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Building Resiliency - Emergency & Disaster Preparedness for Individuals, Families & Communities (weekend workshop)    Fri Dec 1 to Sat Dec 2, 2017, Peterborough, ON

Have you been feeling a growing concern about the state of the world and environment?

There is A LOT we can do to be more adaptable and prepared. What are YOU doing to set yourself up for success in a Changing World & Climate?

This workshop will help you feel more confident about the future. It combines my 15+ years experience in wilderness and urban survival, homesteading, self-reliance, as well as studying and working in modern-day emergency and disaster management.

Workshop Highlights

• Develop confidence in your ability to keep your family safe through the planning workbook you complete during the workshop.
• Tighten bonds in your community as you work together and plan how you can support each other in times of need.
• Learn fundamental emergency survival skills and how to make and utilize advanced emergency kits, even on a budget.
• Change concern for the future into a feeling of empowerment through small but high leverage actions!

Workshop Content May Include:

• Creating family & community communication plans for when phones go down.
• Cutting through the overwhelm of possibilities by conducting an accurate hazard and risk assessment
• Learn about storing, collecting and purifying water if your municipal system stops flowing or is contaminated.
• Learn best practices for surviving different types of disasters and emergencies.
• Learn strategies for, and how to, store and cook food during longer-term emergencies.
• Learn how to use essential emergency gear and what to have in your kits
• Develop a family/community plan for a changing world and climate!

 
 

For more information:

Contact Name: Chris Gilmour
Website: https://www.changingworldproject.com/emergworkshop/
Phone: 705-783-0169
E-mail: chris (at) changingworldproject.com

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