Emergency & Disaster Planning

Emergency & Disaster Planning

Building Resilience for Organizations, Businesses, Communities and Individuals

January 28th -March 4th

 

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 and The Disaster Preparedness & Emergency Response 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

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

COURSE INFORMATION

  • Location: Virtual
  • Dates: Jan 28 – March 4
  • Timing: Tuesday 9am 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 tuition: $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 availableSee below
  • Group DiscountsSee below
  • All amounts are in US dollars.

SCHOLARSHIPS & DISCOUNTS

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

Questions?

  • Contact: Support@EarthActivistTraining.org

Date

Jan 28 2025 - Mar 04 2025

Time

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

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Permaculture Institute of North America:

Address

2091 Route 130
Harrison City, PA 15636

Phone Number

(412) 600-5783

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