Urban Survival - Volume 1

How to Survive Urban Disaster Events - Volume 1

What you'll learn
After competing this course you will have a clear and common sense understanding of how to prepare yourself, your family and community for any large scale disaster event in the future.
This course focuses on common sense, real world proven skills and knowledge that account for the reality of duress, stress and confusion in real survival situations.
Requirements
There are no pre-requisites for this course
Description
“May you live in interesting times!” ~ Without question humanity is certainly doing that and we as a species are potentially facing major challenges just around the corner. Such challenges may affect cities, regions, countries, or even the entire global community and may take the form of man made or natural disaster events or both. Things are happening so be as prepared as you possibly can be, as an individual, a family and as a community.
This course takes you step by step through what you need to do to ensure your as prepared as you can be for any disruption to the normal supply chain that every urban space depends completely upon everyday. It teaches you how to think to survive, how to manage your intrinsic acute stress (fight/flight) response. What to prepare and why. The course focuses on ensuring that you understand what life support measures you need to address in a collapsed urban space. It shows you what you need to do to keep your family safe!
No matter your level of experience in preparedness and urban survival, this course will assist you to begin preparing or enhance your current level of readiness. Employing a simple, practical and common sense approach to the complexity of disasters of all natures in the urban situation, this course will bolster your chances of getting out alive. Real world experience of conflict zones, disaster events and survival have informed what is included in the curriculum of this course. This is not just a collection of useful tips, tricks and hacks for urban survival - It is a no nonsense, straight forward and complete urban survival system.
“Prepare for the worst – hope for the best”. 

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Urban Survival - How to Survive Urban Disaster Events Volume 1

Lecture 1 Introduction - Welcome to the course.

Lecture 2 Why Prepare?

Lecture 3 What Risks and Threats Do We Realistically Face?

Lecture 4 The Vulnerability of Urban Space & Supply Chain

Lecture 5 Supply and Demand Pressures in Emergencies

Lecture 6 Evacuate the City to Where?

Section 2: How to Build Your Own Urban Survival System

Lecture 7 Keeping Your Head When the World Goes Crazy

Lecture 8 Survival-In-Depth a Framework for the System

Lecture 9 Managing Fight or Flight (Acute Stress Response)

Lecture 10 D.A.B.D.A - Hidden Software You Need to Understand

Lecture 11 Survival Breathing Technique

Lecture 12 W.O.W Technique

Lecture 13 Survival Tea Ceremony

Lecture 14 The Power of the Group in Survival Situations

Section 3: The Layers of Urban Survival Life Support

Lecture 15 Life Support Requirements in Urban Survival

Section 4: Protection/Shelter in Urban Survival Situations

Lecture 16 Introduction to Protection Measures in the Urban Space

Lecture 17 Structures as Protection

Lecture 18 Security Hardening Structures for Protection

Section 5: Survival Water Considerations

Lecture 19 Introduction to Water Treatment & Storage

Lecture 20 What Lives in Your Water?

Lecture 21 Survival Water Treatment / Disinfection

Lecture 22 Storing & Carrying Water - Considerations

Section 6: Survival Food & Nutrition Considerations

Lecture 23 Introduction to Survival Food & Nutrition

Lecture 24 What Food Do We Really Need?

Lecture 25 Storing & Carrying Food

Section 7: Fire & Cookware

Lecture 26 Introduction to Survival Fire Lighting

Lecture 27 Basics of Survival Fire Lighting

Lecture 28 Survival Fire Kit

Lecture 29 Other Fire Lighting Methods

Lecture 30 Survival Rocket Stove & Drum Fires

Lecture 31 Cooking Systems & Cookware

Section 8: Course Close Out

Lecture 32 Course Close Out for Volume 1

Anyone who wishes to learn how to better prepare themselves, loved ones and communities to be more resilience in any future large scale disaster situation. The course will also provide a rounded system of survival in the Urban space that will enhance any level of preparedness measures you currently undertake.