Early bird Discount $20 before January 3rd

Emergency & Disaster Planning

Building Resilience for Organizations, Businesses, Communities and Individuals

February 3rd – March 10th

Our climate and world are changing at an accelerating rate. We face many new and unprecedented challenges.

This course will help you develop the confidence to step into this unknown future and create a realistic action plan that you can implement in your unique life circumstances.

 

Although individuals are welcome to join, we encourage you to sign up in small groups from your organization, businesses, community, or family. Joining as a team will allow you to work together, and adapt the course material into a working plan for your group’s unique needs. We also offer discounted group pricing.

Join our positive and proactive community to learn innovative ways to design, adapt, and prepare for climate change and other significant challenges of our times.

Do you:

  • Work on a farm, eco-village, summer camp or land-based project?
  • Run or work a business or not-for-profit organization?
  • Work in urban or rural planning?
  • Have a family or community who wants to proactively prepare for our changing times?

If yes, this course is for you!

About the course

Overview

During this six-week class, you will learn about disaster prevention, mitigation, and community response through a permaculture lens- one that works with nature and acknowledges the inequities that sometimes occurs in modern emergency management. We strive to take a positive and holistic approach to some of the biggest challenges of our times.
The aim is to teach principals, frameworks, and specific tools that can be applied to your unique needs and community.
Designing For Disasters (Image: Kelly Sikkema, Free Usage via Unsplash)

This training is for:

  • Individuals concerned about the future who want to support their families and communities to be more resilient and better prepared for changing times.
  • People who work on farms, in eco-villages or on land-based projects that know their organization needs to adapt quickly, and want support catered to their unique needs.
  • Business owners and not-for-profit organizations wanting to ensure their business/organization is resilient if a disaster strikes.
  • Urban, rural and community planners who have a responsibility to look after others and design more resilient and regenerative systems and infrastructure that are ready for the challenges ahead.
Lead instructor Chris Gilmour (Chris Outdoors & Wild Muskoka Botanicals) and guests will help you proactively develop the skills, knowledge, plans, and mental tools to live in our quickly changing world and climate. Climate change and disasters impact everyone, and we all have a role to play in keeping our communities safe. We invite you to join us in this timely, vital training and solutions-focused think tank. Build your confidence, competence and peace of mind that you are adapting to the changing needs of the world and can play a positive role in the future of your family and community.

    What to Expect

    Participants will have the opportunity to:
    • Create a “Holistic Climate Change Adaption & Response Plan” specific to your family, community, business, farm or organization, one that is realistic about your current capacity, timelines, and budget.
    • Learn about innovative solutions in emergency/climate change adaption and regenerative design.
    • Learn how to best prepare for specific disasters such as fires, floods, droughts, heat and more.
    • Be immersed in a “mock-disaster scenario” in a safe container. This is a priceless activity in beginning to develop the mindset and skills to support your family and community in challenging situations. You will also learn how to design “mock-scenarios” to help train and prepare others.
    • Learn from several different instructors in their areas of expertise, such as: Chris Gilmour (Holistic Emergency Preparedness),  Starhawk (Wildfires & Trauma Informed Response), Leila Darwish (Earth Repair & Community Response Organizing), and more.

     Planning for emergencies and disasters is an integral part of regenerative design.

    Regardless of whether you own land or rent, live in an urban or rural area, are old or young, this course will give you the frameworks and tools you need to better prepare for our changing climate and world.

    YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY

    Emergency & Disaster Planning: Building Resilience for Organizations, Businesses, Communities and Individuals is part of  the Regenerative Land Management diploma program.

    Questions?

    We are here for you. Please reach out at: support@earthactivisttraining.org

    MEET YOUR TEACHER

    Chris Gilmour, Lead Instructor

    “I became obsessed with the study of ecology, survival, self-reliance, and rediscovering my relationship with nature and human potential. This sent me on the adventure of a lifetime.

    I apprenticed in permaculture and learned how to grow my own food. Studied herbal medicine and remote back-country first aid. Started my own modern-day homestead with my wife. And helped build a not-for-profit youth organization to reconnect kids and people back to the land.

    With a desire to bridge all I had learned, from practicing farming, survival and studying natural ecosystems, I wanted to now use this to face some of the most significant challenges I saw facing the modern world.

    This led me back to school to study Emergency & Disaster Management, where I began a new journey.

    Chris Outdoor’s consulting & mentoring/training practices bridge the best of modern emergency preparedness and response with the holistic practices of permaculture, natural awareness and leadership skills.

    I’ve helped run disaster exercises and training for municipal governments, NGOs, ecovillages, farms, and one of my biggest passions: outdoor education organizations.”

    Learn more with Chris

    WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

    COURSE INFORMATION

    • Location: Virtual
    • Dates: Feb. 3 – March 10
    • Timing: Tuesday 9-11am PST
    • *Helpful Tool: Time Zone Converter
    • Taught by Chris Gilmour with amazing guest presenters.
    • A certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of this course.
    • Each week has 2 hours of live instruction with supplemental online material.
    • All live sessions are recorded and closed captioned.
    • Access to resources, documentation, and recorded class content is via the virtual classroom.

    PAYMENT

    We are dedicated to making our courses as accessible as possible by offering:

    • Early Bird Discount $280
    • Full certificate tuition: $300-$350
    • Three part payment plans: $100 at registration with 2 monthly payments of $100
    • Alumni tuition: $100 to retake this course
    • Diversity scholarships available: See below
    • Group Discounts: See below
    • All amounts are in US dollars.

    SCHOLARSHIPS & DISCOUNTS

    • Group Discounts and Diversity Scholarships available? Yes!
    • Keep reading below

    Questions?

    • Contact: Support@EarthActivistTraining.org

    Funding Your Education

    Payment options

    Sliding Scale Tuition

    • Standard Tuition: $300
    • Abundant Tuition: $350
    • Every Abundant Tuition helps support a Diversity Scholarship

    Alumni Price

    • Alumni Tuition $100
    • For those who want a refresher; you need to have taken this course with us before.

     

    *all amounts in US dolars

    PAYMENT PLAN

    • Payment of $100 when you register.
    • Two monthly installments of $100($300 total).
    • Our Student Support Team will assist you in setting this up.

    GROUP DISCOUNTS 

    • Groups of 2-5 people – Discount of $50 off each ($250 for each person)
    • Organizations of 6+ people – contact support@eat-activist.org for special group rates
    • You must indicate who is in your group at registration.

      Diversity Scholarships

      DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS

      • Earth Activist Training is committed to increasing the diversity of global permaculture and regenerative land movements.
      • We recognize the history of this land called the United States and Canada, and seek to do what we can to rectify the deep injustices and systems of inequity that formed and continue to shape society today.
      • Diversity Scholarships are available for Indigenous Peoples and People of Color working in or wanting to work in environmental or social justice.
      • These scholarships are pay-what-you-can with the recommended value of 50% of standard tuition ($150), but any amount will be accepted and appreciated
      • To apply, select “Diversity Scholarship” in the payment section of the registration form below.
      • Earth Activist Training’s Diversity Scholarship Fund is supported by donations. Visit our Diversity Fund page if you wish to support our Scholarship program.

      If you have any questions, we are always here to help: support@earthactivisttraining.org

      Register

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      What Comes Next?

      Are you ready for the next step of your learning journey?

      Your Learning Journey

      Ready to take the next step in learning about how to heal air, land, and water from disasters like flooding and oil spills? Come learn with Leila Darwish in her course, Bioremediation & Earth Repair.

      Go beyond a basic PDC with our Advanced Permaculture course. This year-long course, taught in four modules, covers key design topics:

      OUR NETWORK

      A core component of this course – and every Earth Activist Training course – is our private forum: Earth Activist Training Online network. This platform is where you will find course resources, your homework, and a network to connect with classmates and other Earth Activist students. 

      Recordings of each class will be available to you as a resource. You will have access to the course for a year after the course ends should you want to deepen your understanding of the material.

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