Outdoor Play Canada is thrilled to announce that registration is now open, and we are currently accepting presentation/workshop submissions for the 2025 Breath of Fresh Air (BoFA) Outdoor Play Summit. The BoFA Outdoor Play Summit will once again take place at Wesley Clover Parks in Ottawa, Ontario, from September 25-27, 2025, in partnership with the CHEO Research Institute, Andrew Fleck Children’s Services, IPA Canada, and the National Institute for Play.

The BoFA Summit is a unique event that brings together passionate outdoor play advocates from diverse sectors to talk to each other, learn from each other, build on each other’s successes, and dream together on how to make outdoor play a valued part of daily life for all. 

The theme for the 2025 Breath of Fresh Air Summit is ‘Play Across the Ages – Nature’s Call to All’. Across practice, policy, and research, this year’s Summit aims to explore how the landscape of outdoor play across generations has changed due to screen time, concerns over safety, and climate change, to name a few! Looking to the past, present, and future of outdoor play, the 2025 summit aims to inspire conversation and action on the value of play in fostering community, inclusive play environments, environmental stewardship, and overall health and well-being, informed and celebrated by the launch of the 10-year update to the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play! 

The call for presentation and workshop proposals is open until March 31st, 2025.

For more details about presentation/workshop submissions, click here.