the course of two days.

Successful course completion will earn the following NOLS Wilderness Medicine certifications:
Wilderness First Responder
Adult, Child, and Infant CPR & Airway Management
Epinephrine Auto-injector

Class Format: The course includes an online training portion to be completed prior to the 2 days of in-person training.

Monday September 29, 2025 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Connecticut / Rhode Island Holiday Inn By the Bay:88 Spring St, Portland, ME 04119

Preconference

2:00pm EDT

Adventure Risk Research Symposium

Monday September 29, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT

ONLINE

Join for the 7th annual Adventure Risk Research Symposium.

Learn from adventure risk management and outdoor safety researchers as they present their current research and peer reviewed articles ranging from across the globe. Researchers will share a broad array of new and very relevant topics. Here’s a snippet: Decision making in early-stage backcountry skiers and snowboarders | Practitioner needs identified from an analysis of 64 fatal outdoor and adventure program incidents | An examination of 30 years of Wilderness Risk Management Conference topics to the original 24 concerns first identified in 1994, The state of safety and risk management in India | Issues and potential resolutions surrounding mountain bike trail difficulty rating systems | Safety in scientific fieldwork and the potential application of methods from Wilderness Risk Management | An exploration of the impact of wildfires on outdoor and adventure program

Speakers

Dr. Clare Dallat

Founder and Director, The Outdoor Education Group (OEG)

Clare is the Director of Risk Resolve and has a PhD in Human Factors (Accident Prediction), an MSc. in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management, a Graduate Certificate in Transformational Leadership in Education. Clare is a Chartered Occupational Health and Safety Professional with the... Read More →

Jeff Jackson, Ph.D

Jeff Jackson Professional Services

Monday September 29, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
ONLINE ONLINE

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