Building Survival, Resilience, and Preparedness skills
In the midst of this Coronavirus pandemic, we might find ourselves realizing that we’re not as well-equipped as we might need to be if our modern-living conveniences were to suddenly become unavailable.
Today I want to share with you a new online course (starting next week April 15th) that I’m so excited to be participating in! Whether you’re “stuck” at home with your kids looking for a fun activity to do or you just want to gain more skills in becoming self-reliant, this is the course for you.
Survival, Resilience, and Preparedness 10-week Online Course
In this 10-week, video-based series you will go on a deep journey into the world of survival gathering lessons to inform and influence your life in the current challenging world we face. The course will cover everything from essential survival skills for the wilderness setting to what kind of food you should be growing in your garden. We'll look at how to forage in your neighborhood and what are the important survival foods you should seek if you are ever lost. Medicinal plants, survival shelter, the art of fire; all of these things and more...and all within the view of how we can live our own daily lives in a more resilient, prepared way in a changing world.
By the end of the course, you will be comfortable, ready, and prepared for being in a survival situation in the backcountry, but you will also have the opportunity to re-imagine your life through the lens of our ancient hunter-gatherer roots and how we might all be more happy and healthy with these principles in our lives.
Head Instructor:
Nate Summers, author of Primal: Why We Long to be Wild and Free, and Awakening Fire: An Essential Guide has been a survival skills instructor for over 20 years with a background in anthropology, Asian studies, and natural medicine. He taught and directed at the Wilderness Awareness School for over 15 years, and has served as faculty for the Desert Institute of Healing Arts, the Asian Institute of Medical Studies, and as adjunct faculty for Prescott College. Nate's passions include ethnobotany, natural mentoring, hunter-gatherer childhoods, natural movement, herbal medicine, internal martial arts, mentoring, and leadership.
Guest Instructors:
Jon Young is a nature connection mentor, naturalist, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, consultant, sought after public speaker and storyteller. As a leader in the field of nature-based community building over 30 years, Jon’s research into the impact and significance of nature on human intelligence and development has influenced tens of thousands of people worldwide. Jon has authored and co-authored several seminal works on nature connection and connection mentoring, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), and Coyote's Guide to Connecting to Nature (2007). In 2016, he received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his innovative work, which has inspired positive developments in the field, and fostered the growth of the nature connection movement on a global level.
Alexia Allen and her husband Daniel Kirchhof thrive on Hawthorn Farm, 20 miles outside of Seattle. With a mission of reclaiming suburbia, they have crafted a delicious homestead with plenty to share. They put their skills to the test with a year of hand-harvested food in 2017, right down to the salt they got from the ocean. It's so much fun they can't stop. Alexia is the garden mastermind and goat whisperer, and encourages others on their own hand-harvested journeys. HawthornFarm.org.
Mink Taylor is an artist, survival skills instructor, and musician living in Vancouver, B.C. Mink's original songs and paintings are inspired by her connection to the natural world. Mink blends realism with mythology and personal connection in her original art pieces. Using techniques of her own invention to blend paint and stain, she brings out the beauty in each piece of wood. Her music features lush, multi-layered vocal harmonies with hauntingly beautiful melodies, guitar, live looping, and a healthy blend of acoustic and electronic sounds. "My vision as an artist is to help others connect to the earth, and our collective wildness, by reflecting the beauty of the living landscape around me."
Join me in building these foundational but very necessary and useful skills in resiliency and self-reliance!
Format:
Zoom conference calls
Wednesdays at 11:00 AM
Every week for 10 weeks (April 15th- June 17th)
Price:
$127
