How People With or Without Periods Can Support Menstruators on Outdoor Trips - Online Classroom

6:00-7:00pm PST via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees the day of the session.

Half the world will experience getting a menstrual period outdoors. Whether or not that’s you, do you know how to best handle it?

Let’s not only normalize wilderness menstruation, but also talk about the ins and outs of periods, menstrual products, female hygiene, and beyond in the backcountry.

You do NOT need to experience periods to benefit from this session. In fact, joining as a non-menstruator is important to everybody! We need to fill the outdoors with guides, company leaders, volunteers and participants who are body literate and unashamed to talk about a natural and common process.

We’ll discuss:

• How to build a backcountry period setup
• Product pros and cons for outdoor trips
• Minimizing impact on the environment
• How guides, companies and leaders can communicate about periods to participants
• Symptom assessment: when to consider evacuation for potential menstrual-related health issues
• Send your period questions in advance so we can be sure to address them during the session.

Seminar Notes

This presentation will encourage attendees to speak up throughout the presentation and be interactive with prompting discussion questions interspersed within story/lecture segments. Breakout rooms will be used throughout. 

PRESENTER

Angie Marie is a community builder, author, speaker, and athlete working with outdoor brands and podcasts to amplify women's adventure storytelling.

Fueled by her nonprofit background in increasing outdoor access to underserved communities, and with experience as an adaptive recreation guide, outdoor curriculum writer, wilderness first aid instructor, and search and rescue team member, Angie blends her multi-hyphenate background to encourage a happier, healthier, more adventurous world.

Angie lives in White Salmon, WA in the Columbia River Gorge, where she enjoys ultrarunning, mountaineering, and, recently, learning to whitewater kayak. Find her work at www.itsangiemarie.com.