Community-based experiential learning (CBEL) is an overarching term that encompasses a number of community-based pedagogical practices. It is also a guiding principle that allows UBC's Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) and Instructors to design and implement programs integrating academic knowledge with "real-world" issues. At this session, two instructors from two different departments (Earth and Ocean Sciences and Psychology) in collaboration with CCEL staff will delve into the theory and practice of CBEL and share their experience integrating and transforming their courses with the use of CBEL.