ActivatEE is sharing platform designed by the Association for Experiential Education for its members and conference attendees during the International Conference. ActivatEE is a developmental process, both for the speaker and the audience, where we share ideas, test assumptions, and are asked to view a perspective through a different lens. ActivatEE is designed to facilitate the process of creating one’s story, inspiring the use of one’s voice, and launching an idea - all on stage during a conference keynote.

The process of developing your story is faciliated by a coach who will walk your journey with you, enabling you to craft your story, and help you prepare to share at the Conference. Each story is typically 7-9 minutes (don’t worry-we’ll help you get there!).

If you have not seen an ActivatEE presentation or need more information about ActivatEE, go to our webpage: https://www.aee.org/activatee 

If you want to know more about what to expect as a speaker Click Here 

Thank you for being willing to share your story with us.

IDEA Statement:

AEE’s mission commits us to “building an inclusive and accessible community for experiential education professionals”.

Our organizational value of social justice is defined as: 

Supporting people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures is an integral part of developing successful experiential education programming.

Given that, we want to reaffirm that AEE is committed to being an organization where folx belong and are accepted for who they are. With this statement, we reaffirm our commitment to ensuring our members feel they belong in our community. 

Additionally, as a membership organization, we are committed to providing resources and support to our members to develop and operate socially just and inclusive programming.

To that end, we the AEE staff and Board of Directors: 

Commit to diversity, working to bring members of many backgrounds and from around the globe into our organization and into leadership in our organization.
Commit to inclusion, taking intentional steps to support our membership in working across differences of race, culture, gender, and more.
Commit to equity, by creating systems to expose inequities in order to make opportunities within our field accessible by all.       
We acknowledge that creating and sustaining an organization where all folx belong will be uncomfortable at times, but we’re excited for foundational work that is necessary to fulfilling the full spirit and intent of our mission and values.