Non formal education - experiential learning

Since I started the ToT I started to broaden my point of view on learning, but still it is not clear how to define what...

My backgrounds of learning and giving training comes from "experiential learning", not just learning by doing, but a cylce of experiencing, reflecting, and transferring/ applying in real life. Mostly I do put participants in a new, unknown situation by using the environment ( a hike or...) or making up an artificial task. Some will still remember the cave in Malaga :)and then the proces starts on personal and group level... ...
From experience I know that people learn a lot. I myself learned a lot about myself being put in these kind of tasks togehter with my peers. So for me it opened a world towards the perfect way of learning! EL felt very connected to my personal life and almost like informal learning. I never knew where I would end up, but somehow I felt safe to grow and try by sharing with others.

Coming into the world of european youth work, intercultural issues, I got more and more confronted with role plays and simulations activities and also group tasks. My experience in different methods did grow, but still EL was for me the(my) way of learning.

And now discussing about non formal education and reading about it, I am learning that EL is part of NFE, it is one of the methods besides the other methods. But on the other hand when I read the principles of NFE I seems like copy pasted from the EL principles. :)

So I am trying to make it understandable for myself and see a bit the differences and similarities.
IS NFE = EL? or is EL part of NFE?
It will help me to define better which method I am using, cause now everything for me is EL. So everythime I see things happening, or I am working on a frame for a training the cycles of EL (like Kolb,...) are in my head to give me direction in the flow of a program.
I think it will help me to get other point of views,ideas about this to make it more clear.

greets,
Nele