FEARLESS SURVIVALIST
School of Survival Skills for All Ages
We focus on changing the mentality of young people through programs aimed at giving them security and confidence, changing preconceived concepts, and building a more resilient, more secure youth full of enthusiasm.
Nature Survival Skills Training
Survival training teaches survival skills or as a form of recreational activity in which individuals are generally challenged to sustain their basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter, in an unpopulated area, with little or only natural resources. We include math and STEAM in our programs. We want our participants to develop mentally and physically.
Importance of survival skills for students
These techniques provide basic necessities for human life, including water, food, and shelter. Survival skills also support proper knowledge and interactions with animals and plants to sustain life.
Math and STEAM help to think analytically and have better reasoning abilities. Analytical thinking aids us to think critically about the world around us. Reasoning is our ability to think logically about a situation.
Survivalist camping involves living in the wilderness for multiple days (or weeks), relying upon survival skills and minimal camping gear. These Camps give students a world of good by providing many opportunities for relational spirituality through experiences of transcendence through relationships with one another, nature, and within themselves.
Urban Survival Skills for Students
Math, Science, History, STEM
At Fearless Survivalist School, we work with young people at all levels, preparing them with survival skills in the wild and also with abilities to survive in the concrete jungle that we call “city.”
Most schools instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, teach them to memorize facts without analysis. The problem occurs in low-income and top school districts; these schools aren’t teaching the skills that matter most in the global knowledge economy.
Since learning is a lifelong journey, we must help students meet the demands of today’s world.
We help students to develop their mental balance and resilience and continue to shape their evolving identity, career, and worldview to reach their full potential by becoming confident, successful, and lifelong learners.
Change is the only constant – sometimes positive, sometimes not so much. Adapting to and growing through challenges takes resilience: strength, flexibility, and self-awareness.
What will they learn in these camps?
It is no secret that kids today are becoming increasingly less self-reliant, timider, and incredibly coddled.
We believe youth must learn survival skills for a few critical reasons. Knowing your children have learned to care for themselves, you'll sleep better at night.
The responsibility as a parent is to teach the youth to care for themselves, even if it means a few scratches and bruises along the way.
Teaching youth survival skills, imbuing them with confidence. This confidence then allows them to succeed in all areas of their lives.
All camps are free of the internet, and cell phones, computers, and watches are not allowed; it is a complete immersion and unity with nature.
Main Survival Skills All Children and Teens Should Have
1. Resilience: Teens can build their resilience and support to
develop the character strengths and human connections that
allow them to thrive in good times and grow in challenging times.
2. Leadership: Empowering rather than overpowering. Confident,
influential leaders are paramount to the success of peak-
performing groups.
3. Public Speaking: Beneficial to kids and teens combating personal
shyness, as well as those already very confident, along with
everyone in between.
4. Survival Skills in Nature: teens need the great outdoors more
than ever. We aim to awaken and stimulate their potential and
support teens in finding new paths. Nature helps them discover
their personality and potential and the awareness that we are one
with nature: Nature is a portal to leadership.
Resilience and leadership skills in after-school programs
online and face-to-face
BUILDING RESILIENCE
Young people’s resilience is determined by the interaction of their characteristics, including the skills they have developed, the features of the families in which they live, and the characteristics of their physical and social environments. Parental instincts drive us to protect our children. But we can’t protect them all the time. However, we can prepare them to navigate the world. We can support them to develop the character strengths and human connections that allow them to thrive in good times and rebound in challenging times. In other words, we can build their resilience. Think of resilience as recovering and rising above adversity. And to do so ideally, with lessons that enable you to handle the next bump in the road better. We help you achieve these results using proven online exercises and personal coaching.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of people to influence and guide followers or members of an organization, society or team. All communities need role models and leaders. An effective leader has the following characteristics: self-confidence, strong communication and management skills, creative and innovative thinking, perseverance, willingness to take risks, openness to change, levelheaded, and reactiveness in times of crisis. “Great leaders are made, not born.” Our leadership program helps teach kids to feel comfortable in and work in large groups of children, have others respond well to their suggestions, and build interest in setting the direction or style of play for their friends. We believe leadership in children can be nurtured and grown and, in turn, make significant amounts of self-respect and worth.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Developing strong communication skills is essential to effective leadership. We want to empower our participants to be effective, persuasive, and confident public speakers.
16 Top Survival Skills for Children and Teens
1. RESILIENCE: Teens can build their resilience and support to develop the character strengths and human connections that allow them to thrive in good times and grow in challenging times.
2. LEADERSHIP: Empowering, rather than overpowering. Confident, influential leaders are paramount to the success of peak-performing groups.
3. PUBLIC SPEAKING: Beneficial to kids and teens combating personal shyness, as well as those already very confident, along with everyone in between.
4. LIGHTING A FIRE Learning to use a Ferro rod, flint, or any other ways to light a fire is important. Kids don’t even have a clue on how to get the fire lit.
5. BUILDING A FIRE: Fire is such an important aspect of survival that I think it’s important to list fire-building as a separate skill. The sad irony is that building fire comes naturally to kids. Instead, we warn kids against “playing with matches.” Ensure your kids don’t lose out on essential survival skills because of overblown safety concerns. Teach them these five fire lays and their pros and cons.
6. NAVIGATION: Kids today use GPS or navigation apps well. But a map or a compass, they would probably ask where to plug it in. How do you teach kids map skills? One way is to take them orienteering (Orienteering is the sport of navigation—often held in unfamiliar terrain—using a map and compass). It’s fun, active, and an excellent way to get outdoors.
7. FIRST AID: According to one survey only 18% of people know first aid.
8. HOW TO USE A KNIFE: There is a lot of debate about at what age it is okay to give a kid their first knife but teach your kid to use a knife safely and they will have a skill for life.
9. BASIC SELF-DEFENCE: In the ideal world, we would all teach the kids advanced self-defense skills like blocking a knife attack. Yet, this isn’t likely to happen. Sometimes we prioritize ballet lessons over life-saving lessons!
10. PURIFYING WATER: Teaching the kids the importance of drinking water and how to clean it!
11. LOCATING A SUITABLE CAMPSITE: People die because of poorly chosen campsites.
12. BUILDING A SHELTER: Once you have a campsite, it is time to build a shelter on it.
13. FOOD ACQUISITION: Kids should at least know a few ways to get food.
14. TYING A BOWLINE: We teach kids to tie their shoes in preschool. Why do we stop there?
15. GARDENING: Youth gardens empower kids to feed themselves and their families and even contribute to fighting food insecurity in their community.
16. HOW NOT TO PANIC: This might be the essential survival skill your kids should know. And it is the one that Millennials are severely lacking!
