Bushcraft & Survival Workshops
“The Wilderness Survival course is an extraordinary introduction to both the skills and mental fortitude that is so desperately needed in a world falling into chaos. Ashley is deeply gifted in his ability to teach and remind you of a way we once lived, so that it feels less like survival, and more like coming home.
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Weekend Experience: Saturday/Sunday
This weekend course is an ideal starting point for any who wish to try their hand learning new skills. Beneficial also for those with a foundational understanding of Bushcraft and Survival techniques who wish to further enhance their skills. It goes beyond basic introductions, delving into intricate details that will leave you confident. Despite the limited duration, our instructors provide an in-depth exploration of concepts, allowing you ample opportunity to practice and refine your techniques.
Join us for a transformative experience! We don’t do any ego on our workshops, we also don't do fluffy bunnies.. (Well.. you might learn how to dispatch, skin, process, clean, cook and eat one!)
We don't do book learnt skills or amusing craft, this weekend is about real life practical skills, tools and information applied on top of real life experience. Everything taught is specifically designed to ensure you Learn, Adapt and can Utilise these skills in the future.
Highlights include
Learn how to stay warm and dry if you are caught out overnight, and understand the basics of creating your own comfortable Primitive/Survival shelter for the night.
Butchering your own wild game dinner, a transferable skill to practise.
Understanding celestial and survival navigation.
Finding water in an emergency and learn how to use it safely.
Learn to see the bush with different eyes. Through specialist wilderness survival analytical skills.
Identify man and animal passage through an environment by establishing an solid understanding on Tracking skills.
Learn the importance of basic traps and apply them using our effective methods.
Never go hungry or worry about food shortages: Foraging Wild weeds, Plants and Edibles available in our bush ; learning how to remember them.
Learn to make cordage with the trees and plants in the area.
Attending this course is not about a test of endurance, but rather about gaining valuable practical hands-on experience in the fundamentals of Bushcraft and Survival during a fun and safe weekend. Regardless of prior experience, anyone can participate and benefit from this course.
“Honestly one of the best experiences of my life. The two day survival course is a must for anyone curious about beginning or building their bush craft skillset. Ash provided a safe and supportive environment for us to give things a go, and was incredibly generous with the sharing of his knowledge and time, even sharing what gear was in his pack, which had a lot of interest from the group! As a result of this course, I now have the skills to butcher wild meat, make a shelter in the bush, filter water, start fires from different materials, identify more edible and beneficial plants, make snare traps, and rope from flax. This course has definitely piqued my interest further, and I will continue to build upon what I have learned here. If there was another review available for the kai, I’d also give it 5 stars! He urunga tangata he urunga pāhekeheke, he urunga oneone, mau tonu - To rest on human support is unreliable, to rest on terra firma is sure. Ngā mihi nui, Ash. Keep spreading this awesome kaupapa!
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Advanced Military Style survival
NZSA CHALLENGE
This is tough course, you should at least have some basic survival skills if you have not taken our basic wilderness survival workshop. You should have a good understanding of survival skills and have practiced these skills extensively. Not everyone will make it, this course has a high attrition rate. But that makes the victory for those that succeed all that much greater. Students will be on their own, under the guidance of instructors, you will learn the typical skills any specialised military soldiers would learn around the world. Bush survival, Survival in chaotic situations, Tracking animals and people, Vehicle manipulation, Concealment, Stealth, Resilience and Environmental Tuning and Observation.
You will cover all the basics and learn new skills and put them into practise over multiple nights; as a story line progresses to a 72 hour testing scenario based on a possible real world situation. It is exciting, you will be scared, you will be tested.
Nature is the best teacher; along with a bunch of highly tuned ex-soldiers, you will test your abilities to survive with the BARE minimum gear in rough conditions. You will have instructors close by at all times, however you are expected to carry out tasks and survive as if on your own.
Don’t be fooled, this is not for the faint hearted.
This course is fun, mentally and physically challenging all the while being pushed to your limits.
If you want to challenge yourself, and learn valuable specialty skills reserve a spot now!