Survival 1: Foundations of Survival

Survival 1: Foundations Details

A One-Day Return to Self-Reliance

Course Overview:
This fast-paced, immersive day reconnects you with your most basic needs—shelter, warmth, and a sense of direction—through hands-on training and quiet observation. Whether you’re stepping outside for the first time or rekindling old skills, you’ll leave this course more aware, more capable, and more alive.

What You’ll Experience:

• Nature Connection: Learn to read the land and settle into its rhythm.

• Survival Routines: Establish patterns that keep you safe, calm, and alert in the wild.

• Knots & Lashings: Build confidence with simple cordage skills that hold things together—literally and metaphorically.

• Emergency Shelters: Build a quick, functional shelter using materials around you.

• Fire-Making Basics: Practice lighting fires with matches, lenses, lighters, and ferro rods—then test which method works best for you.

• Fire Lays: Understand how fire structure impacts your warmth, cooking, and morale.

Takeaways:
A sense of grounded capability, a rekindled curiosity, and a quiet pride in what your hands now know how to do.

Weekend Course

A Two-Day Immersion into Awareness, Skill, and Confidence

Course Overview:
Over a weekend, you’ll be guided through the foundational skills every person should know to feel safe and capable outdoors. From basic shelter and fire to water purification, navigation, and plant identification—you’ll reconnect with what it means to live with nature, not just in it.

What You’ll Experience:

• Nature Connection: Deepen your awareness with dawn routines, animal sign, and landscape reading.

• Fire and Shelter: Build fast, effective shelters and master fire from spark to blaze using various tools and techniques.

• Water Purification: Learn where to find water and how to make it safe to drink using time-tested methods.

• Basic Navigation: Train your inner compass with map, compass, and aid-less techniques like sun and shadow.

• Practical Knots: Tie what matters and understand when and why different knots work best.

• Useful Plants: Learn how to identify, harvest, and begin to work with plants for food, medicine, and tools.

• Community: Work alongside others, sharing space, effort, and stories around the fire.

Takeaways:
Greater confidence, sharper instincts, practical skills, and a growing sense of belonging—to yourself and the natural world.

5 Day Course

A Full Immersion into the Skills that Make You Whole

Course Overview:
This is more than a class—it’s a return to your roots. For five days, you’ll live the rhythm of the land, learning by doing. You’ll build structures, light fire with friction, track animals, harvest plants, and cook meals primitively. This is how you learn to thrive, not just survive.

What You’ll Experience:

• Survival Routines: Rewire your daily patterns to align with awareness, safety, and nature’s flow.

• Knots, Lashings, and Tools: Build what you need with your hands—from shelters to hunting tools.

• Primitive Shelter: Construct a debris hut you could sleep in, using nothing but what the forest offers.

• Fire from Friction: Master the bow drill and feel the empowerment of fire born from your own effort.

• Water Systems: Collect, purify, and store water with methods designed for long-term sustainability.

• Map & Compass to Intuition: Move from tools to trusting your own sense of place and direction.

• Edible & Medicinal Plants: Harvest wild plants responsibly—and understand their uses.

• Tracking & Trapping: Study tracks, set simple traps and snares, and understand the role of these skills in survival.

• Butchering & Primitive Cooking: Learn respectful harvesting, field dressing, and cooking methods used by your ancestors.

• Food Preservation: Smoke, dry, and store your nourishment for later use.

• Community & Reflection: Share stories, growth, and insights with a group walking the same path of skill and self-awareness.

Takeaways:
Long-term self-reliance, deepened nature literacy, physical confidence, and the steady satisfaction of knowing you’ve stepped into a more capable version of yourself.