Understanding Outdoor Play
By Take me outside
Join us for this FREE virtual workshop for an overview of the evolution of the active outdoor play movement over the past decade.
This workshop will highlight how this movement, together with emerging global, intersectoral challenges (i.e., climate change, digitalization, widening social inequities) prompted the Outdoor Play Canada team to lead a global update to the 2015 Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play. We will discuss the process, methodology, outcome, impact, and next steps of the 2025 Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play.
All registrants will receive:
- Access the recording, in case you can’t join us live
- Access a Certificate of Attendance
- Entry for some great prizes!
This workshop is offered in partnership with Take Me Outside.
Closed captioning is provided. Please email [email protected] to let us know if there are any accessibility barriers you face to being included or participating in this workshop, and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Educators who will be presenting:
- Dr. Louise de Lannoy helped form and is the Executive Director of Outdoor Play Canada. She leads the Canadian Centre for Outdoor Play, leads the Play in the Early Years Working Group as part of the Canadian Disability Participation Project 2.0, and co-led the recently-launched 2025 Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University in clinical exercise physiology and routinely delivers outdoor play and learning presentations at local, regional, national and international conferences and events, including local outdoor early childhood education professional development days, the national Outdoor Learning and Leadership Conference (Canada), the International Play Association Conference (Glasgow), and the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Conference (Auckland). Louise is passionate about environmental stewardship, finding daily joy and wonder outdoors, and thinking creatively and collaboratively about whole-of-community challenges.
- Dr. Tremblay is a Senior Scientist with the Healthy Active Living and Obesity (HALO) Research Group at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, President of the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, Founder of the Sedentary Behaviour Research Network, President of Outdoor Play Canada, and Adjunct/Visiting/Honorary Professor at six other universities on four continents. Dr. Tremblay has published >700 scientific papers and book chapters in the areas of childhood obesity, physical activity measurement, exercise physiology, sedentary physiology, outdoor play and health surveillance.
Event Information
| Event Date | Oct-13-2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
| Location | Online |
| Categories | Events outside NBEN |
