Workshop Descriptions

Learn EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW to start prepping today. 

We're not talking hillbilly-nuclear-bunker-dwellers, we're talking everyday people like you and me who want their family to be more prepared for emergencies that can happen in daily life. 

Specifics: Discover the 4 Pillars of Preparedness, the 8 Keys to Survival along with the Rule of 3's (if you don't already know them) and put them together into a system you can follow to start preparing today and keep at it, moving forward. 

-Build a Bug-Out Bag, if that's your thing. 

-Keep useful items in your car.

-Fill your pantry.

-Run your house in a blackout (even a prolonged one).

-Provide for your family for over a year if you like.

-Create the plans you want, so you can feel ready for anything, regardless of how crazy you think you might be (you're probably not as crazy as you think).

Learn about different options to tick the various boxes and some of the benefits and drawbacks of them. 

5 Hours: 4 Pillars, 8 Keys, Rule of 3's.

8 hours: Everything in the 5 hour plus  Functional Radio for Preparedness, creating one emergency plan (eg: getting home, bugging in, bugging out , snow storm) and receive the template for creating more plans on your own.

16 hours: Everything in the 8 hours plus Basic Solar for Power Consumption and creating multiple additional plans for your situation, using the template.

Have us come by your house and help you improve.

Let us visit your home, review your preps and site options and offer suggestions on ways to improve or ways you can capitalize on your property or neighborhood. We can sit at your table and talk about specifics or walk around and actually look at things. Up to you.

Learn how to use radio communications to gather intelligence, coordinate efforts with others and better-survive a long-term communications disruption.

Why radio?

Radio Signals for local/regional/global communications.

Repeaters and other cool things you can do.

Frequencies to use.

Programming your radios ($10/radio for frequencies used in the course. Custom available).

Equipment options and costs.

Getting started today.

Discover how to harness the power of the sun, even in low-light conditions to have unlimited power for your flashlights, radios, power-tools, lights, cooking devices and all manner of other things to make living through a crisis (or just camping with your family) that much more manageable.

Components of a solar system and how they work together.

How to size your system.

Different kinds of batteries you can use and the benefits and drawbacks of each..

Varying levels of complexity for different power needs.

Add-ons including wind and people-powered charging devices.

Practical layout of your system and making it portable if need be.

Equipment brands and quality.

Creating your shopping list.

Building your system.

Become proficient with handling weapons, loading, care and maintenance, licensing, storage and meeting the many requirements and responsibilities of owning firearms in Canada.

Firearms safety and handling.

Types of firearms.

Actions.

Ammunition.

Learn basic wilderness skills and practice them by spending a night  out there.

Fire: Fire triangle, concepts, ignition methods, wood selection, styles of fire. Light a fire with a ferro-rod.

Navigation: Use a map and compass to plan, plot and execute a route while staying on bearing. Read a topographical map and understand  the terrain you will be traveling.

Shelters: Basic types and construction, using your resources, selecting a good location. Build a shelter to spend the night in.

Axe: Safe use, care, maintenance and sharpening.

Anything else you can think of that we can fit in.

Put your skills to the real test with a 3-day journey "home".

Travel multiple terrains, for several days, using your gear, your wits and your fortitude. Learn how to do it all better. Streamline your packing and repacking. Test your equipment and get to know it better. Run a full exercise as though you were all alone, but with help close at hand for safety's sake.