Wilderness Survival Instructor

This module aims to awaken your awareness of interdependence and enhance your ecological capacity. Develop the skills to guide others towards ecological consciousness through nature meditation. In this module, you will learn:

• The importance of natural observation
• The primary barrier to ecological capacity
• The three elements of centring oneself
• Disciplines and attitudes to sharpen your senses

Module 2 will equip you with essential navigation techniques to ensure safety and confidence in wilderness environments. Within this module, you will learn about:

• Forgotten knowledge in the celestial bodies
• The celestial bodies and navigation
• The celestial bodies and telling time
• Compass basics
• Map reading
• The navigational wisdom of Native Pacific Islanders

Module 3 teaches you how to cultivate a fire using various methods tailored to different contexts and conditions, an essential skill for wilderness survival. You’ll learn about:

• Fire basics
• Advanced fire starters
• Fuel sources
• Firecraft
• Mayan fire ceremony

This module emphasizes the crucial skill of finding or building suitable shelter in emergency situations. Learn site selection and constructing efficient survival shelters using natural and locally available materials to ensure your safety in the wilderness. In this module, you will delve into:

• Picking a site
• Shelter essentials
• Natural shelters
• Easy to build survival shelters
• Cold-climate shelters
• A wattle and daub quick-shelter

Module 5 focuses on locating water indicators, procuring, treating, and storing water—essential skills for survival. Since the human body can only survive a maximum of three days without water, these techniques are critical. In this module, you will study:

• Natural water indicators
• Location of common water sources
• Gathering and treating water for safe consumption
• Storing and conserving water for extended survival situations
• The use of donkeys in the Wayuu Region of Columbia and Venezuela

Module 6 explores the myth of scarcity in nature, identifying edible food sources, and prioritizing nutrition. Learn to find flowers, plants, herbs, berries, nuts, animals, insects, and mushrooms in the wilderness. Key learning points include:

• The original affluent society of hunters and gatherers
• How to know if something is edible or not
• Key nutrients your body needs
• Edible food sources such as Flowers, plants, berries, herbs and mushrooms
• The annual mushroom gathering of the Mayan Quiche

Module 7 delves into understanding different climates, safe travel techniques, and weather forecasting. This module aims to increase knowledge in:

• Climate
• Various forms of travel on land and water
• Whether forecasting via nature
• The aboriginal people of Simpson Desert

Tracking differs from merely locating wild animals. Unlike modern hunters using advanced technology, in a survival situation, you’ll rely on skills akin to early Native Americans. This module focuses on:

• The fundamentals of tracking, trapping and hunting 
• Preparing your game and catch
• The desert wolves

Module 9 covers wilderness health and first aid. Prioritizing prevention, we explore common health issues and medicinal plants for wilderness pharmacies. You will learn:

• • Common medicinal plants and herbs
  • First aid responses for accidents
  • Common health problems in the wild and how to deal with them
  • Kits for survival

In our final module, we’ll explore how indigenous civilizations view wilderness survival as an everyday art, rooted in a deep territorial relationship with the land. We’ll examine the concept of territory versus property as well as practical examples from various indigenous livelihoods, including:

• Desert peoples
• Arctic peoples
• Jungles peoples
• Ocean peoples