Name: Vini, Vedi, VUCA, Pura Vida – Navigating Health & Safety for International Programs
Start: 2026-10-21T13:30:00-0700
End: 2026-10-21T14:30:00-0700

Main Conference: Tuesday October 20 - Thursday, October 22, 2026

Preconference: Monday October 19 - Tuesday, October 20, 2026

*Schedule subject to change.

Vini, Vedi, VUCA, Pura Vida – Navigating Health & Safety for International Programs

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PDT

Weyerhaeuser

We’ll provide an overview of the most salient challenges for operating/managing overseas programs in our current VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) World. We’ll also look at the challenges of melding local competence (culture, language, sensibilities) with U.S. standards for health, safety and security. Where disruption is one of the few certainties, translating uncertainty into equations of risk becomes critical for decision making with implications for info acquisition, flexibility and resilience. We’ll initially present a macro-overview of navigating health, safety and security abroad, and then look at how the principles and the realities play out in an Outward Bound program in Central America.

Speakers

Tim Barker

Director of Operations & Safety, The Hurricane Island Outward Bound School

Tim serves as the Director of Operations & Safety at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School. He helped build a strategic partnership between Outward Bound Costa Rica and HIOBS, co-founded the Sundog Outdoor Leadership Initiative, and serves on the Colorado College’s Ritt Kellogg... Read More →

Bill Frederick

Director, Lodestone Safety International

Bill Frederick - Bill is the founder of Lodestone Safety International. He spent 20 years in outdoor ed (Outward Bound) and international education (SFS and Dartmouth). Bill also teaches for Wilderness Medical Associates International and designed their Travel Med curriculum. He holds... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Weyerhaeuser 909 N Hayden Island Dr, Portland, OR 97217

Program Administration, Breakout Session

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