How to thrive in any emergency, with Lee and gigi
welcome to the wonderful online village designed to prepare you for anything.
We've been inundated with requests from people wanting information and guidance on how to surf the waves of chaos in transition times.
Lee and I have been chatting about this workshop series for a while. Now the emergency has come to us, so we'd like to officially invite you to be part of our ongoing online village exploring skills for transition times.
This series is about reducing fear, anxiety and panic and offering powerful tools for you and your loved ones to prepare for any situation.
The workshops will be on zoom, with breakout groups, guided activities, check ins, skill sharing and a rich curriculum designed to teach the internal and external skills necessary for us to not just survive but thrive when the world is going FUBAR.
Each workshop runs from 9am-4pm, facilitated by Lee and Gina, who have been teaching this material in various forms for over a decade, and implementing much of it in Bluegum Bushcraft's Rewild Your Child camps and in their Nature Mentor Training programmes, plus the Wild Heart wilderness Vision Quests and Survival Quests.
Lee and I have been chatting about this workshop series for a while. Now the emergency has come to us, so we'd like to officially invite you to be part of our ongoing online village exploring skills for transition times.
This series is about reducing fear, anxiety and panic and offering powerful tools for you and your loved ones to prepare for any situation.
The workshops will be on zoom, with breakout groups, guided activities, check ins, skill sharing and a rich curriculum designed to teach the internal and external skills necessary for us to not just survive but thrive when the world is going FUBAR.
Each workshop runs from 9am-4pm, facilitated by Lee and Gina, who have been teaching this material in various forms for over a decade, and implementing much of it in Bluegum Bushcraft's Rewild Your Child camps and in their Nature Mentor Training programmes, plus the Wild Heart wilderness Vision Quests and Survival Quests.
The launch weekend for Thrive Emergency Village is Sat 28 and Sun 29 March.
These initial workshops introduce the material, give an overview of the curriculum and introduce the four layers of material.... short (urban) and long term (wilderness) sur-thrival using internal and external skills. The internal skills are often overlooked in survival course, and are in our experience the most important part of the equation. It's no use being able to make fire by friction if you can't manage anxiety and stress and you can't get fire because your internal reality is in bits. We will look at the internal skills physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. We will look at the physical skills personally, transpersonally and tribally. We will weave it all together, each skill building on the last, all dovetailing together to give you real, embodied strategies in transition times.
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After the intro weekend there will be regular day-long workshops, every 3-4 weeks. Each workshop will cover an internal and external skill, and some element of short and long term sur-thrival. Each workshop is stand-alone, but part of a greater trajectory of information and connection. There will also be shorter calls as part of the ongoing online village programme.
Our aim is to build a virtual village where this material is part of an ongoing conversation, and we share real skills of resilience, community building, physical preparedness, physical training, social awareness, awareness of place, tracking of real-time events, staying ahead of the curve, healing tools and techniques, psychological preparedness, readying your family for emergency events, managing shortages, and a whole bunch of other stuff to ensure you have embodied tools to be with rapidly changing circumstances.
The calls are $75 per day per adult. We really recommend coming for both days of the opening weekend, as these calls will set up the ongoing programme and will be full of useful information necessary for you to understand the deeper material.
On the night of Sat 28th, we'll offer a family storytelling call, so you can bring your kids into the village, we catch stories of the day and Lee tells his amazing stories that are entrancing and healing for kids and adults alike.
Booking is through Trybooking.
Our aim is to build a virtual village where this material is part of an ongoing conversation, and we share real skills of resilience, community building, physical preparedness, physical training, social awareness, awareness of place, tracking of real-time events, staying ahead of the curve, healing tools and techniques, psychological preparedness, readying your family for emergency events, managing shortages, and a whole bunch of other stuff to ensure you have embodied tools to be with rapidly changing circumstances.
The calls are $75 per day per adult. We really recommend coming for both days of the opening weekend, as these calls will set up the ongoing programme and will be full of useful information necessary for you to understand the deeper material.
On the night of Sat 28th, we'll offer a family storytelling call, so you can bring your kids into the village, we catch stories of the day and Lee tells his amazing stories that are entrancing and healing for kids and adults alike.
Booking is through Trybooking.
Lee Trew and Gina Chick have been facilitating groups together for over a decade. They've built a huge community through their Rewild Your Child camps, where they teach kids and adults to be at home in the wild. This virtual village is an extension of the Bluegum community, and Gina and Lee are taking this opportunity to teach adults the deeper skills of survival within a community structure, fostering problem solving, resilience and personal power.
Everyone is welcome to join this virtual village, which will be supported with regular calls and an online social media portal.
We hope to see you in the airwaves.
Big love
Gina and Lee
Everyone is welcome to join this virtual village, which will be supported with regular calls and an online social media portal.
We hope to see you in the airwaves.
Big love
Gina and Lee
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Gigi's open letter.
Hi everyone. For those of you who are thinking this way... Let's talk solutions. Let's talk skills. Let's talk resilience. Let's look at how we can all prepare for transition times, together.
We are in a situation Lee and I have been preparing for for at least a decade. And for me, the thing that makes this situation special, the thing we have been preparing for, balances on one simple quality that all humans tend to share.
Humans behave as if tomorrow will be just like today (give or take a little wiggle room) (but not much, really).
We. Think. Tomorrow. Will. Be. Just. Like. Today.
Our egos need to be able to 'know' what's coming so we can predict threats, so we can feel safe. We assemble our lives along trajectories of general safety. It's the way our society is set up. It's the way our supply chains are organised. It's the way our supermarkets are stocked and our kids are educated and our transport runs and our offices stay efficient.
The assumption that tomorrow is going to be pretty much like today.
Those of us who have danced through catastrophic life events have learned up close and personal that this is an illusion, but even that knowledge can fade when things 'go back to normal'. It becomes a glitch, a hiccup, and the tomorrows gradually revert to something moderately predictable.
Our need for 'normal' is a very very powerful force. It is a trance. It stops us from seeing things as they are, and instead we either overreact and go into full terror, or we see things as we want them to be.
If you look at systems (oh, I love systems), there is a point in any system where if the right pressures are brought to bear, cascade reactions and exponential curves happen. When there are exponential curves, what we see is this.
Tomorrow is not like today. And the next day is not like yesterday. And so on. We simply cannot predict tomorrow based on today, because things don't step up in static increments. They double, then that doubles, then that doubles. It's how cancer colonises bodies. It's why population has exploded on this planet. And that's before the chaos equations kick in, those beautiful mandebrot equations, and when they show up things go super wiggly.
We cannot predict tomorrow. Which is the scariest thing for a human ego. When this happens, we go into survival mode. We behave in new and unusual ways.
We are in a spectacular exponential curve, globally, right now. This has happened at various times in history, but the difference is that now we are truly a global village, so what affects one zone, affects all of them. That damned butterfly in China equals cyclones in Australia.
Whether it's a virus or bushfires or tidal waves or zombies doesn't really matter. What matters is that the vast percentage of humans have great skills for being with 'tomorrow is going to be like today', but very few have skills for 'tomorrow is an utter mystery.'
People start behaving from fear and reactivity and the panic also becomes exponential, which cleans out supermarkets which triggers more panic. With our current situation, right or wrong, social isolation is the measure being used to try to bring tomorrow back to today. And that has huge impacts on our way of life, not just for the next month, but forever. Those impacts are also playing out exponentially. Situations are changing very very fast.
Tomorrow just got weird. Very very weird.
The good news is that there are a bunch of people all over the planet who have been preparing and training for this kind of thing for a long time. You will have some of them near you.
Lee and I have been running rewilding camps and programmes helping people skill up for transition times. We've been holding vision quests and survival quests. We've taught nature connection programmes. We've taught ancestral survival skills to kids and adults. We've specialised in trauma healing. We've dived into social technologies and community building, not as theories, but as viable practices. This isn't about who can make fire by rubbing sticks together or make a shelter in the rain or know which plants you can eat, although these hard skills are part of the overall picture.
This is also about internal rewilding. How are we with anxiety? How are we with despair? How do we create functional communities? How do we heal our stories to see capital R Reality instead of only seeing our projections? How do we make decisions in our family and community groups? How do we move through the environment is a group safely? How do we share resources? How do we start to predict trajectories of disaster? How do we look after each other, no matter what? How do we plan for short term and long term emergencies?
The Bluegum Bushcraft curriculum covers all the physical skills of shelter water fire and food, and the internal skills that mirror these. We look at short term survival and long term sur-thrival. We look at urban questions and wilderness options.
We want to invite you to our online global village where we start to teach this material in one day workshops. Each workshop is a stand alone, and together they build into a solid bank of practical wisdom. We make a community together working on these skills. There are ongoing calls for connection.
The launch weekend is Sat 28 and Sun 29 March. Each day-long workshop is $75 per adult. We will be giving an opverview of the whole curriculum and starting to drill into individual skills of internal and external rewilding or short and long term sur-thrival. Then every 2-3 weeks we will have another workshop, specialising in an internal and external skill.
Our aim is to help you prepare for anything. Our aim is to foster your resilience, instincts, improve your skillset and get you thinking outside the box. Where it doesn't matter what tomorrow looks like, the skills you have today are more than enough for you to dance with confidence. Our aim is also to connect you with other like minded folk in your physical area, so you can make real connections, prepare together, support each other. Build a village made of many villages.
The Saturday night will have an extra call which is the village gathering, where all the kids are invited, and we all get to share stories, and Lee tells his amazing stories around our virtual campfire.
So, loves... if you are interested, jump aboard. Here's the link to the facebook eventpage
https://www.facebook.com/events/495331671160243/
If you know anyone who might want to be part off the online village, please tag and share. We can't wait to see you all, and are so so grateful to live in times where we can all connect over the virtual airwaves and learn and grow together.
Big love to you all, as always,
Gigi xxx