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This brief article summarizes five trends and issues discussed during a moderated panel and round table discussion at the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) Symposium on Experiential Education Research (SEER) in November 2023. The aim of this session was to expand on prior documented trends and disseminate current experiential and outdoor education (EOE) trends, issues, and related research. These are only a few of the many EOE trends and issues but they represent both meta trends/issues and program-specific trends. This session was designed for scholars and practitioners who teach, provide program administration, and/or conduct research and evaluation efforts for EOE and related disciplines. Topics included cultural representation in the outdoors, trauma and mental health trends, safety II: a new view of risk management, nature and outdoor programming, and whether college outdoor orientation leaders should be paid. We hope that you, the reader, are inspired to consider what trends and issues are impacting your work and explore areas for future research.

This interdisciplinary article examines literature across Education, Social Work, and Chicano/a/Latino/a Studies. By interweaving the literature with student voices, clinical knowledge and field observations, the authors use a Community Cultural Wealth Framework to highlight an afterschool program that empowers and encourages Latinx youth to use testimonio as a powerful transformational tool. While the students at the center of this program actualize six forms of capital within CCW, we focus on aspirational, resistant, and navigational capital in this study. The authors provide examples of students exploring various modes to amplify their voices through skills co-developed with undergraduate students. The overall goal of the study was to identify programmatic strategies that support Latinx students. The findings illustrate the need for further Youth Participatory Action Research that can be a vehicle for change with practitioners and researchers. This coauthored article is written by a graduate student with a professional background as a licensed clinical therapist, and secondly, through a faculty member who has seven years of experience working with Latinx high school youth through various programming.